The Mindset wrote:Can someone explain, exactly, what the "flood" is and how it spreads?
My understanding of the source material is that the flood infestation takes place in several stages, of which what is described by CF is only the first. The flood parasites infest the tissue of any life they encounter, using their lifeless bodies as tools to further spread the infection even as they feast upon their mass.
These infested forms eventually swell up, becoming living bombs that detonate their bodies upon encountering an enemy. Thing is, none of these flood forms are particularly difficult to kill, but this ease belies their true purpose. When a flood is destroyed, it releases into the atmosphere spores. Eventually these spores build to such a dense concentration that all unshielded life is consumed merely from contact with the atmosphere. This eventually results in the creation of a massive, possibly planet encompassing, flood super-organism.
By killing them, you aid them.
Still, its far from the worst FT organism ever envisioned. The Beast from Homeworld: Cataclysm, for instance, could to the same thing in about an hour.
I've only ever asked God for one thing: "Lord, make my enemies ridiculous," and he granted my request.
My immediate advice is to go buy Brewsters. It is a dictionary, and a quite fine one. This you should use to bludgeon yourself comatose each and every night, in the faint hope that some of the knowledge contained in it might be transferred. If not, it would at least leave you damaged enough that you wouldn't be coming here and violate our senses with your retarded babble.