Yes, but the beast is not unbeatable. After the war, Hiigaran ships were somehow made immune to infection, and when the beast was first discovered, running a charge through the hulls of your ships seemed to reduce the rate of infection according to fleet intelligence. :pNobuseri wrote: 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.
They're still rediculously nasty though.
...Anyway, normal flood carrier forms don't spew spores into the atmosphere, they just spew infection forms into the area. Of course, this need not apply to AZN flood.
Anyway, I was actually thinking about killing flood recently, since for the past year or so I've been writing an X-Com-Halo crossover fanfic which features the flood as an antagonist. (Or ocassional ally.) I was thinking that one could kill the flood biologically/chemically, depending on how the flood work.
Assuming the Flood defeat all pathogens and such via a superactive immune response, you must merely 'trick' the system into attacking otherwise 'flood' cells.
