Master Chief
TMF Regular
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2007
- Messages
- 159
- Points
- 0
For weeks I have been wondering, after reading the Halo Novels that I have bought, if there was a basis for the Flood Forms in the Novels and Games. SO, I started looking on the internet for bacterium and fungi. I came up with a very likely base.
http://neurophilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/fungus_campanotus.jpg
The Fungus is called Cordyceps Unilateris. It is a parasitic fungus from the family of Cordyceps. It also is known for taking control of the host, usually an ant, and causing the poor creature to climb to the top of a high plant, and latch there. The cordyceps enters through the trachea of the insect, dsue to air flow, and develops within the ant, feeding off of it's tissudes, but, but not destroyinfg the organsd needed for movement and life. Once it hasd matured enough, it reaches into the brain of the host and send out chemicals to manipulate how the host percieves its surroundings. Making it climb to the highest place and latch on. The cordyceps eventually kills the host, and the cordyceps begins to grow a long stem out of the ant's body, usually at the head or thereabouts, which over a period of a week or two, develops, matures, and finally shoots spores out and into the air. when they land, the explode, and infects others.
If this isn't the basis for the flood form, then it is probably one of the other three hundred ninety-nine species of Cordyceps.
Also, here is a useful site.
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/
Have fun and tell me what you think.
http://neurophilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/fungus_campanotus.jpg
The Fungus is called Cordyceps Unilateris. It is a parasitic fungus from the family of Cordyceps. It also is known for taking control of the host, usually an ant, and causing the poor creature to climb to the top of a high plant, and latch there. The cordyceps enters through the trachea of the insect, dsue to air flow, and develops within the ant, feeding off of it's tissudes, but, but not destroyinfg the organsd needed for movement and life. Once it hasd matured enough, it reaches into the brain of the host and send out chemicals to manipulate how the host percieves its surroundings. Making it climb to the highest place and latch on. The cordyceps eventually kills the host, and the cordyceps begins to grow a long stem out of the ant's body, usually at the head or thereabouts, which over a period of a week or two, develops, matures, and finally shoots spores out and into the air. when they land, the explode, and infects others.
If this isn't the basis for the flood form, then it is probably one of the other three hundred ninety-nine species of Cordyceps.
Also, here is a useful site.
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/
Have fun and tell me what you think.
