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View Full Version : Could Borg assmilate the Flood?
Fettman 06-20-07, 10:32 PM "The Flood (sometimes called The Parasite by the Covenant) is a species of virulent, parasitic organisms that thrive by consuming other calcium-based, sentient life of sufficient biomass. The Flood appears to be a hive or communal mind, possibly under one leader. Next to nothing is known about their origin, but it has been revealed that the Forerunners discovered and then fought them until the Forerunners were overwhelmed. Faced with the Flood spreading throughout the Universe and consuming every sentient being the Forerunners activated the Halos killing all sentient life in order to stop the Flood from spreading. The Covenant view this activation of the Halo as their "Great Journey" and strive to activate the Halos again."
"The Borg,they are characterized by relentless pursuit of targets for assimilation, their collective consciousness that enables rapid adaptability to almost any defense, and the ability to continue functioning properly despite seemingly devastating blows. They have become a powerful symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against whom "resistance is futile."
Challenger78 06-23-07, 04:27 AM Wow, FINALLY a thread with HALO and ST, w00t.
I think simply because the borg are not fully biological , the flood would not stand a chance against them as the nanoprobes would modify life at a molecular level and chemicals/biological defences don't affect them as much.
neosethis 06-26-07, 04:45 AM The borg will learn and assimilate that parasite ability(maybe loosing 1 cube for that) but finaly they will use it for assimilate faster any organic ennemy
SaphireKosmos 06-30-07, 10:30 PM In theory the Borg could assimilate the Flood, but it would go both ways, borg assimilating the Flood and the Flood takeing over the Borg. So unless the Borg can create a defense against the Flood it would be pretty even depending on how much Flood there are.
Hellblade8 07-01-07, 01:17 AM Borg can make personal shielding, that's a plus on their side. Pluse transporters, and sleeping gas.
Fettman 07-01-07, 05:03 PM Flood learn to use everything that their host knows how to use just like the borg. Flood seem to be much stronger as they can over turn 2 ton tanks with ease
Hellblade8 07-02-07, 01:46 AM Flood learn to use everything that their host knows how to use just like the borg. Flood seem to be much stronger as they can over turn 2 ton tanks with ease
The Borg assimilate them and gain their physical abilities as well. Also, Borg ships can adapt to massive energy. They easily took out 39 of 40 UFP starships (the last one ran away) in Best of Both Worlds without so much as scratching their hull. 20 ships in the Die is Cast obliterated 30% of a Class M planet's crust and a UFP 120 meter battle cruiser is able to slag a planet according to Broken Link.
That's one Borg cube, not even a tactical cube. The Borg have millions of ships just like these ones, with hundreds to thousands of ships used for most invasions.
Fettman 07-02-07, 02:02 AM So would the grave mind control the borg/flood flapper baby? or would this hybrid just turn into every1s wost nightmare?
Hellblade8 07-02-07, 02:19 AM So would the grave mind control the borg/flood flapper baby? or would this hybrid just turn into every1s wost nightmare?
Hard to say. The borg have a very agressive assimilation ability. First they inject nanoprobes into the body, these nanoprobes are as though as hell (managed to withstand the blast of an 80 megaton photon torp that sent them all over a small fleet of bioships) and are capable of actually rewriting the victim's DNA. The probes where also able to bring back to de-thawed drones in Enterprise which where from a Borg Sphere that had exploded over Earth (via attack by the Enterprise E upon it), survive a high level megaton explosion, enter Earth's atmosphere, crash into the polar ice cape, not only have the bodies intact, but able to be repaired and form a mini-hive mind.
The Borg hard pretty damn hard to kill, and by the way, those drones? Where not found in any rubble, near it, but not actually in it. Even so, the ship was in pieces when it was blown apart, there was no way for them to have been protected.:bugeye:
Its very possible that assimilating a borg is impossible because of its nanoprobes.
Fettman 07-02-07, 02:35 AM Hard to say if Flood can be assimilated just as it is Borg, but if they did some how mix then the Borg/flood would be the worst thing imaginable the flood seem to be more or less unstoppable unless the Halos are activated, and are numberless as long as there is carbon based creatures to be consumed, and if the borg could get this ability well wouldnt that suck for everyone else.
Hellblade8 07-02-07, 03:20 AM Hard to say if Flood can be assimilated just as it is Borg, but if they did some how mix then the Borg/flood would be the worst thing imaginable the flood seem to be more or less unstoppable unless the Halos are activated, and are numberless as long as there is carbon based creatures to be consumed, and if the borg could get this ability well wouldnt that suck for everyone else.
It would suck for some people, but for the most part the Borg wouldn't use it since they prefer assimilation over elimination. Only those that cannont be assimliated are often destroyed. They also seem to dislike robots and the like, prefering not to assimilate them and refering to them as inferior.
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