Around how long would it take for the entirety of Earth to be fucked if one flood spore landed here?

Around how long would it take for the entirety of Earth to be fucked if one flood spore landed here?

One spore? Wouldn't do shit.

One single flood spore can destroy a species.

Probs a couple months. It would spread exponentially faster.

just hit it with something lel

Given exponential growth curves, it'd take at least 2 months before it can start exploding in speed.

One spore wouldn't be enough, just quarantine whichever town/city it infests and PURGE THE POPULATION!

>flood spore lands in a crucible full of molten metal

gg no re

It all depends on how soon governments notice something is amiss. I don't know how good the Flood are at staying sneaky and hidden while they are still small in scope. If the Flood were allowed to fester in the sewers of some third world country for a few months, they would quickly become unstoppable.

We'd be fucked.

Even though in Halo 3 the Elites were quick to resolve it by glassing north Africa, we wouldn't use nukes without hesitation like that, try to solve it as a medical issue where it first appears, and the world is fucked before we know it.

Flood vs Zerg, who wins?

>flood spore lands in america
>gets shot
>flood spore lands in europe
>gets splattered by the islamic truck of peace
>flood spore lands in africa
>niggers light it on fire and then rape its corpse. They then die of ebolaids.
>flood spore lands in russia
>gets crushed with a frying pan

>lorefaging this hard
if humans knew what the flood where, like they did when it came to earth, than there would be proper military and biohazard responses if a small outbreak took place

zerg assimilate them and create/become the tyranids

An infection form isn't a spore, a spore is an airborne bit of Flood that can grow on pretty much any surface and start pumping out more spores and infection forms
If enough of them are inhaled it triggers mutation similar to a normal infection form
The world would be fucked within weeks

The flood never actually seemed threatening. More of an annoying nuisance than something scary.

This

>Flood spore starts infecting bumfuck Africa
>Mr president there's been a strange infection that has been positively identified as a fictional plant zombie monster from a video game
>Launch all the nukes we aren't taking chances

Depends on where it lands and how the initial response is handled. The CDC has a protocol for a zombie outbreak in a major American city, napalm the fuck out of everything.

How are you going to shoot or splatter a tiny breathable spore? It's not the thing in OP's pic.

ACKSHYUALLY

He's right though
Spores and infection forms are extremely different things

If it lands somewhere out in the Amazon forest or some other huge patch of uninhabitated wilderness it'll probably grow where it'll eventually become a huge problem. If it lands anywhere in human civilization? Who knows. The moment somebody becomes infected it's gonna be pretty obvious that there's something HORRIBLE going down so it'll get quarintined straight away.

Context from the picture makes it clear what OP meant, stop being a wet blanket

If its a place with just a single city that might have someone whos even half smart we be fucked because it would know to hide asap since wed bomb the shit out of it.

I never said anyone would be deliberately trying to hit it.

Ask our local niggers. They fire so many bullets recklessly that they're bound to hit something.

What
Do you go around sniping mushroom spores? It'd be pretty hard
I mean if it lands in a volcano then yeah but I don't think a bullet is likely to snag something that small

A day

>flood spore lands in china
>gets driven over by a truck, then remains are eaten
>flood spore lands in india
>gets shat over, gets diarrhea, dies from dehydration

It'll be like Alien but good.

Flood change the DNA it infests with space magic/neural physics according to lore so zerg are useless
they were gonna overrun africa in a few hours while being under heavy bombardment by the covenant, and somehow created a huge fuckton of mass ontop of High Charity in just a day or so. They're beyond bullshit, especially if you've read Silentium.

That's because you're a genetically modified superhuman

>implying humanity could stop the flood with High Charity when they only needed one crashed covenant cruiser crashing to overrun most of africa so that they had to glass it
They assimilate intelligence too, and had a large portion of the covenant fleet with them.

Do IRL law enforcement/military have a procedure set out for outlandish situations like zombie apocalypse, aliens appearing, superman-like being appearing, etc?

Alien is good you shit. I might have let that slide if you used any other movie in that franchise but Alien is the fucking tits of horror movies. The Best.

Yes. The CDC as noted earlier in this thread have a plan to carpet bomb napalm all over any city with a zombie outbreak.

>Comparing a flood spore to normal zombies

That shit's airborne man. Sniff a few spores and you're infected even without one of the slug things in you. It's just slower, which is arguably worse

>Spore lands in the forest
>Starts growing and making more spores
>Spores infect wildlife, such as birds and gophers
>Birds sniff the spores and migrate outwards
>Creature is now miles away and either dies in some out of the way location (Pretty sure there's a minimum size required for an actual zombie, since I never saw any Flood Jackels or Grunts)
>Now the Bird Flood corpse starts the process again, birthing more spores to spread to more organisms to spread to more locations

If this spore lands outside of civilization we're fucked. By then it will have spread far enough that we'll never be able to find every spore, either through sheer number or from some mole rat dying in a hole somewhere and collecting biomass from ants. It'd only be a matter of time before it starts making infector forms and we got Flood Gorrilas and Lions to deal with

Link?

Probably.

There is a minimum size, but Jackals and Grunts can be infected, they just don't show in game.
The real reason is because the devs apparently couldn't figure out how to work them in properly.
There are cut carrier form flood wielding Jackal shields on their fronts.

>flood lions and gorillas
I'm pretty sure there was something about flood infecting sentient life and using others for biomass and pods, but holy fuck I can barely remember that while thinking of a tentacle covered, oozing lion leaping out of the tall grass.

Yeah hows it getting out of africa

The flood can infect any organism and can convert it to raw organic "materials" to use for stuff, but only organisms with the right biology and a central nervous system advanced enough can actually be converted into a proper combat form.

t. lorefag

If it landed in a first world country with an immediate response? Probably a good fight.

If it landed in India, China or the such, you're fukt

>Flood Kraken

So it's about them being sentient right? So would monkies, crows, and squids be able to become Flood?

Depends.

Dolphins or some other sea mammal ingesting spores floating in the wind when they go up for air.
Clumps of excess mass being shed into the ocean and floating away
Some random tribesman ate shit into a flood lump and slowly turns into a carrier form when he gets banished for being a disease ridden fucker

>infected grunts don't show in the game

Are you retarded?

yes, they also have procedures in case of demons bursting forth from hellish warpgates

the government truly has thought of everything

No I just meant the lion in particular probably wasn't gonna be a threat to anyone outside of africa or maybe egypt.

Not unless they show up in Halo 3, which I never played. Do they?

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Were it not for the Arbiter's counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet

I always thought those were just elites or humans because the game tells us that Carriers are just combat forms that got too old or useless and were grown into those. Plus old dev talks stated outright that they didn't find a way to include Grunt or Jackals flood forms in the game.

alternatively
>flood spore starts infecting bumfuck africa
>gets infected with ebolaids
>dies out in a week

>They assimilate intelligence
user, they landed in Africa

When you're a superman who can't be infected by them and have combat capabilities beyond an entire trained military division then yeah they wouldn't seem that bad

Regardless, that is very fucking clearly the legs of a grunt.

this.

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To be fair in game even if you were just controlling a marine you would still be more than strong enough to make the in-game flood look stupid. They just aren't threatening.

I dunno across the entire original trilogy the levels people point to as the most difficult with the exception of H2 Jackal Snipers are flood levels like the library and Cortana. What they lack in combat ability they make up for with just stifling numbers, something that would translate very well to a real life situation

Apparently it's supposed to be ambiguous since the cut flood forms for it were Jackals, not Grunts (same model with a Jackal shield on the front).
I did some googling and found this but I haven't played Halo Wars.

It's not clear if "sentient" was actually meant to be Sentient, or if they meant sapient, or what exactly the line is on that, but based on what we've seen in spinoffs I think it's safe to say that pretty much any chordate would be able to be made into a combat form.

Squids would be iffier.

Doesn't mean they are them. I think the only thing to say something about that was one of the books.

plus if they were as contagious as the lore makes it seem it would have gotten out of africa before it was glassed

also it would have infected master chief the moment he took his helmet off at the end of combat evolved

If you were playing a single marine, you would only have access to and training to use a basic human weapons, would have very limited ammo, would be useless after getting shot one time(flood have guns), and even if you did manage to live for more than 3 minutes, you would quickly become infected from simply breathing in the spores.

Basically unless you're a superhuman or are specifically trained and equipped to deal with the flood, then you're totally fucked. And even then if there is any wildlife or civilians in the area you're fucked anyway.

Pretty sure I used the words "In game". and in game, the marines take a lot more than 1 hit to die and can't get infected.
Also,
>Covenant weaponry
>against the flood

About as long as it would take for a new Halo game to reach 10k copies

this is correct
interestingly enough, the in game Kig-Yar (jackals) and Unggoy (grunts) are too physically frail to be used as combat forms, so their biomass is used to form the bulk of the pod incubator "preggos" you fight in the game

Also hunters (Lekgolo) are actually immune to flood infection if I remember correctly

>Spore lands in california
>Govt makes it legal for spores to infect people
>Legalize spore marriage
>Make anti-hate law against spores
>Spores get free gibsmedat and housing

Infected Grunts and Jackals get used as combat forms in Halo Wars and some novels, the "too frail" thing was just a fan theory.

Hunters are indeed immune to being turned into combat forms though thanks to the lack of an advanced nervous system and actual muscles/skeletal systems. They can still be converted to raw biomass though to make Pure forms or to contribute to a gravemind and so on.

Hunters and Drones are both immune. Hunters because they're just worms, Drones because of their frail exoskeleton or something.
The Carriers are formed out of anything, doesn't matter what species.

still doesn't explain how the flood didn't escape africa nor why does master chief not get infected after taking the helm of his flood-spore-ridden suit and breathing the flood-spore-ridden air from halo that went into the ship

ye carriers can be made out of anything but in game (Mostly CE) they're made out of grunts
You can kinda see what's left of the grunts stumpy legs

>spore lands in Ohio
>flood quickly outnumbers natives
>infecting someone without consent legalized, as long as you have moral/religious imperative to do so
>federal requirement to provide protection from infection bypassed
>export Flood to all neighboring states

I thought it was a bit more obvious in 2 despite how lumpy it is, CE's models were so blurry it could have been anything.

>spore lands in sweden
>deemed racist not to submit to the flood
>kids are pushed onto a flood lifestyle from their parents
>several game shows for kids only accept white male kids as long as they're infected
>famous video emerges of an infected person who felt bad that the carrier he got it from was deported
>trend emerges where swedish males let their girlfriends get infected by flood carriers
>illegal to talk negatively about the flood on social media

>the term "biologically enriched" becomes popular

>spore lands inside my asshole
>unknown new super virus immediately kills it
>flood threat contained
>my asshole is awarded the medal of honor and several other distinguishing awards
>he is also awarded the Butthole Peace Prize
>Later will run for president

>spore lands in russia
>official sources talk about uninfected humans being capable of infecting a flood carrier to transform it into human carrier
>talking about humanity pre-infection labeled floodophobia and banned, unless you say nothing positive about pre-infection humans
>humanity labeled an illness

I've always wondered what would happen if a Tyrranid, a handful of flood and the Thing all met together. They all absorb bio matter.

earth children are already playing fps games with a handheld controller

its already over, the merchants won

Source

Nids don't infect things directly, so they lose.
Flood can't overtake something without "defeating" it, it isn't insta-kill.
Lore-wise, the Thing wins.

Though the Thing is also weakest at non-infection parts. Nids defeat "humanity's finest" walking tanks, Flood fights dudes with plasma guns, the Thing didn't even figure out it can infect things more efficiently by spitting on them while in human form.

>No one has posted this yet
>I am disappoint

I know that the Pentagon has plans for alien invasions, but they're classified and might not work anyway.

I want to know this too

this is referring to soviet union vs russia, right? because russia has a strong policy on immigrants

Are the flood sentient? Is there a point at which they become a society / non-aggressive / etc?

They are always aggressive but once the grave mind gets to a planet level, they actually start using the bio matter as almost technology. Then once they get to galactic level, they can almost warp reality itself.

>he doesn;t know how OP the flood really is.
Read the forerunner books. By the last one, the genre has shifted from sci-fi to just outright cosmic horror.The Flood is unironically one of the most absurdly powerful entities in fiction.

>Are the flood sentient?
Yes, though it's sort of complicated and I'm about to go to bed and can';t epxlain it, but the tl;dr is that there's a single flood hivemind consciousnesses that inherits and is passed down by every indivual flood spore, but it doesn't "activate" and and actually coordinate the flood's growth untill an infection has reached a certain point, and before then indivual flood spores/infection forms/combat forms act on instinct.

>Is there a point at which they become a society / non-aggressive / etc?
No. The Flood is actively malicious. Explaining why would be massive spoilers for the forerunner books

>By the last one, the genre has shifted from sci-fi to just outright cosmic horror.The Flood is unironically one of the most absurdly powerful entities in fiction.
Really shit how the books turned from "a marine can resist mental takeover from an infection form through sheer willpower" to all of this bullshit.

All i'll say is give them a shot and read them. They are absurdly well done and pulls off super insane, out there shit really well; but on the same note explaining pretty much anything about what happens sounds stupid because it only really makes sense and works well in the context of how well executed the writing inside the book is.

Don't spoil yourselve and just give them a try, and keep in mind they can be a bit dense.

subtle user
TFW hardly anyone knows what that is :(

>dozens of posts with "flood supah powah by 2030"
>still noone has explained even outside of the thread

You can explain chief by the fact he is lucky as shit.

As for Africa, I still think it was stupid for the Flood to be on Earth, but I guess you could go on by saying that the Gravemind evacuated all of the flood off Earth to stop the Ark from arming all the rings.

How do they work again?

They infect any biomass right?

Pretty much yeah. However, if the host doesn't have the right biological configuration and nervous system, the flood just decomposes them and uses the bio matter to help grow their gravemind.