User blog:JWarrior89/Season 3 Episode 1: The Flood vs Xenomorphs

The Flood : The highly virulent parasitic

species that threatened to consume all

sentient life in the galaxy...

 Xenomorphs: The highly intelligent and deadly creatures who breed by impreganting their victims, and having the young burst from their chests...

Its Parasite vs Predator...

Who... is... DEADLIEST!?

The Flood
The Flood is an alien parasite, possibly of extragalactic origin. The Flood has been present in the Milky Way galaxy for at least 100,000 years, when they fought a destructive war with an advanced ancient alien race known as "the Forerunners". The Forerunners activated a series of weapons of mass destruction on a galactic scale located on ring-shaped artificial worlds that would later become known as "Halos", destroying both the Flood, themselves, and any other sentient life in the galaxy, save for those species kept in an extragalactic artificial world known as "The Ark". The Flood would be unleashed again when both the United Nations Space Command and their enemies, a coalition of alien races known as the Covenant Empire stumbled across one of the rings. The Covenant unintentionally released Flood specimens kept in stasis on the ring, which quickly killed or assimilated most of the UNSC and Covenant troops on "Halo". The Flood threat was destroyed when UNSC SPARTAN John-117 destroyed the Halo ring by detonating the fusion reactors of a destroyed UNSC starship. The Flood would later be unleashed again on a second Halo ring and "The Ark", this time in a more advanced state led by a hivemind known as "The Gravemind". The Flood was finally defeated when John-117 destroyed the Flood-infested "Ark".

The Flood swarm their opponents with:


 * Infection Forms : The Infection Form of the Flood is a round bodied creature that crawls along on tentacles. Infection Forms tend to attack their targets in large swarms (earning the species the name "The Flood"), overwhelming their target and burrowing into its chest and injecting Flood DNA, taking complete control of the host and causing them to mutate into a horrifically distorted version of their former self.


 * Combat Forms: The Combat Form is a the result of a Flood Infection Form taking over the body of an individual of any species of sufficient mass and cognitive capabilities. The Combat Form looks like a grotesque corruption of whatever species it once was, including humans, Sanghieli (Elites), Jiralhanae (Brutes), and Forerunners can all be converted into Combat forms. Because of the hive-mind nature of the Flood, any combat form is capable of wielding the weapons, driving the vehicles, or even piloting aircraft and spacecraft of any race. Flood Combat Forms are often seen attacking in large groups, often in conjunction with other Flood Forms. Flood Combat forms are most easily killed by targetting the Infection Form portruding from their chest, although severe damage to other areas can also kill them.


 * Carrier Forms: Carrier forms look like literally like "sacks on legs", and that is about what they are... exploding sacks of Flood Combat Forms that is. Flood Carrier Forms are created when a species not suitable for conversion into a Combat form is infected, or when Combat Form sustains damage to severe to it to be useful in its present role. Carrier Forms are dangerous both because they exploded with about the force of a grenade, and because they release Infection Forms, which proceed to attack any nearby targets.


 * Pure Forms: The Flood Pure Form is a form of Flood made from biomass that has been converted into a "Flood Supercell", Flood Cells that can be rearranged at will, allowing the Pure Form to transform at will. The Flood Pure form is capable of transforming into one of three forms: The Ranged Form, a stationary form which attacks from a distance by firing sharp spines with lethal force, the Stalker Form, a fast moving spider like form with a lethal melee attack, and the powerful yet slow moving "Tank Form", which can survive numerous small arms hits and devastating melee attack.

Weapons:

- MA5C Assault Rifle

- Covenant Carbine

- M90 Shotgun

- Covenant Plasma Rifle

- M41 Rocket Launcher

(Info taken from Halo Nation and Deadliest Fiction Wiki)

Xenomorphs
Unlike many other recurring enemy extraterrestrial races in science fiction, the Aliens are not an intelligent civilization, but predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of life that could pose a threat. Like wasps or termites, Aliens are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors. The Aliens' biological life cycle, in which their offspring are violently implanted inside living hosts before erupting from their chests, is in many ways their signature aspect.

The Xenomorphs assault their prey with:


 * Facehuggers: A Facehugger is an Alien larva that hatches from an egg. It resembles a pair of skeletal hands with a spine-like tail. Until a facehugger is disturbed by a living faunal organism that is larger than it, it lives in an egg, approximately one meter in height. When disturbed, the egg springs open slowly, and the facehugger jumps out, using its tail to propel itself in the air and onto its victim's face. It constricts the hosts with its tail, cutting off their oxygen supply and inserting a proboscis of its own to feed the host oxygen, and also to implant a Xenomorph embryo.


 * Drone: The Drone, Stalker or Worker is a form of the Xenomorph. It is a loyal servant for the Queen. It makes hives and collects bodies for comatose (Alien birth). Its head is one of the smoothest of all the xenomorphs and it can cyst (spit) its acidic blood at its enemies and stick hosts to the hive's surface with a resin-like secretion.


 * Warrior: The Warrior (or Hunter) is one of the primary assault organisms of the Intervacius-Raptus species. It is fast, reasonably tough, and a savage combatant. It is black in color, with a long, segmented tail and a secondary set of jaws inside its mouth; which it can use to maim or kill prey. They are shown to possess incredible strength, enough to break down metal pressure doors. Warriors can blend into the surrounding spaces in their hives; and other terrain making them hard to detect until moving, although other Xenomorph can do this as well. When an Alien Warrior is killed by weapons that cause massive physical trauma, its pressurized bloodstream causes the creature to explode, showering the surrounding area with molecular acid.


 * Praetorian: Praetorian is the next step in a Drone's life cycle. It is a larger, bulkier version of the standard Alien, with a head crest similar to that of the Xenomorph Queen. When a Drone becomes a Praetorian, they start to develop a harder exoskeleton and give off a pheromone that causes the rest of the hive to attack them. If they can escape and survive long enough, their exoskeleton will become bullet-proof, and they return to the hive as guardians of the Queen. Like the Drones, they can spit acid.

Weapons:

- Teeth/claws/2nd mouth

- Spear tail

- Acid blood/spit

(Info taken from Xenopedia)

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