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‘Flood infested ship crashes into the Death Star’ Stormtrooper: what is it more rebels Darth Vader: worse

I think its safe to say that when a flood-infected Star Destroyer crashes into Coruscant, it would be game over

As soon as the Flood formed a gravemind it would realize that Star Wars has had the same technology for tens of thousands of years and think "Oh my God... the entire galaxy is retarded!" and actively try not to assimilate anybody to avoid getting dumber. So Star Wars wins.

*"One single flood spore can destroy a species..."*

It's laughable how utterly fucked the Star Wars galaxy is in this scenario. The Forerunner had to resort to suicidal, galactic-scale *omnicide* to put a stop to the Flood. Superweapons that made the Death Stars look quaint.

Short answer: They are screwed Long answer: They are Totally screwed

*Gravemind talking to Darth Vader* "The ability to use the force is insignificant next to the power of neural physics"

The scariest thing about the flood invading Star Wars is that they will very quickly become aware of the force and gain an understanding of it. See the precursors saw the universe in a somewhat similar way that the Jedi saw it. They will likely become force sensitive. Basically the particular nature of the flood makes it impossible for the Star Wars universe to win.

'One single flood spore can destroy a species'

Some people seem to forget, the flood are remnants of “gods”

Flood starts using the force, Darth Vader: FUCK!!!!! Palpatine: SHIT!

The Flood: one of the few factions in conventional sci fi that could have a fighting chance in 40k.

If a race like the forerunners couldn't survive, theres no hope in hell really for most sci-fi galaxies to survive

The Flood themselves can use the Force, or rather, the Halo Universe version of the Force, known as "Neural Physics". The Logic Plague is bascially a mega-version of the Jedi Mind Trick, and the Flood's seeming omniscience is a result of the Gravemind's connections with Neural Physics

Short answer:No Long answer :Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

You can't cure the flood, because it's kills the host and uses the body of said host

As much as I want the Star Wars Galaxy to win, I agree the Flood would win. True, Star Wars has dealt with similar "zombies" in their non-cannon universe. (See Old Republic Red Harvest and Death Troopers books) Those incidents were always localized and did not spread as quickly as the Flood. Also, because of the arrogance of The Empire they would not see the Flood as a threat tell it is to late.

Jar Jar Binks vs Gravemind.

I have played every halo game, looked deep into the lore of everything flood included. And I doubt the galaxy would stand a chance. They spread rabidly. Look at High Charity in halo 3 compared to the end of halo 2. Completely a flood home in a few hours. So in my opinion, no the flood would be too much. And if a flood infects someone that's force sensitive, then that flood can use the force as well. Just like Rtas aka shipmaster aka broken jaw once said and this word by word. "A single flood spore can a destroy a species." So yeah, my response to would the galaxy survive is *whoop* NOPE

Lmao “The rebels are on vacation or something.”

I'm amazed about how many people think the empire could stop the flood. If the forerunners and ancient humanity couldn't stop it, what makes you think the empire can? Even after the forerunners cleansed the galaxy of life the flood still survived. Better yet after the flood's reawakening the ENTIRE covenant couldn't stop them, neither could humanity. As long as there are flood spores, a fight against the flood is like trying to fight time. You can't win

The Flood are so much more terrifying than I originally imagined That is also boosted ten-fold by the fact that I now know how powerful the Forerunners actually were, and that they couldn't stop them.

Honestly I used to think the Flood were just generic space zombies with a hive mind, but your videos really make me understand how horrifyingly different and deadlier they are from typical zombie or viral infections. Subscribed.

The flood survived a galaxy wide super weapon. What can the SW’s universe do?

I've made 2 equations to calculate how fast and strong the flood gets over time. (N is usually starting in a small number like 7-10) Every time "F" increases, reset the equation and double "N" and "H" while multiply "D" and "P" by 1/8 H=2N F=P [(D(NxH)] F= total flood forces P= healthy population D=density of healthy population N= number of people infected H= rate of people infected per hours

How long would it take for the Flood to assimilate the galaxy? A year? Less? What would the addition of Force-sensitive beings to their ranks mean for the Flood when they move to assimilate other galaxies?

The Flood would easily crush the Empire and the entire Star Wars galaxy.

The flood is actually a hive mind

Imagine the flood controlling the death star

What about the Forerunners in their prime against the Empire/Star Wars Galaxy?

Then again the Star Wars universe has never even seen or heard of the flood. They wouldn’t know what to do. Wouldn’t know that the are all connected to one mind.

as much as I love the Empire in star wars...... all of my bets are on the Flood......

If the flood took over the the entire galaxy, how intelligent would the flood be?

Would infected Force-sensitives be able to use the Force? I think so...

Imagine the power of the Flood once they start taking over the bodies of Force Sensitives...

The empire would probably be way more willing to glass entire infected planets than the forerunner were, so that might give them a bit of an advantage.

Do they have the high ground?

Tau Empire vs The Covenant

Generally the answer to "Can X universe survive a Flood infection" is determined by two questions: "How far are the Flood in their development?" and "How fast is interstellar travel in this universe?" Star Wars has incredibly fast interstellar travel, so the Flood have a massive advantage right out the gate. If the infection is allowed to spread over even just one planet, it's game over. They don't have a Halo ring.

You know, I was thinking about this after hearing a bit about the flood and how absolutely dangerous they are, and I thought back to this video about how spread out and !@$#ed the star wars galaxy would be, as the flood could gain so much steam as to be basically impossible to defeat because of how easily they could access a population so much more massive than anything in the halo universe before anyone with enough power to stop them could ever notice. I think these are good points. I also remember some comments making the comment that the flood would be able to use the force after consuming jedi. In the halo universe the flood gains enough traction to seemingly infect timespace itself, and also using neural physics like the precursors, utilizing their long dormant tech such as the star roads. However, I think there's an issue here. The Force as it is portrayed in the Star Wars universe is not just an energy source, but rather a pantheistic deity that has a will of it's own. The FORCE ITSELF could possibly seek to destroy the flood. This leads to an even more interesting implication. The flood uses the logic plague in order to, in a sense argue it's point and manipulate AI in a way that corrupts their programming, and can manipulate almost any intelligence. Could the Flood develop so far as to CORRUPT THE FORCE ITSELF? The flood is not just a physical biological infection, but a philosophical one. However, the Force is more than metaphysical, but spiritual. The actual capacity of The Force itself is nebulous, and what it's actually capable of is not exactly clear, and I think that this makes the implications of such a conflict utterly fascinating.

You make the best vs video and I love Star Wars vs halo

The Flood versus the Borg!! Please make this a thing!!! (P.S. I know this isn't Star Wars, but come on, this is top comment. GIVE US WHAT WE WANT!!!)

Just imagine the flood taking the deathstar and a key mind being formed on it... yikes.

Jar Jar Binks Vs Master Chief

The Empire VS The Covenant

"One single flood spore can destroy a species" Unless the empire can use the death star to destroy the planet the infection started on before it spreads off world, which is EXTREMELY unlikely for many reasons, they are fucked. Hell, even the halo universe itself doesn't have a legitimate way to kill it without everyone else dying, they simply ignored it's existence after killing a gravemind and acted like it was over, when all that did was make the flood slightly less organized for a short time. If the halo rings themselves, (which are weapons that make even starkiller base look like a fancy laser pointer) couldn't stop the flood then nothing really can once the infection has gotten off world. I doubt most SciFi universes could stop it, not star wars, not star trek, nothing. You have a VERY small window to stop it, and you usually wont see it until it's closed.

I’m not saying the flood would lose or anything, in fact I almost laughed at the video title thinking how anyone could even imagine the Star Wars universe standing a slim chance, but I actually think your mentioned lack of ai in the Star Wars universe could be an advantage, as on if the reasons the forerunners got so fucked was the logic plague overtook most of their ai that they relied so heavily on

Gravemind: "time to gather intel on the enemy by absorbing biomass of soldiers and attaining their memories." Gravemind: assimilates millions of Empire members. Gravemind: "... You... you guys lost to teddy bears."

Nothing survives the flood, not even the xenomorphs

How about the Forerunners against the Galactic Empire?

The flood is just op. The infection part alone is like game over

[sees Flood-infested planet] Me: Time for the Death Star.

THE BUGS FROM STARSHIP TROOPERS VS THE ALIENS FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY.

I like how in this battle the rebels are just sitting in their ships drinking fruit punch in their lawn chairs watching the galaxy progressively becoming more tan and fleshy.

“Alas brother, the flood.. it has evolved!”

The forerunner technology was far more technology advanced than anything the star wars universe had. And the forerunners got stomped by the flood. So you would think, flood > forerunners > empire. But here's the thing... As the flood-forerunner war progressed, the flood began reactivating and using precursor artifacts such as star roads and they also took control of the domain. These precursor artifacts were ridiculously overpowered compared to the forerunners technology and are what gave the flood such an advantage in space battles. Without those artifacts, its not clear that the flood would have actually won. At least, that is the impression that I got while reading the forerunner saga novels. And since the star wars universe doesn't have such artifacts to give the flood such an advantage...The empire would still probably get stomped, but who knows.

Nothing can stop the flood. They are quite literally unstoppable

The moment The Flood starts consuming major cities is the moment Palpatine will pick up on their presence through a disturbance in the Force. But he isn't going to understand the severity of the problem at first so he'll probably just send a small force to investigate it, assuming it to be the Rebel Alliance up to something. When the force reports the horror they've found that'll be the moment that decides the fate of the Galaxy. If Palpatine doesn't take The Flood seriously then the Galaxy will be done for.

a wise elite once said "one single flood spore can destroy a species"

Venator class star destroyer vs Spirit of Fire (with Serina).

Actually there is one way the empire could win. The only way I believe that the empire can win is to pull any and all forces to the core worlds and not allow any other ships to enter or exit the core worlds and blast away at anything that come close

When i played awakening the nightmare on HW2 it was interesting to see just how fast the flood spread when fighting a fully armed occupational force like the banished on the ark and how it took every last body to just destroy the proto gravemind. I dont think there are many cases where the empire could properly contain and destroy the infection.

Given the way the force works, I think pretty much any force sensitive person would know that something was very not good as soon as the first proto-gravemind starts forming.

Pre-watching comment: Are you kidding? The Star Wars galaxy could barely survive the Yuzhan Vong, but then again that was just because the rebels were being idiots and couldn't just wait a few years so the Empire could kick their asses. Still, I don't think so, seeing as the YV faced an incredible amount of disadvantages that the Flood would circumvent.

Star wars universe vs dead space necromorphs

This Starwars Universe won't survive the Flood,not even their ships *humming*

This one is almost up in the air, because we need to wonder if the flood gains the traits of those they consume could they use the force? Or because the force user is "dead" does the force no longer apply?

Jesus the thought of a gravemind taking knowledge of the Sith by absorbing Palpatine...

Hahaahaha no..... No seriously? What the fuck dude? They would literally by trying to fight a mathmatical equation that they can never hope to equalize. The Forerunners considered premature stellar collapse as standard Flood containment protocol & that failed to even slow them at all. The entire GE would fall in a matter of weeks to months. The Empire is _too small_ to respond to something like this. Once Keyminds & other Precursor shenanigans come into play, it's a godstomp of the highest caliber.

The Flood will never die

Solid video my guy invaded my subs list with little resistance you did.

The Dalek Empire vs The Empire

The Flood vs The Imperium of Man! :3

Love your videos man, keep it up 👍🏼

The start of a beautiful series

Reapers from Mass Effect vs the Flood. My friends and i have been debating this for (what seems like) years.

This is a joke, do Yuzzhan Vong vs flood or the Rakatan Infinite Empire vs flood

Probably the one situation where use of a planet buster is an appropriate response.

Great video 👌

My Theorie: Start Form: One Spore Strarting Planet: ---( Or, if it should go faster, Coruscant) So, some Guy gets infectet. A Infection by a Spore has other effects than by a infection Form, before you can see the infection it will grow around 2-3 months. Patient Zero will be more agressiv and will try to attack other Individuals. If he gets killed, Spors will be Released into the Air. Everybody that was near Patient Zero will be infectet soon, because of the Spores. Soon, the "Spore" Floods will cover a place with collected Biomass. There, they will collect Biomass to produce Infection Forms (They can infect Victims faster and mutates them) and to build a Gravemind. That all happens in the first few Days After Patient Zeros Dead. After they made a Proto-Gravemind (A small Gravemind) they get to the coordinated Stage. From they the will spread extremely fast. The Key is to infect a Clone or a Stoormtrooper, when that happens, they will get Military Informations and may the informations how to steer Vehicles or Spaceships. The First Planet will fall in about 6 Months. The Flood will try to find a Planet with alot of Biomass. Mostly Coruscant. Now, that they have a Target, they'll try to get the Gravemind to the Target. The Captured Starships crash into the Planet, and realising the Infection. Depends on how big the Infection was, the Planet will fall in bless than a Week. It will may take more Time to Reach the Center if Coruscant, but After 1 Week there is No Chance to deafeat the Infection. Key-Mind Now, that the Flood has enougth Biomass, they will Build a Key Mind. It take Years to build It, but if theyre done Star Wars is deafeted. The Flood is an Overkill to the Star Wars Galaxy. BTW.Please stop spreading wrong stuff to not trigger the Star Wars Fans. BTW 2 excuse my Grammar im German

ARC troopers vs spec ops elites

This is such a sweet idea! I've pondered this many times. I would also like to know what the UNSC vs the Empire would be like. Darth Vader vs. Master Chief. One of Star Wars's most damning faults when it comes to fighting the Flood- Blasters. Blasters are essentially plasma based guns that as anyone that has played Halo knows...not very effective against the Flood. Further, Star Wars does use hyper intelligent AI. Sone of their droids are much, much, much more intelligent than any organic life.

Just realized that if the flood basically gains all of the attributes that a host had prior to infection they could use the force if they manage to infect someone who can use it. Imagine an entire army of flood that can pull it's victims towards themselves as well as propel themselves and other flood forms quickly through the air. Along with the force, a lightsaber would be bound to come with it. SO on top of an army of force-wielding hyperintelligent parasites, one would also basically be a jedi/sith.

“You will be food...nothing more!!”

From the outset scenario you laid out the Empire has already lost. An isolated planet with no significant military power? The flood would take the world, form a keymind and immediately start sending ships to other places in the unsuspecting galaxy.

I can't be the only one who would love to see a conversation between Vader and Gravemind. That would be immensely fascinating.

With this big of a disadvantage, I would've even included the Death Star. Since we know they're clearly not afraid to use that power, they'd destroy a good amount of the flood. I don't think they would win considering how fast the flood spread. But at least give the empire a better shot against them

I'd love to see Jar Jar Binks being infected by The Flood! It would be like a childhood dream come true!!

Before i even watched this i thought, "if the forruners beat the starwars galaxy, and lost to the flood, of course starwars would lose"

Just imagine hyper space madness is actually someone seeing a alternate halo universe where the flood controls everything and when you stare too long you see the origins of the food now THAT would be a damn good crossover

A truly terrifying thought, considering what the Flood are capable of...

Multiple ideas, let's see one get done. 1) First Order vs UNSC post Halo 4, fleet battle 2) 2-M Saber class Repulsor Tank vs Armored Assault Tank 3) Rogue Squadron vs Inferno Squadron 4) Behemoth class battlecruiser from StarCraft vs Venator Star Destroyer 5)Harrower dreadnaught vs Venator Star Destroyer

The idea of the flood infecting a force user is a scary thought. If a grave mind discovered or could use the force that's game over

Its funny because when describing the flood you can't really think of them in the context of an enemy power but rather a disease in how you approach it which is try not to.

Would love to see you incorporate the stargate universe into this. Great videos.

First order vs the galactic empire

Retribution class battleship vs executor class Dreadnought

I think one big thing that you may have overlooked is that both Palpatine, Vader and other strong force users would have felt that disturbance in the force. Not necessarily having insight on the infection, but just bring able to feel it. Palpatine himself was able to feel forces at work in the outer and unknown regions of space. While they would have still had a mess on their hands if Palpatine sent Vader immediately, they may have had more of a fighting chance. And we all know the emperor's not that impartial on destroying entire planets

Damn this made me think what happens if sidious or Vader for infected. Imagine it a force wielding flood and/or gravemind