Hey guys! Just wanted to pop in and say thank you to all the people who have been patiently waiting for this. It definitely took me a bit longer than expected but hopefully the effort I put into it makes for a more enjoyable experience overall. Halo means a lot to me so I really wanted to do right by this series and story. Playing Halo CE with my brother is one of my earliest video game memories so it feels really good to come full circle and be able to tell this story how I always imagined it. Thanks again for all of your continued support. Please let me know your honest thoughts and feel free to recommend some new ideas for the next video!

a friend once described the forerunners discovering the true succesors of the mantle as thus: "imagine you are the romans, the pinnacles of humanity. outside your gates are the slathering, brutish barbarian hordes. now imagine god descends from the heavens and says "i choose the barbarians to become god in my stead" when you are literally right there as a roman.

Soo beautifully ironic that the ancient Prophets and humans were allies standing united against the forerunners but became bitter enemies battling over the forerunner's legacy lol

The Halos were quite literally the only weapon that saved the Milky Way. The Gravemind and Flood at the hight of its power could bend the laws of time and physics. Halo was the only way to kill it.

One of the most terrifying things to consider with the Flood is that it is entirely possible that they are not simply the remains of Precursors, but that they are in fact the work of a *singular* Precursor. One member of a Kardashev IV civilization with a grudge is entirely capable of what we see. I'm not sure there's any evidence that this actually is the case, but it's certainly a possibility given what we see.

Fantastic editing and overall quality once again. The Flood are one of my favorite "monsters" for lack of a better term.

The Primordial and Didact segment goes ridiculously hard

This is incredible! Even if you don’t know Halo lore - the way this guy narrates and creates is beyond any content I’ve ever seen - and I’m a lore fanatic for all types of lore. Never seen a creator like this - he is the best until someone finds a way to out do him 💪🏽

So, basically, The Flood was created because somebody snorted God’s ashes.

The segment at 34:45 onwards was so spine chillingly phenomenal.

As a long time Halo fan, this is a godsend. Up there with content from Installation00

You do more to honor Halos legacy in 40 minutes than any corporation has in over a decade. Thank you for this.

Let’s get this channel to the fucking moon!

Never heard of this channel until today… but I gotta say I love the narration and the use of the halo OST. Looking forward to more!

Goddamn this was a journey to watch. It feels criminal to get this kind of content for free.

Dude what the crap?! Who the hell gave you permission to make a video with the editing, sound, and voiceover quality of a channel with a six figure subscriber count?! Seriously, I just opened this because the thumbnail looked cool; I was NOT ready for a full-on professional documentary! Well done sir.

The flood may be the most dangerous parasitic infection in fiction. Even the Tenno and the 40k universe would fall against them.

0:59 that music always hits right in my heart 💘

This is what makes halo the best sci fi universe out there

Excellent video quality bro. I've never really seen anything else like this on YT. Yep definitely gonna be going places with such high quality videos and the fact that you take your time and don't rush out your vids is obvious and I love it. Keep it up bro, I'll be rooting for you.

Amazing how Ancient Humanity managed to fight, an albeit losing one, a two-front war against both the Flood and the Forerunners and last as long as they did despite having their backs against the wall. Just imagine where we may have been if we had gotten to continue to progress another 100,000+ years.

You're a very good storyteller. I've heard this story a million times by now but you tell it in a good and captivating way.

Necromorphs with guns and magic.

This deserves at least 100k views.

Awesome like the rest! Could you do a Doctor Who villain like Daleks or Cybermen next?

The thing aout the Flood is, that, it stands to reason, even within the Halo universe, that there is, somewhere within the vastness of space, a civilization or species that is eother equally dangerous, or that can deal with the Flood with relative ease. It's all to do with the general principle of infinity. Trans-galactic Flood would ultimately end up getting themselves destroyed over a long enough period of time. Another thing to consider, is that a large enough outbreak is inherently unsustainable. There is a finite amount of resources for the Flood to consume. Even when they reach the point to where they begin self replication, there is going to be a limit to how long, and how many times this can be done without additional resources. Even if the biomass is capable of utilizing the very resources available on the ground it is living on, eventually, it will run out. You would find that the systems that were infected first, and going in order of time of infection, would be far less powerful, and many would be completely devoid of any biomass at all, or resource capable of supporting it. I'd assume, since we know that they can survive on completely dominated worlds for such long periods, that this would, over a long enough period of time, lead to very large, very dark, and very empty swathes of the universe. If given long enough, the Flood would end up consuming everything resource they had access too, and would effectively wipe themselves out, as well as, in all likelihood, they possible of any life, them or otherwise, ever existing again in any of the places they were.

this is a straight up documentary. Impressive !!!

I am loving these! Hope to see you cover the Zergs from Starcraft or maybe the Space Pirates or Metroids from the Metroid games. Always felt like people didn't give these races and games enough attention.

The algorithm has blessed me this day. Easy subscribe.

Spectacular quality, hope your channel will grow because this is quality content and well deserves views

This is easily one of if not the best halo lore video I’ve seen.

Nice to see you in action once again!

by far one of the most underated videos on the platform. I will 100% be recommending this to other people

This was insane, 10/10

This deserves many many views, great production quality my guy

As a massive nerd, the documentary style for fictional content is a great way to experience lore. Writers should take notes.

The algorithm had recommended your Xenomorph video since I love the art of HR Giger, and I subscribed within 10 minutes. Then I went on to watch everything, though I knew nothing about Halo, Dead Space, etc. Your channel is of such high quality. Everything is superb, especially your wonderful, sweeping narration. Thank you for your hard work in making these marvelous videos!

I was actually expecting a field guide on how to hunt them, like a "how to behave on the face of a Flood flood" "remember to burn granny's corpse kids! Otherwise granny shall return and kill you too!"

You earned a subscription my friend. This video and your Necromorph video locked me in. Thanks for creating A+ content!

Amazing video once again! Absolutely love this channel, cant wait to see what's next! In the meantime I'll be sharing this everywhere.

"you will be food... nothing more!" -The Gravemind

the performance at the end is exquisite. what is that an excerpt from. is it a book? is it the original ringworld books or something? The whole concept of that is perfectly horrifying. it's like something you know could happen but you just don't think that it will because you're safe and you've locked it away and then suddenly you can like feel it in your head and like the realization of what's happening is just absolutely devastating

I fw the dude who chose the music mix fits perfectly with everything hes saying. Its like im watching a documentary

The Flood is so terrifying that even Thanos and Darkseid would fear them

Best Halo lore video I've ever seen, well done.

Not even 30 sec in, I'm already hooked. great pick for an intro song specially followed by never forget 👌🏻

Not gonna lie. I didn't give much appreciation towards Halo because, among other things, I wasn't wholly engrossed in the enemy so I'm surprised to see the lore go this hard and how interesting The Flood is.

Wonderful work once more! Can't wait to see what's next!

Depending on what assimilation into the flood feels like it might be a good fate of the universe. It adopts your intelligence and preserves your consciousness to the point that it might be a collective consciousness of everything it consumed. It is a library of everything it comes across that exists as long as there is organic tissue. The flood forms we see in the games are just the beginning stages, I am certain that after enough time the flood would adapt to the point of being able to produce it's own food without consuming other species. It already resembles plants so being able to do photosynthesis is not out of t he question. The flood is far less cruel than us humans, we slaughter millions of animals every day just because we deem them lesser than us, the flood at least preserves everything about us even if the death is violent. Still if the flood really existed I doubt it would use combat forms as long as it did. Capturing just a couple of humans would provide it with enough knowledge that we have nothing to do with our precursors who fought with it, there is no point in revenge and it would understand that violence is far less efficient than a peaceful means of assimilation. It would use figures such as Jesus to promise us eternal bliss and it might even be able to provide it since it can influence our brains and keep them alive much longer than we can, many people would accept that and those who don't can be persuaded in other ways of which violence is probably the least effective. With the whole universe consumed by the flood, nothing needs to die except individual cells. Every conscious form can be preserved forever. That is if the Gravemind has that as it's goal, since the Gravemind is created from the intelligence of sentient forms it absorbs and most sentient forms want to live forever and don't like pain it would most likely end up being it's goal. Consuming any creature the first thing it would hear is "I don't want to die"

Such a great quality video. Congrats on the excellent work, bud!

Super high quality video, I’m glad I found your channel. Keep going!

I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on this channel. The quality is perfect for this kind of content! Did you do some production prior to starting this channel?

Sweet, I was JUST thinking to myself that it'd be nice if Odyssey uploaded a new video. 👍👍👍

Excellent as always

Never seen your channel before, not even 2 minutes in, subscribed

20:00 NAT GEO on the flood

i just love these vids, just keep em coming, mate! Also, is all the music in this video from Halo ost or is there a list of songs i can find somewhere?

“….Thank….You…” -Private Wallace Jenkins

Great telling and beautiful visuals

37:35 chills

The fact that it takes a century for it to become problematic would be so alarming to discover if you're like a scientist coming into it later and like thinking about like all the places that they have labs doing this now and like how widespread it would be you would just be like it's so fucked like it's just over

That very beginning HAS to be from 2003 Hulk. I recognize that pitch anywhere lol

can you cover the warframe infestation/technocytes next? since you covered the flood and the necramorphs the inbfestation is the next step

i heard cortanas whole little monologue in my head during your opening

The flood withdrew to gather the remaining precursor biomass. That's so awful and sad.

Intro outstanding 😮😊

It is said the Halo also destroyed Precursor ships and artifacts, thus reducing the available weaponry for the flood in his last outbreak

This is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen! What are the odds of you doing something like this for the species that were involved with The Covenant? 👀

They are all like this... I'm watching everything

KZfaq just reccomended me this

I wonder if the flood, if it consumes a universe will enter the Multiversal stage

The Original Lore from Bungie says that Humans WERE Forerunners. But Frank Fuck O'Connor decided to Fuck with the Lore in the Halo 3 Terminals because he was Planning to Usurp the Halo Franchise with the Thanks of Microsoft. So NO, I Deny this Bastardized Version of the Halo Lore where Humans and Forerunners were not the Same Species. Frank O'Connor Bastardized the Halo Franchise because HE wanted the Success that Bungie back in the Day had Earned! Bungie were in a Time Crunch so they couldn't go in and Change the Terminals and I don't think that they knew what Frank O'Connor did. Frank was introduced during Halo 3's Development and he Fucked with the Lore so that he could Change it to Fit HIS Vision, which turned out to be the Bastardization of Halo.

I love both voices I dub the lore voice and the scientist voice.

excellent vid

26:30 The Thing. The alien one

It could be just the way it's presented here but it's kind of confusing if the flood does things on purpose or if it's just an omnidirectional aggressor. prior to 14:08 you say that it retreats to mess with the perceptions of the forerunners, but then you say, when it returns, after the forerunners exile humans to their own planet, that at first it's just like an unthinking mob, And it has to evolve intelligence with graveminds and stuff like that. so like.... is it evolving and then devolving? are the precursors giving and taking away abilities from the flood or causing it to retreat when they feel like it? or choosing its targets?

Seeing the combat form my first thought was "thats a strange looking congalala"

1:35 Tolkein opened the similirian similarly

Do tyranids from wh40k next

One for the alg 👉👉

Absolutely incredible video. Its a shame that halo lore is pretty stupid these days. Who thought that explaining the forerunners and then replacing the concept of forerunners with precursors was so dumb. Anywau, great video, man. I hope your channel takes off.

I love that first song in the video. I know it's a Halo song but what is the name of it?

what is the name of the OST of this video its so good

Pleeeeease do Bloodborne, I am Good Hunter but I am a bit rusty and could use a refresher.

The new lore or was it grounds for theories of it? for the Flood makes me feel... smaller. Even in 40k, with Chaos, there's still some kind of personal connection to things but man...

Is that ending from a book or did you create it?

BUMP FOR GOOD VIDEO

Is the narrator an AI recreation of the Halo 3 Believe ad campaign?

Instructions unclear. Got carted by great Jagras

T virus next?

23:40 Techno virus.

Did he just rap? 24:27

Damn.... so thats what happened to the daitact

Love it wow

Will there be more?

Where did they come from I wonder?

16:15 worse then the zerg

So much of the first 30 minutes of this is wrong, it’s so upsetting given the quality of the video itself

I swear the thumbnail keeps changing

You talk about forerunners and humans as though we are wholly different species