Time to bump this thread with a batch of worthwhile vs threads. This time, they're focused on Halo series' Flood species.
- Flood vs Necromorphs (Dead Space series) at
KillerMovie. 8 pages long (last one isn't useful).
- Zerg (Starcraft) vs Flood at
ComicVine, which has quite a number of recent SF vs threads btw. 4 interesting pages of debaters well versed in both fictions.
- Flood vs Replicators (Stargate) vs Borg (Star Trek) at
Escapist Magazine. 8 pages of an interesting exchange, well substantiated (although one needs to be patient). This kind of nerdy thread seems a rarity on that website, from what I read.
- Strongest thing the Precursors (Halo) could beat?, at
Spacebattles. A good reminder that the ever so great "Mantle", for whatever it was when the callous Precursors refused the Forerunners to be its bearers and were about to erase them but that backfired and
they got erased instead (mostly), now the latest, at least the most well spread Precursor form, the Flood, would test humanity next, but only to have it nomnom'd into "unity". Under the Flood, Precursors seek heinous revenge against all their creations. It's possible that their understanding of "their" mantle was distorded in the process when they degenerated into the deadly spores.
Forerunners & Precursors (Halo) vs Ratakan Infinte Empire & Celestials (Star Wars) (
SBC, again). That one is interesting too. One sees that the logic plague is a mix of sophistry, information denial, lies, super locution and long term planning, plus a pinch of metaphysics so the discursive data is stored on some higher plane, but it might very well be related to the Organon/Domain. Which means once the Flood were powerful enough, and assuming the data itself isn't too old (the Domain behaves differently than some solid state system), they could access it again. Only processing power remained a limit, thus the necessity to grow Graveminds and even, if possible, Keyminds.
As a sidenote, the relation between the Forerunners and Precursors, and what those Precursors really were and thought seems to bring the Haloties to a state of schyzophrenia. One funny summary found
here happens to be quite at odds with the omnipotent dicks portrayal you'll find on some boards.