Now I know what you're thinking, "who are the precursors and what do they have to do with Halo?" Well, the Forerunner trilogy revealed that the Flood are actually one of the many forms a race that is to the Forerunners what the Forerunners are to the UNSC and covenant, taking that form after the Forerunners surprised them by throwing off the shackles of slavery, traveling to their home galaxy, and grinding them into dust while they stood there stupefied that anyone would rebel against them.
The last remaining precursors took the form of organic dust and sealed themselves in containers across the universe in hopes of figuring out new bodies. But after ten million years of degredation, when the dust was released it became the first flood spores, at first working in a sinister way by tricking people into thinking it was healthy and awesome before bad things (tm) happened.
And thus the bouncing mutant death potatoes you see in the games were formed.
But that's not all, once a flood infestation reaches critical mass they start getting magical powers such as:
Shutting down technology by just being in the same area (not fool proof though)
Throwing out a logic plague that causes any AI that can have ambitions to join them.
Using thought to create massive cosmic strings that whip apart planets and can flense solar systems, said cosmic strings can only be destroyed by attacking the "Neural physics" they are made from, so conventional guns? Useless. Weapons that attack thought? Now you're getting there. They also allow for instant travel from point A to B so long as the cosmic strings connect.
Just being present in force causes them to damage and break the spacetime continuum, which notably made it very difficult if not impossible for Ancient Human or Forerunner ships to escape to slipspace.
Oh and they can assimilate a planet of 200 billion actively resisting enemies within mere hours.
At which point does the flood start ripping apart planets and saying "lol, no tech or robots, fight nekkid and vulnerable to infection"? They need to convert entire planets into massive Key minds.
Addittionally once they assimilate engineers and scientists, they can build their own versions of their victim's technology. But the flood is lazy so they prefer just stealing it.
That being said the Flood isn't totally invincible, beings without large amounts of calcium (r.e conventional endoskeletons) or central nervous systems cannot be directly turned into combat forms and must be killed to reused as pure forms first.
With all this in mind, I decided regular star wars dies horribly, so instead we'll use a composite of the various eras and characters to stand against the parasite. Star Wars is given a year to prepare and every flood related material the Halo franchise has to offer to study before the Flood arrives at the outer rim's eastern fringe with a floodified Forerunner fleet and a Keymind.
Rules: No memetic Ewoks.
Fight!
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