![]() Species known to be immune to conversion include the Mgalekgolo/ Lekgolo, whose complete lack of skeletal calcium (i.e. Of the various Covenant races, only a few species meet the necessary requirements. A group of Flood will occasionally go after Sentinels if they are perceived to be the greatest threat in the area, although they are unable to be infected by the Flood due to their robotic and inorganic nature.Ģ7 October 2015 Types of Combat Forms Ī specific creature is needed for the infection and creation of a Combat Form. Flood infection is a rapid and efficient biological process, as it can take under a minute in certain cases. Infected hosts are rapidly digested while being converted, which leaves the host severely ravaged and decayed, much like a corpse that has been exhumed a few weeks after its burial. Once a sufficient store of biomass is available the Flood enters the Coordinated Stage, and begins forming Pure Form Flood, with the Combat Forms being used either as defensive units or calcium/biomass reserves. In the initial stage of a Flood outbreak, the Feral Stage, Combat Forms communicate using pheromones and have one instinctual behavior to secure new hosts to strengthen the local controlling intelligence. Although the brain tissue remains dead, the victim's biomass and calcium reserves are sufficient to warrant infection. Even dead hosts are suitable for conversion into a Combat Form infection forms can infect recently deceased hosts and reanimate them in much the same way as they would living hosts. However, Infection Forms do not require their hosts to still be alive for infection. Combat Forms retain the host's previous attributes, therefore they can wield weapons, and drive and board enemy vehicles. On rare occasions, this effect may be weakened by time in stasis for the Infection Form, allowing the host to regain some control, as in the case of Private First Class Wallace Jenkins. Once fully transformed, the Infection Form has total control over the host's body and changes the physical appearance of the host to better suit its own needs (although an infected host will be roughly the same size as it was before). This process is presumably very painful and terrifying, and will eventually kill the host though, in certain circumstances, the host will remain alive. Transformation involves brutal mutations that makes the host more suitable for combat. During the infection process, the host's internal organs are liquefied, and the nutrients from them are used to develop the tentacles and other appendages.Ī host becomes a Combat Form after an Infection Form enters its body. After mutation begins, the infection Form attaches with one of its tentacles to the host's spine, which it uses to establish a neural connection that allows it to command the host's nervous system, thus rendering command of the legs and arms useless. Successful creation of a Combat Form requires a host with sufficient biomass and calcium storage, and an Infection Form to infect the host. Materials are the same as always: apoxie sculpt and green stuff for sculpting, vallejo for paint.A Combat Form is not a natural organism, but rather a mutated host infected by parasitic Flood Super Cells implanted by an Infection Form. While the old figures look more dirty and the biomass tends to cover more surface area, I think I prefer the more contrasting look of the mutated flood skin and shiny armor being kept separate. Included is an in-progress shot and a picture of the original customs made in 2017-2018. They were all sealed with a gloss finish. The flood parts were all painted in a weird mix that I forgot, then washed with brown and black. The stealth elite is a bit more interesting in that it was first painted silver then washed with a light metallic blue a few times. The paint for the zealot and minors is pretty simple, just yellow/gold with brown accents and dark metallic blue respectively. The shoulder of the stealth elite was cloned from the piece used on the recent elite ultra figures while the thigh plates and zealot's shoulder were cloned from the old articulation elite field marshall. The heads were also made using partial casts, though this time from a piece I had sculpted previously. Each figure's armor around the chest and back was made by making partial casts of the Halo 3 elite armor and arranging them to look broken. ![]() The process of making them was more or less the same across all four figures with the exception of different armor bits for the zealot and stealth flood. I took some old flood elite customs I didn't like much anymore and remade them into newer, better figures. ![]()
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