The Man. The Myth. The Legend.
Whatever the grizzly details of Sgt. Johnson's current reputation, he has certainly earned it. And, if
you have anything to say, you had better be well out of boot range when you do.
Several things characterize Johnson's known career thus far: his bad-ass command style, addiction to Flip
music (a descendant of old Earth "Metal"), and his apparent infection and subsequent death at the hands of the Flood, as recorded
on the headset of the late Pvt. Jenkins.
Unable to harmonize with and thereby commandeer his nervous system, due to its erratic behaviour as a symptom
of Boren's Syndrome (p.243, FS), the Flood simply passed him over. The only apparent trace of his pseudo-infection are bits
of dead, non-infectious Flood DNA, from which some intact gene fragments have given him a kind of regenerative ability (though
whether these leftovers are a result of the parasitic invasion or Johnson's eating the little bastard for the inconvenience
is unknown ;)
Unlike many other members of the Human military, Johnson holds no grudges or prejudices against the "freakish"
SPARTANS. He is motivated by an absolute hatred for the Covenant, and he'll need all the mop-up crew he can muster to follow
in his wake.
scathe (scathe@sbcglobal.net) writes:
Didn't anyone notice that "Sarge" from the beginning of the trailer is in fact the same Sarge that gives marines
the pep talk aboard The Pillar of Autumn during the intro/first cutscene of Halo? He even has the same voice. How is this
possible? According to the ending of Halo nobody survived the destruction of Halo besides MC, Cortana and The Monitor, and
Cortana stated that she didn't detect any life-signs... Something is seriously screwed...
See?!? He's EVERYWHERE!!!
-mnemesis
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Keith Jackson (hollaatme89@hotmail.com) writes:
Maybe there is another classifaction of the Flood. The parasite may actually lie dormant in the host. The host
poses no theat and undergos no change, yet. This could be the true reason for the Flood. Possibily the Forerunners made these
flood type originaly as the weapon. The host would carry the flood back to the main race or planet, for humans earth and the
other planets. The other forms of the flood were just experiments gone bad. If my theory is correct there was only one type
of this parasite/host flood shown in Halo, the Sergeant. The Sergeant died numerous times, but still always come back. I believe
these Flood keep rebuilding the cells of whatever is lost in the host when it dies. Which would mean this flood couldn't die
while still in the host. Need me to simplify? The sergeant will die when he gets back to a human planet because the flood
will unleash itself, and the sergeant is techinally dead now because the flood was the only thing keeping his body alive,
and now its gone from him.
The Sarge, a willing agent of
the Flood? Noooooo!!!
-mnemesis
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The Flood as an enhancement,
and the nines lives of Sgt. Johnson
Jason Krorhr (blackwind119@yahoo.com) and Kodos (Tyrant343@aol.com) write:
The Flood are highly adaptive, able to survive almost anything. An immune system (or body in general) with
the traits of the Flood would be very effective, almost incapable of being shut down. Being obviously interesting in biology,
the Forerunners may have been trying to incorporate Flood DNA into their immune systems, at least the desireable aspects (I'm
sure they didnt want to look like rotting corpses, no matter how tired they were of dying from sickness all the time).
Perhaps
the Forerunner had reached a point where they saw no further advancement in Science and Technology possible, and thus, rather
then improve their minds, and machines, they sought to improve themselves? Perhaps Halos function was to slowly allow Flood
to "improve" the Forerunner? Or maybe to create some kind of lobatomized Flood that did not assume control of a host, but
merely improved its DNA?
Perhaps. Enhanced physiology,
eh? Flood as a cure? Seems like a great enough lure to store samples after the last catastrophic outbreak...
Even more
pertinent, do the theoretical regenerative abilities possessed by Sgt. Johnson portend to the truth of this understanding
of the Flood's former preservation and study?
-Finn
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jan clawson (j.clawson@sbcglobal.net) writes:
We now know how Sgt. Johnson survived the flood. He had a disease that scrambled his nervous system so that
the flood could not infect him. That is what they do, infect things to make more of themselves...
Or kill the things
they can't. They can't infect the sentinels, so they destroy them. It seems to me that if the flood could not infect Mr. Johnson,
they would kill him. If he somehow made it of that room from hell, the flood warriors kill him. Why leave him alive?
Or,
maybe they did infect him. Sgt. Johnson could be a ticking time bomb for the flood, much like the nuclear device Admiral Whitcomb
gave up for the Covenant. Think of Sgt. Johnson as a flood carrier waiting to happen.
Now you're thinking, 'They checked
the Sergent, he was clean of infection forms. The cells of the flood were dead in his bloodstream'. Now, the only way we know
of the flood infecting is through an infection with an Infection Form. But, maybe that is just the fastest way of infection...maybe
those "dead" flood cells in Johnson's bloodstream are dormat, waiting to grab hold of the body. This would also explain the
flood changing the atmosphere. They put flood spores in the air, and the flood take over everyone. Of course, you need numbers
to do that, and that is where the infection forms come into play.
Even if the atmosphere thing isn't true, the good
Sergent might still be infected. Think of what would happen if his chest burst open and infection forms poured out...
So, we'd better keep an eye
on that guy during Halo 2. I don't know if shooting him right off the bat will get rid of him, though. It sure didn't work
that way in Halo 1.
;-)
-mnemesis
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Second hand smoke indeed.
Jensen (kxkawasaki83@hotmail.com) writes:
In Halo First Strike I noticed another posibility about Sgt. Johnson. Maybe the flood did not infect him because
of the cigars he chews on, as it says in the book, " The Flood dosen't 'taste' anything," Cortana interjected. " The Infection
forms rewrite a victim's cellular structure and convert him into a combat form-an incubator for more Infection forms. Based
on what we've seen, they certainly don't just decide to pass the victim." The sergent shrugged. He fished into his pocket,
found the remaining stub of a chewing cigar, and stuck it in the corner mouth.
so on and so forth.
;)
(UPDATE: Wado SG
and Socrates add some meat to these here bones...)
-Finn
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Sergeant Johnson's survival
and clues of the reasoning behind the Flood's preservation and study
superiorlordtommy (superiorlordtommy@hotmail.com) writes:
Heck, Maybe Sarge Johnson isn't (and will not be later) infected and the cells of flood in his blood can't
posses him, and he is now a human who got the Flood's traits. A new breed of soldiers more powerful than Spartans? Soldiers
with regenerative abilities! Maybe This is what the Forerunners are trying to do. Heal faster, live longer, ect. ?
Certainly makes sense.
-Finn
