Editing Shielded Flood carrier form

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{{Flood Species Infobox
|name=Shielded Carrier Form
|image=[[Image:Jackal Carrier.jpg|300px]]
|height=
|distinctions=Large, bloated with two tentacles and short, stubby legs.
|species=*[[Kig-Yar]]
|attacks=
|notable= has intigrated [[Point Defense Gauntlet]] into its midsection.
}}

[[Image:Jackal Carrier2.jpg|right|thumb|Shielded Flood Carriers, [[mod|modded]] into [[High Charity (Level)|High Charity]].]]
'''Shielded Flood Carriers''' are a variant of [[Flood]] [[Carrier Form]]s with what seem to be [[Jackal Point Defense Gauntlet]]s.

== Background ==
These were tested by [[Bungie]] and their unfinished forms have been found buried in the ''[[Halo 2]]'' disc, but they have not been included in any actual game.<ref>http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive24.pl?read=724753</ref> The behavior of the Shielded Carrier Form is identical to the unshielded variant; the sole difference being that it is harder to shoot them and kill them.<ref>http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive24.pl?read=724861</ref> In addition, Shielded Flood Carriers may have appeared to be infected Jackals.

== Deleted Material ==
Shielded [[Flood]] Carriers are part of the [[:Category:Deleted Material|Deleted Material]] cut from the Halo game. When developing ''[[Halo 2]]'', [[Bungie]] faced numerous delays for various technical reasons. The actual launch date of the game was almost a year after its original date (Just the E3 2003 Demo supposedly took [[7]] months to complete). 

As such many aspects of the story such as vehicles, game play/design and story elements did not make it into the final version of ''[[Halo 2]]''. Many of the elements have been confirmed by videos and commentary on the Limited Edition special DVD for ''[[Halo 2]]''.

Why Carriers would require shields to get deeper into enemy lines before exploding, as Carriers are used as suicidal deliverers of Infection Forms. It is impossible that the shields were simply assimilated into the Carrier Form from the fallen victims hand. Seeing as the shield gauntlets are attached securely to a Jackals arm and the shield is located in the center of the repurposed corpse, not the arm, the assimilation of a Jackal Shield is probably intentional as the flood form would have to "cosciously" transfer the gauntlent from the arm to th body.

== Trivia ==
*Possibly because they are just an unfinished test, these [[Carrier Form]]'s "hands" pass through their shields freely.
*With an overcharged [[Plasma Pistol]], you can overload the Carrier's shields and they cannot regenerate it, much like what happens with a [[Brute]].

== Related articles ==
*[[Flood]]
*[[Carrier Form]]
*[[Jackal]]
*[[Kig-Yar Point Defense Gaunlet]]

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