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Depends on how it's used. To name a particularly good example, That Which Sleeps basically was already a complete game, they just needed money for art.
Then they ended up raising more than 5 times their funding goal, of course, but still.

Dying in Hell after exploding a bunch of people with a lighting fist for no discernible reason as well as being on fire is pretty much the best ending I could ask for.

"Yeah, it's not a vortex, or rather not just a vortex - it's the will of God. Would you care to join me as a disciple of the True Potato?"

"No, I'm too far invested in donuts to go there. Nice proposition though, much more polite than some I've recieved."

Basically. To give one example (and this one fucking guy was basically responsible for 90% of the fuckups of the forerunners) the Master Builder Faber, that is to say the head of the Builder caste, which at the time held political supremacy in the Forerunner Ecumene - this was also the guy who designed the Halos, so he also fits the HMRC brand in that he came up with a weapons idea that does this:

Hey, you know that weapon that assaults the physical concept of the grander living universe so badly it seemingly withdraws all thought from the volume of space affected?

He made a killing during the Forerunner-Flood war by rescuing ships that had been in combat and fixing them up, then reselling them at a higher price. Of course since he was a lazy fucker, he didn't have the ships inspected thoroughly enough so the dormant Flood on the ship always came back, infested the crew working there, and started fucking everything up.
He kept the Flood war a secret from the majority of the Ecumene for 300 years before it clusterfucked so wildly it started overrunning the galaxy.
At one point he dumped the effective military commander of the entire Ecumene in an area the Flood had occupied to the point that FTL travel no longer worked, essentially giving them perfect access to all their plans, as a political move.
No way he wasn't HMRC material.

They sorta do? From what I got from Greg Bear's interpretation and what I've seen in general they can use biomass just fine, but they need brains, or as I suspect, intelligence - sci fi souls basically - in order to open the door for the insane space gods that are the hivemind behind the Flood.
Then once they get to high enough concentrations they just start editing reality to better suit them.
I suppose their hax artifacts also helped there.

Oh, you mean for humans to use!
Hmm.
Honestly bio weapons on the scale of entire planets generally are too dangerous to use since they tend to spread offworld and fuck everything over.
There is the Life-Eater virus from 40k, it reduces everything organic on the planet to highly flammable sludge that promptly gets set on fire from orbit, burning the atmosphere away. They don't use it much, if only because it makes Nurgle stronger.

If I wanted to see a curbstomp of that magnitude I'd airdrop the Thing into the jungle - it might give  them a chance to fight back

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