An unexpected development of this test was the emancipation of the Primordial , a surviving Precursor imprisoned on Charum Hakkor's surface. When the ancient entity was brought to Installation 07 for study, at the Master Builder's orders, it entered into an extended conversation with the AI. During the course of the conversation, which ran for 43 years, the being explained the truth about the Mantle and the fullness of the Precursors' plan of unity and peace through the galaxy-wide infection by the Flood.
The Primordial told Mendicant that the Forerunners were never meant to inherit the Mantle and that they had defied the Precursors. It also told the AI that if the sentient life in the Milky Way could not defy the Flood, especially the humans, then all life would be brought together and unified into the logical, advanced form of life; a collective, conglomerated entity without conflict and pain.
It claimed that the Forerunners had forced the galaxy towards perpetual stagnation by stifling growth, conflict, and progress in their misuse and illegitimate claim to the Mantle. Eventually, Mendicant Bias became convinced by these arguments, and turned rampant, seeking to "correct" the flawed, misguided ways of the Forerunners.
To this end, Mendicant Bias began to cooperate with the Primordial on Installation 07, where they continued to infect humans and Forerunners alike in a series of brutal experiments. Eventually, the return of the Forerunners to the rogue installation and the shutdown of the facility and its custodian led to the recapture of the rogue Halo, resulting in a temporary setback for the Flood and Mendicant Bias.
The IsoDidact interrogated the Primordial and eventually forced it to undergo a billion years of entropy in a reverse timelock , disintegrating its physical form; however, the being had managed to transfer its consciousness into the Flood's neural network. Now effectively synonymous with the Gravemind, the Primordial assumed control of the Flood's efforts with a renewed purpose.
The Forerunner military continued to delay the use of the Halos for a time, instead continuing to deploy more conventional strategies against the Flood in the following years. Entire worlds were engulfed by the Flood and converted to key minds , enabling the Flood to control the Precursors' neural physics constructs and dominate the Forerunners in naval engagements by using star roads as weapons.
During the last years of the war, the Gravemind captured the Ur-Didact , who recognized it as the same intelligence as the Primordial, who he had interrogated ten thousand years earlier. The Gravemind tortured and corrupted the Didact's mind by informing him of not only the truth about the Precursors and the Flood, but also the Flood's true intentions: To bring eternal suffering to all life in the galaxy as punishment for the Forerunners' crimes against the Precursors.
The Gravemind explained that like the Precursors, the Flood desired to create life. But this time, their creations would be made without free will or individuality, and would never be able to challenge their creators as the Forerunners had. The Gravemind then released the Ur-Didact, knowing his damaged psyche would bring further ruin to the Forerunners.
Although Mendicant Bias' disparate parts had been scattered across the ecumene for study, these facilities were overrun by the Flood in the coming years and eventually, a Gravemind successfully reactivated the AI.
Later, the reconstituted Mendicant Bias assisted the Flood and the Graveminds in their assault on the greater Ark and Omega Halo , resulting in the destruction of both installations. The Flood, led by Mendicant Bias, faced off against the remains of the Forerunner fleet coordinated by Mendicant Bias' replacement, Offensive Bias in a final, brutal battle.
Just before the Halo Array 's activation, the primary Gravemind imprinted the archived essences of Forthencho and three of his warriors on human bodies and sent them down to Earth to deliver a message to the Librarian. Forthencho informed her that the Domain —which was a Precursor creation—would be destroyed when the Halos were activated. The Gravemind expressed satisfaction in knowing that the Forerunners' history would be lost and viewed this as the Flood's final act of revenge against the Forerunners.
Soon afterwards, the Graveminds were destroyed and the Flood collective consciousness was rendered inert by the activation of the Halo Array. Bornstellar led a mission to Maethrillian that succeeded in beginning the regeneration of the Domain, depriving the Gravemind of its perceived final victory.
Through neglect shown by the Monitor of Installation 05 , Penitent Tangent , a Flood outbreak occurred a few thousand years after the firing of the Array, and the Gravemind was able to find enough biomass to rebuild itself deep under the Library of the installation.
During the Battle of Installation 05 , it assimilated the dead Prophet of Regret into itself and also captured the Monitor ; possibly as a result of this, the Gravemind was capable of utilizing Delta Halo's teleportation grid.
The Flood intelligence later "rescued" and captured both Master Chief and the Arbiter , when the former fell into a lake while escaping from a Covenant ship, and the latter was thrown into a chasm by a traitorous Tartarus.
The Gravemind tried to convince the Arbiter of the true nature of the Halo Array, and proposed a truce to prevent the Covenant from activating the rings and killing them all. It then used the installation's teleportation grid to teleport them respectively to High Charity and Delta Halo's control room in order to find the Index. Within days it took over the entire city and all life within it.
The UNSC AI Cortana , who was left on High Charity by the Master Chief, was quickly contacted by the Gravemind, which started to psychologically torture her in order to subjugate her and obtain useful information from her. As Gravemind tortured Cortana in search of information, the two would enter in a conversation about diverse themes, such as John and the danger he posed to the Flood, which the Gravemind acknowledged as a fact.
The Gravemind initially planned to attack and infest Earth; even though the Elites quarantined the area, it managed to send a single Flood-infested ship to Earth; it even allowed Cortana to leave a message for the Master Chief on the ship, in order to lure him to his destruction although the Gravemind did not know what was the content of the message.
The infestation of Earth was contained; the Gravemind used High Charity to make a slipspace jump to Mars and would have continued the attack, but after having assimilated the knowledge of the infected Regret and possibly Mercy and Cortana , it learned about the Prophet of Truth 's plans to use the Ark to remotely activate the entire Halo Array. Realizing the extent of the danger it faced, the Gravemind did not attack Earth but instead once again used the Covenant Holy City to slipspace jump to the Ark.
Despite the Gravemind's immense technological expertise—including its use of exotic Precursor science—the strain caused by this jump caused High Charity to crash into the Ark. Together they were victorious, and the Gravemind even managed to infect Truth himself, gloating at his defeat before the Arbiter slew him. With the crisis averted, the Flood intelligence quickly betrayed its former allies; the duo managed to escape from their foe and discover Cortana 's solution to the Flood—a replacement Halo ring made by the Ark.
The Gravemind became increasingly frustrated at the Spartan's progress, becoming suspicious of what Cortana was hiding from him and threatening to "feast upon [the Chief's] bones" if she did not reveal the secret.
After the Chief rescued Cortana, the Gravemind became enraged, realizing that she planned to use the incomplete Halo to destroy him. It attempted to kill them both but failed as the Chief successfully destroyed High Charity , presumably killing the Gravemind. But after traveling to Installation 08, the Chief discovered that the Gravemind had survived and was attempting to rebuild itself on the new Halo.
Despite its best efforts, the Gravemind failed to stop the Chief. In the end, the Gravemind was destroyed as Halo's activation destroyed itself and the Flood that had escaped containment. However, defying orders to leave the former Covenant holy city untouched, Vordius deactivated the Ark's Sentinel defense network and burned a hole in the containment shield with a Banished Scarab.
The Flood, having survived within the wreckage, were released upon the Ark once more. After reactivating the Ark's Sentinel defense network, [23] the Proto-Gravemind was discovered by the Banished. By this point, it was close to becoming a full-fledged Gravemind which the Banished knew from the stories would be virtually unstoppable. Aided by the reactivated Sentinels, the Banished attacked the Proto-Gravemind in an effort to destroy the creature before a new Gravemind could be formed.
With the help of a Retriever Sentinel summoned when the Banished cleaned out a nearby Sentinel lock, the Proto-Gravemind was slain, preventing the rise of a new Gravemind.
The Banished and the Ark's Sentinels were then finally able to contain the Flood outbreak. Triggers for his anger include Cortana's secrets and John's ability to rescue her.
When defeated, he shows sadness, not anger; it may be that he has become used to omniscience, and is only truly angered when he is wrong. This is supported by the fact that in the level Cortana, his tone quickly changed to confidence and almost amusement when he realized parts of John's objective with phrases such as " Of course, you came for her!
We exist together now. Two corpses in one grave ". He is also known to be quite manipulative: in Halo 2 , Gravemind tricks John into being a decoy to distract the High Prophets as he attempts to take over High Charity , and in Halo 3 , he helps John and the Arbiter to kill the Prophet of Truth , only to betray them when they have outlived their usefulness. It is also notable that the original Gravemind was able to convince the Forerunner AI Mendicant Bias to join his cause and turn his fleet upon the Forerunners by telling him that the Flood are the next step of evolution and that the Forerunners are denying it.
The Gravemind is not violent when it doesn't benefit him; this is what makes a Gravemind a key stage in Flood evolution. Unlike the savage and single-mindedly bloodthirsty Combat and Pure Forms that precede and obey him, the Gravemind is able to analyze situations and avoid confrontation when it is necessary for the Flood's continued survival.
By the end of the game, the Gravemind gives a short monologue in a disheartened tone, cryptically admitting that he knows he can do nothing to stop his fate, which he believes was unjustly forced upon him. He says that the activation of Installation 08 will only add time "to a sentence [he] never deserve[d]". Considering it's original origin as the Precursors, this may indicate resentment that their creations would once again harm it, and a failure to understand why.
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With so much out there, most fans are in the dark about various aspects of the terrifying foe. While the Flood does bear a bit of a resemblance to a zombie-like infection, it is far more complicated and intelligent than it may seem.
Capable of building networks that can engulf entire planets, the Flood is a force to be reckoned with, and, pulling all the strings, is the Gravemind. The Gravemind is a character hardly seen in the franchise, but despite the lack of exposure is a presence that is definitely felt. Players will recall battling deep into the Flood infestation to rescue a tortured Cortana from the mastermind behind it all - something that still stands out as one of the series' best all-time moments.
Despite going to confront him head on in Halo 3 , players only catch a glimpse of the Gravemind in Halo 2 and the details of this being remain a mystery. However, the lore of Halo runs deep, and the Gravemind has been beside it all along the way. The Gravemind that players become acquainted with in Halo 2 and Halo 3 is not the only of its kind, and its not the first to have existed.
However, the Gravemind itself is an aggregate of all the Graveminds that came before it. It is the main brain of the Flood, directing it wherever and whenever at will, and it possesses the same knowledge of its predecessors, making it more than a simple reincarnation, but rather as a sum of all that the Flood has done and learned over its surprisingly long existence.
Just as there were Graveminds to come before it, so there will be Graveminds to come after it. No one was ever really able to keep the Flood down, anyway. The Gravemind has been around for however long the Flood itself has been around, and this is because the Flood, when powerful enough, will form a Gravemind to direct and lead its conquering spread. The Flood has been doing this process for much longer than it seems, stretching back to the civilization that created the Forerunners called the Precursors.
The Forerunners rebelled against the Precursors, forcing the remaining Precursors to try and preserve themselves in unusual ways. Long story short, the process was defective, the ancient Precursors mutated and became the parasitic life forms that would eventually become the Flood, able to absorb other living beings. The first outbreak of the Flood swept across the galaxy, and thus began the war between the Forerunners and the Flood that led to the precious Halo Rings. In some ways, the Gravemind can be seen as the "leader" of the Flood, but the Flood will create not only one Gravemind, and each Gravemind is not a being of its own.
Rather, all Graveminds are the center of the Flood's shared consciousness.
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