We all know by the end of Primordium that the Primordial was a Gravemind. My question is, could it be possible that it actually thought itself to be a Precursor? I know that Silentium is supposed to answer these questions.
he called himself a precursor but not the forerunner. therefor he just absorb one ! like in halo 3 with the prphet of regret.
I understand the book as the primordial was something beyond a gravemind. He also says that he was made of precursor but something else. That “they” had been around longer waiting for that time of unity and the end of misery
It was a mash-up of old victims (At least 12 as stated by Forthencho, the Lord of Admirals) I’m willing to bet they were dead Precursors.
He was the last of “his kind” of Precursor.
What if the Precursors are just extremely advanced Flood? I know this theory has floated around before, but maybe in order to be Precursor they have to go through the Gravemind state first. Id dont know just throwing it out there
> It was a mash-up of old victims (At least 12 as stated by Forthencho, the Lord of Admirals) I’m willing to bet they were dead Precursors.
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The primordial itself may or may not have consisted of precursor parts.
I am of the opinion that “The last precursor” uses the graveminds to control the flood. Doesn’t matter which gravemind it is; it’s just a body of sorts. The thing that speaks is not the gravemind itself, but the last precursor speaking through the gravemind.
We already know that grvaeminds have a uh…psychic link that it controls the flood with. I imagine the last precursor is some flying space cthulu that lives in slipspace, and once a gravemind is formed an uplink is formed between it and the precursor, which it uses to control the flood, or speak if it so wishes.
So the thing that spoke in halo 2/3 and in the forerunner trilogy is the same thing, just a different body.
Or so I believe.
Flood was made by the Precursors. We don’t entirely know what happened back then but it comes down to a few possibilities.
1)It stated that it’s “the last of it’s kind”. Indicating that there were others, it could have been a precursor that’s been transformed into a gravemind. But then again we know absolutely nothing about the Precursors.
2)It was a Gravemind that was programmed directly by precursors for a special purpose.
My theory is that back when the Human-Flood war was going on, there may not have been an outright cure for the disease, but more of a counter-infection, where we sacrificed probably untold hundred billions of people, and what could have happened was it would just kill whatever the flood infected and the surrounding flood.
In addition to that, I believe humanity technically had the “mantle” which the forerunners thought they held. And we demonstrated that we would do anything to preserve life and the flood decided to not infect us for that reason.
But then again there are so many possibilities it’s rather interesting to think of them all.
There was never a cure and the Humans were never immune. The last book tells you that the flood made the choice of who they infected as the test for the mantle.
Just as there not being a true “cure” for the Flood, it is also true that the Primordial and the last of its kind intended for the Flood to not only “judge” the humans at some point, but to reunify them with the Forerunners as well.
As for the Primordial, I distinctly remember Forthencho referring to it as being some kind of ‘early’ Gravemind after understanding the Primordial’s nature as a reshaped and reformed amalgamation.
This unto itself is interesting, since an early Gravemind is a Proto-Gravemind, whic h can be formed from as few as four or five hosts. Unlike the Primordial, these early forms never take on such a discrete and refined form, never mind having such individuality as the Primordial did. Any individuality amongst the Flood’s collective intelligence only happens in the fully-sentient embodiment that is the Coordinated Stage’s Gravemind, and even then, it only happens in one particular instance.
That instant is in the first occurrence of a sentient embodiment, which would likely sychronize and/or merge with other separate Graveminds if they met.
Which then begs the question, what is so special about this particular Gravemind? Why is it so small, why does it have that particular form, and why is it formed from such a puny number of hosts? What purpose is fulfilled by this entity having that particular form, when all other instances of a Gravemind are so massive, extensive, and misshapen?
Given the elimination of the Primordial, and its mention of ‘another servant’ being freed, what does this say about its eventual successor? The Gravemind(s) that succeeded it, namely the one that accompanied Mendicant Bias at the end of the war, and the one that is contended with in the original trilogy, were they the servant that the Primordial alluded to?