Flood thrives on bio mass and knowledge. Is it not true then the Gravemind inherits all traits of the sentient life it consumes? Somewhere deep, Jacob Keyes is alive in his consciousness. I don’t know why but I cringe at that terminal story of his demise in Halo: CE.
no keyes gets killed in the proto mind stage, the gravemind only have the knowledge it gets from the biomass its created from, sure combat forms communicate with the gravemind but the guy who was killed before turning into a combat form has to join the overall biomass of the gravemind for gravemind to know everything about the person and their knowledge.
wtf
The Flood have genetic memories. Meaning that if all the flood die except for one single spore, and that single spore then goes on to start another outbreak and gains enough biomass to create another Gravemind…then that new Gravemind will have all the memories and knowledge ever gained by the Flood.
However, since no Flood made it off Installation 04, then no, as far as I’m aware no remnant of Keyes still exists. Even if he did, he wouldn’t ‘exist’ as part of the collective, he wouldn’t be able to think, but he could have his consciousness pulled out like the original Gravemind did with the Lord of Admirals on Earth prior to the array firing. He’d just exist as memories.
But then again there’s no real way to know for sure, so…who knows.
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> Flood thrives on bio mass and knowledge. Is it not true then the Gravemind inherits all traits of the sentient life it consumes? Somewhere deep, Jacob Keyes is alive in his consciousness. I don’t know why but I cringe at that terminal story of his demise in Halo: CE.
Btw…the same thing happened to Jenkins in Halo. If you read the book Halo: The Flood it describes a little more about how Keyes got captured and how Jenkins turned and pretty much (in his flood form) managed to control the Flood form to a certain degree and was able to communicate with the other humans on Halo. He let them know where the Flood was coming from and in the end SAVED Earth from a flood invasion from a greedy commander who wanted to bring Truth and Reconciliation back to Earth even when it was infected with the Flood parasite.
The flood pisses me off.
arent the flood based off of neural physics? the gravemind is essentially a organic form of the domain.
I really hope at some point in the future we get a much more detailed look at how the Flood works and operates. There is still a great deal we don’t know about them and how they utilize the sentient life they consume. I would personally love a time lapse video showing how the Flood evolves from an Infection form to the Keymind stage.
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> arent the flood based off of neural physics? the gravemind is essentially a organic form of the domain.
Wasn’t the domain organic to begin with?
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The domain was a neural based library of a sort and was used to store memories and information, becuase it was neuralogocal it was destroyed by the halo array.
So then the Flood was basically a left over book from a library?
No its universal.
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> The flood pisses me off.
could not be more simply, but eloquently said. over 12 years of fighting the flood. The library is still the most unpleasant/terrifying level i’ve ever played
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agreed and then you see the monitor using his beam in halo 3 and ask yourself…why didnt you help me you big blue lightbulb.
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> agreed and then you see the monitor using his beam in halo 3 and ask yourself…why didnt you help me you big blue lightbulb.
Because the designers didn’t intend for him to use a beam but felt it wouldn’t make sense if a monitor didn’t have a self defense mechanism.
I’ve always found that it would have been interesting to see the halo games from the point of view of the flood meaning all the events that happened in 2 and 3 through the eyes of the flood.
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> > I’ve always found that it would have been interesting to see the halo games from the point of view of the flood meaning all the events that happened in 2 and 3 through the eyes of the flood.
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> I’ve always found that it would have been interesting to see the halo games from the point of view of the flood meaning all the events that happened in 2 and 3 through the eyes of the flood.
b-b-b-but they don’t have eyes ;-;
Seriously though, a Gravemind’s Memoirs would be quite a good read