I’m sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but can anyone with a copy of the Halo Encyclopedia help me out for a bit of research?
I’m trying to put together a Flood compendium (a sort of database on what we know about the Flood after Cryptum and Primordium) and I recall a quote from the encyclopedia that states that every Gravemind is a conscious continuation of the previous form (they retain their memories from previous bodies); can someone post the full quote and page number for further confirmation?
Thank you for your help.
> I’m sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but can anyone with a copy of the Halo Encyclopedia help me out for a bit of research?
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> I’m trying to put together a Flood compendium (a sort of database on what we know about the Flood after Cryptum and Primordium) and I recall a quote from the encyclopedia that states that every Gravemind is a conscious continuation of the previous form (they retain their memories from previous bodies); can someone post the full quote and page number for further confirmation?
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> Thank you for your help.
Or you could just look here.
To repeat myself, I’m looking for direct quotes and page numbers from the source material. Whilst a wiki is useful, it doesn’t give me the information I require.
> To repeat myself, I’m looking for direct quotes and page numbers from the source material. Whilst a wiki is useful, it doesn’t give me the information I require.
It basically paraphrases what we know about the Flood.
By the way, you want the information you could always ya know, buy the sources yourself. All you would have to do is go to a Barnes & Noble or a store similar to.
> It basically paraphrases what we know about the Flood.
Which is not what I want to know. Paraphrasing is irrelevant to my interests, I’m looking for explicit quotations.
> By the way, you want the information you could always ya know, buy the sources yourself. All you would have to do is go to a Barnes & Noble or a store similar to.
That’s a rather redundant proposition. Why pay the entirety for the source material, or even assume that it’s physically available (it’s not, at least not where I live) when it’s exponentially more effective to kindly ask for a single paragraph rather than both wait a week and pay the postage and shipping fees. Should I wait hours at zero cost, or weeks out of my own pay? Which one is actually logical?
Now can somebody who is actually useful help me?
> > It basically paraphrases what we know about the Flood.
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> Which is not what I want to know. Paraphrasing is irrelevant to my interests, I’m looking for explicit quotations.
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> > By the way, you want the information you could always ya know, buy the sources yourself. All you would have to do is go to a Barnes & Noble or a store similar to.
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> That’s a rather redundant proposition. Why pay the entirety for the source material, or even assume that it’s physically available (it’s not, at least not where I live) when it’s exponentially more effective to kindly ask for a single paragraph rather than both wait a week and pay the postage and shipping fees. Should I wait hours at zero cost, or weeks out of my own pay? Which one is actually logical?
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> Now can somebody who is actually useful help me?
Both are logical.
For example say you want Halo 4 Limited Edition ok?
You could ask someone or you could buy it yourself.
> Both are logical.
I don’t think you understand what that means, parsimony dictates that the most efficient action correlates with exponentially repeating gains. Asking for a single paragraph that I can receive within a few hours at zero cost (unless some person who didn’t understand the meaning of logic confused a rather simple request) is exponentially greater than investing orders of magnitude more time and resources and amply fits the nature of my request.
From a parsimonious perspective, the option you outlined is practically redundant.
> For example say you want Halo 4 Limited Edition ok?
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> You could ask someone or you could buy it yourself.
That’s a silly example. A silly, silly example. Both avenues ultimately end up with the defining experience that mitigates second hand perspective, the game itself being the crux at which the entire example revolves around. I don’t ask people to buy a game only to experience 0.04% of the campaign, then never see it again. However if there is no particular demand to experience it first hand there are simpler avenues by which to inspect the material. Thus logic dictates that the most empirically satisfying (to all criteria) option is selected.
Thus the example doesn’t apply to a simple paragraph in a book.
But thanks for keeping my thread bumped, hopefully someone useful will pass by soon.
> I’m sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but can anyone with a copy of the Halo Encyclopedia help me out for a bit of research?
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> I’m trying to put together a Flood compendium (a sort of database on what we know about the Flood after Cryptum and Primordium) and I recall a quote from the encyclopedia that states that every Gravemind is a conscious continuation of the previous form (they retain their memories from previous bodies); can someone post the full quote and page number for further confirmation?
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> Thank you for your help.
Halo Encyclopedia Page 168 - 169 Flood Forms -
the Gravemind
The Gravmind is the all-encompssing intelligence of the flood. It is Assumen to be the highest state of transformation that a flood from can achieve. It is believed that once a “critical mass” of flood froms have been fused together in bohn body and mind, a Gravemind from is created.
Intelligence
The Gravmind assumes a centralized sentient intelligence that is believed to lead the general flood species through symbiotic to telepathic means. it is intent on propagating the flood spiecies through combat as well as delusion, coercion, and ultimately betrayal. It also appears to hold all of the flood’s memories even those of individual organisms and of all previous Gravminds. it is fully capable of dircting the overall Flood and of manipulating others to do its bidding.
Physical Characteristics
Physically, the Gravmindis a massive tentacled entity somewhat resembeling an engorged venus flytrapwith a gigantic fleshy neck, an indistinct head and a prominent, massive mouth. it possesseshuge tentales of extraordiary length and strenght, each of withs is capable of extending hundresds of kilometers.
Multiple Gravminds
Theoretically, there van only be one gravmind at a time, soif one is killed another may form shortly thereafter if the Flood restains sufficient biomass. it appears that one existed over 100,000 years ago but was destroyed by the first firing of the halo arry. Another was recreated afterwards i n the depths of instalation 05. Upon its release, it showed remarkable understanding of forrunner technology, even going so far as to capture the resident monitor,2401 penitent tangent, manipulating the installation’s teleportation system, and understanding the purpose and intricacies of the Halo Instalations.
This is All the book has to say on graveminds
( apology in advance for any bad English )
And if that’s all that it says about the Gravemind, then this is a far better source if seeking information on the Gravemind.
I’m sorry OP, I get that you’re wanting quotes and not paraphrases, but do you see the source links at the bottom of the pages of Halopedia? The information pulled from those sources is more or less word-for-word. If you’re wanting a “crash course” on everything known about something in the Halo Universe, Halopedia is your best bet aside from undergoing an Apocalypse of Halo.