This is an examination of what the Flood’s ultimate plan and endgame may be, something which is rather more nuanced in its complexity than just “infect everything”. 
As ever, we look at how themes and dialogue from fiction as far back as IRIS have informed the development of the Reclaimer Saga’s story and what that may mean for the future.
I like it. I’m totally on board with this theory. One small disappointment, and this was around before I read that article. I feel like the creation of the Flood being an accident takes a lot of excitement out it. I thought the Flood was created in order to “unite” all life in the galaxy (however you want to interpret that), but it being an accident is the only thing really holding that back. If it was deliberate, this idea would be complete
Oh wait, I think I get it. It was inevitable, hence the antithesis quote
These guys took mad psychedelics
Excellent theory about the flood carrying the inverted domain
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> I like it. I’m totally on board with this theory. One small disappointment, and this was around before I read that article. I feel like the creation of the Flood being an accident takes a lot of excitement out it. I thought the Flood was created in order to “unite” all life in the galaxy (however you want to interpret that), but it being an accident is the only thing really holding that back. If it was deliberate, this idea would be complete
I haven’t read the article yet (will do so when more awake), but what I got from the books was while the flood was an accident, the precursors realized its potential and capitalized on it.
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> I like it. I’m totally on board with this theory. One small disappointment, and this was around before I read that article. I feel like the creation of the Flood being an accident takes a lot of excitement out it. I thought the Flood was created in order to “unite” all life in the galaxy (however you want to interpret that), but it being an accident is the only thing really holding that back. If it was deliberate, this idea would be complete
This is something that ultimately ties in with another topic I was going to cover in this post but got rid of for another time because it just ended up being too long (plus, I was writing until 3am so there’s that too :P). ‘Individuality’ in Graveminds, how different the goals of the Timeless One were from the Great Gravemind, and just what that meant for the Flood’s overall purpose.
Another great article! I think this is the best explanation for the goals of the Flood/corrupted Precursors. I also think it ties in well with Cortana’s malediction during Human Weakness. In your article on The Domain, you discuss the possibility of the Gravemind using remnants of the Domain. What if this were the Flood’s own collection of memories, that is analogous to the Domain? Its descriptions in Human Weakness fit well with your theory that the Flood serves the purpose of creating a twisted form of the Domain. I think that short story is the closest we’ll get to understanding what the Flood “sees” and in understanding the Gravemind and its assimilation of species.
Also, I’ve always supported the idea of there being surviving, uncorrupted Precursors that are fighting the Flood’s advance across the universe. The cosmos is a big place and I don’t think they will all have been hunted down and reduced to Flood. By the climax of the Halo story, I think the only way to defeat the Flood will be through the intervention of benevolent Precursors. It would be an almost literal battle between gods and demons; very fitting for Halo’s take on human mythology.
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> Another great article! I think this is the best explanation for the goals of the Flood/corrupted Precursors. I also think it ties in well with Cortana’s malediction during Human Weakness. In your article on The Domain, you discuss the possibility of the Gravemind using remnants of the Domain. What if this were the Flood’s own collection of memories, that is analogous to the Domain? Its descriptions in Human Weakness fit well with your theory that the Flood serves the purpose of creating a twisted form of the Domain. I think that short story is the closest we’ll get to understanding what the Flood “sees” and in understanding the Gravemind and its assimilation of species.
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> Also, I’ve always supported the idea of there being surviving, uncorrupted Precursors that are fighting the Flood’s advance across the universe. The cosmos is a big place and I don’t think they will all have been hunted down and reduced to Flood. By the climax of the Halo story, I think the only way to defeat the Flood will be through the intervention of benevolent Precursors. It would be an almost literal battle between gods and demons; very fitting for Halo’s take on human mythology.
Ah yes, I felt like there was really a good deal of overlap between the Domain as described by Bornstellar and the “vast archival ocean” that Cortana senses. Additionally, there’s the implication that Bornstellar hears the Precursors during Cryptum as it’s noted that he’s spoken to by everyone who had ever visited the Domain. The way in which Cortana fears ‘drowning’ in the sea of information is literally echoed at multiple points in Silentium, from the opening chapter where the Juridical is consumed by the Domain and again when the Ur-Didact is subjected to the Gravemind’s malediction.
It’s genuinely mindboggling to see these little connections being drawn across years of fiction. The point where we’re at now with Halo 5 and Hunt the Truth? It has been solidly planned by 343 since 2010.