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Through unknowable mechanisms, the [[Gravemind]]—the [[Flood]]'s collective intelligence—retains the consciousness and memories of past Graveminds even if the Flood on the whole is reduced into non-sentience in the interim. This process is seemingly unaffected by the passage of enormous spans of time; the Gravemind at the time of the [[Human-Covenant War]] possessed the memories of the one active during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]].<ref>'''Halo 3''', campaign level ''[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo 3]]'' (''"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... But you imposed."'')</ref> Yet earlier, the archaic Gravemind and Precursor entity known as the [[Primordial]] experienced the passage of a billion years in a reverse [[timelock]], its physical form disintegrating to dust due to entropy, only to reappear in the form of the "modern" Gravemind.<ref name="s167">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 167'' (''"This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely-though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind-the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge."'')</ref> | Through unknowable mechanisms, the [[Gravemind]]—the [[Flood]]'s collective intelligence—retains the consciousness and memories of past Graveminds even if the Flood on the whole is reduced into non-sentience in the interim. This process is seemingly unaffected by the passage of enormous spans of time; the Gravemind at the time of the [[Human-Covenant War]] possessed the memories of the one active during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]].<ref>'''Halo 3''', campaign level ''[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo 3]]'' (''"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... But you imposed."'')</ref> Yet earlier, the archaic Gravemind and Precursor entity known as the [[Primordial]] experienced the passage of a billion years in a reverse [[timelock]], its physical form disintegrating to dust due to entropy, only to reappear in the form of the "modern" Gravemind.<ref name="s167">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 167'' (''"This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely-though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind-the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge."'')</ref> | ||
Due to the nature of the Flood as a corrupt and fallen state of the Precursors, a transentient species who apparently allowed themselves to become extinct and revolve many times, the | Due to the nature of the Flood as a corrupt and fallen state of the Precursors, a transentient species who apparently allowed themselves to become extinct and revolve many times, the flood may inherit a similar ability; the pattern and nature of the Gravemind remaining cohesive between individual and unconnected instantiations. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== |