Talk:Gravemind (Form): Difference between revisions
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Okay, I'm setting this straight. Mendicant Bias IS a Monitor. In Halo: Contact Harvest it was said that the prophets encountered a forerunner AI, a monitor, inside the Dreadnought. The MONITOR awoke and said "I am Mednicant Bias..". | Okay, I'm setting this straight. Mendicant Bias IS a Monitor. In Halo: Contact Harvest it was said that the prophets encountered a forerunner AI, a monitor, inside the Dreadnought. The MONITOR awoke and said "I am Mednicant Bias..". | ||
There, proof from its own mouth/speaker/voice eminator that it is a monitor! | There, proof from its own mouth/speaker/voice eminator that it is a monitor! | ||
Additional food for thought: Gravemind appears when the [[Flood]] achieve critical mass. This means that the Flood must gather sufficient biomaterial for the Gravemind to form. The Gravemind’s omniscience is derived from the memories of its constituents; that is, it has to be made up of sentient, thinking organisms, numbering upwards of hundreds of thousands. [[Installation 04]] and [[Installation 05|05]] both show a disturbing lack of any indigenous thinking life; with Installation 04, there was little animal life to begin with (if any) ''before'' the Flood was released, and on 05, there was no life other than birds and fish outside the [[Quarantine Zone]], which was the only location where the Flood was active, and the only life-forms that arrived ‘inside’ the Zone at any point after its establishment was [[Covenant]] [[Special Operations Elite|Spec-Ops]] and [[Human]] [[Marines]] during the levels [[Sacred Icon (Level)|Sacred Icon]] and [[Quarantine Zone (Level)|Quarantine Zone]], which alone could not be enough to create the Gravemind, who is implied to have existed and battled the [[Sentinels]] and [[Enforcers]] far longer than what was shown in the [[Battle of the Quarantine Zone]] (in fact, the breakout by the Flood was supposed to have been in effect for ''over 286.5 years'' [see the [[Quarantine Zone]] article and do the math yourself]). So, how could the Gravemind form in the first place if there is (1) insufficient biomass to physically ''create'' one, and (2) insufficient sentience to support the Gravemind’s omniscience? My conclusion is that the Gravemind of Halo 2 and 3 is in fact the original Gravemind of the [[Flood-Forerunner War]]; He has to be made up of a vast amount of dead Forerunners in order for his existence and intelligence to be justified. How he got to Installation 05 and captured [[2401 Penitent Tangent]] is beyond me at this point, but there is enough evidence to me that the Gravemind we have encountered has to be the same as the one who antagonized the Forerunner for possibly over 900 years. [[User talk:Ivea 'Quiton|Ivea 'Quiton]] 00:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC) | |||
== Flood Intelligence 101 == | == Flood Intelligence 101 == | ||