Phoenix Logs/Flood Lore/Gravemind

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A single intelligence inhabiting multiple instances.

A Gravemind is the apex of the Flood's coordinating intelligences. It is a

monument of ancient sins; a self-aware compound mind that transcends

individual hosts and lesser key minds; a formless intellect who knows all that

the Flood have ver possessed.

The Gravemind brings its horrific form of peace through unification, salvaton

through assimilation. Its only goal is the consumption of every thinking creature

in the galaxy. The Gravemind's most recent physical avatar was destroyed

when the Master Chief fired the Ark's incomplete Halo, but it is only a matter of

time before it rises again.