- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Serpensium_4
So much delicious doom, and i want more!!
I believe that the Graveminds, if there is a plural form of the word and creature, are not the central control of the Flood, because the Flood as a race seem to have their oh so famous goal of exonefying all life hard wired in. One hardly needs a giant being telling you to hit people in the head and take their body for you own use. Its a simple task. So Gravemind may be some sort of information repository for the Flood, accessable for all, such as when they need to know how to drive something(or fly a ship to leave a ringworld.) They could also be a form of assimilationary device, like with Regret or 2401, they could absorb key figures, and learn easier methods to defeat the species.
neither of these seem very likely now that i am reading it again, but they are thoughts of mine.
Gravemind was imprisoned in that lake for a reason. There's plenty of theories going about as to how he was formed.
That he is the result of a Forerunner being infected.
That he is simply what the Flood eventually can build themselves into given enough time.
There's a bunch more, some ludacris in design, but compelling nonetheless. I won't mention the theory I lend myself towards, but I suppose there's plenty of examples in my writing so far.
Johnson pointed out a big hint in Chapter 18.
I'm sure you all also noticed I've been quite cleverly avoiding any mentions on Chapter 19's release date, and I'm going to keep doing so until I have a concrete idea of when it might be. Chapter 18 proved that I'm capable of giving release dates for chapters and then completely, totally missing them.
The chapters these days are getting much too large. I can already tell Chapter 19 will surpass the 10,000 word mark at least, which also coincidentally will push this story past the 100,000 word mark, officially making it the longest Halo fanfic around.
*sigh* I have such pathetic things I'm proud of.
[Edited on 6/23/2005]