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right. lovely work here. THREAD SAVED.
as for the whole destroy sentient life by way of ringpwah - you guys are forgetting the important point Cortana always made: its about STARVING the flood. So if its about killing them and flood cant take up dead bodies, that means they need replenishment and thats why the halos were made. If it means that they take up the dead bodies, that means there is no other meal AFTER that "last supper".
Either way: its about starvation and so it's fine, whether or not hte flood can infect dead bodies (I think they can).
to the OP: I thought the theories were very insightful and uses all the info we have gotten so far appropriately. The last of the side theories I think are the least likely of everything you've stated. We can assume these societies didnt refer to them with the names we have now, I think its been said its the names WE, the latter socities, gave them. And I don't think the precursor becoming flood, or splitting off into a set that left the galaxy is very congruous with your main theory, it seems much more as a fantastic musing. And the thing is, in Halo canon things seem much more rooted (as it can be i guess when you are taking about way in the future, epic space battle blah).
For that matter, I think the AI similarities can stop at the gravemind beginning as a catalog of intelligence which achieves its own sentience . Your parallels drawn with rampant AI's can be retrofitted sure, but I dont think the gravemind ever experienced rampancy. Saying its experiencing it in a infinite loop does sorta make sense, but maybe it simply became sentient, wiped out the precursors and travelled/lay dormant for the next set to gobble up, continue its hard coded mission. This we know the gravemind does, thru its threats and mocking of us. Gravemind believes it will outlast us all, and simply wait. which it seems to have done.
thats it. again great logical investigation to come up with your theories. I'd accept it if it were made canon (and we wil lfind out soon with the comics and anime)