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Subject: MendicantBias is speaking for the Gravemind at the end of terminal one
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Is this the noble sacrifice my
creators spoke of? Where is the
nobility in these streets paved with
greasy carbon and dun ash? [My mouth
is speaking at another's behest] -
that is not my voice; that is the
other.

Its voice stands out as the single
calm note in the panicked cacophony
outside the sphere. It alone is not
decrying its fate or raging against
the [central government].

This anomaly bears closer
examination.


Outside of the Maginot Sphere, the Flood essentially reigned supreme; the Forerunners had written off the worlds to them. It could easily be assumed that those populations would be gesticulating wildly, trying to obtain some means of protection from the Flood. The Gravemind, overlord of the Flood, would be the only calm, collected voice among this "cacophony." the GM references his Creators, possibly the Precursors, which means there is some overarching reason for the Floods insatiable desire to consume all life in the Milky Way. He cannot see the "nobility" in consuming life. He compulsively does it. The GM regrets the cost of "himself" (flood forms) to achieve his orders. He was under the illusion that engulfing would be a mighty crusade, but in reality the dream turned into reality. A bleak one.

  • 01.30.2011 2:37 PM PDT

I like turtles

There is one problem with your theory and it is that the Forerunners did not make the Gravemind, but they DID make Mendicant Bias.

  • 01.30.2011 7:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: SoApS pistol
There is one problem with your theory and it is that the Forerunners did not make the Gravemind, but they DID make Mendicant Bias.


I'm not saying that the Forerunners made the Gravemind. The first four lines are of the Gravemind; Mendicant Bias is merely the mouthpiece for it.

  • 01.31.2011 5:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sigma617
"My mouth speaks at another's behest...
That is not my voice; that is the other..."

These lines certainly seem to suggest Gravemind intervention.

He is known to be able to override Artificial constructs and be able to speak through them as he did 100 milennia later with Cortana on High Charity.


He wouldn't have necessarilyh needed to override Mendicant. Mendicant was a compliant accomplice to the Gravemind.

  • 01.31.2011 6:15 PM PDT
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I just play for fun. MLG can kiss my ass.

Maybe it's just random babble.

  • 02.06.2011 7:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Caaaarrrl
Maybe it's just random babble.


I don't think they would put in "random babble" in an important bit of canon

  • 02.09.2011 4:06 PM PDT

the GM probly didnt think it would be a "noble crusade" to consume all life just like all flood forms he has a basic instict and need to consume life but as more flood dies "which are parts of him" and he watches how hard life fights back he probly does see the reality of if he does consume everything wat next

  • 02.09.2011 5:13 PM PDT
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or maybe the GM was disillusioned by his creators

  • 02.10.2011 6:44 PM PDT