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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
I don't think the Flood are the Precursors[S] because their is technically only one Flood individual and that's the Gravemind. He IS the Flood. If the entire Precursor race was the Flood, the Halo series would simply be over. It'd be like fighting a race of Graveminds. We can barely kill one!
I think the Captive was the one who designed the Flood, which would naturally be seen has a horrible abomination to nature by the life loving Precursors. He could have been power-hungry too, so he was locked up for eternity in the time prison on C.Hakkor as punishment for his sins against nature ( I am a monument, to all your sins ). He may have been exposed to the Flood parasite a little and started to deform.
When the Precursors left, he was left behind, the worst punishment for him being unable to join the Precursors on whatever the Great Journey is, as they evidently went on if you read Iris or the terminals. ( your heresy will stay your feet, and you will be left behind )
Somewhere down the line, isolation mixed with anger and the egging Flood virus perhaps made him insane, and so he convinced himself the children of the Precursors, the humans and the Forerunners, were to blame, so he would take his revenge out on them, in hopes of achieving galactic and eventually universal dominance. He used his own creation, the third "brother" in the universal family tree, the Flood, to consume the galaxy.
Its not perfect since a few things have yet to be answered, but its just a gut feeling, and I've been right before.
Note: I'd seriously take the concept of the Precursor-Forerunner war with a grain of salt. This is the Gravemind we're talking about here.
I like this idea, it's pretty interesting. I had another theory, basically the opposite of what you are suggesting. The Captive was a Precursor who opposed the rest of his race's decision to create and unleash the Flood. Perhaps the majority of the survivors decided to exact revenge on the Forerunner, but the Captive disagreed, viewing the concept of the Flood as an extreme violation of the Mantle as it would indirectly destroy all life in the Galaxy in the process of destroying the Forerunner. To stop the Captive throwing a spanner in the works the remaining Precursor locked him up and left him to watch the Galaxy's destruction. The reason I say this is because the Flood were sent on ships from outside the Galaxy. It seems unlikely the Captive was behind their release seeing as he was already locked up in this galaxy before they arrived. However this is just speculation. Both ideas could be possible, as well as numerous other scenarios. In any case it seems likely that the Captive is or will become the Gravemind.