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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
The newest info about them implies they're more then a parasite, they're the perfect biological entity. And a singular entity rather then an entire race, that entity being the Gravemind. The Gravemind, in turn, is confirmed to be a transsentient (read the Besterium), basically a god/demi-god, which would explain why he can't seem to just -blam!- ing die I feel like we've been over this before, but no where in the Bestiarum does it say the Gravemind is trans-sentient. This is, verbatim, what it says,
[GRAVEMIND, Inferi sententia]
TECHNOLOGY TIER
Native Tier 7/Adopted Tier 2
Tier 7: Tier 7 is one of the most common and stable states, with limited weaponry and environmental threats. Societies tend to be small and scattered, driven by subsistence farming, foraging, or hunter-gathering needs. Technology is limited to simple hand made tools, weapons, or agrarian implements and methods, but a very broad understanding of planetary and solar mechanics is not uncommon.
Tier 2: The species has the ability to perform exceedingly accurate Slipspace navigation, near-instantaneous communication and man-portable application of energy manipulation. The unified state of the 26th Century Covenant stands at this level.
Both San 'Shyuum and Sangheili brought the other races of the Covenant to such a high technological level when incorporating them into the Covenant. The two primary extant interstellar civilizations were space-faring prior to discovering Forerunner artifacts - or each other - but they have not successfully reverse-engineered those artifacts.
To be trans-sentient you need to be Tier 0; the title of which is aptly named Trans-Sentient.
Tier 0: As the Forerunners had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishments greater than themselves - with the exception of the Precursors - this is a theoretical ceiling. It is suspected that they can travel across galaxies and accelerate the evolution of intelligent life.