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Posted by: ajw34307
Ok I'm going to let you off gently on this one because you really do not have a clue about what you're going on about.
Secondly, there are numerous clues to the Gravemind and the Prisoner being the same thing.
- Mendicant Bias disappears with the Prisoner for 43 years during the Forerunner-Flood war and returns rampant at the Capital saying he serves a new master (the Prisoner). This coincides with what it says in the Terminals, it states MB disappeared for 43 years and returns with the Gravemind. The fact these two events happen at exactly the same time leaves a logical conclusion: Prisoner = Gravemind.
- The Prisoner is known as "The Timeless One", Gravemind often refers to himself as a "timeless chorus". His various other dialogue ("I am a monument to all your sins" etc) also points to him being the Prisoner.
You do realise that the Flood cells mutate the host? The Prisoner was originally 25 feet tall with multiple limbs and a head the shape of a eurypterid (the latter point looking exactly the sane as the Gravemind). It's logical to conclude that as he absorbed more and more biomass from the infected over the course of 300 years he came to appear how he does in the games.
Adding onto this and Grey's evidence, The original Flood that we fought 10,000 years before the Forerunners did had no real coordination and seemed only to be a classic space zombie. They weren't very imposing, their infection could not easily work betwee species (Prophets couldn't infect humans) and their was evidently a complete lack of Gravemind.
Then suddenly, there is one during the Forerunners' war with them, along with a complete species-wide overhaul, which happens to be at the same time that Medicant Bias releases the Prisoner from his cage.
Also, the Flood seems to be the Prisoner's weapon for use against the Forerunners.
[Edited on 06.25.2011 7:51 AM PDT]