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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
The Besterium suggests multiple Graveminds to be a theory saying something like "one [or more[?]]transsentient beings."
The original Besterium said that first, not the one on 343's website, which, assuming my own Besterium copy is in fact real, is the exact same transcript.
And its implied that the Prisoner created the Flood based on what he said ("this is our answer") so it isn't too impossible to believe he's the Gravemind if he created it. He'd still be technically apart of the collective.
Edit: And Tier 0 is more of an evolutionary messurement, not a technological one. The Besterium says he asopted a tech tier of 2 from the Covies. It doesn't even mention the Forerunners, which would have been an adopted tier 1. So it did ignore certain things.I don't have my copy in front of me so I will have to take your word for it, although I don't remember there ever being hints of more than one Gravemind until I saw the updated Bestiarum on 343's site (perhaps I have an older copy? - I did get all these games the day they came out).
I have to disagree with And its implied that the Prisoner created the Flood based on what he said ("this is our answer")so it isn't too impossible to believe he's the Gravemind if he created it. He'd still be technically apart of the collectiveIf he was able to exercise control over the Flood it would be a puppet to puppet master relationship. The Gravemind has always seemed to be a sum of the entities it absorbed; not a single entity privy to the knowledge of every life it absorbs.
Edit:Posted by: OrderedComa
Not necessarily, I seem to recall someone (I think it was Grey, if I'm wrong feel free to correct me Grey) stating that the Gravemind of Halo 2 had been imprisoned in some sort of Slipspace bubble, so he wouldn't have been able to be destroyed by Halo's firing. And even then, there were still Flood on the Halos themselves, at least Alpha Halo anyway, so I'm not so sure that the firing of the Halo Array really take out the Flood, it might disrupt or knock loose whatever "structures" and forms the Flood have, but it definitely can't destroy the Flood as a whole.
I think you're right about his mind though. That will always live on, even if the Flood are extinguished I thinkI've never heard "Gravemind in a slipspace bubble" mentioned before. Is there a source for that?
In regards to the Halos, the frequency targets neural synapses. We don't know the exact details, but it would either literally melt your brain, or it would damage the neurological structure to such an extent that no impulses would be able to travel along the nerves (heart couldn't beat, muscles couldn't contract, lungs couldn't inhale/exhale). While this wouldn't kill the Flood because the transformation the hosts undergo means they aren't actually dependent on their organs to survive, all of the combat forms and carrier forms would essentially be taken out of the equation. The Flood survived because neither the pure forms nor the infection forms could be destroyed by the array. The assumption was that they would inevitably starve to death - that obviously didn't happen.
[Edited on 06.26.2011 3:10 PM PDT]