By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: jckinter06
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Sparda Reborn
Doesn't he say he is a Precursor, besides his description isn't anything close to the Gravemind, there is also the fact that Mandicant Bias went Rampant when talking to Gravemind I believe, how would this be true if Gravemind was locked up(in a time dilation field if I remember correctly).
You know what the Flood does to its host? It mutates it. So when they all come piling their shi7 on the Prisoner over 130,000 years he's going to change his looks a bit. Also, the Prisoner has been likened to a Eurypterid, this is pretty similar to the appearance of the Gravemind.
Also, I find it HIGHLY unlikely that Mendicant Bias would disappear TWICE for 43 years and return to betray the Forerunners saying he serves a new master. All evidence points to the Gravemind and Prisoner being the same thing.
A Gravemind starts out as a Proto-Gravemind -- a Flood form created by merging the bodies and biomass of numerous sentient life forms
Insufficient documentation of a Proto-Gravemind ever becoming a Gravemind. Each time one has been attempted, it was destroyed.
What I'm thinking is that the prisoner gives himself up to the flood resulting in the flood accessing alot of precursor knowledge.
And I think what he means is that MB never talked to the prisoner as he was locked up in a Time Dilation lock which just a guess here --please correct me-- the prisoner is in a alternate dimension trapped in time similar to the S-III gamma squad trapped in the forerunner slipspace field pods
Bias frees the Prisoner by firing the Halo Ring at Charum Hakkor and destroying the Precursor technology holding him. From there, the Prisoner would most logically stowed away on MB's Installation (which just happened to be Installation 05, the same Ring Gravemind is discovered on).
The Prisoner was not in a Micro Dyson Sphere.
[Edited on 07.05.2011 4:45 PM PDT]