- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
343 Guilty Spark is an artificial construct created by the forerunners to study and contain the flood. He is programmed to convince any sentient being to activate Installation 04 when the flood have been released. As with most AI's they learn as they continue their programmed duties. Maybe he discovered emotion from the forerunners. This could have made him insane, after all, being alone with a dangerous threat for 101,000 years will probabley drive anybody insane. Hmmmmhmhmhmhmhmmmmmmm!! Ha ha ha ha ha!
With that speaking, could the flood be a sentient being as well? Gravemind, however, is smart enough to be a sentient life form. The flood are mindless zombies, of course, however the origon of them (Gravemind) is intelligent. And did anybody notice that the flood never take over corpses... The infection forms only take over the dead combat forms. Maybe they do have enough thought to know not to infect new corpses until it is safe... Maybe it takes a while.
But you already knew that... I mean... How couldn't you?
[Edited on 3/23/2006]