- DecepticonCobra
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@accordingto343
Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.
Honestly, I just assumed the Gravemind was a Frankenstein experiment gone bad. I envisioned a Flood spore being accidentally released into the wild and slowly forming into a creature I call the Alpha Gravemind. It would only have animal biomass and sentience at first and be primal. However, it's first contact with the Precursors left it injured and enraged when it instilled fear in their midst.
After absorbing those Precursors, it received full sentience, or fuller sentience. It's spread became so large, the Precursor military started to attack it. However, it proved to be futile as the Precursor's capital world would fall to it. And yet after all this, Alpha still just wanted to acceptance of it's creator, who rejected it.
From their, it spread across the Precursor's galaxy and consumed more worlds. The Precursors then forced themselves to destroy their own galaxy with a superweapon that caused the stars to quickly supernova. A ridiculous concept I know.
However, a few Precursors survived to leave the galaxy and head to the Milky Way, passing their knowledge on to the Forerunners. The Alpha would send it's own vessel to the Milky Way before being incinerated, but that voyage took considerably longer. The rest is history.
And in the end, the Alpha would become rational and seek repentance, much like Mendicant Bias, but his consciousnesses would be overwhelmed by our Gravemind.