- prometheus25
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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: prometheus25
2.) Perhaps the Domain is how the Flood operate as a hivemind, once a Gravemind has been produced? Maybe knowledge of infected is "uploaded" there? (*See note lower down). Could this be how the Gravemind in Halo 3 was able to "talk" to Master Chief, those chilling, gravely moments where your HUD fisheyes and you can hear Gravemind. Perhaps Cortana found a way to piggy back into such a function, and that is how she was able to communicate, albeit sporadically, to John. It might explain some things.
*Perhaps the Composer plays a role here. It was stated that, without the help of the composer, it comes back a like child (iirc), with no explanation as to what "it" and "like a child" really means. Could the composer allow the Flood to assimilate any infected host's knowledge into the Domain, if my hypothesis was correct. Perhaps "like a child" refers to a Gravemind having no knowledge and experience. Not really a stretch, I think. This could explain why, in Primordium, it was necessary to have infected Forerunner help manage systems on the Halo during the pass near the planet. They did have those...things that "swam" through them that were from the Composer, no?
This was an idea that I was exploring in a fan fic of mine last Summer, it could also be the reason why Mendicant Bias lockd the Forerunners out of it.
However, it is noted that data gets sporadically changed naturally in the Domain, which is why the Forerunners don't use it to send messages because they can be somehow altered. That'd be a bit of a flaw if employed as the basis of a hive mind's way of communicating.
You are absolutely right about the manipulation factor of information. Maybe it was the Primordial who was altering the information. He could have had access to the Domain while being imprisoned, and manipulated data, either intentionally or not.
It's definitely stated that the origin of the Domain are murky at absolute best. This is all conjecture, of course, but not ouside the realm of plausibility, I feel.