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Subject: The Flood in Halo 3

High Charity is under the control of the flood and Gravemind now, and the Flood can bring dead things back to life as a Flood form. Now, High Charity has lotsa dead things on it for them to infect - including the room full of dead Arbiters (:O). They may also have controlled Cortana.
This means that the Flood are pretty strong now, and Gravemind can easily have the other Halos unlocked and let the Flood from those rings free. After all, he can access everything on High Charity as well as Cortana (if she is corrupt). Surely then, if this were to happen, the Flood would be much stronger than the Covenant (with their civil war and stuff) and even more stronger then the human forces. Maybe the humans and Covenant are together after realising this. Only then would they have a chance of destroying the Flood.
However, the earth looks pretty messed up in the trailer which probably means the Loyal Covenant are still trying to kill humans to go on their Great Journey. Maybe just the seperatist Covenant join the humans or something.

Either this or the whole thing was started when Truth couldn't get through earth's immigration control cos he doesn't have a Visa xD

  • 05.14.2006 2:14 AM PDT
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and lets not forget that an organic being (gravemind) has ways of corrupting Cortana. Imagine taking control of all dead bodies on High Charity. Using every control panel on High Charity, the Gravemind controlled, flood infected Covenant, could maliciously attack Cortana to break her.

  • 05.14.2006 2:15 AM PDT
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Another stating the obvious thread. Sorry to come of as an ass, but so many of these threads have been made.

  • 05.14.2006 2:16 AM PDT
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That sounds good. If player have to kill Gravemind in the end before The Flood controls whole Galaxy.

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Please Expain To Me Exactly How An Organic Bein Such As the Gravemind Could Takeover An Inorganic Bein Such Av Cortana?

  • 05.14.2006 2:21 AM PDT
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I just said Gravemind could corrupt her using flood controlled covenant, to access her code in High Charity's main frame.

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Posted by: SOLMAN1
Please Expain To Me Exactly How An Organic Bein Such As the Gravemind Could Takeover An Inorganic Bein Such Av Cortana?


Maybe the same way he tapped into the Halos teleportation grid in Halo 2.

  • 05.14.2006 2:25 AM PDT
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I understand that Gravemind Has some control over the flood forms. But If you ever look at any of them during gameplay, they do nothing but walk around. This does not look like the behavior or intentions of a super intelligent being. I doubt Gravemind Has enough control over the flood to get them to reprogram cortana.

  • 05.14.2006 2:27 AM PDT
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just a theory.

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I read in the Halo Novels that the Covenant have there own AI's like Cortana. My Theory Is that Gravemind acessed one of these AI's and helped it to merge or control Cortana.

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The covenant copied the Human concept of AI's, and did an extremely poor job. Cortana obliterated the one on the covie ship in First Strike

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to you speculation about the avitar flood is missguided concerdering they are dead and once the flood take over dead bodys the mind of its host is gone, the body is just a very degraded vessal so it wouldn't be hard to beat them, not to mention that highcharity has lost its main power and motion source so it's not going to be able to move alot

the cortana corruption theory works though also considering the trialer and her evil overtone
and the other ring idea... the flood is easily beaten and you must remember that the flood is very weak body so just using fire on them would do enough damage.

also if you look at the end of the trailer it may be the activating of the rings, due to the fact the flood might "escape" that much so it could be a big bang but that theory is very unlikely

  • 05.14.2006 2:40 AM PDT