- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Yeah, I've always been a little bit puzzled by the Gravemind: I mean, he sends out the Arbiter and the Master Chief to go do his bidding, but the Flood still end up attacking them after he sends them out! That's a little strange, and seems to suggest that the Gravemind is not totally Flood, or at least not totally in control of the Flood. At the same time, though, he has that one prophet attached to his tentacle (no puns please), and that prophet died by the Flood, which totally started to eat him. Thus, perhaps the Gravemind is not totally able to control the Flood, sort of like an evolved form of the Flood, but not necessarily their leader? Or perhaps he's a "combat form," but of some werid, highly intelligent race that looks like a giant plant? Nah.
As for where the Forerunner are, I'd say Earth, which is to say, they're all dead (and only humans, their descendants, still exist). Of course, the prophets somehow managed to survive the activation of the Halos. I mean, the three prophets are direct descendants of the prophet species that (as the books say) evolved on the same planet as the Forerunner, side by side. So, somehow, the prophet species survived. Thus, why not humans too (except somehow, unlike the prophets, we lost the technology that the Forerunner gave us)?