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Subject: Gravemind rules the Flood????
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I realy missed this I gues. Why does everybody say that Gravemind is the one controlling the Flood? He is a monster but is he therefor Flood? Where do you guys get this from? The Flood do not seem to be controlled buy anyone. They are mindless sombies, right?

  • 05.17.2006 11:44 PM PDT
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We do not know for sure if he is controlling the flood. Many people think he is, but we don't know.

  • 05.17.2006 11:47 PM PDT
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No they are not. Also, if you pay attention to what Cortana is saying in the second part of the High Charity as Chief part (late, can't think of it), she says that he tricked you so he could have a path for his Flood controlled In Amber Clad to slip past the Covenant defenses. And he's just plain creepy. Something that creepy can't be a good guy!

  • 05.17.2006 11:47 PM PDT
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The quote you're looking for DeadGuy is:

"That thing, under the Library. That..."Gravemind" tricked us, it used us. In Amber Clad was always its intended vector."

  • 05.17.2006 11:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mikespyke8
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We do not know for sure if he is controlling the flood. Many people think he is, but we don't know.


There goes Oogy Poop again....trying to prove me wrong.....really, it's true. The Flood got to High Charity via IAC via Gravemind. Duh.


That doesn't mean that he has direct control over them, only that some of them got together and took over In Amber Clad.

  • 05.17.2006 11:52 PM PDT
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I agree with opog, the Gravemind is the brain form of a flood, that is he is sentient and intelligent beyond the range of normal flood.
However there is no direct evidence he controls the flood combat forms direct movements.

He could influence an attack or formulate plans but It would all be at the individual organisms discretion that it is executed.

And the knowledge of how to use a vehicle comes from the knowledge inside the infected creatures. The books explain that. If the marine host couldnt drive, niether could the flood.

[Edited on 5/18/2006]

  • 05.18.2006 12:28 AM PDT

Well.. I remember Joe Staten saying in the DVD during the pull the rope game "apparently you/we are like the flood, all one body and one mind".

  • 05.18.2006 12:36 AM PDT