Posted by: DonVinzone1
Posted by: Unggoy NL
I know it has been confirmed that The Timeless One is Gravemind and created the Flood but as there are multiple Graveminds I would like to know if The Timeless One is the Gravemind we see in the games.
Although this is not confirmed anywhere, I believe it goes a bit like this:
A Gravemind is not only a hub-mind of it's faction of Flood forces (the only thinking "general" so to speak), but also part of a larger consciousness.
There's where the multiple Graveminds come in to play. I don't know if you've played Mass Effect?
If so, I think you could see them like the Geth, or any of the AI in the Halo Universe: a collection of shared memories, thoughts and ideas in a physical form with its own identity.
The Gravemind we fought in H2/H3 seems to be too "young" to be the one the Forerunners fought. Yet it is still possible he is the same, considering his knowledge on things (more even than you would expect him to have from just the ones he consumed...even though he did consume Penintent Tangent for instance). The easiest way to describe this concept is like this:
Each Gravemind is its own physical creature, with its own experiences, ideas, plans, knowledge and memories. But they're part of a network which allows them to have the knowledge of those other Graveminds (those dead and alive), so in a way there is no "the" Gravemind.
That way, "our" Gravemind might seem older than he actually is. And might seem to have been through things he didn't actually go through (as he has always been locked on Delta Halo). It's because of shared knowledge which allows him to talk as if he has been in places where he wasn't, but he has the memories of those who were there.
I might still have my post on this matter from a different discussion. Might try to find it tomorrow, that one might make a bit more sense.
Oh, and good to see a fellow Dutchman on these forums.
Haha, altijd leuk om een Nederlander hier actief te zien.
I hope gravemind from Halo 2/3 is the Timeless One because I would be happy just to have seen a Precursor in Halo :)