Posted by: spartanz_8
Posted by: krnlcheese
I just read the book a couple days ago and I just wanted a few questions clarified.
Were all Precursors Graveminds?
How is the Librarian still alive?
1. It is implied in the book that the Captive was a coalition of multiple parts. We can deduce that not all Precursors are Graveminds, however, because the Captive states at one point that he is the last of "this kind." If he was indeed the last of the Graveminds then we would not see anymore graveminds later on. It is heavily implied that the Captive was a mass of Precursors joined together into a gravemind, and also all that remained of the Precursors. Get it? lol It might be kind of confusing. Basically the Captive is the last gravemind composed purely of Precursor "parts."
2. Someone here said that the librarian is alive through a genetic imprint but that can't be right. If that were true then it would mean that Guilty Spark knows how to bring people back from an imprint and we know that he doesn't since he needs the Librarian to bring his friends back. My theory is that she is somehow conserved in a Slip Space bubble like the Spartans from Onyx. Or maybe she was, in fact, conserved through a genetic imprint like the Didact was. Not like Chakas, who had a consciousness embedded in him, but like Bornstellar, who was completely taken over by the Didact's personality. I agree with this theory. Makes perfect sense how he can be both the last precursor and a gravemind. A collection of the last precursors. And guilty spark states he knows where the librarian is so she's definitely alive. Bet it's in a dyson sphere because the didact purposes the plan of using the dyson spheres instead of using the halo rings to stop the flood.
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: krnlcheese
Posted by: grey101
It would also need to keep its biomass up and no Gravemind could resist eating the tens of thousands of humans it was moving around installation 7. Not to mention the Graveminds that were shown in the story (again) looked nor acted nothing like the primordial.
Didn't the timeless one say that the flood chose not to infect the humans, so why would a gravemind want to infect them if the flood wanted them to inherit the mantle...
Isn't the primordial an antagonist and don't most things (if not bad guys) lie?
I say this because Both Yprin and Forthencho (Despite conflicting stories) say that the humans found a way to push the flood back, Yprin even said the primordial was the one to give that knowledge.
So you are trying to tell me he would spend 43 years of free time after eons doing pointless experiments even though there was never a cure?
/makes no sense
*Huh? how could keyes control the flood if he was absorbed by them? Are you the illusive man? the primordial states ( could be lies like you said) that he manipulated humans and forerunners to believe the humans found a way to stop the flood when in all actuality he said the flood can choose who to infect. Doing so to stop th forerunners and see if the humans were worthy of the mantle
[Edited on 04.11.2012 10:10 AM PDT]