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Subject: What would the Gravemind do with the Installation 04 index?

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In Halo 3 Gravemind is interrogating Cortana for her secret. If he succeeded and found out she had the Installation 04 index, what would he do? Surely the only thing he could do is stop Cortana from ever leaving High Charity?

  • 05.19.2012 1:44 PM PDT

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  • 05.19.2012 1:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
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So pretty much all he would be able to do is keep Cortana in High Charity and make sure nothing ever got in

  • 05.19.2012 1:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
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So pretty much all he would be able to do is keep Cortana in High Charity and make sure nothing ever got in


This further goes to show that the ultimate weakness of the Gravemind is his arrogance. He wouldn't think anything or anyone would be daring enough to try and get to High Charity, especially not when the WHOLE place is covered in Flood biomass.

  • 05.19.2012 1:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307

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Posted by: ajw34307
Stop the Ring from ever being fired...


So pretty much all he would be able to do is keep Cortana in High Charity and make sure nothing ever got in


This further goes to show that the ultimate weakness of the Gravemind is his arrogance. He wouldn't think anything or anyone would be daring enough to try and get to High Charity, especially not when the WHOLE place is covered in Flood biomass.


I guess thats why he was trying to tell Chief to go away

  • 05.19.2012 1:57 PM PDT

There's a new library on 04b though, and one would assume a new index as a result. I know John wanted to rescue Cortana, but surely the logical military decision would have been to retrieve the library's index and destroy High Charity via glassing or orbital bombardment, rather than send one man in on a suicide mission to recover an AI who may or may not be corrupted on the hope she still retained the index's imprint.

  • 05.19.2012 2:11 PM PDT


Posted by: Wolverfrog
There's a new library on 04b though, and one would assume a new index as a result. I know John wanted to rescue Cortana, but surely the logical military decision would have been to retrieve the library's index and destroy High Charity via glassing or orbital bombardment, rather than send one man in on a suicide mission to recover an AI who may or may not be corrupted on the hope she still retained the index's imprint.


That is very logical, then again the grave mind is logical to and would have probably prepared for that rather than preparing for a suicidal rescue mission by a love struck super solider. I mean when you think about it, you never really encountered any pre planned defense when storming high charity.

  • 05.19.2012 2:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wolverfrog
There's a new library on 04b though, and one would assume a new index as a result. I know John wanted to rescue Cortana, but surely the logical military decision would have been to retrieve the library's index and destroy High Charity via glassing or orbital bombardment, rather than send one man in on a suicide mission to recover an AI who may or may not be corrupted on the hope she still retained the index's imprint.


Yeah, a new Index was being fabricated but Guilty Spark said that "it will take time" at the end of The Covenant. We're not given much of an indication as to how much time this is exactly, but Spark expected Installation 04B to take "a few more days" before it could be properly fired - in this time it's highly likely that the Flood would have overrun the entire Ring and the Ark.

  • 05.19.2012 2:43 PM PDT
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He would eat the index! Lulz.

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Posted by: ajw34307
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thus allowing the flood to spread

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No I think it would basically result in Chief and Arbiter having to hold back the High Charity Flood, they would die, Ark would be infected, but the Flood would be trapped there.

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Contain it. It's a fitting revenge for containing him.

  • 07.07.2012 6:54 PM PDT