- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well from Graveminds conversations we get that he has at least been alive since the beginning of the current human's history, so I would assume that he was around during the time of the forerunners. I don't think that the flood survive the Halo detonation it's just that there is some protection from it in parts of Halo, but then again maybe they do, although sense 343 Guilty Spark says that the Halo's kill all sentient life, and because the flood are aware of themselves that would make them sentient. Also if bullets kill the flood, than I am sure Super Weapons do as well. The Forerunners obviously had an interest in studying the Flood (and for this idea I am going along with the Forerunner's being an ancient race of Humans) so it wouldn't strike me as suprising that they leave a little of the most dangerous parasite in the galaxy around (in a safe place inside each Halo, from which they are unharmed by the Halo's and cannot escape... the Library) in hopes that when the current race of humans gets the technology they will possibly want to study the Flood themselves. Just look at real human history, we eliminated the disease of small pox in the world, but left a few small viles of it in the top Biological Research companies of the world. The Forerunners created the Halo's to stop the Flood from taking over the galaxy, and I believe the Ark was used as a safe haven from the Halo's so that the Forerunner race (humans) wouldn't die off completely. Now, I believe that Gravemind realized the danger that the Halo's posed and got onto one himself, (Delta Halo) and positioned himself so deep within it that that he would be able to survive if it were activated. I believe that Gravemind survived the first activation because of this and that now he may be able to be defeated, which might defeat the Flood as a whole. Every powerful race or being has to have some sort of weakness, I just think that Gravemind is the weakness of the Flood.