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Does anyone know how gravemind came to be? like is he the infected form of a very intelligent forerunner or something? Please could someone tell me if you can?

  • 06.27.2006 6:26 AM PDT

In high definition baby!

He is a Flood juggernaut, I think.

  • 06.27.2006 6:27 AM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

The Gravemind is made of the bodies captured by the Flood and the Floods own fallen warriors..

That's from 'The Art of Halo' book...

-Stu

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  • 06.27.2006 6:29 AM PDT
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Nobody knows what he is exactly, all we know is that he's the leader of the Flood, he's super intelligent, he's the only flood that can talk

  • 06.27.2006 6:30 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

gravemind's "mouth" does not move in time to what he says.
dodgy "lip" syncing or something else...?

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  • 06.27.2006 6:32 AM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

It probably doesn't use it's 'mouth' to speak... why would it even have a 'mouth'... it's not like it needs to eat...

I think it uses it's telepathic ability to make it look like it's speaking....

-Stu

  • 06.27.2006 6:40 AM PDT
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Interesting, I've always wondered this myself

  • 06.27.2006 6:59 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

then gm uses his psychic ability to control flood and to speak.

  • 06.27.2006 7:00 AM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

Posted by: Tartan 118
then gm uses his psychic ability to control flood and to speak.


Could do. It's the same thing really...Putting the orders in the Floods minds and putting words in everyone elses...

-Stu

  • 06.27.2006 7:08 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

true...that must be why it seems so easy for him. he just jabbers on.

  • 06.27.2006 7:09 AM PDT
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Location: Outlaws' Summit.

if we can solve the mystery behind GM, we can solve how H3 may end.....

but until then, here's what I know: GM is indeed made up of the bodies of fallen victims. He is the omnipresent "leader" of the flood.

the flood were encountered about a little over 100,000 years ago, so if he was around back then (which i believe so) then he should be pretty dang old......

he has listened thru rock (nature), and metal (civilazation), and time (both)

now here is what I myself believe: One day the forerunner ENCOUNTERED (not created) the flood. now we know gravemind has defied gods and demons (heaven and hell if you will) so i take it that he may be immortal. so he wanders the universe in search of conquest. the forerunner just happened to find him (or maybe he found them) and thats when the conflict began and you know the rest

but why is he in installation 05? who knows? maybe he feels that 05 is a good hiding place, laying dormant and waiting, while his sleeping flood forms wait to be awaken. but this plant thing is definetly shrouded in mystery. omnipresent and all powerful, he holds all the keys and the ball is well in his court. the next move is his.

  • 06.27.2006 7:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: Tartan 118
gravemind's "mouth" does not move in time to what he says.
dodgy "lip" syncing or something else...?


My thoughts? He uses the mouth of an infected body, and his "mouth" is actually and echo chamber.

  • 06.27.2006 7:14 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
i've got it.

the flood are in search of the truth cos they take in all the info. of their hosts bodies, so maybe the forerunners (or some other omnipotent race) were trying to get information and infinite life, and the flood got out of CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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  • 06.27.2006 7:17 AM PDT
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copy cat. I think the forunners created the flood looking for immortality, but it only worked on some, or went horribly wrong.

  • 06.27.2006 7:42 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

oops copied ur avatar too

  • 06.27.2006 7:43 AM PDT
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we all will find out in h3 along with many other questions.

  • 06.27.2006 7:48 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

Posted by: ansem
we all will find out in h3 along with many other questions.


that is the ultimate thread-ending quote.

  • 06.27.2006 7:48 AM PDT
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WOW, ok Gravemind was created by the forerunners to control all of the flood, the main reason the flood were created was to protect the forerunners from enemies, but when the enemies attacked the flood went after them and the forerunners, after they realized this (forerunners) they created Gravemind to control them.

Haven't you ever thought why Gravemind is able to learn information from each form the flood infests? it is to stop the leech things from acquiring it. However at the end of Halo 2 (end credits) he is prying Cortana with info (or is going to), there.

Oh and Gravemind knows where Earth is, Cap. Keyes was infected was he not?

  • 06.27.2006 7:51 AM PDT
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And the gravemind said... "Look unto thee, for I am a plant!"

  • 06.27.2006 7:52 AM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

Posted by: ansem
we all will find out in h3 along with many other questions.


Actually we probably won't....

Bungie has a habit of leaving story point unfinished... just look at Marathon.

We'll find out enough to lets us enjoy the game. But enough will be left unanswered that we'll still be talking about it in 10 years time....

-Stu

  • 06.27.2006 7:53 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

Posted by: Hot Sh0t H2 DuDe
WOW, ok Gravemind was created by the forerunners to control all of the flood, the main reason the flood were created was to protect the forerunners from enemies, but when the enemies attacked the flood went after them and the forerunners, after they realized this (forerunners) they created Gravemind to control them.

Haven't you ever thought why Gravemind is able to learn information from each form the flood infests? it is to stop the leech things from acquiring it. However at the end of Halo 2 (end credits) he is prying Cortana with info (or is going to), there.

Oh and Gravemind knows where Earth is, Cap. Keyes was infected was he not?


wow, that's really good!
gm could be a monument to the foreruner's sins because they are built to kill which is a sin

  • 06.27.2006 7:54 AM PDT
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Oh and Gravemind knows where Earth is, Cap. Keyes was infected was he not?
Why do people continue to insist that Gravemind is Keyes? Not only is there 0 evidence to support it, there is a mountain against it. First, and most signifigantly, that Halo was blown up. Kablooee. The brain form that Keyes was in was also destroyed.

  • 06.27.2006 8:00 AM PDT
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A member of Eagle 117s group, The Watchers , A group for the theorists of Bungie.net

also, capt. keys in "the flood" book deosn't give away where earth is, he is infected, and the flood contain him in a 'brain' from but i don't believe the flood know where earth is.
to completely go agaisnt that, the grave mind has the prophet of reget, who DOES know where earth is, so it doesn't really matter. gravemind has high charity with slip space engines, i bet there are still some capital ships still on it even tho the majority are in the covenant civil war, annnnd....i've trailed off to far from the thread as it is.
one more thing, some have suggested that there is a 'gravemind' on every halo, but i seriously doubt there was one on installation 4, and if there was, there's nothing to show for it. also, is the fact that the gravemind can use delta halo's teleporter grid like guilty spark 343 did on intsalation 4.
(probably because he's also absored.....can't think of the little red guys name right now, but the other 343 look alike)

  • 06.27.2006 4:29 PM PDT
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also, capt. keys in "the flood" book deosn't give away where earth is, he is infected, and the flood contain him in a 'brain' from but i don't believe the flood know where earth is.
to completely go agaisnt that, the grave mind has the prophet of reget, who DOES know where earth is, so it doesn't really matter. gravemind has high charity with slip space engines, i bet there are still some capital ships still on it even tho the majority are in the covenant civil war, annnnd....i've trailed off to far from the thread as it is.
one more thing, some have suggested that there is a 'gravemind' on every halo, but i seriously doubt there was one on installation 4, and if there was, there's nothing to show for it. also, is the fact that the gravemind can use delta halo's teleporter grid like guilty spark 343 did on intsalation 4.
(probably because he's also absored.....can't think of the little red guys name right now, but the other 343 look alike)


^^^Exactly what the 1st paragraph says, but hosts do not have to reveal information for it to be found, Humans, and Covenant are dead, the flood are just controling them, and Gravemind does know where earth is for the FINAL TIME, flood control marines, flood control Regret, it's done, ENOUGH SAID ABOUT THAT TOPIC (flood don't know where earth is)

  • 06.27.2006 4:43 PM PDT