- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Dang. Looks like I was a little late on finishing this point. Oh well.
problems with said theory:
Keyes was nothing more than a VERY aggressively taken over victim of the flood. It seems to me that the only reason he was so huge and bloated was because he put up such a fight with the Flood that they eventually got irritated with him and absolutely put him through one of their sickest ways of parasitic takeover, turning him into nothing more than a giant puss sack. I mean, look at what's left of his face. He went through some agony.
The fact that a lot of flood "strangly resemble humans" is because they ARE humans! Same thing with the taken over elites and grunts.
Now, there is one possibility however, that the Gravemind technically, has Keyes in his mind. This is my theory. When Keyes was taken over by the Flood, is it possible, since the Gravemind has practical telepathic control over the Flood, that the Gravemind added what was in Keyes' brain to his knowledge? After all, if this theory is true, then that explains his vast wisdom and philosophy. He could have very well taken any Forerunner, Covenant, or human mind that had been infected by the flood and added it to himself. Then give him 1,000 years to ponder any information and BAM! You've got yourself one smart Gravemind.
Also, if he had Keyes' mind, he would easily have been able to pilot the In Amber Clad into High Charity or any other ship in his stolen knowledge.
[Edited on 7/12/2006]