- Lono
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- Exalted Heroic Member
Gravemind is as he said "...a monument of our sins". That, to me, means he fancys himself a living perdition for all sentient life. He means to test us, to make an unending war. We fight him as perhaps the Foreunners did before. In fighting the Flood, the Forerunners fought against their own strength and knowledge and brothers and sisters; against themselves.
I think Gravemind plans to help humanity stave off extinction just long enough to build up to strength and allegiances to wage war with the Flood for all eternity or at least until the halos are reactivated.
Perhaps that is the missing piece to my theory. I've always wondered if the Flood were so fearsome that it was THEY that the Halos were activated to combat, then why were they so easily house within these structures. Perhaps once the Halos were activated, the Flood housed themselves, in anticipation of the next generation of sentient creatures to set them free and start the war all over.