![]() ![]() In an archived conversation with the Forerunner AI known as 032 Mendicant Bias, it compared itself to the AI, describing it as "a single intelligence inhabiting multiple instances" and calling itself "a compound consisting of a thousand billion coordinated minds inhabiting as many bodies as circumstances require." While it is not known how the Gravemind is able to communicate with subordinate Flood forms across the galaxy, its self-comparison to a computer network implies that similar techniques may be used, with each Flood form possibly acting as a networking node and redistributing the Gravemind's commands to other forms. This has made the Gravemind virtually omniscient, and ensures that should the Gravemind be destroyed, its consciousness will never truly die as long as some flood forms are left. In addition, it appears each Gravemind also retains the memories and knowledge of previous Graveminds. When a creature is assimilated into the Flood, its knowledge is transferred directly to the Gravemind, and the remainder of its mind is destroyed. In this way, it appears similar to a puppeteer. Gravemind is the controlling intelligence behind the parasitic Flood species. The consciousness of the Gravemind is formed from the accumulated intelligence and memories of every Flood host ever consumed. Even its name, "Gravemind," references this: it is the mind of the grave. The Gravemind, like the Proto-Gravemind from which it formed, is made of countless bodies and corpses The Art of Halo states that Gravemind is "literally built from the bodies of its enemies and its own fallen warriors reassembled into a massive, tentacled, and intelligent entity." Gravemind references this fact often, often calling its current whereabouts an empty grave or burial mound-where there should be many graves, there is just the Gravemind. During its time beneath Installation 05's Library, some of its tentacles grew to be miles long and stretched throughout the Installation. The remainder of the Gravemind's body consists of a mass of enormous tentacles. The organ is used to speak and to exhale Flood Spores. It is a massive Flood form whose "mouth" resembles a fleshy, multi-layered Venus Flytrap. The Gravemind confronting John-117 as seen in Halo Legends' Origins.ĭue to the brevity of its mysterious appearances in Halo 2, little is known about the Gravemind's physical form. This is shown in Silentium, where the Precursor Gravemind compares itself with Catalog, a group of modified Forerunners networked together into single mind acting in concert with many others. Gravemind makes up a distributed intelligence, with a single primary consciousness made up of multiple, smaller instances that seem capable of acting independently. Eventually, when the Flood infection has become too large for even the Gravemind to control-or when no life remains in the galaxy-the Flood infection will reach the Intergalactic Stage, and Flood will leave the galaxy with the intent to create a new Gravemind elsewhere. ![]() The Gravemind and its subordinate Flood infection will then continue to accumulate. This critical mass tends to be made up of thousands of bodies if using human-sized bodies as a measuring unit. ![]() Eventually, the Proto-Gravemind reaches a certain critical mass and becomes self-aware-a Gravemind. After a Proto-Gravemind has been created, nearby Combat Forms will continue to supply it with fresh bodies, allowing it to accumulate mass, increase in size, and gain more memories and intelligence from consumed hosts. A Gravemind starts out as a Proto-Gravemind-a Flood form created by merging the bodies and biomass of numerous sentient life forms some Flood forms may also be repurposed and merged into the Proto-Gravemind. ![]()
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