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[Halo 2] Question [spoiler]

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:25 pm

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dv8 · Veteran Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 72

do you mean when you meet an oversized-plant-thingy?

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:44 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:45 pm

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dv8 · Veteran Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 72

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:47 pm

altair

Yeah, that.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:17 pm

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Incitatus

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I called it a little shop of horrors rip off a long time ago. :p

I definatly think that the key to the storyline lies in that cinematic.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:53 pm

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Dude, no trouty icon if you have no link.

Yeesh.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:28 pm

dv8 · Veteran Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 72

As my memory is a bit hazy, feel free to correct me anyone.

From what I recall, it is left unclear what Gravemind (that plant thingy) is. It is speculated that it could be a particularly advanced Flood, and that it is the controlling force behind the flood. Which makes sense, because while the average flood is just mindlessly attacking, they do seem to pop up in strategic points throughout the game. Anyways, I forget the thread that discussed this, and am at the moment too lazy to find it. The Arbiter get's sent to find the index, but at a different location than the MC.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:50 pm

DM

Ookay, massive spoilers.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:44 am

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Yeah.. what DM said!

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:37 am

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archon · Decorated Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 250

To quote 'The Art of Halo', page 56:

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:46 am

ABoxInABox

I have the Offical Halo 2 Guide, which was co-written by Bungie. It says nothing specific about Gravemind, but it does say this:

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:58 am

Wainamoinen

My guess is: is that the "little shop of horrers" guy is flood. It almost looked like it was "infested" to the Regret guy. I could be wrong but it kinda makes sense if you think about it.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:23 pm

NSA

My question is whether its a conciousness for the Flood as a WHOLE, or just the Flood it spawned.

Since on the 1st mission for the Arbiter, you are on the Gas Mining Station over Threshold, and there are Flood there. That is the same system the first Halo (Halo 04) was located in. Now whether they were being controller or were just 'free roaming' we dont know. It doesnt seem likely to me that the one being could control all the flood in the known universe, since.. well, thats pretty big. But its possible I guess, some genetic mumbo jumbo or something. Maybe telepathic? We haven't really seen anything like "magic" in the Haloverse yet, but we would be remiss to discount anything!!

Also, in replaying the Original Halo.. when the Flood capture Captain Keyes.. they place him on the bridge of the Truth and Reconcilliation, though he has been integrated into a large biomass of Flood. Could this possibly be the formation of a new "Gravemind"? The Flood were only released for a day or two game-time by this point, so perhaps it was only in the formative stage? We don't know how long the Gravemind on "Delta Halo" has been around for, but from his words it seems like it's been a long time.

I [spec]ulate that as part of its "natural" cycle, the Flood infects a strong mind and converts it into a type of leadership caste. Helping to futher propagate the species. Of course, Keyes looked nothing like the Gravemind, couldnt talk all scary-like and didnt have tentacles. So.. we'll see![/i]

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:26 pm

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I'm suspecting that all flood kept in quarantine zones on the rings are kept alive somehow. It would explain why all flood elsewhere in the galaxy is dead, and they aren't. Obviously the forerunners felt that there was some good in studying the Flood, and the fact that Johnson, having survived a flood infection, now has regenerative properties (like the flood do), would seem to give some weight to that argument.

I'm thinking, judging from the dilapidated state of Delta Halo (which looks likes a freakin warzone), that it was where the incident leading to the first firing of the rings started. I mean, compare it to installation 04, which was pretty pristine.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:41 pm

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