{"id":157832,"date":"2021-01-02T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/halo-gravemind-facts\/"},"modified":"2021-01-02T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:30:20","slug":"halo-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-gravemind-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/halo-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-gravemind-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Gravemind | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although the Covenant often wins over fans as the “best” enemy of the Halo<\/em><\/a> franchise, the Flood is certainly a memorable opponent<\/a>.\u00a0 Some of the hardest levels in Halo 2<\/em><\/a> and Halo 3<\/em><\/a> feature the Flood as the main threat, and they’re not an enemy to be taken lightly.\u00a0 Especially the little ones.\u00a0 There is plenty of lore surrounding the Flood that never made its way into the games. With so much out there, most fans are in the dark about various aspects of the terrifying foe.\u00a0While the Flood does bear a bit of a resemblance to a zombie-like infection, it is far more complicated and intelligent than it may seem.\u00a0 Capable of building networks that can engulf entire planets, the Flood is a force to be reckoned with, and, pulling all the strings, is the Gravemind.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Halo: Every Form Of Flood, Ranked From Weakest To Strongest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Gravemind is a character hardly seen in the franchise, but despite the lack of exposure is a presence that is definitely felt.\u00a0 Players will recall battling deep into the Flood infestation to rescue a tortured Cortana from the mastermind behind it all – something that still stands out as one of the series’ best all-time moments<\/a>.\u00a0 Despite going to confront him head on in Halo 3<\/em><\/a>, players only catch a glimpse of the Gravemind in Halo 2<\/em> and the details of this being remain a mystery.\u00a0 However, the lore of Halo<\/em> runs deep, and the Gravemind has been beside it all along the way.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>In A Long Line of Graveminds…<\/h2>\n
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The Gravemind that players become acquainted with in Halo 2<\/em> and Halo 3<\/em> is not the only of its kind, and its not the first to have existed.\u00a0 However, the Gravemind itself is an aggregate of all the Graveminds that came before it.\u00a0 It is the main brain of the Flood, directing it wherever and whenever at will, and it possesses the same knowledge of its predecessors, making it more than a simple reincarnation, but rather as a sum of all that the Flood has done and learned over its surprisingly long existence.\u00a0 Just as there were Graveminds to come before it, so there will be Graveminds to come after it. No one was ever really able to keep the Flood down, anyway.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>As Ancient As The Precursors<\/h2>\n
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The Gravemind has been around for however long the Flood itself has been around, and this is because the Flood, when powerful enough, will form a Gravemind to direct and lead its conquering spread.\u00a0 The Flood has been doing this process for much longer than it seems, stretching back to the civilization that created the Forerunners called the Precursors<\/a>.\u00a0 The Forerunners rebelled against the Precursors, forcing the remaining Precursors to try and preserve themselves in unusual ways.<\/p>\n

Long story short, the process was defective, the ancient Precursors mutated and became the parasitic life forms that would eventually become the Flood, able to absorb other living beings.\u00a0 The first outbreak of the Flood swept across the galaxy, and thus began the war between the Forerunners and the Flood that led to the precious Halo Rings.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>The Shared Consciousness Of All<\/h2>\n
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In some ways, the Gravemind can be seen as the “leader” of the Flood, but the Flood will create not only one<\/em> Gravemind, and each Gravemind is not a being of its own.\u00a0 Rather, all Graveminds are the center of the Flood’s shared consciousness.\u00a0 Simply put, all the little Flood creatures that players became familiar with are all part of one thinking mind that directs the Flood’s strategy and combat through every major outbreak.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Halo: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Flood<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

As the Flood spreads and infect more beings, the more complex, intelligent, and larger the consciousness becomes, and so, therefore, does the Gravemind.\u00a0 Of all different shapes and sizes and purposes, the Flood never lives or dies, it just waits and grows.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>Speaks Telepathically<\/h2>\n
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As players became familiar with in Halo 3<\/em><\/a>, the Gravemind can speak telepathically, and does so to the Master Chief<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a power specific to the Gravemind, as the thought-center of the entire Flood, that isn’t really talked about in the games.\u00a0 Telepathy is a strange power that no other creature in the Halo universe seems to have, and that includes the so-called Prophets of the Covenant.<\/p>\n

This power, however, isn’t unique to the Flood, as it was a power that was widely-used by the Precursors as part of a system they created called “neural physics.”\u00a0 Since the Flood were mutated versions of dormant Precursors, it is believed that this made the Flood capable of utilizing the neural physics and speaking telepathically.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>Absorbs Knowledge Of Taken Hosts<\/h2>\n
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Watching a Flood creature overtake a living being never gets less horrifying.\u00a0 Nor should it.\u00a0 When the Flood infects a new host, it overwhelms and conquers the host’s mind.\u00a0 Once inside, it essentially downloads the complete knowledge of that host, then obliterates the rest\u2013\u2013individuality, memories, etc.\u00a0 The knowledge that was captured from the host is then transferred to the Gravemind, adding to its vast reservoir of knowledge from other hosts, allowing it to grow smarter, bigger, and stronger.<\/p>\n

This is what happens every time a new host is taken by the Flood.\u00a0 Knowing this, watching the Flood decimate hundreds of soldiers only becomes a more frightening prospect, because somewhere the Gravemind is growing stronger with each moment.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>Can Corrupt AIs<\/h2>\n
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While it may seem as if living beings are the only ones susceptible to the corrupting and devouring powers of the Flood, this simply isn’t true.\u00a0 Fans will recall the Gravemind managing to torture Cortana for information<\/a>, including a particular piece of info that’ll be discussed later.\u00a0 This isn’t even the half of it, though.\u00a0 During the Forerunner-Flood War, the Forerunners were determined to test the Halo Ring array’s effectiveness, and so they sent a special AI system called Mendicant Bias to conduct the test and operate Installation 07.<\/p>\n

What occurred instead was a conversation that Mendicant Bias had with an entity known as the Primordial (a Precursor Gravemind), which convinced the AI that the Flood was inevitable. The AI was convinced and switched sides.\u00a0 Even in the face of non-living intelligence, the Flood can be infectious.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>Skulls For Teeth<\/h2>\n
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As development of the game and the design of the Gravemind progressed, it was said that, at one point, the Gravemind was designed with skulls of infected hosts for teeth.\u00a0 As the Gravemind would be able to speak, so the players would be able to see the empty skulls of Human and Covenant alike, clattering together as they formed horrifying words of fear and death.\u00a0 However, this design was thrown out later on due to the difficulties of attempting to animate the mouth with such intricate parts.<\/p>\n

RELATED: ‘Halo 4’ Flood Multiplayer Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Looking at the visual possibilities of those earlier Halo games, this was probably well-advised.\u00a0 Yet, it’s hard not to feel robbed of an image that would’ve been sure to haunt some nightmares.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>Engulfs Entire Worlds<\/h2>\n
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In the Flood’s attempt to grow indefinitely, the growth of the Graveminds is not subject to an end either, resulting in some cases where the Gravemind was able to engulf an entire planet from fusing organic tissue with the Flood tissue to increase its own size.\u00a0 While the Gravemind never gets to this daunting size in the Halo<\/em> franchise, it becomes large enough to invade the entirety of the Covenant<\/a> city called High Charity and devour it, allowing the city to be used as a home base.<\/p>\n

Had the Master Chief not been able to stop the Flood<\/a> in its tracks, perhaps the Gravemind would have overtaken much more and much larger than High Charity.<\/p>\n

2 <\/span>Always Fighting, Always Losing<\/h2>\n
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Since the Flood has been around nearly as long as the Precursors, it also means the Flood has been losing for as long.\u00a0 It fought a war against the Forerunners that pushed the latter to truly desperate measures to rid the galaxy of the Flood, which did succeed in at least pushing the Flood underground.\u00a0 When it reemerged amid the conflict between the Humans and the Covenant, it was poised to take advantage of the chaos and succeed in its aims to dominate the galaxy.\u00a0 However, this too failed (thanks to the Forerunner’s desperate measures), and the Flood was defeated again.\u00a0 Should the Flood resurface yet again, it makes one question if they could be defeated again.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>One Of Only A Few<\/h2>\n
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In addition to the characteristics that define the Gravemind as a unique being in the Halo<\/em> universe, the Gravemind is special in one piece of knowledge that it knows.\u00a0 It was obtained from the tortured and exhausted Cortana when she was captured.\u00a0 It’s a piece of information that only a handful of beings across the entire galaxy know, and a secret that Dr. Halsey has done her utmost to keep hidden from practically anyone and anything.\u00a0 This is Master Chief<\/a>‘s real name: John.<\/p>\n

NEXT: Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare DLC Brings The Flood Back<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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