Meanwhile, most of the last surviving Precursors converted their bodies into an organic powder, and planned to regenerate back into their original forms at a later time. The remaining Precursors sought ways to render themselves dormant until such a time as they could safely roam the galaxy again.Īround a million years after the downfall of the Precursors, a being later known as the Primordial-a mutated Precursor-was confined to a Precursor stasis capsule and placed beneath the surface of a small planetoid at the edge of the Milky Way by an unknown group of beings, suspected to be ancient Forerunners. However, one of their created races, the sapient species known as the Forerunners, staged a massive rebellion against their creators and were successful in nearly wiping them out entirely. Millions of years before the present, the ancient and powerful civilization known as the Precursors held a position of stewardship over the galaxy, populating it with numerous lifeforms and watching over their evolution. The Gravemind is the highest stage of the Flood's development, though its complexity and capabilities depend on the size and number of the key minds which can, at the height of a Flood outbreak, engulf entire worlds. While this compound mind inhabits all Flood forms, it is distinctly embodied in processing nodes of agglomerated Flood biomatter known as key minds. The Gravemind ( Inferi sententia, meaning 'Thinking Dead'), infrequently referred to as the Ancient One, and formally known as a compound intelligence, is the shared consciousness of the entire Flood species which first emerges when the Flood reaches the Coordinated Stage. ' I am a monument to all your sins.' - The Gravemind Collective Flood consciousness frequently speaks in trochaic heptameter Massive worm-like head with many tentacle appendages. For the Halo 2 campaign level or other uses, see Gravemind (level) and Gravemind (disambiguation). This article is about the Flood intelligence.

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