The Flood Halo Gravemind

The gravemind is a collection of the sentience and knowledge that has been gathered by the victims of the flood.

The flood halo gravemind. The gravemind is a parasitic hive mind intelligence in the halo universe. It is the overarching antagonist of halo. The flood is a highly infectious parasite which is released several times during halo s story. The gravemind is a massive self aware flood form with complete control over all flood forms and all memories of the lifeforms absorbed by the flood.

The gravemind inferi sententia meaning thinking dead is the final stage in the life cycle of the flood and is the ultimate intelligence of the flood. This stage of a flood outbreak is known as the feral stage. The gravemind starts out as a proto gravemind which is created by fusing the biomass of sentient life and after enough bodies are merged into it it will gain self awareness becoming a gravemind. It is a near omniscient creature with complete control over all flood forms.

Combat evolved a supporting antagonist in halo 2 and one of the main antagonists of halo 3 alongside the prophet of truth. A particular gravemind is the secondary antagonist in halo 2 and a main antagonist in halo 3. The flood exists in a fairly stable state in the absence of a gravemind. While only one gravemind is ever seen in the games the title is given to the final stage of flood evolution in which the flood becomes a superorganism.

The gravemind is a centralized intelligence generated by the flood during the feral stage in the parasite s efforts to acquire more coherence and direction.