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Re: On the nature of the Compound Mind *very long*
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 4/27/08 10:40 a.m.
: I'm familiar with the Bestiarium, but I don't think it contradicts anything : Cthulhu said. The fact that there are stages only suggests the compound : mind doesn't develop until sufficient numbers of minds are assimilated -- : not that it must inhabit one place and one body. : Cthulhu, I agree with your theory. I think that in-game evidence in Halo 3 : suggests that the compound mind, Gravemind, persists even after its : physical form is destroyed. Heck, we don't even know if that physical form : is anything more than a mouthpiece. : Killing large numbers of Flood is probably the only way to actually damage : the Gravemind. The Terminals do allude to the only time during the war with the Flood that the Forerunner actually began to see a weakness was when the central mind (Gravemind) suffered damage. It then began to withdraw it's constituent parts to enhance its defense. I think this is what Cortana learned (possibly from the Terminals) about the war between the Forerunner and the Flood and perhaps why she knew a way to destroy the Flood without the use of the galaxy-wide Halo array. She had to ensure enough of a threat (Truth at the Ark threatening to activate the Halos) that the Gravemind would withdraw his constituents into one place. The Gravemind didn't know a local Halo already at the Ark would be his undoing. By then most, if not all, of his forces were at the Ark.

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