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===Forerunner-Flood war===
===Forerunner-Flood war===
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During the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the first known Gravemind came into existence as a centralized intelligence to coordinate Flood efforts against the [[Forerunner]]
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remaining Precursors became the Flood fully,
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a lesser or greater extent. Eventually Forerunner space navy tactics began to fail. The Forerunners developed the [[Halo Array]] as a desperate countermeasure before the war began fully, which would destroy all sentient life in the Galaxy, thus denying the Flood
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food" for growth. This was only to be used as a last resort, but the Forerunners were reluctant to use it; the Master Builder instead abused his powers to have the San'Shyuum Homeworld annihilated.
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However, the Flood were growing in number, and quickly were gaining ground across the Galaxy. Forerunner commanders realized that their naval tactics were being overcome, and a new solution was necessary if the Forerunners were to pull out of this "stalemate"; a [[Contender-class Artificial Intelligence]], [[032 Mendicant Bias]], was crafted by the Forerunners to directly attack the Gravemind form and any surrounding Flood biomass in an effort to eliminate the central Flood consciousness. At least four installations, the Ark, Onyx Shield World, Requiem and an unnamed Shield World, were constructed by the Forerunners as shelters for themselves when the Halos fired.
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The Gravemind contacted Mendicant Bias and convinced him to abandon the Forerunners and join the Flood cause, convincing him that the Forerunners were so gluttonous and proud as to deny the next step of biological evolution: the Flood. The Gravemind insinuated that by clinging to the legend of the [[Mantle of Responsibility|Mantle]], the Forerunners had doomed the galaxy to eternal stagnation; the only way for the galaxy to progress was for superior beings to "restart" it. These superior beings, unsurprisingly, took the form of Compound Minds such as Gravemind and Mendicant Bias himself. Convinced by the Gravemind's arguments, Mendicant Bias intentionally became rampant, developed a hatred for his creators and actively worked toward their destruction. The Gravemind utilized a 'Logic-Virus' to subvert other AI's, and may be how he converted Mendicant Bias to his cause originally.
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The Gravemind continued to grow, growing enormous, planet-covering nodes of itself called Key-Minds that enhanced its raw computational power to such a degree that it began to completely overwhelm the Forerunners, forcing them into extremely pricey naval engagements that kept the Flood from winning for 300 years. Using knowledge of the Precursors to which it was born from and had become, the Gravemind used the Star Roads of the Precursors to attack the Forerunners, hampering their Slipspace capacity and utterly destroying their fleets, and marking the point at which Forerunner resistance had began to truly break down.
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The Forerunners developed a new AI, [[Offensive Bias]], which coordinated the final battle against Mendicant Bias and the Flood. The Gravemind was destroyed or stopped by the [[Halo Array|first activation of the Halo rings]].<ref name="Terminal">'''Halo 3's''', ''[[Terminal]]''</ref>
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===Human-Covenant war===
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Following the Flood outbreak on Installation 05, the Gravemind rebuilt itself deep under the [[Library]] of the installation. During the [[Battle of Installation 05]], the Gravemind was capable of utilizing Delta Halo's teleportation grid. After capturing [[John-117]] and the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]], the parasite gave them their "assignments" to stop the Halo's activation, and then teleported them to their respective targets. It is not known how the Gravemind, a non-mechanical Flood form, is able to tap into the teleportation grid although it is possible when the Gravemind captured 2401 Penitent Tangent, he absorbed the knowledge of how to access Halo's teleportation grid, just like Cortana on the first Halo when she was in the Control Center.
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Gravemind later used the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] ''[[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]'' to board the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] Holy City ''[[High Charity]]'', crashing the frigate into a city wall and releasing numerous Pelicans full of the Flood plague. Within days, he took over the entire city, and all life within it.
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The Gravemind initially planned to attack and infest Earth, but through the knowledge of the assimilated Regret (and possibly Mercy), he learned about the Prophet of Truth's plans to use the [[Installation 00|Ark]] to remotely activate the entire Halo Array. Realizing the extent of the danger he faced, the Gravemind did not attack Earth but instead used ''[[High Charity]]'' to make a [[Slipstream Space|Slipspace]] jump and crash-land on the megastructure. He briefly allied with John and the Arbiter to stop Truth from activating the rings, but betrayed them the moment the crisis was averted. The duo managed to escape from their foe and discover [[Cortana]]'s solution to the Flood — a [[Installation 04B|replacement Halo ring]] made by the [[Installation 00|Ark]]. To activate it, John infiltrates High Charity to retrieve Cortana, who has the [[Activation Index]] from the first [[Installation 04]].
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As John traveled deep into High Charity, he faced multiple Flood forms and heard the Gravemind taunt him, allowing Cortana to briefly send pained messages as he corrupted and tortured the UNSC AI. The Gravemind became increasingly frustrated at the Spartan's progress, becoming suspicious of what Cortana was hiding from him and threatening to "feast upon [John's] bones" if she didn't reveal the secret.
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After John rescued Cortana, the Gravemind became enraged, realizing that she planned to use the incomplete Halo to destroy him. He attempted to kill them both, but failed, and John successfully destroyed ''High Charity'', presumably killing the Gravemind. After traveling to Installation 04B, however, John discovered that the Gravemind was attempting to rebuild himself on the new Halo. The Gravemind ultimately failed to stop John from activating the ring and destroying him, at least for the time being.
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==Personality==
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[[File:Gravemind.svg|200px|thumb|right|The avatar of the Gravemind as seen in the [[Terminal]]s.]]
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The Gravemind has an obscure and complex personality. When he was first seen by John-117 and the Arbiter, he was calm and collected, if not seemingly sad or mournful, and he spoke with a sullen tone in his voice. He was also quite logical, psychologically analyzing the duo, and trying to convince the Arbiter of the [[Halo Array|Halo Rings]] true purpose, to which the Arbiter reacted with stubborn pride. The Gravemind showed no irritation to this nor the bickering of [[2401 Penitent Tangent]] and the former [[Prophet of Regret]]. Later, though, the Gravemind showed a more emotional side, basking in his victory at ''High Charity'', and displaying a sinister air of anger when demanding answers from the newly captured [[Cortana]].
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In ''Halo 3'', his personality undergoes a similar progression. [[Floodgate|Early on]], he is shown to have a calm and collected personality, [[the Covenant (level)|but once the activation of the Ark is prevented]], the Gravemind bursts into a victorious, maniacal laugh, briefly boasting in iambic heptameter. In the following level, [[Cortana (level)|Cortana]], a broader spectrum of his personality is asserted. He begins with his calm and collected voice, as well as a slightly confident tone. As John finds his way deeper into ''High Charity'', however, the Gravemind becomes more irritated by his progress, and begins to shout at him. Once Cortana is rescued, the Gravemind begins to emit a series of mangled, animal-like roars, and speaks in an infuriated tone. In [[halo (Halo 3 level)|the final level]] of ''Halo 3'', Flood Dispersal Pods crash onto Installation 04B, and the Gravemind begins to speak again, this time in an angry yet confident tone.
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The mostly collected and impassive tone that is frequently heard from it can be justified by his implied near omniscience; his knowledge of the present and ability to accurately predict the future means that he has little reason to worry about anything. He only becomes truly irritated or angry when an unforeseen event happens, or when there is something he doesn't know. Triggers for his anger include Cortana's secrets and John's ability to rescue her. When defeated, he shows sadness, not anger; it may be that he has become used to omniscience, and is only truly angered when he is wrong. This is supported by the fact that in the level Cortana, his tone quickly changed to confidence and almost amusement when he realized parts of John-117's objective (with phrases such as "''Of course, you came for ''her''! We exist ''together'' now. Two corpses in one grave''").
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He is also known to be quite manipulative: in ''Halo 2'', Gravemind tricks John into being a decoy to distract the [[Hierarchs|High Prophets]] as he attempts to take over ''High Charity'', and in ''Halo 3'', he helps John-117 and the Arbiter to kill the [[Prophet of Truth]], only to betray them when they have outlived their usefulness. It is also notable that the original Gravemind was able to convince the Forerunner AI [[032 Mendicant Bias]] to join his cause and turn his fleet upon the Forerunners by telling him that the Flood are the next step of evolution and that the Forerunners are denying it.
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The Gravemind is not violent when it doesn't benefit him; this is what makes a Gravemind a key stage in Flood evolution. Unlike the savage and single-mindedly bloodthirsty Combat and Pure Forms that precede and obey him, the Gravemind is able to analyze situations and avoid confrontation when it is necessary for the Flood's continued survival.
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By the end of the game, the Gravemind gives a short monologue in a disheartened tone, cryptically admitting that he knows he can do nothing to stop his fate, which he believes was unjustly forced upon him. He says that the activation of Installation 04B will only add time ''"to a sentence [he] never deserve[d]"''. This seems to suggest that the Gravemind does not understand why the living races hate the Flood; indeed, he seems to think that it is only natural to absorb all life in the universe.
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==Trivia==
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*The term "Gravemind" was coined by Bungie staff Jaime Greisemer.<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=Feast_of_Bones '''Bungie.net''': ''Feast of Bones'']</ref>
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*In several [[Forerunner]] data logs, the controlling intelligence of the Flood is referred to as a "[[Key Mind|Compound Mind]]."
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*Originally, the Gravemind was meant to have skulls as teeth.<ref>'''[[The Art of Halo]]''', page 56-57</ref>
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*The Gravemind frequently speaks in [[Wikipedia:trochaic|trochaic]] [[Wikipedia:heptameter|heptameter]].
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*The Gravemind is one of the few extraterrestrials to learn John-117's name.<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe|Halo: Evolutions]]''', ''[[Human Weakness]]''</ref>
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*The Gravemind was initially going to have a much greater presence in ''Halo 2'' and would have been introduced in the level ''[[Forerunner Tank]]'', but due to time constraints, Bungie removed the level and instead made a long cinematic for his introduction.{{Citation needed}}
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*The Gravemind is voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]].
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*Two quotes from the Gravemind, "[[Two Corpses in One Grave]]" and "[[A Monument to All Your Sins]]," are also the titles of achievements in ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.
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*In ''[[Halo 4]]'', one of the [[Flood (Gametype)|Flood]] medals is titled [[Gravemind medal|Gravemind]].
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==Gallery==
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===''Halo 2''===
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<gallery widths="150" spacing="small">
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GravemindConceptEarly.jpg|Early concept art of the Gravemind.
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Gravemind Concept.jpg|Concept art of the scene.
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File:Gravemindcapture.jpg
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File:H2_GravemindCloseup.png|Installation 05's Gravemind with Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee and Spartan John-117.
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FloodProphet01.jpg|The [[Prophet of Regret]] assimilated into the Gravemind.
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</gallery>
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SCAN0056.JPG|The Gravemind in the ''[[Halo 3]]'' Instruction Manual.
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Gravemind Halo3.jpg|A "Gravemind Moment".
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GRAVY.JPG|The Gravemind prevents [[John-117]] and the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]] from escaping with its tentacles.
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</gallery>
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===''Halo 2: Anniversary''===
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H2A_CinematicRender_FloodGravemind-Close.jpg|Cinematic Render of the Gravemind.
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H2A_CinematicRender_ProphetRegretInfected-3View.jpg|Cinematic render of the Prophet of Regret assimilated into the Gravemind.
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H2A_Cutscene_Gravemind1.jpg|The Gravemind speaking to John-117.
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</gallery>
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==Appearances==
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*''[[Halo 2]]'' {{1st}}
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**''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''
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*''[[Halo 3]]''
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*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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**''[[Human Weakness]]''
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*''[[Halo Legends]]''
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==Sources==
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{{Quotes}}
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{{Reflist|2}}
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