something else entirely. i don't know exactly what, but it just seems far too coincidental that there were lines of graveminds mentioned in primordium and the primordial's makeup was considered to be an amalgamation of around a dozen or so graveminds too. so it points to [i]something[/i] linking humanity and the primordial/primordial's species together. hell, maybe it's even the formation of new precursors? iso even surmises this [but doesn't get an answer, as usual with the primordial]. moreover there just isn't enough evidence for me to think there [i]is[/i] a cure as per silentium. we all know that the timeless one said that there wasn't one, we all know that the librarian and her lifeworkers didn't believe in it, and we all know that the flood [i]should[/i] have been able to murderstomp the galaxy within a few hundred years if the cure was still real. not to mention, thematically, the cure also violates one of the golden rules of the flood as a "be all end all" solution to the precusors' main philosophical problem with the haloverse [which i'll get into with my post]. in primordium we get things describing humans suddenly becoming immune, or killing flood mid-infection. then we realize that all of that "immunity" could be part of something else entirely [interestingly enough the primordial responds by saying that it hasn't yet decided whether or not humanity will fail in response to didact asking him why the flood would call for the torture of humans, and it even says that the precursor's tone is "hiding a secret" (if it was also hiding the fact that there was a cure, why wouldn't there be a tone shift there too?) and holy sh1t this is one massive run-on]. then we realize that even if humanity had a cure, the flood would [i]still[/i] have been able to #shrek the galaxy. so yeah, i'm just not feeling it with regards to the cure.

What the hell was the Primordial doing with the Flood and humans in the Palace of Pain then? Why were some infected and others weren't?

again, it's anybody's guess. perhaps the overall movement was to create new primordials with humanity's involvement? the ten inactive graveminds [THE QUOTE TO WHICH I FCKING LOST AGAIN SLDKFJSLDKFJSDLF] + the consequent mention that the primordial was made of a dozen graveminds seems like far too much of a coincidence to ignore.

Well hold on, not a dozen Graveminds, it was over a dozen different beings.

oh yeah, i remember the PM discussion we had

Still though, 10 Graveminds on one installation? Something's not right. You're right about that.

10 graveminds, human beings, and the fact that a primordial is an amalgamation of several different beings? it's kind of ridiculous. why would the primordial just be mass producing graveminds? it doesn't even sound like a key mind either. key minds are just described as supersized graveminds, not a gravemind megazord.

Your conversation... My head... [spoiler]which books do I need to read to understand this?[/spoiler]