Summary
An imaginativeHalofan recently shared some nightmarish concepts of The Flood and the equally dreaded Gravemind infecting machinery and transforming into even more terrifying biomechanical monsters. Master Chief has faced off against some fierce enemies throughout theHaloseries, but few are as frightening as the Flood, a parasitic organism that has been sending chills down the spine of even the most battle-hardened Spartan ever since the originalHalo: Combat Evolved.
Unwittingly created by the ancient Precursors, the Flood needs to consume sentient life to sustain itself, which it does in theHalogames by infecting UNSC and Covenant forces alike. This results in a variety of dangerous Flood forms that can be a challenge for Master Chief to take down due to their tendency to re-infect the same fallen enemies over and over.Halo 2introduced the Gravemind, an even more nightmarish abominationthat controls the Floodfrom deep within Installation 05 on the Delta Halo - and this is but one of the hive minds serving as the final evolution of the monstrous parasite.
For manyHalofans, Gravemind and the Flood couldn’t possibly get any more freighting, but a brave Reddit user by the handle of Cynder_024 dared to imagine what it would be like if they could not only infect organic beings, but machinery as well. The result is a pair of haunting greyscaleconcept images of Gravemindwith a new, biomechanical look that combines undead flesh with metal. They also gave names to these twisted forms: the first is called “Dead Cathedral -with a choir of thousands voices-,” while the second is dubbed “7 Headed Leviathan.”
Biomechanical Gravemind Concepts Are Prime Halo Nightmare Fuel
Cynder_024 started this concept with a previous drawing of aninfected Spartan II trooperthat had their skeleton, flesh, and Mjolnir armor gruesomely merged into one by an alternate reality version of the Flood, and they plan to branch out further with a sauropod-like MAC in the future. So far, otherHalofans have expressed interest in this bone-chilling idea, even as they are grateful to never have encountered such a creature in the games.
While the Flood and Gravemind were seemingly destroyed by Master Chief and the Arbiter at the end ofHalo 3, there is always the chance that these deadly enemiescould return to theHalouniversesomeday. Hopefully they never develop the kind of abilities featured in Cynder_024’s concept art, or the UNSC could be faced with a threat that truly dwarfs the Forerunners and Banished from more recentHaloentries.
