Forum:Prophet Form

ok, seriously. Something needs to be done about this. We need a full community discussion concerning this topic. Personally, i believe it to be total nonsense...i will go into detail later (i have class in a few minutes and will be gone most of the day). I would like to see the general consencous of the community at large.

Thank you.

 Dude984  [ Communications ] - [ Contributions ] 16:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
I personally believe that the Prophet form is a valid form of Flood. Regret, Mercy, the Legate, Truth (Isn't he one now, too?) all became Prophet forms. The Prophets form's purpose is not combat, but more of intelligence. Regret, Mercy and the Legate all gave information to the Flood. The Legate also acted as a spokeperson for the Flood, since he wasn't part of a greater intelligence. -- Lordofmonsterisland "Roar to me"  18:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's my take on it...
 * Regret=Absorbed into the Gravemind's biomass...notice skulls and extra beings within those same tentacles, Regret just happened to be partially assimilated when Chief and Arby got there.
 * Mercy=In the process of being infected, or "eaten". Since we don't know much of Prophet physiology, we can't tell if he would turn into a combat form or not...he might become a combat form for the sake of manual labor, not actual combat.
 * the Legate=seems like he was dead and his body was being used as a puppet for the Flood to communicate to their potential food. This seems like the beginning of a new Gravemind, since the Flood force was massive enough to start to gain a certain sentience and personality. (so I'm agreeing he's a spokesperson.)
 * Truth=assimilated by the Gravemind to speak to teh Arbiter and Chief. Truth was speaking against his own will and was in teh process of becoming assimilated.
 * I guess what I'm saying is that these unfortunate prophets are used as dead puppets allowing the flood consciousness to communicate. However, sometimes they are still alive and self-aware of their past selves, and must suffer in agony at the notion of their situation. In terms of giving info to the flood, the parasite merely absorbed their knowledge (Keyes anyone?), the prophets never told them. That's my take... Dude984  [ Communications ] - [ Contributions ][[Image:Dude avatar copy.gif|25px]] 18:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Precisely, so why were you saying that the Prophet Form is nonsense? -- Lordofmonsterisland "Roar to me"  14:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm saying that there is no such thing as an actual fully fledged seperate genre of Flood forms. I see this as just a partial assimilation, not an entirely new species as the article would indicate (Prophet Form leads one to believe it is an entirely new "species" of Flood). Covenant San 'Shyuum are taken advantage of because of their knowledge, but so are certain Sangheili (Commanders either Human or Elite could become brain forms due to piloting knowledge...look at Keyes). In all, I'm proposing we take down the article and in turn run the info into the standard Flood article in a section about partial assimilations or the Graveminds and other forms/characters. I think we agree on the same obervations...this is just a matter of sematics.  Dude984  [ Communications ] - [ Contributions ][[Image:Dude avatar copy.gif|25px]] 15:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes. Yes. Totally agree! Either make an article for every single species' Flood form (hopefully not), or convert it into Brain Form assimilation info. --Dragonc laws (talk ) 15:04, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Fine, we shall consider this form a partial Brain form until contradicting evidence is found (which there likely will be none). Let's get to work people. -- Lordofmonsterisland "Roar to me"  15:36, 3 October 2007 (UTC)