Phoenix Logs/Flood Lore/Keyminds


 * Fonts of malign intelligence.


 * After an infestation is established the parasite transitions from feral aggression
 * to coordinated conversion by creating specialised Flood organisms that network
 * their individual intelligences. These key minds act as coordinators for nearby
 * Flood, leveraging wisdom harvested from the parasite's hosts to expand,
 * outwit, overwhelm, and consume other life.


 * As the Flood grow in number these key minds combine and expand into larger,
 * exponentially more intelligent networks. The appearance of these vile collectives
 * typically indicate most local animal life and sentient hosts have been infected or
 * consumed. Once a critical mass of key minds have combined the Flood's
 * centralized intelligence can begin to emerge in their seething mass of corrupted
 * flesh: a Proto-Gravemind that sifts through and feeds on the memories of every
 * Flood-infected victim.