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Key minds act as coordinators for nearby Flood forms, leveraging wisdom harvested from the parasites' hosts to expand, outwit, overwhelm, and consume other life.<ref name="Keyminds"/> The [[abomination]], an evolved form of the [[juggernaught]] command form, is a known type of key mind war-form.<ref name="Abomination">'''Halo Wars 2''', ''[[Phoenix Logs]] — Abomination''</ref> The creation of key minds causes an infestation to transition from feral aggression to coordinated conversion. As the Flood grow in number key minds combine and expand into larger, exponentially more intelligent networks. The appearance of these vile collectives typically indicates most local 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.<ref name="Keyminds"/>