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.