The Flood tried so hard to adsorb a person who could fly it to Earth, yet I don't believe the ship could have broken orbit due to the weight of Cpt. Keyes' massive iridium balls
@@lycan623 Which is even worse, because they knew the moment he began to remember. Which meant that it was holding out his own consciousness to tell him that he couldn't save anyone.
What makes it sad is nobody knows that he fought back. All they know is from the Chief, hearing what they thought was tourture, but he was trying to save them.
F even when suffering a fate worse than Alzheimer's (because the Flood are stripping him of his memories and also inflicting him unimaginable pain), Captain Keyes was one defiant SOB.
Captain Keyes stayed faithful to the Code of Conduct through the end: "When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability..."
Aldo Torres damm forgot about that one....guy is a freaking beast, good thing the flood killed him or halo might of ended a lot sooner with him at the spearhead
5:06 This is actually something that military personnel are taught to do if captured by the enemy and interrogated. They are told to reveal nothing to their interrogators - and presumably torturers, but their name, rank and service number. In a way, Keyes was compromised by the Flood and was subjected to what was effectively a Flood interrogation technique. Keyes was remembering his training. It was the only way to fight the Flood he had left.
Are you speaking of UNSC? or actual military members, because normal military members aren't taught any techniques on how to deal with being interrogated, the only members of any branch that are taught any techniques and would actually be able to resist something of that sort are members of SOCOM.
@@michaelterrell5061 Halsey is undeniably evil. The worst part was kidnapping kids and replacing them with flash clones who died horrible deaths while their parents watched. It would have been more merciful to have the parents assassinated at that point.
That's a bad joke; keep in mind, Cortana told him to do it... Then again, killing Keyes in the first chapter would kind of protect Earth in the short run.
@@Slender_Man_186 I think he misses the point of a joke in general. It's obvious that wouldn't make sense but it's just a joke... Yet he doesn't understand that
5:05 the reason Keyes was repeating his name, rank, and serial number was because it’s based off of a U.S. military rule. If captured by an enemy, you are only to tell them your name, rank, and serial number. No more no less. The gravemind was not mad at him for saying his name, it was mad because he wasn't providing any more info, prompting the Gravemind to have dig deeper.
@@alexmackey64 UNSC is directly influenced by the US military. Hence it's fair to say that any law, rule, or tradition in the UNSC will take it from the US military.
@@ZemoGames even if a gravemind, through neural physics, can gain past knowledge of past graveminds, the stage Keyes was in (proto gravmind) was most likely enough to act as command for the flood plus it’s intelligence from past forms, but due to its stage of infection, it’s not enough to take control of technology like ships
Keyes went through some of the most gruesome, horrifying sh*t that would've broken most others near instantaneously. But he did everything to keep Earth and others safe while sacrificing his own memories. What a trooper. He truly had a will of iron and balls of steel. Rest in Peace, Captain. You did good, son. F
@@joshuaenodien3853 "No more of what you were! Memories, emotions... All is now ours." "Keyes, Jacob, Captain, service number, 01928-19912-JK You will not have me!" "We already do."
I just played Halo Reach for the first time, and when my character gave Captain Keyes Cortana, I was reminded that this man gave Cortana to Chief at the very beginning of the franchise and was the first important character to perish at the hands of the parasite. RIP Captain Jacob Keyes 😔🙏
@@thehaloscrolls391 halo 1. When you attack someone on the bridge of the ship at the start of the game, the path forward will lock and you'll be trapped fighting waves of unsc troops until they eventually kill you. Keyes is on that bridge
very late but at this point you did the right thing without realizing it because you would kill Keyes before he even got fucked over by the flood so its a mercy in my opinion
@@cheesaliciousable (shotgun blast) Me (holding a 4 gauge mag-fed shotgun with a plasma thrower, and protected by gas-tight IEVA armor that emits electrically charged hot plasma): "can't risk having you turn at the worst possible moment. I'm so sorry, my friend."
Seeing the Keyes Proto-Gravemind always horrified me as a kid, but it also pissed me off. I just wanted to torch all of the Flood for mutilating him like that.
I want to add to this, that repeatedly reciting your name and service number is a countermeasure to interrogation when captured. Being able to do this, whilst the flood is digging through you, just shows the mental fortitude of this man. "Every soldier has heard in training that according to the rules of war, the only information they should reveal is surname, first name, rank, service identity number and birthday (Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention)."
I remember reading in the book “The Flood” where he said “this battle against the gravemind was the hardest one he had ever experienced” and I was just like damn he is one brave and tough Captain
I think the scariest thing about this whole thing is that Keyes is obviously not the only one to have this happen to him. Think of the amount of humans/forerunners that this must have happened to
Oh yeah, any forerunner, elite, grunt, human, or brute that had too much intelligence to fly a ship or know the location of places, they suffered an unbearable pain that only ended when they died.
@Devil Zion Before I give my reply, I suggest you go into a private window and check to see if you can still see your comment. It appears to be hidden in the page for the actual comment section (thanks, RUclips!) Anyway, the Precursors didn't do it out of spite. They transmuted themselves into a living dust in order to survive, but too many years and genetic abnormalities (kind of like cancer, I imagine) led to that dust becoming the first Flood particles. The only one who I think had any kind of malice was the Primordial, who for all we know might be simultaneously the last Precursor and the oldest surviving Gravemind/Keymind.
"Commander Miranda Keyes! Your father's actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service. His bravery in the face of impossible odds reflects great credit upon himself, and the UNSC. The Navy has lost one of it's best." Lord Hood~
Me too. Though painful and agonizing, Capt Keyes manage to hold off until the Chief arrived to stop the proto gravemind from getting his neuro implant.
I've said this a lot and I'm gonna say it again...Keyes died a hero. A true hero. I mean he basically sacrificed his life essence, his memories, you name it. To me he has to be the best captain I've seen in a game franchise 😔
I remember reading the book on Halo CE, The Flood. It actually describes how Keyes had his mind and memories ripped apart as he resisted giving up the location of Earth. It was pretty messed up. Especially in the end when the Gravemind decides its had enough and decides to just fully absorb him into itself and his reaction to feeling his consciousness be assimilated into the Flood. It's such a undeserving end to a good man.
@@1980syuppie the captain got his internet history removed by the gravemind (joke aside the flood basically gave alzheimers to Keyes and dug through his memories like a wildfire and made sure they get the info they need to get to earth but chief made it just in time and ended his misery by punching his skull) quite a hudson way to die,but badass and that death would not be in vain as chief destroys the flood in halo 3 then we get to 343’s halo (now I’m saying too much)
Keyes was a damn legend... the dude practically saved the galaxy. If he had just given in the flood would of almost certainly infected earth. Keyes died a hero, he's more powerful then any spartan, mentally that is.
Keyes is mostly only able to see the Truth and Reconciliation, and therefore for about a quarter of the terminal believed he was being interrogated by the Covenant until he started looking more and saw the flood infection forms running around and was reminded of those things and yelled out *"YOU DON'T WANT EARTH! YOU WANT EVERYTHING!"* and he realized he needed to attempt to hide the location of Earth, unfortunately giving away the location of the Pillar Of Autumn's crash site giving Master Chief a harder time fighting in The Maw.
" He[Master Chief] started forward, but quickly came up short as a voice that verged on a groan came in over his implants. _"Chief... Don't be a fool... Leave me."_ It was Keyes' voice. Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK. He clung to the tether of his CNI carrier wave, and "heard familiar voices. An iron-hard, rasping male voice. A tart, warm female voice. He knew them. Was this another memory? He was struggling to dredge up new pieces of his past to delay the numbing advance of the alien presence in his mind. It was harder to maintain a grasp on who he was, as the various pieces of his life-the things that made him who he was were stripped away, one at a time Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK. The voices. They were talking about him. The Master Chief, the AI Cortana. He felt a sense of mounting panic. They shouldn't _be_ here. The other grew stronger, and pressed forward, eager to learn more about these creatures that were so important to the struggling prisoner who clung so stubbornly to identity. Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK _Chief, Cortana, you shouldn't have come. Don't be a fool. Leave me. Get out of here. Run._ The presence descended, and he could feel its anticipation of victory. It wouldn't be long now." -Halo: The Flood, Dietz[pg 322-323]
This game had identified itself in the worlds greatest, not only because of gameplay, visuals that at the time were ground breaking, and not even for the memories that so many have gathered, but, for the story? Absolutely, hours upon hours of storytelling each story successfully passing the last with sheer emotion, I miss this game, and hope to whatever gods that live, that Halo: Infinite will be the saving grace that Halo so dearly needs, also hope the forge is godlike.
I read this book back in middle school before ever even playing the games, and it's what made me interested in playing them in the first place. That was around fifteen years ago now, but that whole subplot has stuck with me ever since.
@@GentIemanThief I read the book before playing Combat Evolved, I had played every other game since I didn't have a copy of the game on the original console nor did I have anniversary edition on the xbox 360. Then I got my own pc to use and found the PC port for the game. Now I have the MCC on xbox one.
I've always been suspicious about Keyes "death" in the franchise. If neural physics is truly a concept in the game, the essence of Keyes was already absorbed by proto-gravemind by the time the Master Chief arrived on board ship, so maybe he wasn't really dead. It makes me revisit some of the interactions that we see from the new Gravemind as the franchise progressed. Think about it: how fixated the Gravemind was on Master Chief, the odd "rescue/recruitment" it had with him in Halo 2, the way it seemed to have an oddly personal connection with Cortana enough to torture her while trying to get the index, how in Halo 3 when they were all working to stop Truth and Miranda Keyes was killed, the Gravemind only attacked once her body was safely taken into the pelican by Johnson, how Johnson was literally allowed to leave the safely on the pelican with her...very suspicious. I wonder if, having absorbed Captain Keyes, the proto-gravemind was still able to transfer his consciousness into the Flood Gravemind memories and that overall influence was present in the actual Gravemind for the remainder of the series. Kind of interesting to think about eh?
Unfortunately, we’re talking about a single great mind being swallowed up by what can be considered billions of lifetimes. One mind isn’t enough to influence a creature that essentially has multitudes of other minds within it. The moments you mention are all just coincidences.
The MCC terminal video of Keyes honestly brings me close to tears whenever I watch it. It's just... so emotionally raw. You can _feel_ Keyes' determination laced with despair
I am actually glad that I played the Anniversary Edition of Halo CE before the original so that I could see the Terminal with the recording of Keyes in his final moments of infection. And I cried even if I barely knew that much about most Halo lore at all. But that's what we have you for Xperia, thanks.
When I was playing this mission I didn't expected for such a failure! However, after watching this video I felt that I was actually successful according to the story which I didn't realize until the completion of The Maw.
You're making this hard on me man. I just pre-ordered reach on it's own since it's my favourite halo, but now you make me wanna play combat evolved and all the rest.
Its weird, if you think about how the Keyes family, both father and daughter, single-handedly took on a Covenant fleet on both Installations 04 and 05.
When someone tells you, "It looks like the Covenant worked pretty hard to keep this door closed." immediately after you find a squad of them ripped to pieces then don't open it.
There’s something really spooky I found within the anniversary version of the level 343 guilty spark. If you go all the way to where the famous Jenkins cutscene starts instead of triggering the cutscene turn around and go back up to the swamp and there will be dead marine bodies everywhere
You know, if you’re wanting another Flood VS. video, I would love to see a video of the Flood vs the Daleks from Dr. Who. That would be an epic battle! Love the video! Keep up the great work and I hope you feel better! All hail the Flood!
akram haouam Yes they are. Under all that armor is a squishy blob of flesh that I think the Flood could definitely convert if they could get in. I think it would be difficult though, especially if they’re in their Feral Stage.
It is an amazing video and reminds us all of why it is important to continue to fight on, both mentally and physically. Even when you are about to lose, you keep fighting and go down swinging.
Wasn't there also something about him repeatedly accessing data stored on his implant, since they couldn't erase that? I kept waiting for it to be mentioned, but it never was. Have I been misled by the other video talking about Keyes?
Hey Xperia, I have a question that might work for a vide; So we know that the Flood is able to reanimate dead corpses of its victims, humans, elites, brutes, etc. and also use their knowledge to create a grave mind or use it for gain. During Halo 2 we see the Mausoleum of the Arbiters. Did the Covenant preserve the Arbiters' bodies after they died like taxidermy or did they cremate them? If the were preserved, is it possible that the flood was able to break into the coffins and take over their bodies? And would the deceased Arbiters retain their strength and knowledge for the Flood to use?
I remember when i found that terminal, i watched in horror as the brave, decorated and heroic captain keyes was tortured, it made me explode with anger i wish i hadnt found that damn terminal.
Happy Halo-ween! Enjoy some fine spooky lore on ya boi to celebrate!
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The Flood tried so hard to adsorb a person who could fly it to Earth, yet I don't believe the ship could have broken orbit due to the weight of Cpt. Keyes' massive iridium balls
I'm surprised the ship was still in the air with how heavy they must have been
Like 10x superman's. That puny little superhero
lol both him and his daughter were to Head strong
I guess you can say he had a pair of oddballs
@@PACKERMAN2077 *CSI Miami theme*
"I'LL NEVER LEAD YOU TO EARTH!"
Keyes died an absolute hero, even in dire circumstances.
Doesn't matter. He may have believed he never told the flood anything, but the flood knows, all the same.
@@lycan623 Which is even worse, because they knew the moment he began to remember. Which meant that it was holding out his own consciousness to tell him that he couldn't save anyone.
What makes it sad is nobody knows that he fought back. All they know is from the Chief, hearing what they thought was tourture, but he was trying to save them.
att least the flood know how badass noble 6 was
Hands down one of the strongest people to have ever lived... Poor Captain Keyes. :'(
One of the worst deaths in all of Halo, Keyes certainly didn’t deserve it.
RIP Captain Jacob Keyes.
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even when suffering a fate worse than Alzheimer's (because the Flood are stripping him of his memories and also inflicting him unimaginable pain), Captain Keyes was one defiant SOB.
"Kill me or release me parasite but do not waste my time with talk"
There is much talk
There has been much talk and I have listened. Through rock and metal and time. Now I will talk and you shall listen.
This is not your grave but you are welcomed to it
I am a monument, to all your sins!
“This one is machine and nerve...and has its mind concluded.
This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded.”
Captain Keyes stayed faithful to the Code of Conduct through the end:
"When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability..."
Aldo Torres damm forgot about that one....guy is a freaking beast, good thing the flood killed him or halo might of ended a lot sooner with him at the spearhead
In my softer moods, I find the idea of so many good men, following this code, during torture and to their deaths, absolutely heartbreaking.
ExpertSystems agreed but I suppose that’s one more reason to honour and respect there deaths, terrible as it may be
To finish your quote " I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and their allies, or harmful to their cause."
Dosen't make a difference against The Flood though. Once they're inside you, they ARE you.
5:06 This is actually something that military personnel are taught to do if captured by the enemy and interrogated. They are told to reveal nothing to their interrogators - and presumably torturers, but their name, rank and service number. In a way, Keyes was compromised by the Flood and was subjected to what was effectively a Flood interrogation technique. Keyes was remembering his training. It was the only way to fight the Flood he had left.
Glad someone said it so i didn't have to
Are you speaking of UNSC? or actual military members, because normal military members aren't taught any techniques on how to deal with being interrogated, the only members of any branch that are taught any techniques and would actually be able to resist something of that sort are members of SOCOM.
@@lordcrawfish4373 Not true by a long shot.
@@lordcrawfish4373 you can find old videos from the US army talking about how to resist interrogation and why you should never reveal anything.
Lord Crawfish Not just SOCOM. Pilots and anyone else who goes through SERE training
Give this man a medal for how much lore he knows
Barnaby Brookes a medal that says I have re uploaded the same video with a few slight wording changes for the last few years
@@Clippychinw what
343 likes
Knowledge Spree!
Would be bad if he became a gravemind...
"As i said, this man can keep secrets".
- Halsey
Damn fucking right...
Halsey did know how to pick them.
Spartan Goku she was still a uptight prick at times.
@@punctuationman334 She kidnapped children and ruined there lives. She was WAY more than an uptight prick.
@@michaelterrell5061 Halsey is undeniably evil. The worst part was kidnapping kids and replacing them with flash clones who died horrible deaths while their parents watched. It would have been more merciful to have the parents assassinated at that point.
Chief: punches Keyes in the skull to save earth.
Cortona: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! Security to the bridge, chief has gone rogue!
Take em down boys
That's a bad joke; keep in mind, Cortana told him to do it... Then again, killing Keyes in the first chapter would kind of protect Earth in the short run.
@@WillieManga r/woooosh
Matias_RGT that implies he missed the joke, first thing he said was that it was a joke, just a bad one in his opinion.
@@Slender_Man_186 I think he misses the point of a joke in general. It's obvious that wouldn't make sense but it's just a joke... Yet he doesn't understand that
so technically chief just made the greatest mercy kill in a million years when he punch through Keyes’s skull
Indeed
He was already dead
@@QGarrison Sort of
Qg1989 sort, flood had control of his nervous system. So just barely kept him alive.
he was already dead...-
5:05 the reason Keyes was repeating his name, rank, and serial number was because it’s based off of a U.S. military rule. If captured by an enemy, you are only to tell them your name, rank, and serial number. No more no less. The gravemind was not mad at him for saying his name, it was mad because he wasn't providing any more info, prompting the Gravemind to have dig deeper.
No gravemind. Infection form. Keyes would have become a gravemind had he sat there for hundreds of years growing and learning.
It's more of a united nations thing than US doctrine for those countries that abide by national law
@@ZemoGames well if you watch the terminal in mcc directly underneath him the gravemind is the one speaking and the one sifting through his memories.
@@alexmackey64 UNSC is directly influenced by the US military. Hence it's fair to say that any law, rule, or tradition in the UNSC will take it from the US military.
@@ZemoGames even if a gravemind, through neural physics, can gain past knowledge of past graveminds, the stage Keyes was in (proto gravmind) was most likely enough to act as command for the flood plus it’s intelligence from past forms, but due to its stage of infection, it’s not enough to take control of technology like ships
Keyes went through some of the most gruesome, horrifying sh*t that would've broken most others near instantaneously. But he did everything to keep Earth and others safe while sacrificing his own memories. What a trooper. He truly had a will of iron and balls of steel.
Rest in Peace, Captain. You did good, son.
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Keyes was my favorite NPC. When he died, I was kinda depressed the rest of my first playthrough of the game.
Evan Sutton same here even with sgt dixon on call of duty 3. Those two npcs were the best damn ones in their games. Both respected and both heroes.
For real, Keyes dieing was hard for me too.
I didn't feel much tbh...... That was until I read the novel
Sgt Johnson death was more depressing
Same... when Keyes died Sargeant Johnson took that place... but then he died too >:(
"Oh God, you don't want Earth! You want everything! Get out of my head!"
GOOSEBUMPS Dude
EVERYTHING
@@joshuaenodien3853
"No more of what you were! Memories, emotions... All is now ours."
"Keyes, Jacob, Captain, service number, 01928-19912-JK You will not have me!"
"We already do."
@@Stratonetic Could someone please tell me the source for the video he used?
@JasonX 117 Thank you, mate :D
Keyes held the GraveMind back for hours, possibly even days. Jacob Keyes is one of the true heroes of Halo.
I just played Halo Reach for the first time, and when my character gave Captain Keyes Cortana, I was reminded that this man gave Cortana to Chief at the very beginning of the franchise and was the first important character to perish at the hands of the parasite.
RIP Captain Jacob Keyes 😔🙏
Ironic that Noble six and Keyes wished each other good luck at the end of reach and both ended up dying a brutal, horrible(albeit heroic) death
@@lothara.schmal5092 I’m sorry Noble Six’s death was nothing compared to Keyes he just got energy sworded and gunned sown
Gravemind - "......."
Person they've captured - "What?"
Gravemind - "Your internet search history.....it's most....intriguing."
"...You worship us even before your assimilation?"
@@ThatGenericPyro lwt me guess... there is porn of it on the internet, there isnt?
@@ThatGenericPyro Grave mind: You should have told me how much you liked tentacle penatration Keyes. We have all the time in the world now.
@@aydenbelcourt6035 100% r/cursedcomments
@@aydenbelcourt6035 yO?!
And to think I killed this heroic man, over and over again, to fight the invincible unsc. Sickens me.
What?
@@thehaloscrolls391 halo 1. When you attack someone on the bridge of the ship at the start of the game, the path forward will lock and you'll be trapped fighting waves of unsc troops until they eventually kill you. Keyes is on that bridge
Fireblast89 oh yeah that!
Why not just add covies to that attack?
very late but at this point you did the right thing without realizing it
because you would kill Keyes before he even got fucked over by the flood so its a mercy in my opinion
HiddenXperia: "I'm ill or Flu or something like that"
Me: What if it's a Flood infection? Spooky
He must of went through a flood spore infested mission without a helmet... again...
@@Hawkens4k pfft... helmets are for sissies... why is my arm starting to turn into a tentacle?
@@cheesaliciousable and this is why i wear a mask.
@@cheesaliciousable (shotgun blast) Me (holding a 4 gauge mag-fed shotgun with a plasma thrower, and protected by gas-tight IEVA armor that emits electrically charged hot plasma): "can't risk having you turn at the worst possible moment. I'm so sorry, my friend."
what did i say god dammit where your mask
"The Navy has lost one of it's best."
- Lord Hood
Me: *Sees Flood in the title*
Also Me: Where's my shotgun?
Screw the shotgun we'll need a Flamethrower.
No we need a scattershot
@@biennialfawn5524 No we need the Halo rings
@@SuperiorBat-te3ff No we need a glassing beam
Overkill from Gears 5.
Spooky Scary Flood Forms sending tendrils down your spine, and scream and splatter in surprise when you here these zombies shriek
You know I was thinking of a parody of that song when he mentioned "spooky scary".
At the end it should be scream and splatter in surprise when they penatrate your mind
@@peknive8331 yup.
Very good, but the end feels non rhythmic
I fucking read it with the song in mind
Seeing the Keyes Proto-Gravemind always horrified me as a kid, but it also pissed me off. I just wanted to torch all of the Flood for mutilating him like that.
i love that line
"friend of yours"
"nah we just met"
implying that whatever happened, it wasn't between the covenant and unsc.
What's that from
@@The_Punisher 343 guilty spark
I want to add to this,
that repeatedly reciting your name and service number is a countermeasure to interrogation when captured.
Being able to do this, whilst the flood is digging through you, just shows the mental fortitude of this man.
"Every soldier has heard in training that according to the rules of war, the only information they should reveal is surname, first name, rank, service identity number and birthday (Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention)."
Me- "I feel sick. My head hurts. I might have a cold"
Google- *this video*
Me: *Finds a shotgun and flame thrower*
I love how calm Keyes was during the whole infection
Calm yes, but in a shit ton of pain in every possible way.
It was an inside job
I remember reading in the book “The Flood” where he said “this battle against the gravemind was the hardest one he had ever experienced” and I was just like damn he is one brave and tough Captain
1:20
You can't fool us hidden.
You aren't part of a Gravemind, you _are_ the Gravemind
lol
You mean his terrifying job interview with the Gravemind for the position of Proto-Gravemind?
3:39
You missed a good chance.
"Were it so easy..."
I think the scariest thing about this whole thing is that Keyes is obviously not the only one to have this happen to him. Think of the amount of humans/forerunners that this must have happened to
Oh yeah, any forerunner, elite, grunt, human, or brute that had too much intelligence to fly a ship or know the location of places, they suffered an unbearable pain that only ended when they died.
Meh, to be fair, the Forerunners kinda brought this upon themselves by genociding the Precursors and compelling them to become The Flood.
@Devil Zion
Before I give my reply, I suggest you go into a private window and check to see if you can still see your comment. It appears to be hidden in the page for the actual comment section (thanks, RUclips!)
Anyway, the Precursors didn't do it out of spite. They transmuted themselves into a living dust in order to survive, but too many years and genetic abnormalities (kind of like cancer, I imagine) led to that dust becoming the first Flood particles. The only one who I think had any kind of malice was the Primordial, who for all we know might be simultaneously the last Precursor and the oldest surviving Gravemind/Keymind.
"Commander Miranda Keyes! Your father's actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service. His bravery in the face of impossible odds reflects great credit upon himself, and the UNSC. The Navy has lost one of it's best."
Lord Hood~
0:26, I think we can all agree that you're channel is one of these Flood Cults. We all just so happen to be members
The Gravemind literally digging through Keyes memories like he was sifting sugar to find Important shit
Captain Keyes: **You like Jazz**
I love how we’ve literally heard the story 74 times yet we still watch it and enjoy it
Me too. Though painful and agonizing, Capt Keyes manage to hold off until the Chief arrived to stop the proto gravemind from getting his neuro implant.
Keyes + Flood = Fastest click ever!
HiddenXperia:talking about how he may become apart of T H E gravemind
Me: "I'm sorry sir, it's time for you too leave" plasma rifle time
I've said this a lot and I'm gonna say it again...Keyes died a hero. A true hero. I mean he basically sacrificed his life essence, his memories, you name it. To me he has to be the best captain I've seen in a game franchise 😔
Kinda sad that keyes didn’t have a picture up on the memorial at the end of halo 3
Flood: *probes memories for the location of earth*
Keyes: Delet this
I remember reading the book on Halo CE, The Flood. It actually describes how Keyes had his mind and memories ripped apart as he resisted giving up the location of Earth. It was pretty messed up. Especially in the end when the Gravemind decides its had enough and decides to just fully absorb him into itself and his reaction to feeling his consciousness be assimilated into the Flood. It's such a undeserving end to a good man.
Could you describe this to me in more detail?
@@1980syuppie the captain got his internet history removed by the gravemind (joke aside the flood basically gave alzheimers to Keyes and dug through his memories like a wildfire and made sure they get the info they need to get to earth but chief made it just in time and ended his misery by punching his skull) quite a hudson way to die,but badass and that death would not be in vain as chief destroys the flood in halo 3 then we get to 343’s halo (now I’m saying too much)
Teh Spearhead: Well done Captain, I'm sure Humanity is very proud of your ability to turn into an alien's prostate.
Poor Keyes dude. Such a sad and disturbing ending he had...
Keyes was a damn legend... the dude practically saved the galaxy. If he had just given in the flood would of almost certainly infected earth. Keyes died a hero, he's more powerful then any spartan, mentally that is.
Keyes is mostly only able to see the Truth and Reconciliation, and therefore for about a quarter of the terminal believed he was being interrogated by the Covenant until he started looking more and saw the flood infection forms running around and was reminded of those things and yelled out *"YOU DON'T WANT EARTH! YOU WANT EVERYTHING!"* and he realized he needed to attempt to hide the location of Earth, unfortunately giving away the location of the Pillar Of Autumn's crash site giving Master Chief a harder time fighting in The Maw.
From this I learned, that if a spartan hits you full force he will literally make your head explode.
" He[Master Chief] started forward, but quickly came up short as a voice that verged on a groan came in over his implants.
_"Chief... Don't be a fool... Leave me."_
It was Keyes' voice.
Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK. He clung to the tether of his CNI carrier wave, and "heard familiar voices. An iron-hard, rasping male voice. A tart, warm female voice.
He knew them.
Was this another memory?
He was struggling to dredge up new pieces of his past to delay the numbing advance of the alien presence in his mind. It was harder to maintain a grasp on who he was, as the various pieces of his life-the things that made him who he was were stripped away, one at a time
Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK.
The voices. They were talking about him. The Master Chief, the AI Cortana.
He felt a sense of mounting panic. They shouldn't _be_ here.
The other grew stronger, and pressed forward, eager to learn more about these creatures that were so important to the struggling prisoner who clung so stubbornly to identity.
Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK
_Chief, Cortana, you shouldn't have come. Don't be a fool. Leave me. Get out of here. Run._
The presence descended, and he could feel its anticipation of victory. It wouldn't be long now."
-Halo: The Flood, Dietz[pg 322-323]
DarkBooger I still remember reading this for the first time. It was a gut-wrenching moment.
@@ShawFujikawa Yeah it was, it still is.
This game had identified itself in the worlds greatest, not only because of gameplay, visuals that at the time were ground breaking, and not even for the memories that so many have gathered, but, for the story? Absolutely, hours upon hours of storytelling each story successfully passing the last with sheer emotion, I miss this game, and hope to whatever gods that live, that Halo: Infinite will be the saving grace that Halo so dearly needs, also hope the forge is godlike.
I read this book back in middle school before ever even playing the games, and it's what made me interested in playing them in the first place. That was around fifteen years ago now, but that whole subplot has stuck with me ever since.
@@GentIemanThief I read the book before playing Combat Evolved, I had played every other game since I didn't have a copy of the game on the original console nor did I have anniversary edition on the xbox 360. Then I got my own pc to use and found the PC port for the game. Now I have the MCC on xbox one.
He was actually gonna make a full recovery until chief punched his face in.
I've always been suspicious about Keyes "death" in the franchise. If neural physics is truly a concept in the game, the essence of Keyes was already absorbed by proto-gravemind by the time the Master Chief arrived on board ship, so maybe he wasn't really dead. It makes me revisit some of the interactions that we see from the new Gravemind as the franchise progressed. Think about it: how fixated the Gravemind was on Master Chief, the odd "rescue/recruitment" it had with him in Halo 2, the way it seemed to have an oddly personal connection with Cortana enough to torture her while trying to get the index, how in Halo 3 when they were all working to stop Truth and Miranda Keyes was killed, the Gravemind only attacked once her body was safely taken into the pelican by Johnson, how Johnson was literally allowed to leave the safely on the pelican with her...very suspicious. I wonder if, having absorbed Captain Keyes, the proto-gravemind was still able to transfer his consciousness into the Flood Gravemind memories and that overall influence was present in the actual Gravemind for the remainder of the series. Kind of interesting to think about eh?
Is this like when Fat buu was in Super and Kid Buu?
Unfortunately, we’re talking about a single great mind being swallowed up by what can be considered billions of lifetimes. One mind isn’t enough to influence a creature that essentially has multitudes of other minds within it. The moments you mention are all just coincidences.
The MCC terminal video of Keyes honestly brings me close to tears whenever I watch it. It's just... so emotionally raw. You can _feel_ Keyes' determination laced with despair
I am actually glad that I played the Anniversary Edition of Halo CE before the original so that I could see the Terminal with the recording of Keyes in his final moments of infection. And I cried even if I barely knew that much about most Halo lore at all. But that's what we have you for Xperia, thanks.
1:26 OMFG jumpscare warning!!
impulse 101 *screaming*
Im a simple guy i see hiddenxperia i like and click
Imagine if chibs dubbo was infected
That's literally impossible if that happens the multiverse goes *poof*
@@4realm8rusirius the multiverse wouldn't go poof. But flood will be in control in every existence
Impossble chip dubbo is immuse to the flood and possbly... the GREATEST MARINE TO EVER LIVE!!!!
@@godofworts6366 But to be the best Marine, he needs to know something
He needs to know what the ladies like
"Floodception"
Sounds like a good psychological horror movie based on this😂I know I'm cheesy
I wish the game had told me all of this information. It makes the mission more eerie and immersive. I never knew any of this information.
When your captured in the military all your allowed to give is name, rank, and service number
The flood: *exists*'
HiddenXperia: "ItS FrEE rEaL EStAtE
xperia's body is weak and useless but his mind is fully of ony secrets, hes becoming part of the protogravemind
He was already there long before this video
When I was playing this mission I didn't expected for such a failure! However, after watching this video I felt that I was actually successful according to the story which I didn't realize until the completion of The Maw.
Reading this in the book was one of the hardest things.
My God this episode was Iconic.
Your narration was at its best today.
Aw yea just in time for the drive home 🔥🔥
Ayyy safe drive my man
@@HiddenXperia no screw rhe rules halo ce warthog run
You could say the flood were looking for Keys in the captain to fly the autumn..... like a car
Me: **sees new hiddenxperia video**
Me: MY INNER SCAMMER ITCHES
Guess the flood were the lock to his key
I'll go now, the door is wanting me
HiddenXeperia: "I'm ill or flu or something like that"
Me: *pulls out shotgun* I'll end your suffering..
(Jk I hope you get well soon)
Keyes is such an underrated character this man played a big part in the series. Without him everything would’ve ended up completely different
He’s like the Obi Wan of Halo
He was in 1 game but still an epic well known character in Halo lore
Man, you made me cried remembering how brave Captain Keyes was.
You're making this hard on me man. I just pre-ordered reach on it's own since it's my favourite halo, but now you make me wanna play combat evolved and all the rest.
Its weird, if you think about how the Keyes family, both father and daughter, single-handedly took on a Covenant fleet on both Installations 04 and 05.
Man...the thought of knowing you're doomed and all you can do is just postpone the inevitable is chilling. What a horrible experience
“the parasite is not to be trifled with I hope you know what your doing”
Love that subtle "not this channel btw"
Scariest thing is the quote at the end >.<
“ you will not have me.....”
“ we already do....”
Still is spine chilling.
When you're born in just the right era for dank memes and no brutal war with space nopes
Space nopes. That is a pretty good one!
"For you will ever live up to your legacy"
Miranda: yeah I wish it was that way
Really miss keyes thought he was an amazing character
Definitely if only they didn't killed him off so soon
"One single mold spore can destroy a slice of bread. Were it not for the counsel of the Arbiter, I would have thrown out the whole loaf!"
When someone tells you, "It looks like the Covenant worked pretty hard to keep this door closed." immediately after you find a squad of them ripped to pieces then don't open it.
I'm a simple man
I see a video about the Flood in my notifications, I hit like.
You're sick? Whelp, time to glass this channel.
*Gets Corvette ready and calls for ship master*
Sorry sir but the ship master is in the gravemind and flood is everywhere
No
Q
I feel like Keyes using something simple as his name, rank, and designation to piss off the flood central intelligence is truly badass.
There’s something really spooky I found within the anniversary version of the level 343 guilty spark. If you go all the way to where the famous Jenkins cutscene starts instead of triggering the cutscene turn around and go back up to the swamp and there will be dead marine bodies everywhere
You know, if you’re wanting another Flood VS. video, I would love to see a video of the Flood vs the Daleks from Dr. Who. That would be an epic battle!
Love the video! Keep up the great work and I hope you feel better! All hail the Flood!
The daleks aren't organic
akram haouam Yes they are. Under all that armor is a squishy blob of flesh that I think the Flood could definitely convert if they could get in. I think it would be difficult though, especially if they’re in their Feral Stage.
@@akramhaouam3548 they are, inside the casing is a mutated squid-like creature called a Kaled.
Imagine curing the flood
That would be a great idea, but knowing some greedy people, they will fix it to where you live with it forever.
I keep coming back to this video and I'm not sure why. Really love hearing about Keyes' badass mental fight.
It is an amazing video and reminds us all of why it is important to continue to fight on, both mentally and physically. Even when you are about to lose, you keep fighting and go down swinging.
Man the way they wrote what he went through. Horrifying, harrowing and for one man to withstand the storm long enough... Man. Keyes is so underrated
One of the greatest captains of the UNSC.
Wasn't there also something about him repeatedly accessing data stored on his implant, since they couldn't erase that?
I kept waiting for it to be mentioned, but it never was. Have I been misled by the other video talking about Keyes?
The thumbnail looks like Keyes is being forced to watch honey boo boo
Damn crazy to know Keyes went through all that. I lose all this context while blowing up baddies in game. Awesome video as always!
When captured, the only information you give is your rank, name, and service number. That is the training for becoming a POW.
Hey Xperia, I have a question that might work for a vide;
So we know that the Flood is able to reanimate dead corpses of its victims, humans, elites, brutes, etc. and also use their knowledge to create a grave mind or use it for gain. During Halo 2 we see the Mausoleum of the Arbiters. Did the Covenant preserve the Arbiters' bodies after they died like taxidermy or did they cremate them? If the were preserved, is it possible that the flood was able to break into the coffins and take over their bodies? And would the deceased Arbiters retain their strength and knowledge for the Flood to use?
Chadtain Keyes, a true legend.
I remember when i found that terminal, i watched in horror as the brave, decorated and heroic captain keyes was tortured, it made me explode with anger i wish i hadnt found that damn terminal.
Humanity in halo universe was truly lossing reach had fallen and Earth was going to fall
“They hit a *dead* end”
Wow...