I’ve read both Forerunner Saga books, watched all CEA Terminals, played H4, watched all of H4’s Terminals.
And I’m still confused.
Which Didact is the Ur-Didact? Original Flavor or Bornstellar Swirl? And does the new Terminal events contradict/rewrite the H3 Terminals?
Because my timeline of events is all screwed up.
I’m gonna say it’s the Bornsteller Didact. The Ur-Didact got left on a flood-infested Installation.
Apparently the third Forerunner novel Silentium is going to cover all that. It should contect to the Halo 3 terminals as well as explian what happened to the Ur-Didact and what happened to make the events of Halo 4 possible.
It also still leaves me with questions.
First over which Didact is the Ur-Didact, secondly over where did this anger come from, and third the order of events leading up to the detonation of the Halo rings.
The one Didact which Chief encounters is the Bornstellar Didact, If you check thee terminals you will come to know why he ‘JUSTIFIES’ his hatred for Humanity, Silentium is going to cover it in detail but the Halo 4 Terminals have been a great help in properly explaining the story in Halo 4
> The one Didact which Chief encounters is the Bornstellar Didact, If you check thee terminals you will come to know why he ‘JUSTIFIES’ his hatred for Humanity, Silentium is going to cover it in detail but the Halo 4 Terminals have been a great help in properly explaining the story in Halo 4
I checked the H4 terminals.
Which one should I be looking at?
Its actually spread across…I recommend you check every one of them to get the story…
I can post the link for it , But I don’t know abut the spoiler policy in here…
I am also confused. I’m kind of bummed that we have to wait until Smarch for Silentium to come out and more thoroughly explain the back-story for Halo 4.
I wish 343 had kept the January release date. I understand why they moved it, but now that I already know how Halo 4 progresses, it’s my back-story, and I want it now!
It’s like waiting for a DVD to come out to see a deleted scene that could inform the story more ( of course, if that scene was that important, it would not have been cut).
Ur-Didact is the one who was awakened from the Cryptum in the first book of the forerunner saga. He talks about his kids dying in the war with the humans who tried to prevent the flood from spreading to the forerunners.
> The one Didact which Chief encounters is the Bornstellar Didact, If you check thee terminals you will come to know why he ‘JUSTIFIES’ his hatred for Humanity, Silentium is going to cover it in detail but the Halo 4 Terminals have been a great help in properly explaining the story in Halo 4
what in the terminals says that.
It has got to be the Ur-Didact which we encounter in Halo 4. Silentium’s description mentions,
“Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian–husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict–hold the keys to a solution.”
The Terminals clearly show that they had two different ideas on how to deal with the Evil that is coming. The Librarian wanted to rebuild Humanity and prepare, the Didact wanted to Compose Humanity and turn them into an army under his direct command. This put them at odds just as the book description above says and so she betrayed him and locked him up. The book also says that the Bornstellar-Didact accompanies her as she continues her Indexing, which leads me to believe he is the one who activates the Rings.
I mean he has to be considering the Ur-Didact appears to be placed inside a Cryptum and he doesn’t get out for a 100,000 years.
> It has got to be the Ur-Didact which we encounter in Halo 4. Silentium’s description mentions,
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> “Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian–husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict–hold the keys to a solution.”
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> The Terminals clearly show that they had two different ideas on how to deal with the Evil that is coming. The Librarian wanted to rebuild Humanity and prepare, the Didact wanted to Compose Humanity and turn them into an army under his direct command. This put them at odds just as the book description above says and so she betrayed him and locked him up. The book also says that the Bornstellar-Didact accompanies her as she continues her Indexing, which leads me to believe he is the one who activates the Rings.
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> I mean he has to be considering the Ur-Didact appears to be placed inside a Cryptum and he doesn’t get out for a 100,000 years.
In the first terminal it was the other way around.
The Didact said in response to his wife’s idea to exterminate the Humans that it would go contrary to the Mantle. A change of heart isn’t out of the question but it’s not shown which creates a bit of confusion here.
Regardless, at one point we have two Didacts running around at the same time. Ur-Didact to be trying to compose Humanity and fighting the Flood with his Prometheans and eventually subdued by his wife and sealed and the other Didact to arm the Halos.
I think its Bornstellar in Halo 4, im almost positive it is, mostly due to his appearance. The Original/Ur-Didact is known to have a blueish gray tone to his skin and gray/dark eyes, and a more beautiful appearance, meaning he is the first Didact we see in the Terminals.
Bornstellar however is said to have a similiar appearance but also a orangish tone to his skin, and a more grotesque appearance due to his forced mutation due to the Ur-Didacts own memories. Also the Didact we see in Halo 4 actually works with Faber in some form, something the Ur-Didact would never do.
It would seem the Ur-Didact was the one who activated the Halo Array after he was rescued from the flood infested star system Faber strands him in, otherwise it would contradict the previous novels, story,. The Ur-Didact never would stop loving the Libarian, or trusting her wisdom.
I also think it’s the Bornstellar Didact. I think we see the Ur-Didact in the first half of the terminals, then the Bornstellar Didact when he is attempting to inoculate himself against Flood infection.
I think it’s possible that processing the Ur-Didact’s horrific memories of the Human-Forerunner war made Bornstellar far more suspicious, hostile and terrified towards humans, creating the ‘hatred’ which drove him to hatch his Composer plan.
Seriously People. WHY does every one think its Bornstellar. He has Never Even come close to resemble Contempt for human In fact the librarian Gave Bornstellar a guise, inwhich associated him with human and had them help him the Bornstellar didact This is not. Ur Didact seems to fit the picture better in fact maybe ss a plain to contain Him.
> Seriously People. WHY does every one think its Bornstellar. He has Never Even come close to resemble Contempt for human In fact the librarian Gave Bornstellar a guise, inwhich associated him with human and had them help him the Bornstellar didact This is not. Ur Didact seems to fit the picture better in fact maybe ss a plain to contain Him.
Yeah I find it so odd why everyon thinks this one is bornstellar. The ugly thing perhaps, but Bornstellar actually developed a bit of comraderie with humans, while the Ur-Didact actually experienced the humans killing his kids, instead of just getting the memories via mutation.
The librarian wasnt exactly as beautiful as described either.
Bornstellar also has info from the primordial about the possible “true” meaning of the mantle, while halo 4’s didact seems pretty adamant in defending its generally accepted meaning.
> > Seriously People. WHY does every one think its Bornstellar. He has Never Even come close to resemble Contempt for human In fact the librarian Gave Bornstellar a guise, inwhich associated him with human and had them help him the Bornstellar didact This is not. Ur Didact seems to fit the picture better in fact maybe ss a plain to contain Him.
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> Yeah I find it so odd why everyon thinks this one is bornstellar. The ugly thing perhaps, but Bornstellar actually developed a bit of comraderie with humans, while the Ur-Didact actually experienced the humans killing his kids, instead of just getting the memories via mutation.
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> The librarian wasnt exactly as beautiful as described either.
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> Bornstellar also has info from the primordial about the possible “true” meaning of the mantle, while halo 4’s didact seems pretty adamant in defending its generally accepted meaning.
If the Ur-Didact is the original flavor Didact, then his anger and hatred seemingly comes out of left field.
And since there had to be both Didacts up and running about at one point, why didn’t Bornstellar-Didact try and stop Ur-Didact? Why was it the Librarian that had to do it?