Like most of you I was overjoyed with the news we got yesterday. However, since then I’ve been evaluating Thel’s monologue.
“To find him you have to forget the stories, forget the legends. You’ll have to do more than walk in his footsteps. For he is more than the sum of his actions. I tell you this, not because I trust you, Agent Locke… but because all our lives are at stake. Because the seeds of our future… are sown in his past.”
I’m really curious, what’s so important that Arby would help someone he doesn’t trust? Particularly why does Locke need to find John? Is it the Ur-Didact or someone or something else?
I am personally hoping it has to do with the Flood returning. The Didact may be a factor, but he is not supposed to be the main enemy in Halo 5: Guardians and beyond
> I am personally hoping it has to do with the Flood returning. The Didact may be a factor, but he is not supposed to be the main enemy in Halo 5: Guardians and beyond
I’m with you. What do we know that is big, bad, and threatens all life? Da Flood, Da Flood, Da Flood!
Get it? I made a funny! I’ll go sit in my corner now…
Flood: only way to defeat them is unity of different species and arbiter seems to know this. Chief as “major reclaimer”, with geas etc has a main role in this.
Locke is on a mission I think, maybe he has to find john and impede him in some way, but in his path he changes his mind understanding things and changing his intentions towards the chief.
How do you know the Ur-Didact isn’t suppose to be the main antagonist?
On subject, I think the Flood is on Sangheilios (probably butchered the spelling) and Arby needs Locke to find Chief to save the day. (Halo Escalation 6 helped with the Flood theory lol.)
> > His anti-composing properties, of course. There is no other reason.
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> But the Composer was destroyed…
They can make/find more, these people have devices all over the galaxy. It cant be because he is the last Spartan anymore because that story is long dead. And if they are going to make some silly story about him being the only one that can unite us… that’s just going to be silly.
> > > His anti-composing properties, of course. There is no other reason.
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> > But the Composer was destroyed…
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> They can make/find more, these people have devices all over the galaxy. It cant be because he is the last Spartan anymore because that story is long dead. And if they are going to make some silly story about him being the only one that can unite us… that’s just going to be silly.
The Didact ain’t no Builder. He can’t make another one. If there were a plethora of them, why did he jump across the galaxy to recover this single one, which he refers to as “the composer” and not “a composer.” Unless you know something about canon that I overlooked, there was only ever one.
> > > > His anti-composing properties, of course. There is no other reason.
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> > > But the Composer was destroyed…
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> > They can make/find more, these people have devices all over the galaxy. It cant be because he is the last Spartan anymore because that story is long dead. And if they are going to make some silly story about him being the only one that can unite us… that’s just going to be silly.
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> The Didact ain’t no Builder. He can’t make another one. If there were a plethora of them, why did he jump across the galaxy to recover this single one, which he refers to as “the composer” and not “a composer.” Unless you know something about canon that I overlooked, there was only ever one.
There were more, but the one in Halo 4 was the main one*, and possibly the only one he could use as it was fitted to his ship.
And yes the Didact can build things. He doesn’t have the resources or capacity of a Builder, but the Shield Worlds were his project, as were the Composers.
*the others were smaller, with less capacity for genocide.
In 2559, we see the in the Halo: Evolution’s story that the Elites and Brutes go into an all out war against each-other once more. Meaning that, with the Elites looking for a purpose when their religion is officially dead, and the sects of the Covenant still wanting power. Mixed with the SoF Flood catalyst and probably much, MUCH more. The Galaxy seems to be falling apart, and as Thel said in his speech, the seeds of our future are sewn into his past.
Obviously meaning that his past has a lot of weight on the universe as we are soon to see it, i.e. war, flood infection, death and problems.
> I am personally hoping it has to do with the Flood returning. The Didact may be a factor, but he is not supposed to be the main enemy in Halo 5: Guardians and beyond
> > I am personally hoping it has to do with the Flood returning. The Didact may be a factor, but he is not supposed to be the main enemy in Halo 5: Guardians and beyond
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> source?
Halo: Primordium, the Flood are destined to return. The Didact was merely a slave to their will.
> > > > > His anti-composing properties, of course. There is no other reason.
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> > > > But the Composer was destroyed…
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> > > They can make/find more, these people have devices all over the galaxy. It cant be because he is the last Spartan anymore because that story is long dead. And if they are going to make some silly story about him being the only one that can unite us… that’s just going to be silly.
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> > The Didact ain’t no Builder. He can’t make another one. If there were a plethora of them, why did he jump across the galaxy to recover this single one, which he refers to as “the composer” and not “a composer.” Unless you know something about canon that I overlooked, there was only ever one.
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> There were more, but the one in Halo 4 was the main one*, and possibly the only one he could use as it was fitted to his ship.
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> And yes the Didact can build things. He doesn’t have the resources or capacity of a Builder, but the Shield Worlds were his project, as were the Composers.
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> *the others were smaller, with less capacity for genocide.
The shield worlds were his project, but he still had to have them comissioned to the Builders. I don’t remember reading about more composers o.o
Haven, read the halopedia entry on Composer. It makes multiple mentions to multiple devices. Silentium also makes reference to being called by a singular name due to their unique properties rather than their number made.
There is more than one.
> > > > His anti-composing properties, of course. There is no other reason.
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> > > But the Composer was destroyed…
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> > They can make/find more, these people have devices all over the galaxy. It cant be because he is the last Spartan anymore because that story is long dead. And if they are going to make some silly story about him being the only one that can unite us… that’s just going to be silly.
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> The Didact ain’t no Builder. He can’t make another one. If there were a plethora of them, why did he jump across the galaxy to recover this single one, which he refers to as “the composer” and not “a composer.” Unless you know something about canon that I overlooked, there was only ever one.
There are millions of telephones around the world.
But when you get a call, someone doesn’t say “Go grab a phone!”. They say “Pick up the phone!”
The Didact didn’t know where the Composers are, they were all hidden after he attacked a human population on Omega Halo. That’s why he searched Infinity’s systems, finsing their data about the Composer brought up from Installation 03.
> > The shield worlds were his project, but he still had to have them comissioned to the Builders. I don’t remember reading about more composers o.o
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> Halopedia talks about them in the plural sense and points at the source where some of this info came from.
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> If you have those books you should check them out.
Thanks for telling me where. I’ve read all the books, but I’m going back through and listening to the audio books, so maybe I’ll retain it on this time through.
> > I am personally hoping it has to do with the Flood returning. The Didact may be a factor, but he is not supposed to be the main enemy in Halo 5: Guardians and beyond
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> I’m with you. What do we know that is big, bad, and threatens all life? Da Flood, Da Flood, Da Flood!
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> Get it? I made a funny! I’ll go sit in my corner now…