Good morning Halo community, I saw a thread talking about the Cryptum and Didact, and I was completely lost. Would someone care to explain these two?
Cryptum is a book by Greg bear. didact is a character in that book.
id recommend reading that book
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The best way to learn is to read the books Halo:Cryptum and Halo:Primordium. These are where these words are best explained.
The huge glowing sphere that is seen in the E3 campaign demo is a cryptum. A cryptum, in short, is a near indestructible forerunner artifact/vehicle. Forerunner prometheans(one of the highest members in forerunner society, and the best warriors) can enter the cryptums and use them as a type of battle tank. They also possess the ability to distort time within themselves and put those inside into suspended animation for millennia.
The Didact was one of the most important members of forerunner society, and an overseer of the construction of the Halo array. Orignally a forerunner promethean, he was killed in battle. however, his memories and personality were transferred into another forerunner of lower class, and that forerunner essentually took on the personality of the didact. The Didact eventually went into self exile before the halo array was activated, protected from it by the barriers of the cryptum he resided in. He then spent the next 100,000 years in suspended animation within the cryptum.
There is speculation that the cryptum seen in halo 4 is that of the Didact. Seeing as this is the only cryptum ever mentioned, we have no better guesses at the time being.
> The best way to learn is to read the books Halo:Cryptum and Halo:Primordium. These are where these words are best explained.
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> The huge glowing sphere that is seen in the E3 campaign demo is a cryptum. A cryptum, in short, is a near indestructible forerunner artifact/vehicle. Forerunner prometheans(one of the highest members in forerunner society, and the best warriors) can enter the cryptums and use them as a type of battle tank. They also possess the ability to distort time within themselves and put those inside into suspended animation for millennia.
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> The Didact was one of the most important members of forerunner society, and an overseer of the construction of the Halo array. Orignally a forerunner promethean, he was killed in battle. however, his memories and personality were transferred into another forerunner of lower class, and that forerunner essentually took on the personality of the didact. The Didact eventually went into self exile before the halo array was activated, protected from it by the barriers of the cryptum he resided in. He then spent the next 100,000 years in suspended animation within the cryptum.
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> There is speculation that the cryptum seen in halo 4 is that of the Didact. Seeing as this is the only cryptum ever mentioned, we have no better guesses at the time being.
This pretty much sums it up.
However I must add that the original Didact wasnt killed .
Also, was it my thread that got you confused?
> The best way to learn is to read the books Halo:Cryptum and Halo:Primordium. These are where these words are best explained.
>
> The huge glowing sphere that is seen in the E3 campaign demo is a cryptum. A cryptum, in short, is a near indestructible forerunner artifact/vehicle. Forerunner prometheans(one of the highest members in forerunner society, and the best warriors) can enter the cryptums and use them as a type of battle tank. They also possess the ability to distort time within themselves and put those inside into suspended animation for millennia.
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> The Didact was one of the most important members of forerunner society, and an overseer of the construction of the Halo array. Orignally a forerunner promethean, he was killed in battle. however, his memories and personality were transferred into another forerunner of lower class, and that forerunner essentually took on the personality of the didact. The Didact eventually went into self exile before the halo array was activated, protected from it by the barriers of the cryptum he resided in. He then spent the next 100,000 years in suspended animation within the cryptum.
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> There is speculation that the cryptum seen in halo 4 is that of the Didact. Seeing as this is the only cryptum ever mentioned, we have no better guesses at the time being.
A tank? I don’t think so.
Suspended animation? Close enough.
According to the amazon discription of silentium The didact did not die, he was merely abandoned in a flood infected system by Faber. (master builder)
> > The best way to learn is to read the books Halo:Cryptum and Halo:Primordium. These are where these words are best explained.
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> > The huge glowing sphere that is seen in the E3 campaign demo is a cryptum. A cryptum, in short, is a near indestructible forerunner artifact/vehicle. Forerunner prometheans(one of the highest members in forerunner society, and the best warriors) can enter the cryptums and use them as a type of battle tank. They also possess the ability to distort time within themselves and put those inside into suspended animation for millennia.
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> > The Didact was one of the most important members of forerunner society, and an overseer of the construction of the Halo array. Orignally a forerunner promethean, he was killed in battle. however, his memories and personality were transferred into another forerunner of lower class, and that forerunner essentually took on the personality of the didact. The Didact eventually went into self exile before the halo array was activated, protected from it by the barriers of the cryptum he resided in. He then spent the next 100,000 years in suspended animation within the cryptum.
> >
> > There is speculation that the cryptum seen in halo 4 is that of the Didact. Seeing as this is the only cryptum ever mentioned, we have no better guesses at the time being.
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> This pretty much sums it up.
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> However I must add that the original Didact wasnt killed .
>
> Also, was it my thread that got you confused?
Lol yeah it was, people kept using them in context so I was a little confused.
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> Also, was it my thread that got you confused?
It confused me too, although for different reasons.