To start things off id like to point out that the didact in halo 4 will return. Its stated in I believe the fifth terminal that the didact is immune to the composer. So when he fell into its energy he couldn’t have died.
Forgive me if this was already discussed but what didact do we fight in halo 4?
Presumably the original didact was abandoned by faber in a flood infested galaxy… But its never stated that he died. Now this didact hates humanity and we should all know why.
. He is imprisoned on requiem for using the composer. But this is before the halos are fired. Its been said through out the halo universe that the didact is the one who activates the halo array. How can he be imprisoned and commit the biggest genocide known in the galaxy at the same time? My points:
Original Didact would never activate the array because of the mantel
Bornstellar Didact would activate the array because he has seen The faults of the forerunners, and also doesnt hate humans, leaving me to believe that its not Bornstellar didact in halo 4.
What I dont get, is how did original Didact get in the terminals in halo 4? There isnt even mention of Bornstellar in the halo 4 terminals.
Main questions: which didact do we fight in halo 4?
Can both didacts still be alive?
Which activated the array?
Did 343 rewrite the lore?
Id also like to mention that I wont get back to replies until tomorrow. I need sleep. But first I had to get this off my mind. Hahahaha
The third and final forerunner book with make most of this clear, since the Ur-Didact can still get out of the flood infested space and be locked up by the librarian. So the best answer most will give you is wait for the last book to be released. And I wouldnt say 343 is rewriting lore as the lore it self hasnt been written yet. But I do hope since that Halo 4 is out that this book ties in well with the already present book unlike Halo:Reach did.
Bornstellar is likely meant to be a sort of surprise for those who haven’t read the books. He also wasnt talked about in halo 4 because he wasn’t important to its story. Halo 4 did a sort of mediocre infodump on ancient humans and such as is, they didnt need to reveal a whole lot of ‘useless’ information.
The original didact is alive and well in Silentium, as what little info we have talks alot about the “Ur-Didact”.
To answer your questions more directly:
We likely fought the original didact, it makes alot more sense for it to be him. Bornstellar seems to be a pretty resonable guy, while the original disapeared for a bit, and is presumed dead, a pretty decent opportunity for something to shake him. He already seemed kinda gloomy about everything in Cryptum.
Whichever didact activated the array (likely Born)was on the Ark, so he was safe from the halos, so that didact is alive unless he died from some other unknown circumstance. The ‘energy’ under the composer was also described by cortana as a slipspace event, so the didact we fought likely ended up wherever the composer was sending data.
Your third question is mostly a flip of the first. As the one we fought clearly didn’t. I think Bornstellar is the one who activated it.
The only lore 343 ‘re-wrote’ would be the halo 3 terminals, though the halo 3 terminals all start with something like “Data destroyed in transit, re-interprited post-cataclysm”. Bungie likely wanted to give itself an “out” if they changed things a bit too.
You actually answered your own question but for the sake of it:
Halo 4 is the Ur-Didact (Original Didact), this is fact.
Bornstellar-Didact may be alive somewhere, we dont really know. We do know that Bornstellar is the one that activated the HALO Array, presumably from the Ark, meaning he survived the event. What he did afterwards is anyones guess, but judging by the way this game went, and how I feel 343 want to take the game, im sure we’ll be seeing alot more Forerunner popping up in the next games.
Thanks every one for clearing things up for me. I have another question though, which Didact is the one that uses the composer on chakas in Primordium? I feel like it has to be the Ur-Didact, because how would bornstellar know of the composer or want to use it?
Your theory is very interesting. it also explains a lot.
But still. I dont get how bornstellar is dead. Yes he activated the halos, presumably from a halo. But how did he die? Hes the last living thing in the galaxy. Surely he must have had a plan for what happens after. I guess this is something that Silentium will have to explain.
But about the whole activating all the halos from a halo thing: when The Master Builder tested a halo on a san shyum planet wouldnt all halos activate then? Or was that the first halo built?
> The Halo arrays can be primed to fire at once from one location in the event the flood overruns the galaxy.
This sounds much more familiar. And I won’t be surprised if we don’t see the Bornstellar Didact in future halos. Do you have any idea what Didact used the composer on chakas?
Well he was brought up in Primordium you have to understand that as humans we don’t know everything that is going on. So when chakas doesn’t inform the discovery team about the events of cryptum they are at a disadvantage.
“The Didact” in Primordium is Bornstellar this was stated when he came to save chakas. At that time the original is still thought to be dead.
Thanks. Id thank your posts but for some reason i cant do that on my phone.
I wish silentium were still slated for a january release
Think we’ll hear more from Guilty Spark?
Speaking of which im still a little confused how theres more than one of him.
Care to answer one more question of mine oh great wise question answerer?
In primordium Chakas was converted into a biological preserver of humanity. IT seems to be that the monitors were just fragments of them as he notes that 343 wasn’t the only one of him.
The science team dubs him “343” for political and strategic reasons as they don’t want to keep saying they found another monitor. Though we he is “confirmed” to be chakas at the end that may be in part of majority of his coding fading and the strand we know as 343 is the only one we recognized.
Sounds logical.
And would it make sense if the science team found a strand of the Lord Of Admirals in chakas or another monitor? I feel like we’ll see more of the Lord of Admirals in future halo games. Why else would the Lord of Admirals, be included in those terminals?
The terminals are used to give casual gamers a little more understanding and to give his hints and nods. We saw fothencho in the terminals because it fit to show him. We didn’t hear anything about the cure or san shyuum allies because they probably thought that would have been too much to throw in.
I don’t think the lord of admirals was among the souls deleted but that is just my take.
> The terminals are used to give casual gamers a little more understanding and to give his hints and nods. We saw fothencho in the terminals because it fit to show him. We didn’t hear anything about the cure or san shyuum allies because they probably thought that would have been too much to throw in.
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> I don’t think the lord of admirals was among the souls deleted but that is just my take.
Actually, in one of the CEA terminals, Spark does mention the cure. Just thought I’d share!