Okay so the Master Chief, John-117, has become a potent and honorable warrior in his long military career, yet during 2557 he accidentally awoke the imprisoned Didact. The Didact had become a huge inconvience to John-117, who now faced an even greater foe than ever before… the long trials each hero faced would ultimately end in the loss of his artificial companion, Cortana… and the Didact falling into a slip-space rupture, leaving his status unknown. [s. Halo 4]
Now during 2557, we now know the Didact (Ur), Shadow-Of-Sundered-Star, has survived when he fell through the slip-space fissure. And plans something for his rival, and Humanity. [s. Halo: Escalation #8]
In my opinion, the Didact could perhaps rebuild a new composer… but I believe he may do something more sinister. Perhaps he makes a machine similar to the composer but creates an artificial planet destroyer, like Moon X50 seen in Halo: Spartan Assault. The composer device could act with a galaxies sun… which turns the sun into a supernova device… but instead of firing arcs of heat and radiation, the resulting range of the sun would be the catalyst for the new composition device which captures a galaxy of souls… rather than planet by planet. If this comes to pass he could in-fact turn the sun in our system, nova… to compose Earth, Mars and any other habitable planets… would definitely be a set back and dark game for Halo indeed…
It reminds me of the ominous superweapon constantly referenced in Marathon: Durandal.
The weapon in question was a countermeasure in the event of civil unrest… Making the star of L’Howon go supernova unleashing an unimaginable force in the process.
The Flood will turn out to be quite the nightmare after this.
So basically just a rehash of the first game, just with a bigger Composer. That sounds incredibly boring.
I don’t quite understand your terminology. One star going supernova isn’t going to destroy an entire galaxy. The most it would probably do is wipe out one solar system, which is a very small fraction of an entire galaxy.
The Ur Didact is unlikely to be a main antagonist again. He will be an issue for sure but there are much bigger things to worry about. The Flood, ending of peace with the Sanghelli, Insurrectionists, etc. Halo Primordioum sets a story arc of 343 Guilty Spark or more accurately the monitor form of Chakas going to find the Lifeshaper and the rest of the post activation Forerunners. That arc has a likelihood of continuing in Guardians. Guardians from right now is looking really fantastic and we far too early to tell what direction we are going in.
He doesn’t need to build a composer. There are a bunch lying around anyway, the one MC destroyed wasn’t the only one.
As for whether SoSS is going to be the main antagonist again, I’d say he will be, at least for Halo 5. Sidelining a villain that they massively hyped in Halo 4’s advertisement (and IMO, lived up to it) wouldn’t really fit. The Didact’s got some really interesting backstory, and I’d definitely like to see reference to his Flood-induced madness in H5.
I’d like to see the Didact awaken some other Forerunners.
Think about it, one Forerunner was almost able to Compose the Earth. An amry of them would be a pretty easy way to up the stakes.
> I’d like to see the Didact awaken some other Forerunners.
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> Think about it, one Forerunner was almost able to Compose the Earth. An amry of them would be a pretty easy way to up the stakes.
Or even if we pitted them against each other…
#Bornstellar2K15
Just kidding. But we might see Chant-to-Green, the new Lifeshaper. (Well, not exactly new, 100,000 years, actually…)
Firstly I meant solar systems… not a entire galaxy.
Secondly I meant the Didact would be a co-primary threat… really making you think what should Humanity do face the Flood, the Didact and Promethean, or split their forces?
The idea of Locke and John being playable characters is going to expand the universe but I doubt they will have equal weight of the same antagonist.
John would be a more personal driven story actively searching for his Humanity and purpose… and thus the Didact would be the primary threat, with pockets of (Storm) Jul Covenant Remnant… so Halsey, John, Didact and Jul 'Mdama story arc…
Locke would be a more generalized or political diplomatic experiences with the Flood being the main enemies, as well as perhaps some Insurrectionist groups. This would feature the entirety of the war efforts against the Flood Legion; the UNSC, the Covenant Remnants, the Insurrectionists… each would be situational to the struggle against the Flood… Lydus, Jameson Locke, Thel’Vadam, Terrance Hood, Avu Med’Telcam? Serin Osman? Drone Queen? Jackal Pirates? Any and all forces… the small insurrectionist pockets fighting could also be enemies creating that third party effect.
> So basically just a rehash of the first game, just with a bigger Composer. That sounds incredibly boring.
For you.
> > So basically just a rehash of the first game, just with a bigger Composer. That sounds incredibly boring.
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> For you.
If winning isn’t everything then why do they keep score??
> > So basically just a rehash of the first game, just with a bigger Composer. That sounds incredibly boring.
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> For you.
Calm down, big guy. He was just sharing his opinion - and to be honest, he has a point. Halo has already used the race-to-the-magical-superweapon trope multiple times, if it’s wheeled out again people are going to start feeling jaded.
> > So basically just a rehash of the first game, just with a bigger Composer. That sounds incredibly boring.
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> For you.
Is it not another quest to the stop the Didact from Composing people, just on a bigger scale? Am I wrong?
I’m really looking forward to what the Didact does next!
> > > So basically just a rehash of the first game, just with a bigger Composer. That sounds incredibly boring.
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> > For you.
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> Is it not another quest to the stop the Didact from Composing people, just on a bigger scale? Am I wrong?
I was a tad harsh. I am sorry 