MAJOR SPOILER’S FOR HALO 4 AND PRIMORDIUM
Alright so, seriously, what’s the deal with the Librarian putting rounds in the Didact? What happened to the Halo 3 terminals? Did they just totally throw those out the window and disregarded the fact that the Didact put his hand on the trigger and that she was on Earth and blaaaaaaaah. 343 constantly is disregarding core cannon and they get away with it… There needs to be some serious explaining.
And no, that “Mendicant corrupted the transmissions transcripts or fabricated them” bull crap isn’t flying with me. That’s a cheap way of saying “It never happened”.
Does this not bother anyone else??
OH YEAH, also, it essentially implied that the Librarian was still alive IN Requiem. In which case, wouldn’t Guilty Spark and the UNSC crew surveying the Ark have met with the Infinity and the Covenant during the campaign? 343’s remains were surveyed in 2557 I believe. They left in the same year. The game took place over a month I believe so I think to get from the Ark to Requiem shouldn’t take too long. Especially considering the Infinity got there in a pretty quick jump. Spark even HAD the coordinates ready to go since he said he knew exactly where the Librarian was.
What’s up with these constant plot holes 343??
First off there are two Didacts: Ur-Didact and the Bornstellar-Didact. The one in game is presumed to be the Ur-Didact (Didact). The Bornstellar-Didact (BS) was the one who activated the rings. Secondly, The Librarian composed herself, obviously before she was on Earth, likely to make sure the Didact did not escape. The Didact seems to hold a hatred towards Humanity because they were the ones to be tested next to attain the Mantle and not the Forerunners.
> First off there are two Didacts: Ur-Didact and the Bornstellar-Didact. The one in game is presumed to be the Ur-Didact (Didact). The Bornstellar-Didact (BS) was the one who activated the rings. Secondly, The Librarian composed herself, obviously before she was on Earth, likely to make sure the Didact did not escape. The Didact seems to hold a hatred towards Humanity because they were the ones to be tested next to attain the Mantle and not the Forerunners.
Have you been keeping up with the books though? The UrDidact was supposed to have been executed by Faber on modern day Janjur Qom. So far, it’s shown that the Bornstellar Didact is the only Didact that should be alive seeing as he inherited the Didact’s past experiences and such. That’s also shown in Primordium when Chakas finds the Didact on Installation 7 during the destruction of the Halo. That also hasn’t been explained. Why did the Didact try and save that Halo?
Also, if what you say is true about the Librarian composing herself, where was that shown? I didn’t hear her say anything about that. Also why did Spark say he knew where she was and that she was alive at the end of Primoridum? Also, if this really is the UrDidact as you presume, why doesn’t it show in the terminals that he is still alive? I mean they even pull directly from a speech given by the Didact in Primordium to Forthencho. So if they’re quoting directly from the book, why don’t they explain some things? Like why does the Didact pre-human war look exactly the same as the Didact after he was shot by the Librarian? Shouldn’t that be the new Didact? If not, how did he come back?
I mean there’s so many holes that haven’t been explained.
2 Didacts.
Explaining EVERYTHING now leaves no room for them to expand in the sequels to come.
Spartan ops is a continuation so perhaps the story there will give some more answers.
> MAJOR SPOILER’S FOR HALO 4 AND PRIMORDIUM
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> Alright so, seriously, what’s the deal with the Librarian putting rounds in the Didact? What happened to the Halo 3 terminals? Did they just totally throw those out the window and disregarded the fact that the Didact put his hand on the trigger and that she was on Earth and blaaaaaaaah. 343 constantly is disregarding core cannon and they get away with it… There needs to be some serious explaining.
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> And no, that “Mendicant corrupted the transmissions transcripts or fabricated them” bull crap isn’t flying with me. That’s a cheap way of saying “It never happened”.
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> Does this not bother anyone else??
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> OH YEAH, also, it essentially implied that the Librarian was still alive IN Requiem. In which case, wouldn’t Guilty Spark and the UNSC crew surveying the Ark have met with the Infinity and the Covenant during the campaign? 343’s remains were surveyed in 2557 I believe. They left in the same year. The game took place over a month I believe so I think to get from the Ark to Requiem shouldn’t take too long. Especially considering the Infinity got there in a pretty quick jump. Spark even HAD the coordinates ready to go since he said he knew exactly where the Librarian was.
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> What’s up with these constant plot holes 343??
I totally agree with you, specially with FuD cannon holes, the horrible lines written in that webseries that just makes Halo something laughable, I’ve read better fanfics than this discontinuations that 343 are doing. As Bungie was gone, 343 startted to mess up the Halo universe horribly.
Well the earth has been around far longer then us humans so you could say we once became a space race in Halos universe and then the forerunners set us back and dumbed down are evolution. also that was just a AI construct of the Librarian.
> > First off there are two Didacts: Ur-Didact and the Bornstellar-Didact. The one in game is presumed to be the Ur-Didact (Didact). The Bornstellar-Didact (BS) was the one who activated the rings. Secondly, The Librarian composed herself, obviously before she was on Earth, likely to make sure the Didact did not escape. The Didact seems to hold a hatred towards Humanity because they were the ones to be tested next to attain the Mantle and not the Forerunners.
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> Have you been keeping up with the books though? The UrDidact was supposed to have been executed by Faber on modern day Janjur Qom. So far, it’s shown that the Bornstellar Didact is the only Didact that should be alive seeing as he inherited the Didact’s past experiences and such. That’s also shown in Primordium when Chakas finds the Didact on Installation 7 during the destruction of the Halo. That also hasn’t been explained. Why did the Didact try and save that Halo?
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> Also, if what you say is true about the Librarian composing herself, where was that shown? I didn’t hear her say anything about that. Also why did Spark say he knew where she was and that she was alive at the end of Primoridum? Also, if this really is the UrDidact as you presume, why doesn’t it show in the terminals that he is still alive? I mean they even pull directly from a speech given by the Didact in Primordium to Forthencho. So if they’re quoting directly from the book, why don’t they explain some things? Like why does the Didact pre-human war look exactly the same as the Didact after he was shot by the Librarian? Shouldn’t that be the new Didact? If not, how did he come back?
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> I mean there’s so many holes that haven’t been explained.
Read the description for Selentium, the original Didact was not executed. He was left in a flood controlled system. The Didact that saved Installation 07 was the Bornstellar Didact. It stands to reason that he was influenced by Bornstellar’s personality.
> Also, if what you say is true about the Librarian composing herself, where was that shown? I didn’t hear her say anything about that. Also why did Spark say he knew where she was and that she was alive at the end of Primoridum? Also, if this really is the UrDidact as you presume, why doesn’t it show in the terminals that he is still alive? I mean they even pull directly from a speech given by the Didact in Primordium to Forthencho. So if they’re quoting directly from the book, why don’t they explain some things? Like why does the Didact pre-human war look exactly the same as the Didact after he was shot by the Librarian? Shouldn’t that be the new Didact? If not, how did he come back?
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> I mean there’s so many holes that haven’t been explained.
It is implied that she composed herself. How else would you explain her being able to evolve the Chief? Unless something happens in Selentium to make Spark/Chakas know she is still alive. As for the Didact, its safe to assume that the original is the one in Requiem. All the things you mention came from the same guy, the Ur-Didact.
I think it’s rather poor writing that Halo 4’s story contradicts Halo 3’s Terminals like this.
Having an expanded universe is great, but the games are the primary things and they should make sense without needing to read the books. No one who has only played the games will know anything about there being two Didacts, they will just be confused as to how the Didact can fire the Halo Array from the Ark while the Librarian is stranded (and then dies) on Earth only to later be imprisoned on Requiem by the Librarian.
This sort of assumed knowledge is one of the reasons I think that the Gears of War story is awful - I had hoped better for Halo.