This really doesn’t make much sense to me. In the terminals, the Didact says to one of his Prometheans that his current form wouldn’t be composed. At the end of Halo 4, the Didact falls into the Composer’s beam and was transported to the Composer’s Forge. Yet, at the end of Escalation 10, the Didact is seen being thrown into the other 5 Composers. In the Universe, 343 has confirmed that the Didact has been composed Waypoint Universe-Didact. How does this make any sense, one Composer wouldn’t work on him, yet 5 would make him digital?
I don’t know.
Maybe he lied? Or maybe he could be composed but it would have bad side effects.
I wouldn’t put it past him being mad and lying as he was corrupted by the flood.
I know there was a tweet about this during the summer.
Alas,perhaps when the Didact said it wouldn’t work we could assume that to have meant safely.
Aside from what Mendicant said, two explanations are A) the Didact has a “resistance” to the composer rather than an immunity which was therefore ogrewhelmed by the combined force of six composers, and B) the terminal that revealed his immunity was distorted by the Domain’s ebb and therefore meaning that the Didact didn’t even have an immunity in the first place.
The former of the two makes reasonable sense. The latter of the two also makes sense and has been seen in action before, but it’s a terrible plot excuse and should have never been used.
So… Is the didact going to get a new, even more invulnerable body this time? I wonder if he’s going to allow chief to stab both his eyes this time. Maybe he won’t even have eyes. Maybe we get a didact in the body of a robot. Or just plain old didact AI chatting with you in your head. Or completely made insane didact who is going to do everything in his power to get revenge. I’m hoping for super robot indestructible didact.
I’m with Mendicant in that I’m betting he just meant it wouldn’t work on him safely. I just hope that when we do see him again, the errors resulting from the composure isn’t just “more evil/insane” “now lacking humanity (forerunnerity?)” kind of stuff. Having him lament the loss of memories of certain peoples and events I feel could help bring back a bit of the tragedy of the didact’s story that I felt h4 kind of lacked.
The Ur-Didact said the following, “The Composer will not work on my current form…” This statement does not mean that he cannot be digitized, it simply means that it would have a different effect on him as opposed to a normal non-mutated being. Perhaps he cannot become a Promethean but something else entirely?
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> The Ur-Didact said the following, “The Composer will not work on my current form…” This statement does not mean that he cannot be digitized, it simply means that it would have a different effect on him as opposed to a normal non-mutated being. Perhaps he cannot become a Promethean but something else entirely?
i thought it just meant he was still susceptible to the flood…
You know, on the idea of the composer having an effect on the didact, it could very well turn him insane. When he was sealed he had already been pushed to the point he wanted to wipe the human race to fight the flood. After spending 100 000 years in his cryptum, he continues where he left off, only to be beaten by just one human and his AI. If anything, it made him even more unstable in Escalation, going as far as wanting to use a Halo, which is the very thing he loathed in the first place. Now, he’s been stopped again and composed. As the librarian said in the level Reclaimer, “the stored personalities fragmented and our attempts to return them into biological states created only abominations”. When the didact returns, he is going to be both angry and insane. This might actually lead to greater development of his character.
Knew this was what they were doing! This way, people who didn’t read Escalation will still find it believable that the Didact got composed (since he fell into the Composer portal at the end of Halo 4). Seems like an interesting plot point, that the Didact is digitalized now. Maybe that Phoenix in the trailer was him? Anyway, I’m sure there’s more to it. Brian Reed already tweeted that he wasn’t technically composed and said he was the one who wrote the terminals in the first place (where the Didact got his immunity to the Composer). I think the extended fiction will eventually shed some light on what exactly happened to the Didact, and it will make sense in some way. But for now I’m just really excited to see the Didact’s reintroduction, to see how much the “composition” changed him. With Jul 'Mdama, Halsey and the Janus Key heading for wrap-up within Escalation, I am 100% sure that this will be a key plotline in Halo 5, so we only have to wait a year (less, actually) to get some answers 
You know, after being tortured by the Gravemind, locked up in his Sphere for forever and a half, then all the composer exposure, he really needs to be laid to rest by this point. A team of 100+ Spartans with Lasers need to wipe his -Yoink- out in the next game or two.
The Didact is Immune to the composer.
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> The Didact is Immune to the composer.
Yet he was composed in Escalation.
Remember that the Forerunners tried to do it before but made the flood (Via corrupt data) maybe he figured it out? But I mean he can survive space slips so he could just be transported to another part of space (Planned? Possibly) Or did he have a clone like Iso Didact?! making it a total of three?
“The Composer will not work on my current form…” =/= immune to Composer
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> Remember that the Forerunners tried to do it before but made the flood (Via corrupt data) maybe he figured it out? But I mean he can survive space slips so he could just be transported to another part of space (Planned? Possibly) Or did he have a clone like Iso Didact?! making it a total of three?
Are you saying that the Flood was created by the Forerunners as a result of corrupt data? That is incorrect. If I’ve misunderstood, then just skip the wall of text below.
When the Forerunners tried to wipe out the Precursors, some of those who survived went into stasis whilst some turned themselves into a form of dust. The plan was for them to regain their physical form, but after millions of years, the dust became defective and created disease and biological mutations in other organisms that came into contact with it. Ancient humans found this powder after one of the ships containing it crashed. They believed it to be harmless, but it appeared to have psychotropic effects on lower animals. They started to give it to Pheru which is a domesticated animal that was popular with both the humans and San Shyuum. After centuries, the dust altered their genetic code, some had furry growths and fleshy protrusions, which other Pheru were compelled to consume. After this, Pherus started to show genetic deformities. This also spread to humans and San Shyuum that came into contact with the infected Pheru. They showed signs of altered psychology and started to consume the sick Pheru. The afflicted then moved on to cannibalism and sacrifice of the uninfected, force-feeding victims until they reached gross proportions and then consuming them. Those that were infected also started to spread the disease to other systems and planets. At this point the Flood Infestation started to alter its victims physically and molded them to serve different purposes.
As far as we know, there are only the Ur-Didact and IsoDidact.
ONI considers the Ur-Didact contained, but not dead, which would mean that he was composed. Brian Reed however, has said that the Ur-Didact is still alive. Seeing as he removed that tweet, I don’t know if he meant physically or if just his mind remains. Considering the one tweet I did find, he apperantly wasn’t composed. I only managed to find the content of one of the tweets he deleted.
“I wrote the H4 Didact terminals. I’m why he couldn’t be Composed. This is 1st act of a very long story. There’s a plan. Promise.”
Considering all the tweets he removed, it could either mean that he has no idea what he’s doing or he leaked something he wasn’t supposed too. I heard that the fan base kicked his rear end after that arc in Escalation and that he removed many of his tweets because he was proven wrong. I’m not sure what to think about all this. I hope 343i have a good explanation for the path they appear to be taking.
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> “The Composer will not work on my current form…” =/= immune to Composer
Note: “current form” seems like a big step by saying that on 343’s behalf. This plot could land tats down if this isn’t pulled off correctly.
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Yeh i know but it cannot kill him. Watch the halo 4 terminals.
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> You know, after being tortured by the Gravemind, locked up in his Sphere for forever and a half, then all the composer exposure, he really needs to be laid to rest by this point. A team of 100+ Spartans with Lasers need to wipe his -Yoink- out in the next game or two.
Nah just crash infinity into him that’ll sort it
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> > You know, after being tortured by the Gravemind, locked up in his Sphere for forever and a half, then all the composer exposure, he really needs to be laid to rest by this point. A team of 100+ Spartans with Lasers need to wipe his -Yoink- out in the next game or two.
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I think the Didact is way too much for conventional weaponry. Considering the fact that he survived forerunner weaponry shoots without his armor, staid in stasis for millenia, confronted the gravemind, beat the -Yoink- out of Spartans II and many more stuf…It´s safe to say he could solo the Infinity.