Spoilers seems inappropriate given how it’s just speculation, but consider this your warning.
Thanks to the Didact’s “Humanity stands greatest threat in the galaxy” line. To explain further I point to Agent Smith from the Matrix:
[I’ld like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classified your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply. And multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.
There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?
Ctrl+Alt+Del > Task Manager > Processes > End Process: AgentSmith.exe
Where were we?
Ah, yes: Humanity is a threat to all live in the galaxy.
It’s true.
The reason we have Spartans was originally to fight the Insurrectionists. We have Insurrectionists because the Outer Colonies didn’t feel like owing allegiance to a government that they seemingly does nothing for them while they take and take. We have Outer Colonies because the invention of Slipspace drives allowed for colonial expansion from a planet bursting with people and nearly killing itself.
If left to our own devices we’ll only continue breeding and spreading. Terraforming planets to our design, steamrolling everything we can until it’s the same uniformity that we desire. Provided we as a species don’t fracture and start killing each other that is. Potentially burning whole planets do to it. Especially considering we now have our hands on Forerunner technology. Us with Forerunner technology is equivalent to a caveman with a nuke.
The Didact is fighting us as a means of conservation: Killing an invasive species with no natural predators or diseases to keep it in check. An invasive species that threatens to overrun all of the local populations and choke them out of existance.
It seems counter intuitive given what we know of the Mantle but the Didact violating the Mantle might be the only way for him to save it having any meaning.
> So recent ONI action is to show how aggressive humanity is?
I actually see ONI representing Ancient Humanity. This part from Primordium has stuck with me,
Halo Primordium Page 189
“No humans from your planet were brought here - until recently” - Genemeder
“Not even the Librarian would risk my presence on such a weapon!” - Forthencho
The Librarian didn’t want Humans who had been given memory imprints of the Ancient Humans near the Halo Rings for good reason. After all these years, if we still have some kind of memory imprint, which Chakas says we do, it would make sense that they are influencing the aggressive behavior of ONI. Maybe not directly or anything like that but in some way.
Humanities presence in the galaxy implies that the precursors will return to “test” them, as it were. Getting rid of the humans means no more precursor test no more doomed galaxy. Didact believe humans are too weak to pass the test, and is attempting to eradicate them before the test begins.
You are oversimplifying a lot of complex issues in the story.
Mostly all of the information you need to discern the motivations of the Didact with respect to Humanity, and the true nature of Humanity, are already in Halo: Cryptum.
> You are oversimplifying a lot of complex issues in the story.
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> Mostly all of the information you need to discern the motivations of the Didact with respect to Humanity, and the true nature of Humanity, are already in Halo: Cryptum.
Have it. Read it.
The last two Forerunner novels, and CEA, have only made me wonder as to why the Didact would turn on Humanity. From those sources, the opposite is implied.
You may be onto something. Thursday War had some points where the Elites accused Humanity of overextending; like a virus, and spreading.
That happened quite a lot. As I said, onto something. Foreshadowing on 343’s part?
> You may be onto something. <mark>Thursday War had some points where the Elites accused Humanity of overextending; like a virus</mark>, and spreading.
> That happened quite a lot. As I said, onto something. Foreshadowing on 343’s part?
Wonder what would happen if they found out that the Forerunners weren’t exactly any better about that?
The recent trailer says that the Didact is mainly against us because of that ancient hatred he had bottled up inside him.
But he had overcome that. What made him unleash it?
The Ur-Didact was last known to be on a Flood infested planet. He could have been exposed to corruption and infection there, which could have lasting effects when he is in the Cryptum. When he wakes up, that ancient grudge has been pulled back up, unbounding the Didact and putting him against us.
Or, as Wazooty said, he knows the Precursors are coming back for Humanity. Wiping out Humanity, will hopefully cease the need to come back and invade the galaxy again.
Or… maybe, just maybe. The Didact was exposed to the Flood. Corrupted, perhaps. Corrupted by the Flood is ultimately corrupted by the Precursors. At about this time, the Precursors will return to test us. What if they’re uaing the Didact to test us? Perhaps this is a part of the test, and they need to pit Humanity against an extremely powerful enemy. So they awaken the Didact’s ancient grudge and prepares to unleash him on Humanity. And the Librarian has been preparing us for this, our geas perhaps.
What ever his motivations are it would seem the rest of the Forerunner disagreed with him. I mean it was the Forerunner who locked him up and then posted do not disturb signs.
I find ONI a primordial form of Cerebrus from Mass Effect. Either they will be our unlikely saviour through unconventional warfare (Mass Effect 2) or they might be, ‘the dagger behind humanity’s back’.
And if the Didact’s intentions are similar to Agent Smiths , then this gives the story a little depth because ONI has already invented a grain that might wipe out Sanghelois if released…
I still say this largely due to the didact wanting to keep the mantle forerunner only. As said in the new trailer the didact announces the forerunners as being guardians of all that exists. Also in the trailer description it says an ancient evil and a forerunner menace. So it seems the didact is not the ancient evil.
I get the feeling that the Didact’s motivations for why he’s a jerk in Halo 4 will be revealed in Silentium. Isn’t that why the book is being released after Halo 4? Spoilers?
I think it is possibly Faber posing as the Didact…seeing as he is currently the only known living Forerunner how would we know different…he was the one who seemed most preoccupied with keeping other species in thier place…I would say either the Ur or Bornstellar Didact would have atleast a grudging appreciation for humanity due to Chakas.
I find it interesting that history is repeating itself with Humanity and the Forerunners. Last time, Ancient Humans were wiping out native species and aggressively colonizing other worlds. The Subsequent war with the Forerunners was later considered a mistake by the Didact because he felt he misunderstood Humanity’s intentions.
100K years later and the Didact wakes to see Humanity aggressively waging shadow wars to eliminate species and take over their space.
As the old saying goes: “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”.
I guess the Didact decided he won’t be fooled again.
> I find it interesting that history is repeating itself with Humanity and the Forerunners. Last time, Ancient Humans were wiping out native species and aggressively colonizing other worlds. The Subsequent war with the Forerunners was later considered a mistake by the Didact because he felt he misunderstood Humanity’s intentions.
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> 100K years later and the Didact wakes to see Humanity aggressively waging shadow wars to eliminate species and take over their space.
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> As the old saying goes: “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”.
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> I guess the Didact decided he won’t be fooled again.
After the Forerunners genetically bombarded them back into the near Stone Age so that any Humans alive today would have no recollection of their former status?
