Looking past the 6 fingers, reptilian face and spooky voice; is The Didact’s motives really that misplaced?
Listening to him in the legendary ending, I found myself almost agreeing with what he was saying (sorry I can’t recall exact quotes), in regards to humanity not being fit to hold The Mantle. Sure, he wants to wipe out the human race, but he sees them as the “greatest” threat. If someone was threatening the very foundations of your existence (The Mantle), wouldn’t you do the same? It seems as if his worst crime is protecting what he BELIEVES to be rightfully the forerunners’. Who’s to say he’s wrong?
So my question is, is The Didact’s motives really that evil, or does he just need a little anger management…?
Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge of Halo lore (of which mine is limited) can help me out.
Ofcoarse, I could be totally missing something. If I am, feel free to let me know. After all, it was just a thought I had.
i kinda agree with you there
Didact is right, humans are a threat to them, i believe the didact just wants his race to hold the mantle forever and he FEELS the forerunners are the only rightful owners of the mantle.
But yeh, a little anger management is still needed haha
> Looking past the 6 fingers, reptilian face and spooky voice; is The Didact’s motives really that misplaced?
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> Listening to him in the legendary ending, I found myself almost agreeing with what he was saying (sorry I can’t recall exact quotes), in regards to humanity not being fit to hold The Mantle. Sure, he wants to wipe out the human race, but he sees them as the “greatest” threat. If someone was threatening the very foundations of your existence (The Mantle), wouldn’t you do the same? It seems as if his worst crime is protecting what he BELIEVES to be rightfully the forerunners’. Who’s to say he’s wrong?
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> So my question is, is The Didact’s motives really that evil, or does he just need a little anger management…?
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> Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge of Halo lore (of which mine is limited) can help me out.
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> Ofcoarse, I could be totally missing something. If I am, feel free to let me know. After all, it was just a thought I had.
The Didact is just pissed he lost his children in the human/forerunner war. He despice humanity because they attacked forerunner flood infected world. They refused to listen to the humans about the flood threath so the forerunner atackhed the humans. The irony in here is that the forerunner killed every sentient being in the galaxy,. Its pretty much what the humans did, just times 10000. The Didact is evil and blinded by hate.
The Precursors say he was wrong. Humanity is to inherit the mantle. The flood was unleashed against the forerunners to prove that they were worthy of the mantle. They werent. The flood was unleashed again and humanity stopped the flood. They are worthy.
That’s the problem the Librarian has with the Diadact. She is not too fond of humans either, but she believes that the Mantle has destined Humanity to be the greatest race, so she tries to protect it whereas the Diadact tries to change it.
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> The Precursors say he was wrong. Humanity is to inherit the mantle. The flood was unleashed against the forerunners to prove that they were worthy of the mantle. They werent. The flood was unleashed again and humanity stopped the flood. They are worthy.
What makes The Precursors’ say final?
Also, humanity didn’t stop the flood, didn’t the flood just CHOOSE to ‘retreat’ and not infect the humans?
So maybe that’s why the librarian is going to turn Cortana into a human? Because Cortana has always acted like that’s what she wants. Like when she was talking about the sun and how she wanted to feel it or when she got mad and blamed Halsey for imprisoning her.
right and wrong. Both races have fought amongst themselves and have therefore brought destruction upon themselves. Humanity isn’t worthy, but neither are the Forerunners.
The precursors created the mantle. Its their theology.
And humanity did stop the flood. Not back in the books, the flood did decide not to infect those humans. In the games humanity defeated the flood therefore inheriting the mantle.
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> So maybe that’s why the librarian is going to turn Cortana into a human? Because Cortana has always acted like that’s what she wants. Like when she was talking about the sun and how she wanted to feel it or when she got mad and blamed Halsey for imprisoning her.
The Didact is right in a way.
Yes, mankind has been proven to be a threat to Forerunners (in the past). And yes, we’ve proven not to hold up the Mantle. And yes: destroying a bunch of their weapons and strongholds left for us to reclaim also doesn’t look well.
And if Didy is referring to ONI’s plans: YES, YES mankind is a threat to the Galaxy at this point.
Then again, the Didact also is hung up in his blind hate a bit too much.
Why don’t we hold up the Mantle? Because mankind took perhaps longer than anticipated to learn about their role in the Librarian’s plan.
Not being the apex species in the Galaxy, partly due to our good friends the Covenant also added to us “being behind schedule”.
Us destroying Forerunner objects left behind?
Simply not knowing our role, and their purpose + a serious back against the wall situation during the time we learned about the Forerunners.
Also, Didy forgets that whatever ancient mankind did to the Forerunners isn’t what “we” did. He furthermore seems to forget his own reasoning has been proven wrong in his own time.
After all: are “we” the biggest threat to the Galaxy because “our” ancient forefathers fled for the Flood, destroying Forerunner planets in that exodus?
Nope…biggest threat to the Galaxy still is the Flood…
> right and wrong. Both races have fought amongst themselves and have therefore brought destruction upon themselves. Humanity isn’t worthy, but neither are the Forerunners.
The Mantle is just a Forerunner philosophy I believe? So I’m not sure why The Precursors or humans are even concerned by it.
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> Wait? When was this mentioned in the game?
This is a post from a while back, if you want the whole thing let me know:
Cortana wants to be human. I never noticed it on my first play-through, but after my second, I began to notice dialogue that hinted towards her longing to be human. Let’s run through a few.
“…But for all that, I’ll never actually know if it looks real… If it feels real.”
During this scene we have Cortana explaining only a few of the “48,000” reasons why the star she is looking at isn’t real. These reasons are calculated so fast they are beyond human ability, but yet, Cortana wants to know what it truly looks like and what it feels like — human capability. (Except burning from touching the star. Whatever, yo.) I can’t believe I missed this on my first play-through, but it pretty must just throws Cortana’s longing for humanity in your face.
Of course, she is limited as an AI. Although she capable of hyper-intelligence, she lacks the senses that a human has. And sometimes, I feel as if she is jealous due to her limitations. This leads me to the quote below:
“IMPRISON HIM? LIKE HE IMPRISONED HIS PROMETHEANS? LIKE DR. HALSEY IMPRISONED ME?”
Once again, we’re seeing this idea that Cortana is angry because of her limitations as an AI and wants to be free — like a human. Many would argue that this quote is due to her rampancy, but rampancy or not, she is expressing her “emotions” or thoughts about her state. And clearly, she is not satisfied with her imprisonment as an AI, and wants to find that element that makes her human. But how could an AI ever be human?
I agreed with him, but the halo universe is fiction and if we are basing humans being as self destructive as he sees to portray there is no way they could excel to the level they are at the now, the human race will definitely be extinct before we get “spartans” and explore space like that, so its just fiction.
> > right and wrong. Both races have fought amongst themselves and have therefore brought destruction upon themselves. Humanity isn’t worthy, but neither are the Forerunners.
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> The Mantle is just a Forerunner philosophy I believe? So I’m not sure why The Precursors or humans are even concerned by it.
The Mantle is who rules the galaxy basically. The Precursors are the first ones to have ruled, and the Forerunners came next. I don’t it ever explained what happened to the Precursors, and the Forerunners fought amongst themselves making weapons of mass destruction and making sure they’re dominant. Humanity has created Infinity and Spartans, have been at war with Human insurrectionists, and are trying to keep the Sangheili from recovering. The only difference is that they defeated the Flood. Things are too similar to be mere coincidence
The Mantle is a forerunner belief system, or philosophy. It’s just their belief. It seems as though a lot is being made about this Mantle, when in fact it could be irrelevant, in the sense that perhaps there is no ‘one race’ meant to rule all others.
Didact was insane. His solution was not one he would let you choose. He would force it on you. You have no choice. You have only his choice.
That is why it is wrong. Because in the end regardless of how right he sounds or whether his plan had some promise in the long run all that path would lead to for humanity AND for just about anyone else is enslavement.
The Prometheans are the proof of the twisting of his goal. Do you think any single one of those things is glad of what it is? The answer is likely no. He owns them.
They belond to a madman with a superweapon. He intended to use that superweapon to generate more slaves.
It is perfectly justified to feed a person like that a knuckle sandwich.
