I’ve been thinking about this for a while but if that is in fact the Didact(oops I didn’t mean to rhyme), what could he be talking about? His escape from Requiem or his cryptum? Could he mean his chance for revenge on the flood and not necessarily the human race? I’m pretty sure He isn’t the one who opened the huge door/portal to Requeim that allowed MC to enter. I have a feeling that Mendicant Bias hitchhiked in Cortana when it teleported them to Requeim and opened it from the outside. Going back to the quote though, the Didact wouldn’t go through all of the trouble of saving the Librarians work by destroying mankind thousands of years later.
Frankly it just seems like the Didact is a -Yoink- now, never mind the Forerunner Saga in all this. Personally I hope he is just insane due to something Flood-related and so he is imprisoned for the greater good.
Yeah it’s hard to tell with what knowledge we have now of his condition, but if he does turn out to be the villain, I have a feeling that he won’t be throughout the entire trilogy.
> Frankly it just seems like the Didact is a -Yoink!- now, never mind the Forerunner Saga in all this. Personally I hope he is just insane due to something Flood-related and so he is imprisoned for the greater good.
I’m still going with the corruption theory.
> Yeah it’s hard to tell with what knowledge we have now of his condition, but if he does turn out to be the villain, I have a feeling that he won’t be throughout the entire trilogy.
I think it’ll be kind of like this:
Halo 4- Awaken an enraged and corrupted Didact
Halo 5- Find the Librarian while Humanity is under heavy assault by the Didact.
Halo 6- The Librarian calms the Didact, and we join together to face the true Ancient Evil. (Precursors?)
“I’ve long dreamt of this day, Reclaimer.”
Obviously, since he’s referring to (at least who we assume) master chief as Reclaimer. He’s planning to exact his revenge on someone.
Or is just happy to see Humankind again after all those… thousands of years.
I think hes just gone insane. It has been a long time you know.
Didact is obviously looking forward to Halo 4…
> I think hes just gone insane. It has been a long time you know.
I take it that you haven’t read “Cryptum”?
He was in there for a LONG time, and wasn’t insane.
It’s basically like a state of death. But peace at the same time.
> > I think hes just gone insane. It has been a long time you know.
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> I take it that you haven’t read “Cryptum”?
> He was in there for a LONG time, and wasn’t insane.
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> It’s basically like a state of death. But peace at the same time.
Difference being he was in the first Cryptum for about 1,000 years and he would’ve probably spent about 100,000 since then until Halo 4.
> > > I think hes just gone insane. It has been a long time you know.
> >
> > I take it that you haven’t read “Cryptum”?
> > He was in there for a LONG time, and wasn’t insane.
> >
> > It’s basically like a state of death. But peace at the same time.
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> Difference being he was in the first Cryptum for about 1,000 years and he would’ve probably spent about 100,000 since then until Halo 4.
Well, what’s the difference in being dead for 1,000 years vs 100,000?
If anything, since the Cryptum allows for brain function while in “Stasis”, he’d come out to be quite intelligent and cunning. Perhaps even to say he’s a Master-Manipular… erm I mean Manipulator.
> > > I think hes just gone insane. It has been a long time you know.
> >
> > I take it that you haven’t read “Cryptum”?
> > He was in there for a LONG time, and wasn’t insane.
> >
> > It’s basically like a state of death. But peace at the same time.
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> Difference being he was in the first Cryptum for about 1,000 years and he would’ve probably spent about 100,000 since then until Halo 4.
I think the Didact was first corrupted before he went in the Cryptum (by the Primordial? Flood?) and the 100,000 years in Cryo allowed it to progressively spread and become more influencal.
The Didact requested to be locked up was locked up by others because of the corruption.
And 100,000 years for corruption to grow…
To me it seems to fit with the Librarian tempering his anger towards Humanity. So we have him as the enemy initially and through Halo 4 or maybe 5 he becomes and ally.
I’ve thought this all along, that or the two Didact’s conflict with each other as one an enemy and the other an ally, hence the red and blue in campaign Prometheans?
> <mark>Well, what’s the difference in being dead for 1,000 years vs 100,000?</mark>
> If anything, since the Cryptum allows for brain function while in “Stasis”, he’d come out to be quite intelligent and cunning. Perhaps even to say he’s a Master-Manipular… erm I mean Manipulator.
What’s the difference between spotting a tumor from day one to spotting it a few months from now? If something is wrong with the Didact then that is 99,999 more years for it to get worse.
> > <mark>Well, what’s the difference in being dead for 1,000 years vs 100,000?</mark>
> > If anything, since the Cryptum allows for brain function while in “Stasis”, he’d come out to be quite intelligent and cunning. Perhaps even to say he’s a Master-Manipular… erm I mean Manipulator.
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> What’s the difference between spotting a tumor from day one to spotting it a few months from now? If something is wrong with the Didact then that is 99,999 more years for it to get worse.
Invalid argument. A tumor leads to death. Death is the end.
No body is more dead that died 100 years ago, than someone who died yesterday.
> > > <mark>Well, what’s the difference in being dead for 1,000 years vs 100,000?</mark>
> > > If anything, since the Cryptum allows for brain function while in “Stasis”, he’d come out to be quite intelligent and cunning. Perhaps even to say he’s a Master-Manipular… erm I mean Manipulator.
> >
> > What’s the difference between spotting a tumor from day one to spotting it a few months from now? If something is wrong with the Didact then that is 99,999 more years for it to get worse.
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> Invalid argument. A tumor leads to death. Death is the end.
> No body is more dead that died 100 years ago, than someone who died yesterday.
You are simply missing the point. We still don’t know the conditions that led to the Didact being placed in a Cryptum. Evidence points to it being something of a prison. Dangerous people are put into prisons. If something is affecting the Didact when he is placed in a Crpytum, the Crytpum may slow down whatever is affecting but it doesn’t stop it.
Ergo, 100,000 years of corruption still occurring. It’s all theoretical, but I hope you get what I’m saying.
> > > > <mark>Well, what’s the difference in being dead for 1,000 years vs 100,000?</mark>
> > > > If anything, since the Cryptum allows for brain function while in “Stasis”, he’d come out to be quite intelligent and cunning. Perhaps even to say he’s a Master-Manipular… erm I mean Manipulator.
> > >
> > > What’s the difference between spotting a tumor from day one to spotting it a few months from now? If something is wrong with the Didact then that is 99,999 more years for it to get worse.
> >
> > Invalid argument. A tumor leads to death. Death is the end.
> > No body is more dead that died 100 years ago, than someone who died yesterday.
>
> You are simply missing the point. We still don’t know the conditions that led to the Didact being placed in a Cryptum. Evidence points to it being something of a prison. Dangerous people are put into prisons. If something is affecting the Didact when he is placed in a Crpytum, the Crytpum may slow down whatever is affecting but it doesn’t stop it.
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> Ergo, 100,000 years of corruption still occurring. It’s all theoretical, but I hope you get what I’m saying.
So maybe instead of requiem being a shield world it is a prison…If it is a prison why would it open to the chief??
The prisoners could be running the prison and are looking for any way to escape.