My didact theory. *spoilers*

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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So we know the didact once looked different to what he looks like in halo 4.

In fact we see in the halo 4 terminals the changed appearance he acquires from tampering with the composer trying to become immune to the flood.

He goes from this

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(note: no fangs, he has a combat skin under suit, green/blue eyes)

to this

(note: fangs, no combat skin undersuit, his armour just seems to be part of him, red eyes)

I always wondered what the didact means by saying “the composer will not work on my new form”. I was like what new form? did you evolve? i just assumed in the terminals he had no armour on.

NOW, I believe when the librarian referred to bridging the realm of digital and organic they became abominations. I see now she meant that the didact became on of those abominations. of sorts he has become a semi organic semi digital being.

Now for my theory, when john released the didact into the composers in escalation, and the didact seemingly becomes an essence of orange composed glow. He CAN NOT become a knight in any form as he has been altered already, but he can however stay as digital essence which can later be reversed, but at a cost this will further make him an abomination and alter his appearance even more so. The composers were destroyed, but there is one on the ring that the monitor took away for repair still.

A watcher can revive a knights essence back to a full knight if its quick enough to react, so suppose jul m’dama or perhaps some thing else (unsure here) gathers the didacts essence in attempt to reverse the process, but once reversed we have a didact that just looks like an ugly mutated angry thing.

Feel free to expand on this, as i believe (or along these lines roughly) is why the didact can’t be composed but can be that digital data stuff.

I leave you with this

Through out the whole video up until 10:42 the didact is seen with regular armour and a cape, and normal looking skin, then at 10:47, he asks “did it work? run the simulation” and his appearance has totally changed as he has fallen to his knees like he has just had the life taken out of him. :slight_smile:

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Way I see it John and the Didact aren’t immune so much as resistant. when John got hit but the composer he was not composed but it did affect him as he was rendered unconscious. The Didact was hit by 6 composers at the same time. its possible that their combined power could have overcome the Didact’s resistance.

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> Way I see it John and the Didact aren’t immune so much as resistant. when John got hit but the composer he was not composed but it did affect him as he was rendered unconscious. The Didact was hit by 6 composers at the same time. its possible that their combined power could have overcome the Didact’s resistance.

Yet it’s also confirmed by Brian Reed that the Didact isn’t dead. And as we know, the Composer never actually succeeded in converting organic consciences to digital - and if the Didact were to be composed, he’d pretty much be dead anyway. The story of a formidable and major character such as the Didact has pretty much been confirmed to not be concluded in Escalation, so he’ll most definitely be returning in Guardians.

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I just started reading the Forerunner Saga, and the Didact is brought into the story basically at the beginning. I really want to see the Didact’s character expand as he starts to realize where he is and what has happened (the firing of the rings, all his people dead).
He has been turned to his essence, but the Wiki says if you can reconstruct his brain’s and body’s neural patterns, he can have a body again.

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> He has been turned to his essence, but the Wiki says if you can reconstruct his brain’s and body’s neural patterns, he can have a body again.

Exactly, this is what my theory is about, but the librarian says when they try to reconstruct it isn’t re-made 100% how it was and its kinda deformed, hence the photos i added for you to see, I think my theory is on the right track.

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> Way I see it John and the Didact aren’t immune so much as resistant. when John got hit but the composer he was not composed but it did affect him as he was rendered unconscious. The Didact was hit by 6 composers at the same time. its possible that their combined power could have overcome the Didact’s resistance.

Well the librarian her self calls it an immunity so :/, the didact was hit by 5 composers which i believe is enough to send him into to digital essence but only that and no more, and he will then have a body reconstructed just not 100% and he will be an abomination.

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> NOW, I believe when the librarian referred to bridging the realm of digital and organic they became abominations. I see now she meant that the didact became on of those abominations. of sorts he has become a semi organic semi digital being.

She was talking about the composer resulting in abominations. Whatever the Ur-Didact did, he didn’t use the composer to alter himself, so I don’t think she was reffering to him.

Didact: “The procedure is a failure, and I am still susceptible to Flood infection.”
Promethean Warrior: “That leaves only the Composer.”
Didact: “It will not work on my new form.”

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> I just started reading the Forerunner Saga, and the Didact is brought into the story basically at the beginning. I really want to see the Didact’s character expand as he starts to realize where he is and what has happened (the firing of the rings, all his people dead).
> He has been turned to his essence, but the Wiki says if you can reconstruct his brain’s and body’s neural patterns, he can have a body again.

That’s why we have the SPOILER Iso-Didact. They are both given a lot of depth in the Forerunner triology, but I won’t spoil it if you haven’t gotten that far

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> > Way I see it John and the Didact aren’t immune so much as resistant. when John got hit but the composer he was not composed but it did affect him as he was rendered unconscious. The Didact was hit by 6 composers at the same time. its possible that their combined power could have overcome the Didact’s resistance.
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> Yet it’s also confirmed by Brian Reed that the Didact isn’t dead. And as we know, the Composer never actually succeeded in converting organic consciences to digital - and if the Didact were to be composed, he’d pretty much be dead anyway. The story of a formidable and major character such as the Didact has pretty much been confirmed to not be concluded in Escalation, so he’ll most definitely be returning in Guardians.

Indeed, brian reed made a tweet also saying

“i wrote the halo 4 terminals, I’m the reason he can’t be composed, trust in me guys i have a bigger picture in the works here”

it was along those lines. so maybe, possibly i’ll turn out to be right.

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> > NOW, I believe when the librarian referred to bridging the realm of digital and organic they became abominations. I see now she meant that the didact became on of those abominations. of sorts he has become a semi organic semi digital being.
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> She was talking about the composer resulting in abominations. Whatever the Ur-Didact did, he didn’t use the composer to alter himself, so I don’t think she was reffering to him.
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> Didact: “The procedure is a failure, and I am still susceptible to Flood infection.”
> Promethean Warrior: “That leaves only the Composer.”
> Didact: “It will not work on my new form.”

Perhaps it wasn’t the composers, i see that now, but what ever he did to himself still applies to why i believe he can’t be composed. :slight_smile:

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> > > NOW, I believe when the librarian referred to bridging the realm of digital and organic they became abominations. I see now she meant that the didact became on of those abominations. of sorts he has become a semi organic semi digital being.
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> Perhaps it wasn’t the composers, i see that now, but what ever he did to himself still applies to why i believe he can’t be composed. :slight_smile:

I agree. I still wonder why they said he was immune when he was only resistent.

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> > Perhaps it wasn’t the composers, i see that now, but what ever he did to himself still applies to why i believe he can’t be composed. :slight_smile:
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> I agree. I still wonder why they said he was immune when he was only resistent.

perhaps, resistant against one, one was enough take chief to the floor, but imagine 5. It would be like being resistant against a spartan laser, it’d knock you to the floor, but imagine 5. D:

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I can’t remember where I heard this (so don’t quote me on it) but I think it is confirmed that:

The Didact will be in digital form; also known as the Digidact

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> I can’t remember where I heard this (so don’t quote me on it) but I think it is confirmed that:
> The Didact will be in digital form; also known as the Digidact

I saw this too, but this was nothing official, just a cool nickname for his current digital state which is kinda funny :stuck_out_tongue:

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> > I can’t remember where I heard this (so don’t quote me on it) but I think it is confirmed that:
> > The Didact will be in digital form; also known as the Digidact
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> I saw this too, but this was nothing official, just a cool nickname for his current digital state which is kinda funny :stuck_out_tongue:

Sounds more like a joke. If it isn’t, then I’ll keep misreading it as Digimon.