Proof Didact Isn't The Ancient Evil!

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so recently, 343i revealed Silentium, the newest, and last, book in the Forerunner Trilogy by Greg Bear. and here’s the plot of Silentium:

Now, in the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, <mark>aided by unexpected allies</mark>. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.

Only the <mark>Ur-Didact and the Librarian</mark>—a husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict—hold the keys to salvation. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, <mark>one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time—to prevent an unmatched evil from dominating the entire universe.</mark>

anyways, we all know (people that paid attention to Halo’s story) that the Didact “commits the greatest atrocity of all time-to prevent an unmatched evil from dominating the entire galaxy” by activating Halo. the Flood is “aided by unexpected allies”. Allies. sorry, if I’m not mistaken, but Didact is only one person, not multiple; neither is Faber. so that leaves only one answer: the Precursors.

Either this is right… or I’m high and I’m completely missing something…

EDIT: I guess this is not entirely proof. however, “unexpected allies” can’t mean the Didact (there was two, but even then, it says “allies” and if one Didact is helping and the other isn’t, that’s still only one “ally”, and even then if I remember, there is only 1 Didact, the Bornstellar one as the original died), Faber, Medicant Bias, or any one person.

while allies can mean anything, the highest pointing of fingers are the Precursors, as in Primordium, multiple Precursors exist and are the ones that created them and are also the only ones that would help the Flood (who/or better, multiple whos, would be in their crazy minds to help the Flood; again Medicant Bias is only one). while Promethean AIs are high candidates as they are multiple and could’ve been deceived by a/mulitple Precursor(s) and are now rampant, that could explain why they are attacking us in Halo 4.

however, this theory could be proven wrong as Flood “allies” may have nothing to do with the Ancient Evil at all in Halo 4 and just add story to Silentium.

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That sounds like Precursors alright. The real question is when we will encounter them in Halo 4? And in what capacity?

Maybe Halo 4’s conclusion will set them up as the primary villain for Halo 5.

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It’s also possible that it could be something completely new. I can’t wait to find out.

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If they are the Precursor, they might be awakened at the end of the game. That means the 5th or 6th will have them and possibly the Flood too.

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I can understand the Precursors hating the Forerunners. After all, they did fight each other.

My question is, what do the Precursors have against Chief and humanity? What did we ever do to them or the opposite?

Besides, how are we so sure the Precursors are evil? Sure they created the Flood, but it was because they lost to the Forerunners and wanted revenge (I’m guessing). Didn’t the Forerunners attack the Precursors because they felt that they should be the holders of the Mantle? How does that make the Precursors evil?

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Precursors or…some entirely new race we haven’t seen before.

This is getting crazy, i always thought it was the Didact. I am still interested in why we are fighting Promethean defense constructs though.

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Wow, your self flattery is absolutely hilarious. THere is absolutely no “proof” you are right. Did you somehow miss the part where there are apparently 2 didacts? Greg bear said it, and they wouldn’t need to specifically state there is an 'Ur"didact if there was only one.

Not saying that didact is the enemy, but there is absolutely no “proof” in your statement.

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The “unmatched evil” could be referring to the flood. So the ancient evil could still be the Didact.

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Umm… I’m pretty sure that is discussing the book’s plot, the end of the Forerunner-Flood War.

Flood and undxpected allies: Mendicant Bias
Ur-Didact and Librarian: Military leader during the war and main Lifeworker during the war.
Greatest atrocity: Activating the Array, wiping out all life, completely the opposite of the Mantle (worse crime a Forerunner could commit).
Unstoppable Evil: The Flood who are dangerously close to taking over the galaxy.

But even then, we don’t know the whole story. Somethinf could have come up, with direct references to the Ancient Evil. It looks like we will also we who is inside that Cryptum.

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> Umm… I’m pretty sure that is discussing the book’s plot, the end of the Forerunner-Flood War.
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> Flood and undxpected allies: Mendicant Bias
> Ur-Didact and Librarian: Military leader during the war and main Lifeworker during the war.
> Greatest atrocity: Activating the Array, wiping out all life, completely the opposite of the Mantle (worse crime a Forerunner could commit).
> Unstoppable Evil: The Flood who are dangerously close to taking over the galaxy.
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> But even then, we don’t know the whole story. Somethinf could have come up, with direct references to the Ancient Evil. It looks like we will also we who is inside that Cryptum.

I take back my above comment, the unexpected ally is reference to Mendiacnt Bias.

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The Halo 3 terminals already made it abundantly clear that the Didact begrudgingly fired the Halo array to stop the Flood, not wanting to commit galaxy-wide genocide nor to risk losing the Librarian. In the context of firing the Halo arrays, he is not meant to be viewed as an “ancient evil”.

What may make him an ancient evil, however, is his complicity (millenia prior to the Halo event) in the execution of the the last of the ancient-human warriors, as the Composer harvested their consciousnesses. Shortly thereafter, some small remnant of humanity was reduced from the star-hopping, second-in-galaxy sapient race to barely-human hominids. The Didact was instrumental is bringing events to that end.

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I’m half way through Cryptum right now and all I care about is the Didact NOT being evil in halo 4. 2nd favorite character in Halo

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Most Likely the flood or a species we do not know about. The forerunner A.I.'s are nothign more than defense mechanism’s for the planet Requiem.

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Why is everybody hung up on the idea of precursors, seriously. They did create the flood, but it wasn’t out of hatred. It was simply a test. Faber on the other hand IS ancient and evil, I do recall him firing a halo out of anger of an uprising. He also Does not take kindly to inferior races cough humanity, he HATED humans.

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> Why is everybody hung up on the idea of precursors, seriously. They did create the flood, but it wasn’t out of hatred. It was simply a test. Faber on the other hand IS ancient and evil, I do recall him firing a halo out of anger of an uprising. He also Does not take kindly to inferior races cough humanity, he HATED humans.

The Precursors created an destroyed species as they pleased.

The Precursors didn’t only create the Flood for testing… they created them to take revenge on the Forerunners and infest the galaxy.

Faber would be my other guess for Ancient Evil… the Didact still doesn’t seem evil enough. Precursors would just make such and interesting and epic story… we must stand before the power of the creators themselves. We know very little of the Precursors… making them ever so mysterious for a new story.

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> I can understand the Precursors hating the Forerunners. After all, they did fight each other.
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> My question is, what do the Precursors have against Chief and humanity? What did we ever do to them or the opposite?
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> Besides, how are we so sure the Precursors are evil? Sure they created the Flood, but it was because they lost to the Forerunners and wanted revenge (I’m guessing). Didn’t the Forerunners attack the Precursors because they felt that they should be the holders of the Mantle? How does that make the Precursors evil?

The Flood is a test designed to test races and their worth in upholding the Mantle; mankind was tested once, but we are to be tested again, presumably by a different method.

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> > I can understand the Precursors hating the Forerunners. After all, they did fight each other.
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> > My question is, what do the Precursors have against Chief and humanity? What did we ever do to them or the opposite?
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> > Besides, how are we so sure the Precursors are evil? Sure they created the Flood, but it was because they lost to the Forerunners and wanted revenge (I’m guessing). Didn’t the Forerunners attack the Precursors because they felt that they should be the holders of the Mantle? How does that make the Precursors evil?
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> The Flood is a test designed to test races and their worth in upholding the Mantle; mankind was tested once, but we are to be tested again, presumably by a different method.

Exactly. In about 110,000 years (about the time of Halo 4), the Primordial said Humanity would be tested again.

They already used the Flood, so its logical that they would use something else.

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> I can understand the Precursors hating the Forerunners. After all, they did fight each other.
>
> My question is, what do the Precursors have against Chief and humanity? What did we ever do to them or the opposite?
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> Besides, how are we so sure the Precursors are evil? Sure they created the Flood, but it was because they lost to the Forerunners and wanted revenge (I’m guessing). <mark>Didn’t the Forerunners attack the Precursors because they felt that they should be the holders of the Mantle?</mark> How does that make the Precursors evil?

No. The Precursors had deemd the Forerunners unworthy of the Mantle, and were planning to destroy the Forerunners.

When the Forerunners learned of this, they revolted.

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Also if a precursor were to return to the milkyway with revenge in mind, there would not be a game. In halo 1-3 all the flood were controlled by 1 gravemind…a precursor could create millions if it pleased…although faber isn’t that powerful he is still extremely powerful and would provide a formidable foe. His role as the main antagonist also seems a lot more logical when you think of it.

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This is my theory as to what’s going on, faber trapt the didact on requiem. The didact needs humanity’s help to free himself and stop whatever plan faber may have going on. While on the side some of the covenant want to try and help faber because he is a godlike figure to them.