> Ive played through it twice and am working on my third playthrough, just saw the librarian’s scene again, and decided to actually look into it and had to do googling before it even started to make sense.
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> So the didact was a forerunner in charge of defending the forerunners and stuff. During the war with the flood, he turned some humans into prometheans to fight off the flood. that didnt work because there was not enough so he went to turn them all into flood.
He used the Composer to create an army to fight the Flood. He used both humans and his fellow Warriors for this. He did not turn anyone into Flood.
> The librarian imprisoned him on Requiem for this, and halo was fired. When MC freed him, he went to catalog humanity again. Why? the flood was (supposedly) destroyed.
The Flood isn’t completely gone, but the Didact wanted to finish what he started. Humanity is a threat in his eyes, so he wanted to finish them off. This would also give him his army to defend the galaxy in the future, considering that all the Forerunners are now gone.
> Also, Why did the librarian imprison the didact? was it because she saw him as violating the mantle? idk.
The Librarian had spent thousands of years making sure Humanity would recover from their war with the Forerunners and rise strong again. The Didact attempted to destroy all of her efforts. He was also mentally unstable after being tortured by a Gravemind. Locking him in Requiem was a way to get him to recover and see the wrong, but that obviously didn’t work out,
> Basically im trying to figure out what the librarian/most forerunners relationship with humanity is. why is MC the result of a thousand years of planning? i dont get any of that.
The Forerunners, primarily the Librarian, chose Humanity as the Reclaimers. As the Forerunners passed after the Halos fired, they would rise in their place as the galaxy’s caretakers.
The Chief was the result of thousands of years of planning, a character the Librarian needed to rise at a certain point to help continue Humanity along the path to the Mantle. She is steering Humanity in a certain direction, and she is a master at planning.
> Also supposedly the didact hates humanity to begin with-why? why does he hate the species but not the librarian or others? im awfully confused. the cutscene was awfully fragmented.
The Humans fought a war with the Forerunners in ancient times, resulting in the death of millions of Forerunners, including all of the Didact’s children. This resulted in a grudge against Humanity, which was fired up and consumed him after being tortured by a Gravemind. Spending 100,000 years sitting in his own insanity didn’t help anything by the time he was released.
> EDIT: Oh yea, whats the deal with the secrets in MC’s DNA and the evolution of his humanity or something…
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> -someone who has only played the games.
The Forerunners learned how to manipulate genetics. One way the Librarian was influencing Humanity was by subtly altering their genetics to reach a certain goal. Faster, stronger, more intelligent, stuff like that. She had a plan for Humanity’s “evolutionary journey”, and the situation required her to accelerate the Chief’s.