The Halo 3 terminals catalogue the last words between the Didact and the Librarian before the Librarian fires the Halo array, but in terminal 7…well, yea. Am I missing something?
Two different Didacts (teased from the Halo Silentium description on Amazon).
Bornstellar-Didact activated the Halos from the Lesser Ark. (not the Librarian; She was on Earth)
Ur-Didact is the one you watched in the Terminals.
Not confirmed, but that’s what I’m assuming because it makes the most sense.
> Two different Didacts.
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> Bornstellar-Didact activated the Halos from the Lesser Ark.
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> Ur-Didact is the one you watched in the Terminals.
Wait, Halo array was activated twice?
I thought the Librarian activated the Halo, and that the Ur-Didact was killed by Faber and Bornstellar took his place.
Also, where did people get Ur-Didact from? The name, that is.
My question is Which one did you kill? Born-stellsr? Or the Actual Didact?
> > Two different Didacts.
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> > Bornstellar-Didact activated the Halos from the Lesser Ark.
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> > Ur-Didact is the one you watched in the Terminals.
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> Wait, Halo array was activated twice?
> I thought the Librarian activated the Halo, and that the Ur-Didact was killed by Faber and Bornstellar took his place.
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> Also, where did people get Ur-Didact from? The name, that is.
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No. The Bornstellar-Didact was the one who fired the array. No one else.
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The Librarian stayed behind the Maginot Line on Earth, spending her final days with humanity.
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Faber never killed the Ur-Didact. It was implied, but as the Silentium back cover states, the Ur-Didact did infact escape.
Ur-Didact is referenced in one of the books I’m pretty sure- that, or Silentium uses it.
> My question is Which one did you kill? Born-stellsr? Or the Actual Didact?
Apparently the Ur-Didact. This whole time I thought the Didacts existed one-right after the other. Just read the Amazon teaser, and apparently the Ur-Didact was NOT killed by Faber.
I should probably read Primordium…
> My question is Which one did you kill? Born-stellsr? Or the Actual Didact?
Actual. The Bornstellar-Didact was much more tolerant of humans.
> > > Two different Didacts.
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> > > Bornstellar-Didact activated the Halos from the Lesser Ark.
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> > > Ur-Didact is the one you watched in the Terminals.
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> > Wait, Halo array was activated twice?
> > I thought the Librarian activated the Halo, and that the Ur-Didact was killed by Faber and Bornstellar took his place.
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> > Also, where did people get Ur-Didact from? The name, that is.
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> 1) No. The Bornstellar-Didact was the one who fired the array. No one else.
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> 2) The Librarian stayed behind the Maginot Line on Earth, spending her final days with humanity.
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> 3) Faber never killed the Ur-Didact. It was implied, but as the Silentium back cover states, the Ur-Didact did infact escape.
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> Ur-Didact is referenced in one of the books I’m pretty sure- that, or Silentium uses it.
Would reading Primordium clear all this up?
I thought terminal 7 implied that the Librarian was hiding the Ur-Didact away right before she activated the Array…
It won’t help. It’s the new one coming out (Silentium?) that apparently explains it, the names are only known because the back cover mentions the “Ur-Didact” and the “Bornstellar-Didact”, and that the story is about their journeys or something.
> It won’t help. It’s the new one coming out (Silentium?) that apparently explains it, the names are only known because the back cover mentions the “Ur-Didact” and the “Bornstellar-Didact”, and that the story is about their journeys or something.
Wait so if the Librarian was on Earth, and Bornstellar was activating the Halo array…what was all this talk in the H3 terminals about a didact (presumably the original) being in a shield world telling her to come back to him? Did he wake himself up out of the coma she put him in to communicate with her and then put himself back?
> > It won’t help. It’s the new one coming out (Silentium?) that apparently explains it, the names are only known because the back cover mentions the “Ur-Didact” and the “Bornstellar-Didact”, and that the story is about their journeys or something.
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> Wait so if the Librarian was on Earth, and Bornstellar was activating the Halo array…what was all this talk in the H3 terminals about a didact (presumably the original) being in a shield world telling her to come back to him? Did he wake himself up out of the coma she put him in to communicate with her and then put himself back?
Shrug. Hopefully they’ll explain it, I noticed that inconsistency as well. Maybe both Didacts were in shield worlds, she betrayed Ur-Didact, and then Bornstellar-Didact was communicating on the terminals.
> > > It won’t help. It’s the new one coming out (Silentium?) that apparently explains it, the names are only known because the back cover mentions the “Ur-Didact” and the “Bornstellar-Didact”, and that the story is about their journeys or something.
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> > Wait so if the Librarian was on Earth, and Bornstellar was activating the Halo array…what was all this talk in the H3 terminals about a didact (presumably the original) being in a shield world telling her to come back to him? Did he wake himself up out of the coma she put him in to communicate with her and then put himself back?
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> Shrug. Hopefully they’ll explain it, I noticed that inconsistency as well. Maybe both Didacts were in shield worlds, she betrayed Ur-Didact, and then Bornstellar-Didact was communicating on the terminals.
Wait… so I’m basically asking questions that the answers to which don’t exist yet?
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The librarian may not be dead thanks to a few comments from GS 343 (Refer to the last book in the forerunner series)
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None really know who fired what as its sort of muddled. The next book is meant to clear this up.
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The Didact who appears to die may not be dead as the forerunners were the masters of slipspace their AI’s used it to travel around! it was like their internet. And if he can take 3 hits from a light rifle WITHOUT armor I doubt a grenades gonna kill him with his armor on.
Yes. Literally the only reason anyone knows about the names “Ur-Didact” and “Bornstellar-Didact” are because the synopsis of an as-yet unpublished book was released on the internet as a preview.
And thanks to the Epilogue, I highly doubt that the Didact is dead. In addition to the fact that he was still moving while falling, and he fell into Slipspace. He could have been deposited anywhere, and if I recall their armor was able to heal them.
> Yes. Literally the only reason anyone knows about the names “Ur-Didact” and “Bornstellar-Didact” are because the synopsis of an as-yet unpublished book was released on the internet as a preview.
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> And thanks to the Epilogue, I highly doubt that the Didact is dead. In addition to the fact that he was still moving while falling, and he fell into Slipspace. He could have been deposited anywhere, and if I recall their armor was able to heal them.
Alright then. Do me a favor and help me clear up what we DO know?
The Ur-Didact was found by Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting on Earth, and he was sealed away because I don’t remember why, later Ur-Didact gives Bornstellar his genetic imprint, and is captured and possibly killed by Faber. This is ALL before what happens in terminal 7, yes?
> > Yes. Literally the only reason anyone knows about the names “Ur-Didact” and “Bornstellar-Didact” are because the synopsis of an as-yet unpublished book was released on the internet as a preview.
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> > And thanks to the Epilogue, I highly doubt that the Didact is dead. In addition to the fact that he was still moving while falling, and he fell into Slipspace. He could have been deposited anywhere, and if I recall their armor was able to heal them.
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> Alright then. Do me a favor and help me clear up what we DO know?
> The Ur-Didact was found by Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting on Earth, and he was sealed away because I don’t remember why, later Ur-Didact gives Bornstellar his genetic imprint, and is captured and possibly killed by Faber. This is ALL before what happens in terminal 7, yes?
Yeah, I think. I believe the books so far have taken place before the Forerunner-Flood war was in full swing, and it really kicked in when Mendicant Bias assaulted the Forerunner capital. Obviously the Ur-Didact wasn’t killed by Faber, because the book says he’ll be in it.
> > > Yes. Literally the only reason anyone knows about the names “Ur-Didact” and “Bornstellar-Didact” are because the synopsis of an as-yet unpublished book was released on the internet as a preview.
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> > > And thanks to the Epilogue, I highly doubt that the Didact is dead. In addition to the fact that he was still moving while falling, and he fell into Slipspace. He could have been deposited anywhere, and if I recall their armor was able to heal them.
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> > Alright then. Do me a favor and help me clear up what we DO know?
> > The Ur-Didact was found by Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting on Earth, and he was sealed away because I don’t remember why, later Ur-Didact gives Bornstellar his genetic imprint, and is captured and possibly killed by Faber. This is ALL before what happens in terminal 7, yes?
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> Yeah, I think. I believe the books so far have taken place before the Forerunner-Flood war was in full swing, and it really kicked in when Mendicant Bias assaulted the Forerunner capital. Obviously the Ur-Didact wasn’t killed by Faber, because the book says he’ll be in it.
Alright, so the books take place before the second forerunner-flood war, or the first actual war, because I’m pretty sure the forerunners fought the flood a little big after they defeated the humans. But if that is the case, Why were the Forerunners fighting humans in the terminals? Was it just a recap?
Because it felt like it was implying that the forerunners were fighting them just before the events of the later terminals took place…
In the books, it’s revealed that Humanity cerca 100,000 years ago was an up and coming Empire second to the Forerunners, whose genetics quite likely would have enabled them to be greater than the Forerunners and assume the Mantle of Responsibility.
The Humans found a ton of unknown powder on an unknown vessel floating dead in space, and due to the fact that it caused “favorable traits” in a popular human pet (better coat colors, healthier, etc.) they started using it as a vitamin of sorts. After generations of breeding them while using this, they began mutating stranger things like tentacles and started to become very violent. These eventually mutated into the Flood we know today, and began consuming Human worlds. As a result of the Flood, the Humans began aggressively expanding into the rest of the galaxy, fleeing the Flood while trying to gather the forces to defeat them. The Forerunners saw Humans as the aggressors, and attacked them (as the Humans were invading many peaceful planets). In addition, the Humans were glassing (in addition to any other Flood infected planets) Forerunner worlds contaminated with the Flood, however the Forerunners were unaware of the Flood and believed Humans were simply glassing their people. In the books it’s stated that the Humans found an effective way to defeat the Flood which involved sacrificing 1/3rd of the remaining Humans (I believe their genetics were altered in such a way that when the Flood consumed them, those altered humans started spreading a Flood-specific virus that was destroying them). Before the Humans could entirely defeat the Flood, the Forerunners defeated them. The Forerunners reverted Human’s genome to the point where they were essentially stone age again, and the Humans refused to reveal how they engineered their method of defeating the Flood to the Forerunners before they were “downgraded”.
Thank you for writing that out. So this all happened even before Cryptum, right? What became of the flood? And in the Terminals, the advanced looking humans must have been being depicted before the books take place, because, you know, advanced.