As seen in the recent trailer the Didact is able to move and restrain John in mid air.
I have heard others complaining that Halo is becoming “too Sci Fantasy” or just too ridiculous. I agree, if he truly was telekinetic that would be ridiculous, but the fact of the matter is he’s not.
If you missed this while reading Halo: Cryptum, or encase you haven’t read it. (I recommend you do)
In battle over The Capital Glory of a Far Dawn used two constraint fields to secure Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting and Splendid Dust of Ancient Suns during Mendicant Bias’ attack.
Constraint fields were a form of Forerunner energy field used to restrain individuals. The interior of a a constraint field was pressurized against vacuum, and a constraint field could be merged with another field. Warrior-Servants were capable of generating constraint fields at will. - From http://www.halopedia.org/Constraint_field
Just thought I’d clear that up for everyone to avoid conflict.
It’s like nobody actually paid any attention to Halo…
The Fist of Rukt, Sentinels, Ghosts, Enforcers, Constructors, Monitors, Choppers, Guilty Spark’s restraint chamber on High Charity, Threshold’s Gas Mine and numerous other Forerunner structures utilise the same kind of manipulated anti-gravity technology.
Why is it so ridiculous that a race capable of creating colossal, galactic weapons of mass genocide and hollow planets have managed to scale down an anti-grav/containment field device?
> It’s like nobody actually paid any attention to Halo…
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> The Fist of Rukt, Sentinels, Ghosts, Enforcers, Constructors, Monitors, Choppers, Guilty Spark’s restraint chamber on High Charity, Threshold’s Gas Mine and numerous other Forerunner structures utilise the same kind of manipulated anti-gravity technology.
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> Why is it so ridiculous that a race capable of creating colossal, galactic weapons of mass genocide and hollow planets have managed to scale down an anti-grav/containment field device?
Well now apparently they believe that this telekinesis is actually the constraint field as they put it in the wiki page in your directory, they also simply believe that the Didact is the ancient evil! ugh i want to know why with all of these claims of an ancient evil. He cant just be helpful to the human race one minute in the books and later decide he hates them again because hes been practicably dead all these years…
to go about this some more here is a link to a discussion on the ancient evil where i have put out a tedious amount of info.
> Well now apparently they believe that this telekinesis is actually the constraint field as they put it in the wiki page in your directory, they also simply believe that the Didact is the ancient evil! ugh i want to know why with all of these claims of an ancient evil. He cant just be helpful to the human race one minute in the books and later decide he hates them again because hes been practicably dead all these years…
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> to go about this some more here is a link to a discussion on the ancient evil where i have put out a tedious amount of info.
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> https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst124340p2_Didact-confusion.aspx
> > Well now apparently they believe that this telekinesis is actually the constraint field as they put it in the wiki page in your directory, they also simply believe that the Didact is the ancient evil! ugh i want to know why with all of these claims of an ancient evil. He cant just be helpful to the human race one minute in the books and later decide he hates them again because hes been practicably dead all these years…
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> > to go about this some more here is a link to a discussion on the ancient evil where i have put out a tedious amount of info.
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> > https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst124340p2_Didact-confusion.aspx
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> He could be thinking himself crazy.
Now that’s something i haven’t heard before, but what drives him to insanity?
please don’t frase he was in that cryptum forever, the cryptum is not valid as he is basically asleep or dead while inside of it for the whole time as an AI controls it.
This is a good thread. I was wondering why the Didact would have telekinetic abilities. Now you found a canon reason for it.
Yet, two things disturb me. Wasn’t mentioned in Cryptum that these constraint fields are blue bubbles?
And do you remember that one video of three marines fighting each other? One of the marines used telekinesis to choke the other marine. Then the telekinesis boy pulled a Scout Spartan THROUGH the door and held him in mid-air. That would be more than telekinesis. That would already be creating miniature portals.
If I find the video I will post it here. It was a very unfinished version. And I think that the telekinetic marine was just the placeholder for the Didact.
I was surprised the argument about this was so fierce the other day. I was just like “… um, guys? We knew they could do this. Heck, even Spark had a mini one installed.”
Anyone who has played the games or read anything would know the answer.
The Forerunners were very effective at manipulating gravity fields. That is shown countless times. It isn’t unlikely that the Didact/his armor would allow some careful adjusting of gravity to use on enemies. It can be an effective weapon.
And then Cryptum directly states the use of constraint fields. That, more than likely, is what the Didact is using on John.
Its not magic, its science fiction. Manipulating gravity and stuff. We’ve known the Forerunners were capable of that since CE.
Yes, good. Holy crap, it irritates me so much when people call the Didact’s constraint field “the force” and claim it goes against canon because they clearly don’t know enough about canon to know what it actually is. @_@ Not that I blame them, since not everyone takes the time to read the books… but it’s still annoying as all hell.
> It’s like nobody actually paid any attention to Halo…
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> The Fist of Rukt, Sentinels, Ghosts, Enforcers, Constructors, Monitors, Choppers, Guilty Spark’s restraint chamber on High Charity, Threshold’s Gas Mine and numerous other Forerunner structures utilise the same kind of manipulated anti-gravity technology.
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> Why is it so ridiculous that a race capable of creating colossal, galactic weapons of mass genocide and hollow planets have managed to scale down an anti-grav/containment field device?
I don’t think the question was ever about the plausibility of Forerunner tech being able to suspend and/or move objects in space without any physical contact (heck, if you ever played around with magnets as a kid, you probably learned this is possible before you knew what long division was). It’s always assumed the weapons and machines of Halo are built to manipulate physics, just as it’s assumed that giant crane you may see lifting a car in a junk yard isn’t doing so through magic.
But, since you see Didact lifting the chief with a force that seems to be emanating from his hand, the question has been is he using his mind to control this force? (Which would be ridiculous, tantamount to me simply using my mind to magically control magnetic fields with the wave of a hand.) Or, is this ability part of the tech built into his suit/body, the workings of which are unknown, that is ultimately is explained as a feat of technology, not mind control or psychic telekinesis? I think when a new developer takes over a franchise and starts adding to established story canon that it is acceptable to be a little critical at times and question things. Just my opinion.
I think the OP did a good job of clearing this up, though. It sounds like it is most likely built in tech. Good post.
> > It’s like nobody actually paid any attention to Halo…
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> > The Fist of Rukt, Sentinels, Ghosts, Enforcers, Constructors, Monitors, Choppers, Guilty Spark’s restraint chamber on High Charity, Threshold’s Gas Mine and numerous other Forerunner structures utilise the same kind of manipulated anti-gravity technology.
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> > Why is it so ridiculous that a race capable of creating colossal, galactic weapons of mass genocide and hollow planets have managed to scale down an anti-grav/containment field device?
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> I don’t think the question was ever about the plausibility of Forerunner tech being able to suspend and/or move objects in space without any physical contact (heck, if you ever played around with magnets as a kid, you probably learned this is possible before you knew what long division was). It’s always assumed the weapons and machines of Halo are built to manipulate physics, just as it’s assumed that giant crane you may see lifting a car in a junk yard isn’t doing so through magic.
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> But, since you see Didact lifting the chief with a force that seems to be emanating from his hand, the question has been is he using his mind to control this force? (Which would be ridiculous, tantamount to me simply using my mind to magically control magnetic fields with the wave of a hand.) Or, is this ability part of the tech built into his suit/body, the workings of which are unknown, that is ultimately is explained as a feat of technology, not mind control or psychic telekinesis? I think when a new developer takes over a franchise and starts adding to established story canon that it is acceptable to be a little critical at times and question things. Just my opinion.
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> I think the OP did a good job of clearing this up, though. It sounds like it is most likely built in tech. Good post.
