Hey, so at the end of Halo 4, we can hear The Didact talking, it sounds like he is talking in some sort of court room to other Forerunners as he is explaining what has just happened.
What do you think is going on?
“In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat. I ask, why? We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to… recede. Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool’s gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone. Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality: the Reclamation… has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it.”
It could have been a speech me made prior to entering the Cryptum the first time around, following the Human/Forerunner war…actually, it sounds like a declaration of innocence following accusations in a trial of sorts.
" I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy."
He must be in some sort of trial, possibly during his trial on the Forerunner planet prior to the Halo’s being hijacked by Medicant Bias
> > It is definitely a speech after his defeat by the Master Chief to the surviving Forerunners.
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> Are there any surviving Forerunners that we know of?