As we know Greg Bear has said that there are two Didacts. <mark>Greg Bear stating Two Didacts</mark>
In the campaign trailer we saw an upside down Didact symbol, symbolizing change or distress. We see AI Prometheans, not the same as the Warrior Servants in the Forerunner army. We also see a Cryptum, which is the big orange glowy thing (<mark>Cryptum Artwork</mark>).
So what we see and are lead to believe is that the Didact and his army of Prometheans are the enemy. The only problem is that they are AI, not Forerunner. And also there are two Didacts. Along with the fact that Bornstellar-Didact has no reason to want to kill us or take revenge/control of the galaxy.
This brings in my theory, and it is just that so go ahead and add input along with your own theory.
The Composer, someone who could take minds and implant them into AI, has taken the Didacts mind and made an AI Didact or machine, along with an army of his warrior servants. The Composer is possibly the Master Builder, or at least was under control of him. The Master Builder was never declared dead, and could have used this as a way to get back at the race and galaxy that betrayed him and his plans (in his view). He could have done it when he had control over the real Didact, not Bornstellar, in order to rise again down the road.
As many people on these forums agree, Bornstellar-Didact has no reason to fight us. Along with Greg Bear saying there are two Didacts, and the symbol being shown all over the place, it is safe to assume the other Didact is the enemy, or at least one of them. Unless someone else has a better theory of who and what the other Didact is, I think this is very plausible.
I think when he was talking about Two Didacts, he was refering to the original Didact that was awakened from his Cryptum in, well, Cryptum, and Bornstellar, who the Didact transferred himself(or his memories, i’m not quite sure) into. The original Didact was executed by the Master Builder, effectively making Bornstellar the only living Didact, and i’m almost positive that there is only one at a time, don’t quote me on that.
While your theory is plausible, it seems more likely that a Rogue AI or something else is behind this. The different color indicates a different allegiance as we all know that the Forerunners favored Light Blue. Mendicant Bias was corrupted by the Primordial, not a Gravemind as we had originally been led to believe. And even though the terminals on Legendary in Halo 3 lead us to believe that Mendicant Bias changed the destination of the portal at the last second to show his creators that he had changed, what if he was still corrupted and sent us there to unknowingly unleash a corrupted army of Forerunner AI’s, or he hitched a ride on the Forward Unto Dawn and corrupted them himself upon arrival.
WELL, I haven’t read Primordium (some yes, most no) but I am pretty sure that in Cryptum they made it pretty clear Faber is dead. Also, Faber was a very greedy individual who i feel over stepped his boundaries and didn’t really think everything through. This Composer sounds like a very tactful forerunner. Even if he was controlling Faber, I’m not sure what he would hope to gain with such brash and blasphemous decisions. That said, if anyone was gonna make an A.I. Didact, it would have probably been him. HOWEVER, the librarian, and the life workers as a class, were in charge of the installations, probably including this one.
Now with all of that, I agree the Didact A.I. is probably the case here. And after
100 000 years of rampancy and so called “Requiem” at his disposal, could be a lot of enemies to deal with.
The idea was brought to my intention that maybe there’s no threat, just a misunderstanding. We did crash into their planet, twice. The covenant seem to be already there, though that’s just speculation, and they are not known for their good first encounters. Could it be possible that this Didact just interprets us as helping the covenant? He obviously knows we’re a reclaimer but, hey, we got guns, they got guns, they got at him, then we did by falling all over his planet.
But, this is only theory. Just to be clear for everyone.
Again, its possible, but that new artwork of John in front of a Cryptum, which looks really cool, might very well imply that the Didact has been in stasis the last 100,000 years, and is just now being reawoken by the Chief. So that alone ALMOST dispproves the AI Didsct theory, because its known that Cryptums can only be opened through specific means, such as Chakas and Riser in Cryptum doing something, I forget what, imposed through a geas. So even if they tried, they probably wouldn’t have been able to get at the Didact inside his Cryptum to do such a thing. Chances are he’s on our side of this war.
Actually in fact, in Halo: Primordium, it is revealed that the Primordial was in fact a Gravemind that formed from several different species before the humans found it. This Gravemind corrupted Mendicant Bias and turned him against the Forerunners, who in turn, was captured and eventually killed by the new Didact (Bornsteller, who would most likely not have a grudge against humanity except for the fact that humans were the main reason the Librarian “died” due to her admiration for the species and attempt to preserve them). The theory of a Rouge Forerunner AI is very plausible because in the E3 demo the main Promethean combatants are Green and using an Orange color for their light and seem more threatening while later on in two tiny clips you could see white Prometheans with BLUE lights which could be a possible power struggle and like Guilty Spark suggested in one of his Halo: Anniversary terminals, “more than one caretaker per installation”.
Although it could also just be a choice for environment as well because the white Prometheans seemed to be fighting in either a rocky or snowy environment and so just to give more camouflage while their green counterparts were fighting in a jungle environment.
These are just my thoughts on the new enemies in Halo 4.
That is a good point! Maybe we can have a Didact vs Didact face off to the death, and we just run after helping him for a while so halo 5 can exist haha
I pointed this out once before, though I have yet to read any of the books. I hear people mentioning 2401 Penitent Tangent, 032 Mendicant Bias, and Didact but what about 049 Abject Testament? Terminal
> I pointed this out once before, though I have yet to read any of the books. I hear people mentioning 2401 Penitent Tangent, 032 Mendicant Bias, and Didact but what about 049 Abject Testament? Terminal
What about him? In that case, what about Offensive Bias? Or any other monitor? I don’t understand your point. Please Elaborate!
> > I pointed this out once before, though I have yet to read any of the books. I hear people mentioning 2401 Penitent Tangent, 032 Mendicant Bias, and Didact but what about 049 Abject Testament? Terminal
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> What about him? In that case, what about Offensive Bias? Or any other monitor? I don’t understand your point. Please Elaborate!
I was actually thinking Offensive Bias. That could be what the giant orb speeding towards the Infinity was. What if after the fight with MB, he assumed all the Forerunners were dead, and took on the role as the protector of their shield worlds and so on. Essentially being the new commander of the Forerunner military assumes the role of the Didact, using his symbol to represent himself. just a thought.
On a seperate but connected note, did everyone notice how the AIs incinerated the Elite charging the MC, essentially saving him, but then proceeded to use its fist to knock the chief down? If they possess the power to incinerate a being, why not just destroy the chief? Obviously their power was being displayed, not just so they wouldn’t use it again. I think the dropping of the infinity and anything with MC are more like a misunderstanding. I think the AIs were trying to restrain the chief more than kill him.
> What about him? In that case, what about Offensive Bias? Or any other monitor? I don’t understand your point. Please Elaborate!
Well is he talked about much, why is he in the terminal, and why does he say we deserve to be forgotten? Is it just me or do they sound similar talking? The one in the end of halo 4 trailer, and Abject.
> > What about him? In that case, what about Offensive Bias? Or any other monitor? I don’t understand your point. Please Elaborate!
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> Well is he talked about much, why is he in the terminal, and why does he say we deserve to be forgotten? Is it just me or do they sound similar talking? The one in the end of halo 4 trailer, and Abject.
I thought all of those AIs that met in that terminal were all the monitors of the Halos…Why would he then be on Requiem? If his ring wasn’t destroyed or compromised he wouldn’t leave his ring.
> I thought all of those AIs that met in that terminal were all the monitors of the Halos…Why would he then be on Requiem? If his ring wasn’t destroyed or compromised he wouldn’t leave his ring.
It once again displayed that Installation 03 was on standby mode, ready to fire. However, the Master Chief deactivated the installation before it could be fired.
No!
greg bear said: “for now, let’s just say there’s 2 didact”.
that doesn’t mean: there’s physically two didacts, it’s more like a metaphor - like Goethe wrote “Two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast.”
the didact has been presented as a ruthless killer (personality 1), tempered by (his love to) the librarian (personality 2).
he’s either been corrupted by the Precursors (when the Prisoner is executed he says “kill this servant so another may be freed” - i always wondered if he was referring to the Didact himself at that point, meaning that he will be corrupted next) or just his old self, killing humans, until the librarian will be brought back to him by the monitor from primordium, at which point we will be presented with the new ancient evil.
Prometheans are warriors, they don’t build things. I kinda believe that the constructs are all built by…builders. Fabers army, as it were. Faber could be working for the precursors right? And the precursors create races right? So Faber “created” a race to fight in their name. He sure as heck didn’t have the prometheans on his side, so he constructed an army of faux-prometheans to fight for him. All the REAL prometheans/the didact are probably trapped in cryptums or the like. The didact following chief around isn’t actually trying to kill him, but semi-guiding him to free him so they can mount a proper resistance.
All just speculation because fighting the didact don’t make no sense.
Boom. You ready for me to lay some hypothetical knowledge on all ya’ll. Why would they destroy one of the greatest military minds that the Forerunners had at their disposal?
The original Big D fought the humans in the Forerunner-human war. He was a war god that obviously made a choice in battle that branded him the violation. The Librarian then hid him. He was an amazing asset. My thoughts are that they wouldn’t just kill him. They wanted him for a reason. And they didn’t just kill him. They are the Forerunners… They had tons of weapons at they’re disposal but captured him alive? Then as you read, you’re told that they killed him… WTF. Seriously. Now his children AI die in the battle protecting him I think so the Forerunners, lead by the Master Builder, were not playing around but again, why capture him alive? The Master Builder had it out for him. And I think gave the order to preserve his mind as an AI.
The original Big D is Offensive Bias stripped of personality and saved only the wealth of strategic knowledge. I think the Librarian helped persuade the Master Builder if anything to save some part of him, whatever. She seemed too much in the loop about her lovers fate. And it makes more sense for why she stays on such a distant planet with no way of retreating collecting life samples. She knows that part of the Diadect will live on after to protect the plan she had created. Who else would they trust to ensure the survival of organic beings? Just some randomly created super AI? Didn’t work so well with MB.
If you read the terminals, Offensive Bias (won?) the battle because when the Halo Rings fired it left so many of Mendicant Bias’s ships un-manned that OB outnumbered MB 6:1. That was amazing because MB originally outnumbered OB in that final battle before the rings fired like 4 million billion to 1 because of organics lol. So that MEANS OB had a army of AI to survive the blast and keep fighting (promethean AI enemys in the E3 trailer).
Plus there is the whole line about OB thinking about stripping MB to his core function then sending him to some installation for analyzing but then says that “it” probably wouldn’t do the same for him. That is a F’ing curious line to put in… shows some sentinel being of thought for a Military AI thats suppose to be a cold strategic calculating machine. I think parts of the Diadect copied that maybe the master builder didnt count on, that no one counted on. Thus 100,000 years later, knowing the information that the Precursor told him when they won the last battle against the humans, OB now faces a Reclaimer. I think its beautiful. Because its the same kind of story that will happen with Cortona. Big D hates but respects the humans. To Kill master chief is to destroy the plan the Librarian made, is in a way to kill her image again. But he has gone rampant.
> As we know Greg Bear has said that there are two Didacts. <mark>Greg Bear stating Two Didacts</mark>
>
> In the campaign trailer we saw an upside down Didact symbol, symbolizing change or distress. We see AI Prometheans, not the same as the Warrior Servants in the Forerunner army. We also see a Cryptum, which is the big orange glowy thing (<mark>Cryptum Artwork</mark>).
>
> So what we see and are lead to believe is that the Didact and his army of Prometheans are the enemy. The only problem is that they are AI, not Forerunner. And also there are two Didacts. Along with the fact that Bornstellar-Didact has no reason to want to kill us or take revenge/control of the galaxy.
>
> This brings in my theory, and it is just that so go ahead and add input along with your own theory.
> The Composer, someone who could take minds and implant them into AI, has taken the Didacts mind and made an AI Didact or machine, along with an army of his warrior servants. The Composer is possibly the Master Builder, or at least was under control of him. The Master Builder was never declared dead, and could have used this as a way to get back at the race and galaxy that betrayed him and his plans (in his view). He could have done it when he had control over the real Didact, not Bornstellar, in order to rise again down the road.
>
> As many people on these forums agree, Bornstellar-Didact has no reason to fight us. Along with Greg Bear saying there are two Didacts, and the symbol being shown all over the place, it is safe to assume the other Didact is the enemy, or at least one of them. Unless someone else has a better theory of who and what the other Didact is, I think this is very plausible.
Thank you! Finally someone gets it that the Master Builder might not be dead!!