After playing Halo 4 I became quite confused as to why the Didact wanted to destroy humanity. In the books the Ur-Didact that actually fought against the humans is tortured and killed by the builder. Hence why the Librarian hugs the new Didact as he reminds her of the Ur-Didact as they share the same DNA. However in the game you are fighting the Ur-Didact.
So did the builder lie for no reason I can find when he said the Ur-didact was dead . Or are we fighting the second Didact who was on relatively good terms with humanity when the books ended.
You did read Silentium, right?
I’ll make it simple: He was mind–Yoinked!- by the Gravemind after being exiled into a Flood-infested area.
Nope didn’t read Silentium yet didn’t know it was out yet will go read it now. thanks for the quick reply 
> Nope didn’t read Silentium yet didn’t know it was out yet will go read it now. thanks for the quick reply
It has been out for over a year now. Though you are in luck since most new copies I’ve seen have the Rebirth content previously found through Glyph codes.
The gravemind screwed him up bad.
> > Nope didn’t read Silentium yet didn’t know it was out yet will go read it now. thanks for the quick reply
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> It has been out for over a year now. Though you are in luck since most new copies I’ve seen have the Rebirth content previously found through Glyph codes.
Really? I wish they had just done that in the first place.
Wasn’t it said that Ur-Didact got his position back near the end of Cryptum?
I never got the feel from it that he was killed.
> Wasn’t it said that Ur-Didact got his position back near the end of Cryptum?
> I never got the feel from it that he was killed.
It left his fate rather ambiguous.
> > Wasn’t it said that Ur-Didact got his position back near the end of Cryptum?
> > I never got the feel from it that he was killed.
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> It left his fate rather ambiguous.
From the reader’s perspective, yeah. But everybody else in the narrative believed that he was executed by Faber until Silentium’s official preview was released.
> In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood has arrived in force, aided by an unexpected ally. Internal strife within the Ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defences.
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> Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as the Catalogs have been dispatched to collect testimony from the The Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination.
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> Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood.
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> The Precursors created many technological species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before…
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> Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and The Librarian—husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict—hold the keys to a solution.
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> Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time—to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe.
> > > Nope didn’t read Silentium yet didn’t know it was out yet will go read it now. thanks for the quick reply
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> > It has been out for over a year now. Though you are in luck since most new copies I’ve seen have the Rebirth content previously found through Glyph codes.
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> Really? I wish they had just done that in the first place.
But we wouldn’t have had something awesome to hunt down and share with you all! Besides, the bookworms of this Universe section helped us find and articulate many of the glyphs needed!
To be honest I’d like an older copy and a new print copy. x: One with and without.
> Wasn’t it said that Ur-Didact got his position back near the end of Cryptum?
> I never got the feel from it that he was killed.
The Librarian calls him dead near the end of 2nd or 3rd last chapter.
They were referring to Bornstellar though (or trying to create a false sense of order, the whole trial seems to have been orchestrated as a trap). When I reread cryptum lately, it seemed most people knew the situation, and had not clued him in on it.
When Born asks his AI if she was his and not the didact’s, she gets confused.
> But we wouldn’t have had something awesome to hunt down and share with you all! Besides, the bookworms of this Universe section helped us find and articulate many of the glyphs needed!
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> To be honest I’d like an older copy and a new print copy. x: One with and without.
I definitely appreciate the work of you and the others who did all that.
A somewhat off topic question:
In “Cryptum”, when the Didact is awakened, the planet he is on (war sphinxes, jungles, sinking desert/sand hole-that-reveals-cryptum, etc) is said to be the 4th planet in an 8 planet solar system with a medium sized gas giant … that’s Mars, right? (if it’s obviously Mars, keep your “duh’s” to a minimum please.)
Many speculate that Mars was once Earth-like in terms of atmosphere and flora, but has since become the barren rock we know and love today.
So, with desert sink holes and flying war sphinxes ringing oddly familiar, is it possible the trailer for Halo Xbox One would have Chief on Mars? Maybe Didact retreated there after Halo 4, seeing as how close he was …
Or has this been suggested already?
> A somewhat off topic question:
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> In “Cryptum”, when the Didact is awakened, the planet he is on (war sphinxes, jungles, sinking desert/sand hole-that-reveals-cryptum, etc) is said to be the 4th planet in an 8 planet solar system with a medium sized gas giant … that’s Mars, right? (if it’s obviously Mars, keep your “duh’s” to a minimum please.)
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> Many speculate that Mars was once Earth-like in terms of atmosphere and flora, but has since become the barren rock we know and love today.
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> So, with desert sink holes and flying war sphinxes ringing oddly familiar, is it possible the trailer for Halo Xbox One would have Chief on Mars? Maybe Didact retreated there after Halo 4, seeing as how close he was …
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> Or has this been suggested already?
Actually, Bornstellar was sent to Mars (Edom) by his family to live with Miners because he was a rebellious child who needed to be taught discipline. He was sent to live with the Miners. but the Librarian’s ancilla helped him escape and he went to Earth (Erde Tyrene) in search of treasure, specifically the Organon which was a legendary device said to be able to reactivate all Precursor constructs. Instead, he ended up discovering that he was part of a plan which spanned millennia which the Librarian had engineered to release her husband from his Cryptum in Djamonkin Crater.
Humanity occupies Mars, they’ve been there since 2080. They would know if the Didact was there.
> > A somewhat off topic question:
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> > In “Cryptum”, when the Didact is awakened, the planet he is on (war sphinxes, jungles, sinking desert/sand hole-that-reveals-cryptum, etc) is said to be the 4th planet in an 8 planet solar system with a medium sized gas giant … that’s Mars, right? (if it’s obviously Mars, keep your “duh’s” to a minimum please.)
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> > Many speculate that Mars was once Earth-like in terms of atmosphere and flora, but has since become the barren rock we know and love today.
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> > So, with desert sink holes and flying war sphinxes ringing oddly familiar, is it possible the trailer for Halo Xbox One would have Chief on Mars? Maybe Didact retreated there after Halo 4, seeing as how close he was …
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> > Or has this been suggested already?
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> Actually, Bornstellar was sent to Mars (Edom) by his family to live with Miners because he was a rebellious child who needed to be taught discipline. He was sent to live with the Miners. but the Librarian’s ancilla helped him escape and he went to Earth (Erde Tyrene) in search of treasure, specifically the Organon which was a legendary device said to be able to reactivate all Precursor constructs. Instead, he ended up discovering that he was part of a plan which spanned millennia which the Librarian had engineered to release her husband from his Cryptum in Djamonkin Crater.
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> Humanity occupies Mars, they’ve been there since 2080. They would know if the Didact was there.
Well that is a giant “Duh” on my part. Misriah Armory is located there.
So the Didact’s 1,000 year Cryptum “nap” was on Earth? I think I need to revisit that book.
Yup, its called Erde-Tyrene at the time. I don’t believe the didact intended to be there though.
> Yup, its called Erde-Tyrene at the time. I don’t believe the didact intended to be there though.
My impression from the books is that he went intro the Cryptum not knowing where he would wake up and relied on his wife the Librarian to work out his resting place and his awaking.
He was either killed or floating away in space after the destruction of the Composer.