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Subject: Cryptum, The Didact and Bornstellar (Spoilers)

So I just finished reading Cryptum finally, and I have to say it was a great book. Considering it didn't really have much to do with current day Halo I found it amazing that I was still so enthralled in it, it was written superfluously.

Still, I can't help but feel that the story is a little odd...

I mean think about it, Bornstellar is the Didact now.

So how does this make any sense on quite a few different levels I notice problems...

Why would the Didact start his story from the days when he was Bornstellar? Is there no difference in personality now between the Didact and Bornstellar, is Born basically a clone of the Didact now with a first-form body?

What I wonder is does he have any of his own thoughts and emotions anymore? By the way the book ended it seemed as if not. Which, I'm not gonna lie is one short end of the stick.

He basically gave up his own conciousness to allow a second Didact to exist.

What would have happened if the Didact had lived? Would they both be trying to hook up with the Librarian?

Awkward.

  • 03.09.2011 10:13 AM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

Bornsteller is like the Didact II. He is not the same individual but shares the same wisdom and knowledge. Obviously some traits of the mutation sponsor's personality passes to the subject to otherwise the Librarian and Bornsteller himself would not consider himself the "new" Didact, but like I said, Bornsteller's life as Didact will bring him different experiences from those the original lived through shaping him into a different person.

  • 03.09.2011 12:15 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Bornstellar is pretty much Didact 2.0 now. Born has all the memories and knowledge of the original Didact before he was executed by Faber, for all intents and purposes we could say he becomes the Didact over the next 300 years.

  • 03.09.2011 12:21 PM PDT

I'd say that Bornstellar is still very much his own person, but is now able to benefit and look at situations from an experienced perspective and with the Didact's military expertise. It's sort of like in Dune where Paul's children have the memories of their ancestors, but they're still very much Leto and Ghanima. That's what I'm getting 6/8 through the book anyway, unless he undergoes a complete metamorphosis at the end.

[Edited on 03.09.2011 12:27 PM PST]

  • 03.09.2011 12:25 PM PDT

Adepto In Meus Campester
Posted by: ParagonRenegade
You were totally and absolutely correct in every way, I don't know why we were arguing, you're so amazing I should never have doubted you.

Terminal 1
Is this the noble sacrifice my creators spoke of? Where is the nobility in these streets paved with greasy carbon and dun ash? [My mouth is speaking at another's behest] - that is not my voice; that is the other.

Its voice stands out as the single calm note in the panicked cacophony outside the sphere. It alone is not decrying its fate or raging against the [central government].

This anomaly bears closer examination.

I like how it ties in with the Terminals from Halo 3. More revelations to come in the next books as well. Also, I think the Didact's personality took over Bornstellar's out of necessity. Under calmer circumstances I think it would've remained as just memories and knowledge.

  • 03.09.2011 3:37 PM PDT