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"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."


Father,
I hope this message finds you well and helps you understand my decision. Today I leave the only world I have ever called home, not for glory or [the anomalous desire to end another's life? as you have [indicted]; but to [travel the path of demons? to spare the hands of [another Father's son].

"Had we acted sooner; had we acted more decisively..."

Living in the past is a luxury none of us can afford. We must learn from it, but we cannot live there. It is impossible to plan for the [now] - the present is ever fleeting. [The future] is where we must live - [the future] is what we must plan for.

I do not look to trade my life in order to preserve our past, but to secure the futureand if not ours, then the future of some [culture] yet to come.

Isn't sacrifice in the interest of others what you spoke of as being so noble? Should I have allowed another to bloody his hands while I remained safe behind a [shield of privilege]?

You raised me better than that.

[Filial Devotion]



Ok so I am desperate to know who is speaking here, the message is adressed to Didact. Also is the 'Sheild or privelege' a metaphor or a genuine sheild world? Does anyone else have any thoughts or theories, sorry if this threads been done before.

  • 07.19.2011 5:29 AM PDT
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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.

It might not be adressed to Didact, infact I think it's unlikely it is; The Didact would be much more understanding about his son joining the millitary, and wouldn't say it was due to bloodthirstiness. It is certainly addressed to a high-rank Forerunner (not of the warrior caste) possibly a Builder, this would explain the "shield of privilege" as the son of a Forerunner of high rank would not be expected to be involved in warfare.

It seems this Forerunner went to battle the Flood out of a sense of duty, to spare others the horror of doing so, even knowing he was likely to die.

I'll note Halopedia has this Forerunner's name being "Filial Devotion" I think this is an error, signing a letter with a filial devotion simply means signing it "your loving son" or similar.

  • 07.19.2011 5:57 AM PDT

"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."

Ah ok, that makes sense, its just Didact or 'D' replies directly to this terminal entry. Unless its a different 'D' than used before? Halo nation also says that the son is likely the being who detonated the halo array, though i find that to be an error aswell.

  • 07.19.2011 6:08 AM PDT
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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.

Didact's reply is to the Librarian, in the previous terminal, she says:
Be proud. The Mind claims victory, yet it still doesn't suspect. You've outwitted it, my love. And now you can destroy it.

But you cannot save me.


Mostly the Halo Wiki's are a bit hit and miss, Didact fired the Array, no-one else.

  • 07.19.2011 6:13 AM PDT

"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."

yeah i thought as much, thanks :)

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We are all going to get banned aren't we?

Fin the reason we believe it is sent to the didact is because of the following lines

"Had we acted sooner; had we acted more decisively..."

something the didact always talk about when referring to the flood such as

"My inaction and hesitation and foolishness kept me here, on the wrong side of the line. And [300 years[?]] of our society's failure and miscalculation makes me your executioner."

and the shield of privilege is a reference to the shield worlds, something he would have wanted his family to take place in.


only issue is that all of his kids were killed by humans, so unless he has another kid it isn't him. it could very well be one of bornstellers other siblings writing to their dad or another forerunner all together

  • 07.19.2011 12:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: grey101
only issue is that all of his kids were killed by humans, so unless he has another kid it isn't him. it could very well be one of bornstellers other siblings writing to their dad or another forerunner all together

Kinda sounds like Bord/Diadect and the Librarian were about to "Bow Chicka Wow Wow" if you know what I mean at the end of Cryptum.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: grey101
only issue is that all of his kids were killed by humans, so unless he has another kid it isn't him. it could very well be one of bornstellers other siblings writing to their dad or another forerunner all together

Kinda sounds like Bord/Diadect and the Librarian were about to "Bow Chicka Wow Wow" if you know what I mean at the end of Cryptum.


I thought they did.

  • 07.19.2011 12:32 PM PDT
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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.


Posted by: grey101
Fin the reason we believe it is sent to the didact is because of the following lines

"Had we acted sooner; had we acted more decisively..."

something the didact always talk about when referring to the flood


Yeah, but you'll note the following:
(a); The letter-writer is quoting the Didact there, it's not his own words, he is using the Didact's musings to try and persuade his Father.
(b); The Didact would not accuse someone of going to war for "the anomalous desire to end another's life" he is a warrior and has been all his life, it doesn't fit.
(c); The Didact's children are all dead at this point, Cobra's point aside, we know of no surviving children he has.

and the shield of privilege is a reference to the shield worlds, something he would have wanted his family to take place in.

I think you are reading too much into it, it merely means social privilege, he's the son of a 'nobleman' as it were.


it could very well be one of bornstellers other siblings writing to their dad or another forerunner all together

I think this is the much more likely option.

[Edited on 07.19.2011 1:01 PM PDT]

  • 07.19.2011 1:01 PM PDT