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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: Sanjeev
Heh, don't even think you read most of my post. No matter.
First of all, I gave you the excerpts. Those quotes are from the Halo 3 terminals. You're looking at the words, and instead of accepting the very clear meaning behind them, are providing speculative alternatives. I'm open to alternate viewpoints, you can't survive in the Halo community without being open to that, but you're twisting the words so much that your speculation, in my eyes, just doesn't make any sense.
No matter.
The Didact is already bloody old. He was alive back during the Human-Forerunner war. He went into a Cryptum, survived for much longer, got revived and did more cool -blam!- after that. Also, from established fiction, we know Forerunners live for very long. Hell, The Librarian, despite not being in a Cryptum, lived for more than 10,000 years.
We have no idea what the average lifespan of a Forerunner is. Please, if you do, let me know.
The quotes I gave you, if you read them, you would know are from the terminals, NOT from the damn article. I stated that outright. Your Halo fiction is where the quotes are from. Its not piggybacking off other people's work, its actually paying attention to the fiction instead of desperately trying to cling on to my own words without keeping an open mind.
MB wasn't already at the Ark, he was approaching it. That's the battle at the Maginot Sphere, the Forerunners' last stand, where OB won. He never reached the Ark, you're right. I never said he did. The article never said he did. The terminals I quoted never said he did.
.Every bomb has a countdown and you said it yourself that activating a single halo would have the others fire after it.
I said the opposite actually, I said that in order to fire all the Halos, you need to be at the Ark as far as we know. Maybe there's some magical other place we don't know about yet that can do it too but as far as we know, Halos fire individually, unless fired from the Ark or put into standby mode.
Of course, you're gonna find something else to fight in this argument and we ain't gonna stop debating over this. Lets just wait and see how the fiction plays out in the end.
Just try to keep an open mind. I am not the master of the Halo fiction. I don't know a bunch of stuff. But I know enough to know when folks are latching on to schematics.
Agree to disagree here is the only way for now, I suppose.
I read your post, just because it isn't a clear cut answer and is going to require thinking doesn't mean it isn't an answer.
There is nothing to be clear minded about on this matter when there are atleast 2 if not 3 clear sources that he died. you haven't given a reason to why he would chose to live and kill everything including a large portion of his race. I don't even think Faber would do something selfish as that.
Which is the point i am making about forerunner age. If his wife is 12,000 years old and regarded as one of the oldest forerunners why the hell do you think he can live 100,000+ years? haven't you noticed the lack of grandparents being mentioned? they obviously don't live forever.
I was attacking you referencing the article as if it would mean anything. i know where the quotes are from and i know them well.
You say MB wasn't at the ark but the Didact clearly said "MB races back to the Ark". That's why i said piggybacking off people's work is going to get you in trouble. Because if you read that you wouldn't have said " MB wasn't already at the ark".
When was it said that? i want a reference where it clearly said that. now let me start pulling pics and quotes.
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Two betrayals- "More or less. Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or at least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood." (Pause) "But you already knew that... I mean, how couldn't you?"
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"Last time, you asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed."
In short Once you activate one halo the others will follow; And 343 clearly thinks That MC is the didact or something because he is referencing him. If Didact activated the arrays from the ark why would he be talking to 343? why not the monitor of the ark? Once the monitors were assigned to a ring they stayed there we know that from the newer terminals; so did didact just call 343 for advice?
Halo legends was a summary of the events that was to sum up for the generic player. If what you say is true why didn't they show didact at the ark? Since many players that don't know better are going to take this frame by frame that is highly misleading especially since many don't know about didact.
Skip to 7:11 and you can see a forerunner (which 343 confirmed is didact) at a control panel. next thing you know he puts the index in and OMFG HALO ACTIVATES AND SO DO THE OTHERS. So this supports 343's lines and the array recorder data that didact was at a halo not the ark.
Didact at halo
Halo activating
The Great journey- ""Fail-safe protocol: In the event of unexpected shutdown, the entire system will move to standby status. All remaining platforms are now ready for remote activation."
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Like i said If you stop one ring from firing then all of them have to be remotely activated. Why would that be the case if when you activated one only one fired? they are lightyears apart so they wouldn't make sense unless they all can activate from one firing.
So for the last time. He is dead, Everything supports that he is. until you can have more evidence then lines in a terminal that can be interpreted 6 ways to sunday you don't have any support for your claim. If i need to dissect the terminals and IRIS next i will.