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Subject: Halo: Silentium - story details revealed by Amazon

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

"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood - a horrifying shape-changing parasite has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.

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 Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from 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.

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.

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...

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.

Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all timeto prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe."


Discuss. I'll get back to you when I stop swooning over this...

  • 07.29.2012 12:02 PM PDT

Posted by: cB4d93
Posted by: Silent Eli
you are a good translator
Idiot can be a hard language to learn, but once you get it down, everything becomes so clear! The whole world will make sense to you.

Yessss the Flood is still extragalactic.

  • 07.29.2012 12:33 PM PDT

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


Posted by: BK Burger Boy
Yessss the Flood is still extragalactic.


T'was always the case... o_O

  • 07.29.2012 12:52 PM PDT

Haters are going to hate.
Praisers are going to praise.

The Bungie Forums are what keeps my mind sharp and my fingers active, between writing my own movie scripts, drawing, and studying industrial design. At the moment I'm working on miniatures for a short movie that I'll hopefully be able to film once I've saved up for a camera... That's me, with the mug, trying to have a conversation with Konoko.

Feels a bit cheap to find out about the Ur-Didacts fate through a synopsis, but other than that... GIVF MEH NAOW!!!

  • 07.29.2012 1:04 PM PDT

Posted by: cB4d93
Posted by: Silent Eli
you are a good translator
Idiot can be a hard language to learn, but once you get it down, everything becomes so clear! The whole world will make sense to you.


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: BK Burger Boy
Yessss the Flood is still extragalactic.


T'was always the case... o_O


I thought that Greg bear changed it so that they were exclusive developed as a weapon in the Milky Way.

  • 07.29.2012 1:04 PM PDT

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


Posted by: BK Burger Boy

Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: BK Burger Boy
Yessss the Flood is still extragalactic.


T'was always the case... o_O


I thought that Greg bear changed it so that they were exclusive developed as a weapon in the Milky Way.


Nein. Bear simply expands on the extra-galactic origin of the Flood - they were created by the Precursors in another galaxy and stored on an ancient ship which was sent into the Milky Way where the Ancient Humans discovered it.

Posted by: the real Janaka
Feels a bit cheap to find out about the Ur-Didacts fate through a synopsis, but other than that... GIVF MEH NAOW!!!


Indeed, we've been waiting since Cryptum's release to find out what happened to the UR-Didact. Even so, it sounds absolutely brilliant the direction it's going.

  • 07.29.2012 1:08 PM PDT
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Now things are getting interesting.

So the Didact was merely suppressed eh? I can see why he may be pissed.

  • 07.29.2012 1:19 PM PDT

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


Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Now things are getting interesting.

So the Didact was merely suppressed eh? I can see why he may be pissed.


Maybe the Ur-Didact has actually been infected by the Flood and had to be 'composed', or placed inside a Cryptum? There's a theory going around the Waypoint forums that the Promethean Knights could well be infected Forerunners 'composed' by the Composer. I also wonder if it will be the Ur-Didact or Bornstellar we actually encounter in the Reclaimer Trilogy...

  • 07.29.2012 1:27 PM PDT

What a waste....

SO MUCH SPECULATION!!!

And now we know for a certainty that the humans were made by Precursors.

  • 07.29.2012 1:38 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

If the Flood's genesis took place beyond our galaxy then that would seem to imply that whatever this act of barbarism was is not referring to the Forerunner-Precursor conflict, unless the Forerunners originated outside the galaxy too. It also seems to imply a third power as well that is neither Flood nor Precursor in saying that the act caused a greater evil to loom. Seems like the "Eldritch Abomination in a Can" thing.

  • 07.29.2012 1:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Now things are getting interesting.

So the Didact was merely suppressed eh? I can see why he may be pissed.


Maybe the Ur-Didact has actually been infected by the Flood and had to be 'composed', or placed inside a Cryptum? There's a theory going around the Waypoint forums that the Promethean Knights could well be infected Forerunners 'composed' by the Composer. I also wonder if it will be the Ur-Didact or Bornstellar we actually encounter in the Reclaimer Trilogy...


I said that about the composer and it doesn't make sense for the didact to be infected then put into a cryptum because he would be a mummy.

  • 07.29.2012 2:21 PM PDT


Posted by: anton1792
If the Flood's genesis took place beyond our galaxy then that would seem to imply that whatever this act of barbarism was is not referring to the Forerunner-Precursor conflict, unless the Forerunners originated outside the galaxy too. It also seems to imply a third power as well that is neither Flood nor Precursor in saying that the act caused a greater evil to loom. Seems like the "Eldritch Abomination in a Can" thing.


I know right? Bleh, it seems so absurdly cliche. Won't be buying...

  • 07.29.2012 2:53 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Posted by: anton1792
If the Flood's genesis took place beyond our galaxy then that would seem to imply that whatever this act of barbarism was is not referring to the Forerunner-Precursor conflict, unless the Forerunners originated outside the galaxy too. It also seems to imply a third power as well that is neither Flood nor Precursor in saying that the act caused a greater evil to loom. Seems like the "Eldritch Abomination in a Can" thing.

I know right? Bleh, it seems so absurdly cliche. Won't be buying...

I wasn't making a value judgement there though, so we might have to disagree. We'll see how it goes. Sometimes it's not the Bigger Bad that matters, but the effect that it has on normal people.

  • 07.29.2012 3:01 PM PDT

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


Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Posted by: anton1792
If the Flood's genesis took place beyond our galaxy then that would seem to imply that whatever this act of barbarism was is not referring to the Forerunner-Precursor conflict, unless the Forerunners originated outside the galaxy too. It also seems to imply a third power as well that is neither Flood nor Precursor in saying that the act caused a greater evil to loom. Seems like the "Eldritch Abomination in a Can" thing.

I know right? Bleh, it seems so absurdly cliche. Won't be buying...

I wasn't making a value judgement there though, so we might have to disagree. We'll see how it goes. Sometimes it's not the Bigger Bad that matters, but the effect that it has on normal people.


He's just been blindly insulting anything and everything about 343i the past few days, better to not take him seriously (and I have no doubt that his future posts here will prove my point).

  • 07.29.2012 3:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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

I am glad more races will be involved seeing as the galaxy should have more than 9 -_-

  • 07.29.2012 3:25 PM PDT

Glory and fame, blood is our name!
Souls full of thunder, hearts of steel!
Killers of men, a warrior's friend!
Sworn to avenge our fallen brothers!
Sons of the gods, today we shall die.
Open Valhalla's door!
Let the battle begin, with swords in the wind! Hail Gods of War!

So having the Didact as the antagonist of Halo 4 is back on the table. It's just the ur-Didact now.

  • 07.29.2012 4:11 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Posted by: anton1792
If the Flood's genesis took place beyond our galaxy then that would seem to imply that whatever this act of barbarism was is not referring to the Forerunner-Precursor conflict, unless the Forerunners originated outside the galaxy too. It also seems to imply a third power as well that is neither Flood nor Precursor in saying that the act caused a greater evil to loom. Seems like the "Eldritch Abomination in a Can" thing.

I know right? Bleh, it seems so absurdly cliche. Won't be buying...

I wasn't making a value judgement there though, so we might have to disagree. We'll see how it goes. Sometimes it's not the Bigger Bad that matters, but the effect that it has on normal people.

He's just been blindly insulting anything and everything about 343i the past few days, better to not take him seriously (and I have no doubt that his future posts here will prove my point).

My post was mere guess work as well. He must have missed that part...

Anyway, it's just the "greater evil" part that has me thinking that, because it's a relational term: Greater than what? Given that it's talking about the Flood and Precursors being involved in an act that spawned a greater evil, (And that the Flood is already a source of danger as the plot plays out) it can't really be them, unless it's referring to a freak mutation that turned the Flood into what it is now. It might also refer to a change in the Precursors nature; the act being so terrible that it marred their psyche. (Like the Timelords becoming delusional and detached from reality because of the Time War)

Though if it did turn out to be an unwordly horror then it might play into the reason for the Mantle's existence and the whole "flow of Living time" that it exists to safeguard; why it is so important for lifeforms to get along, for competition to be fairly balanced and not a one-sided domination, and why the Precursor seem so paranoid and desperate to find someone they can trust to enforce it.

Then again the Precursor wiping out whole species because they don't fit that criteria is a pretty wicked and twisted thing to do. The greater evil might simply be the beginning of the Precursors doing this, due to a first attempt failing miserably or something. (That would fall under the idea of them becoming marred.) And now because of that, we're next to be judged and, due to the unreasonable and delusional standards of the Precursors, have failed.

/randomspeculation

  • 07.29.2012 4:13 PM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

I'm glad the original Didact is still alive.

It's intresting if there is indeed something worse then the Flood and Precursors.

  • 07.29.2012 4:14 PM PDT

I love you [b]

a stormy voice uterrs a single thought in reply...... "devourous"

  • 07.29.2012 4:21 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

"Prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe"? Hope that is hyperbole. Why does each successive instalment try and up the threat? The Flood were already a galaxy killing swarm, there is no real reason to make them universe busters. I have no stake in the rest of the universe, it is all just background to me. Why should I care if a galaxy that we will never visit, ever, is devoured by the Flood? Keeping them down to a Magelanic clouds + Milky Way threat is more than enough.

  • 07.29.2012 4:27 PM PDT

I love you [b]

One would note even if its merely your home planet, an settled one, or something manufactured, one "insane evil" at that scale, it seem less future game and more movie comic book genre to me.

[Edited on 07.29.2012 4:40 PM PDT]

  • 07.29.2012 4:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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


Posted by: Xd00999
"Prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe"? Hope that is hyperbole. Why does each successive instalment try and up the threat? The Flood were already a galaxy killing swarm, there is no real reason to make them universe busters. I have no stake in the rest of the universe, it is all just background to me. Why should I care if a galaxy that we will never visit, ever, is devoured by the Flood? Keeping them down to a Magelanic clouds + Milky Way threat is more than enough.


Not to mention the flood isn't a universal threat.

  • 07.29.2012 4:38 PM PDT

I love you [b]

Agreed while the flood remain non universal according to our data, the potential for a being or race who created them to have unknown existence seems an intersting place to start a story.

  • 07.29.2012 4:44 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.


Posted by: grey101

Posted by: Xd00999
"Prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe"? Hope that is hyperbole. Why does each successive instalment try and up the threat? The Flood were already a galaxy killing swarm, there is no real reason to make them universe busters. I have no stake in the rest of the universe, it is all just background to me. Why should I care if a galaxy that we will never visit, ever, is devoured by the Flood? Keeping them down to a Magelanic clouds + Milky Way threat is more than enough.


Not to mention the flood isn't a universal threat.

Same goes for the Precursors. They can be compelling villains and a genuine threat without being nigh-immortal and indestructible.

  • 07.29.2012 6:12 PM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Posted by: anton1792
If the Flood's genesis took place beyond our galaxy then that would seem to imply that whatever this act of barbarism was is not referring to the Forerunner-Precursor conflict, unless the Forerunners originated outside the galaxy too. It also seems to imply a third power as well that is neither Flood nor Precursor in saying that the act caused a greater evil to loom. Seems like the "Eldritch Abomination in a Can" thing.

I know right? Bleh, it seems so absurdly cliche. Won't be buying...

I wasn't making a value judgement there though, so we might have to disagree. We'll see how it goes. Sometimes it's not the Bigger Bad that matters, but the effect that it has on normal people.


He's just been blindly insulting anything and everything about 343i the past few days, better to not take him seriously (and I have no doubt that his future posts here will prove my point).


There you go again, blindly assuming that your word is the word of god and is infallible.

I'll have you know denizens of Bungie.net, that this individual, right here, will do anything to make you think you are wrong provided it further inflates his own ego and passes off his own opinions as fact, because this person's arrogance and own personal self-hatred have become a virus, an infection upon these forums, that he will go to any length to put you down and make you feel like you are somehow 'in the wrong' for thinking for yourself and not how he wants you to think.

My dear friend, AJW, the only thing you have done is further discredit yourself by saying that by me saying and speaking my mind I am not to be taken seriously. By doing so you have proven yourself as the only person here to not be taken seriously.

All you, SEAL Sniper, and Grey101 have done is prove that you have just been blindly insulting anything and everything about ME for the past few days, which is why NONE of the above users mentioned should be taken seriously.

If it were up to me you all would've been banned months ago for flaming, personal attacks, and aggressive trolling attempts, aimed at making any and all opinionated against you angry or hurt. You are a horrible excuse for a human being, all three of you. Because you can't accept the FACT that people are GOING to HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS THAN YOU.

You need to grow up and start realizing this.

  • 07.29.2012 6:28 PM PDT