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Subject: Why and how does the Didact have the force?
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I don't get it. Did all Forerunners have telekinesis or is it some sort of magnet thing in his armour?

  • 12.01.2012 1:45 PM PDT

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They're called Constraint Fields.

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  • 12.01.2012 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They're called [ur=http://www.halopedia.org/Constraint_field] Constraint Fields[/url].


Dat failure.

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  • 12.01.2012 1:47 PM PDT

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The reading is off the chart. Over... 20,000. Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high.

  • 12.01.2012 1:47 PM PDT

"Space Magic" is a popular answer on the Flood.

  • 12.01.2012 1:48 PM PDT

Pootis

So, they can create giant ring-like planets that can decimate an entire galaxy, super powerful guns, hollow worlds used just for studying the Flood and can make buildings basically float, yet that is what you ask?

  • 12.01.2012 1:49 PM PDT
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So, they can create giant ring-like planets that can decimate an entire galaxy, super powerful guns, hollow worlds used just for studying the Flood and can make buildings basically float, yet that is what you ask?

  • 12.01.2012 1:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: PowerMan32094
"Space Magic" is a popular answer on the Flood.
And we claim ourselves as civilized beings. Any smart person would just realize space magic is incredibly advanced technology that happens to be used lately in science fiction where it normally takes place in space.

Obviously.

  • 12.01.2012 1:50 PM PDT

Because it's a video game, they can do that sort of thing.

  • 12.01.2012 1:52 PM PDT

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it's technology, not telekinesis. It appears to be some sort of gravity manipulation device. As for the restraint field theory, their is no grounds to say thats what the didact is using. I don't like how much the halopedia assumes things and states them as fact.

  • 12.01.2012 1:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They're called Constraint Fields.
That's interesting, but they really should have explained that in-game. Even Cortan just yelling something like "he's manipulating some form of energy field!" would be better than him force choking chief out of nowhere.

  • 12.01.2012 1:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
Posted by: PowerMan32094
"Space Magic" is a popular answer on the Flood.
And we claim ourselves as civilized beings. Any smart person would just realize space magic is incredibly advanced technology that happens to be used lately in science fiction where it normally takes place in space.

Obviously.

Obviously. Otherwise the technobabble quantum manipulation matrix would overload in the secondary pseudomagnetic cortex.

  • 12.01.2012 1:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They're called Constraint Fields.
That's interesting, but they really should have explained that in-game. Even Cortan just yelling something like "he's manipulating some form of energy field!" would be better than him force choking chief out of nowhere.
It's probably not a constraint field. Halopedia is just assuming things to sound smart again. The description of the field in cryptum does not match what the didact is using. It is clearly some form of technology though.

[Edited on 12.01.2012 1:58 PM PST]

  • 12.01.2012 1:57 PM PDT

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Constraint fields are pretty much telekinesis only usable by the Warrior-Servants, and even then only really by the people like the Didact.

  • 12.01.2012 2:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They're called Constraint Fields.
That's interesting, but they really should have explained that in-game. Even Cortan just yelling something like "he's manipulating some form of energy field!" would be better than him force choking chief out of nowhere.
It's probably not a constraint field. Halopedia is just assuming things to sound smart again. The description of the field in cryptum does not match what the didact is using. It is clearly some form of technology though.
The Didact's use of it is elevated and different from what was used in Cryptum.

  • 12.01.2012 2:06 PM PDT

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We've seen this exact same ability in Halo 2 with the Fist of Rukt, as Tartarus had it augmented with Forerunner technolgy which allowed him to do things like grab and suspend things in the air - at the end of The Oracle, for instance, where he uses it on 343 Guilty Spark.

It's not telekinesis, it's technology and we've seen plenty of examples of how the Forerunners, as a Tier 1 race, are masters of gravitational forces both natural and artificial. What exactly is so alarming about the Didact having the ability to use it on John when we've seen this kind of containment feature for years?

  • 12.01.2012 2:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
Posted by: Darthbill99
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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They're called Constraint Fields.
That's interesting, but they really should have explained that in-game. Even Cortan just yelling something like "he's manipulating some form of energy field!" would be better than him force choking chief out of nowhere.
It's probably not a constraint field. Halopedia is just assuming things to sound smart again. The description of the field in cryptum does not match what the didact is using. It is clearly some form of technology though.
The Didact's use of it is elevated and different from what was used in Cryptum.
Maybe, but Halopedia doesn't have any source confirming that, and are just talking out of their asses. Just like its article on rampancy that uses information from Marathon to support their claims.

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  • 12.01.2012 2:11 PM PDT


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Posted by: PowerMan32094
"Space Magic" is a popular answer on the Flood.
And we claim ourselves as civilized beings. Any smart person would just realize space magic is incredibly advanced technology that happens to be used lately in science fiction where it normally takes place in space.

Obviously.

But please don't forget we are talking to "people"

  • 12.01.2012 2:11 PM PDT


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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They're called Constraint Fields.
That's interesting, but they really should have explained that in-game. Even Cortan just yelling something like "he's manipulating some form of energy field!" would be better than him force choking chief out of nowhere.
It's probably not a constraint field. Halopedia is just assuming things to sound smart again. The description of the field in cryptum does not match what the didact is using. It is clearly some form of technology though.
The Didact's use of it is elevated and different from what was used in Cryptum.
Maybe, but Halopedia doesn't have any source confirming that, and are just talking out of their asses. Just like its article on rampancy that uses information from Marathon to support their claims.

Didn't Didact get implants in one of those terminal videos?

  • 12.01.2012 2:12 PM PDT

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Technology or Anakin Skywalker's son.

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  • 12.01.2012 2:13 PM PDT

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I can't think of anything except convenient space magic. Just like how he can conveniently take over the Prometheans by just flicking his fingers, despite the Prometheans meant to be guarding him and his prison.

Seems like a design flaw to me.

But then thats what happens when you have terrible writing.

  • 12.01.2012 2:14 PM PDT


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I can't think of anything except convenient space magic. Just like how he can conveniently take over the Prometheans by just flicking his fingers, despite the Prometheans meant to be guarding him and his prison.

Seems like a design flaw to me.

But then thats what happens when you have terrible writing.

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  • 12.01.2012 2:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamedude
I can't think of anything except convenient space magic. Just like how he can conveniently take over the Prometheans by just flicking his fingers, despite the Prometheans meant to be guarding him and his prison.

Seems like a design flaw to me.

But then thats what happens when you have terrible writing.


They were his soldiers...

  • 12.01.2012 2:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: Echo 318
Didn't Didact get implants in one of those terminal videos?


He physically mutated himself in an attempt to gain immunity against Flood infection, but the procedure failed and rendered his new form incompatible with the Composer.

  • 12.01.2012 2:18 PM PDT