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Subject: I'm confused; which Didact do we fight in Halo 4?
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Wait, there were/are two Didact?

  • 12.28.2012 3:23 PM PDT

The MLG one.

  • 12.28.2012 3:24 PM PDT


Posted by: Infomaniac
Wait, there were/are two Didact?


Technically the Forerunner Bornstellar was imprinted with Didact's consciousnesses, becoming a new Didact.

  • 12.28.2012 3:25 PM PDT

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Has the Silentium blurb changed again? I didn't know Bornstellar-Didact was going after the Precursors beyond the galactic rim. =/

That was introduced in Halo 3's terminals and the Iris campaign.

I assumed Bornstellar-Didact was being his stoically-poetic self and saying he was venturing on the Great Journey the Precursors did by sacrificing for the Flood, this time in wiping the galaxy clean of life.

  • 12.28.2012 3:25 PM PDT

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Has the Silentium blurb changed again? I didn't know Bornstellar-Didact was going after the Precursors beyond the galactic rim. =/


That is from Halo 3's Terminals. He tells the Librarian that once the Halos fire he will begin the Great Journey to "follow in Their footsteps", as the Terminal literally says. This, of course, refers to the Precursors. It is further implied that he is going to remain alive because he says after that once he leaves he will be "carrying this bitter record" of their failure.

He can't really carry any kind of "bitter record" if he's dead...

[Edited on 12.28.2012 3:29 PM PST]

  • 12.28.2012 3:26 PM PDT

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Has the Silentium blurb changed again? I didn't know Bornstellar-Didact was going after the Precursors beyond the galactic rim. =/


In the halo 3 terminals, its explained that the didact fired the rings, killing his wife and then mysteriously, and for no reason, left the galaxy. In the forerunner saga its explained with more detail and less plot holes. Bornstellar didact left the galaxy to find the precursors and find out why they sent the flood or why they created them.

Pretty freaking obvious what's up after what the Primordial told Bornstellar-Didact at the end of Primordium.

There's probably more to it, though.

My prediction is that one strain of Flood the Precursors kept turned on their creators for being so selfish and creating them, the ultimate biological weapon, in the first place.

  • 12.28.2012 3:27 PM PDT
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So, Didact one died, and his consciousness was placed into Didact 2, which is in Halo 4?

  • 12.28.2012 3:28 PM PDT

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So, Didact one died, and his consciousness was placed into Didact 2, which is in Halo 4?


Didact One is still alive and is the one in Halo 4.

  • 12.28.2012 3:29 PM PDT

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So, Didact one died, and his consciousness was placed into Didact 2, which is in Halo 4?

Nope. Didact 1 put himself into Bornstellar, who became Didact 2. Didact 1 was presumed dead but returned and pushed for the Composition of mankind to combat the Flood. The Librarian got pissed off with him and attacked him before sealing him inside Requiem. Didact 2 helped her catalogue species in the Index, before activating the Halo array whilst she whiled away her final years on Earth.

  • 12.28.2012 3:31 PM PDT

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Has the Silentium blurb changed again? I didn't know Bornstellar-Didact was going after the Precursors beyond the galactic rim. =/


That is from Halo 3's Terminals. He tells the Librarian that once the Halos fire he will begin the Great Journey to "follow in Their footsteps", as the Terminal literally says. This, of course, refers to the Precursors.


The hell? It did say that. So bungie planned to have the precursors in their story?


Pretty much, it's hardly a coincidence that Halo 3's Bestiarum stated that there was another race out there more technologically advanced than the Forerunners, the exact description is:

"Tier 0: Transsentient - As the [Forerunners] had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishment greater than themselves - with the exception of the Precursors - this is a theoretical ceiling. They can travel intergalactic and accelerate evolution of intelligent life. These may be creatures of legend."

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  • 12.28.2012 3:32 PM PDT
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So, Didact one died, and his consciousness was placed into Didact 2, which is in Halo 4?


Here ya go buddy:

There are two didacts. Bornstellar Didact had human friends and he respected them. Its Ur Didact that's in halo 4. No Ur isn't dead, he survived the master builder's imprisonment but got stuck in a flood infected system. He got a mutation and new armor(the one you see him wearing in halo 4 with force powers) that was supposedly supposed to make him immune to the flood but it failed. Ur's solution to the flood was the composer and prometheans, the librarian disagreed and had to stop him so she ambushed him and locked him up in requiem and left a piece of her consciousness inside requiem which is who john talks to in halo 4.

Bornstellar didact and librarian then proceeded to banging each other and indexing the other races. Mendicant Bias betrays everyone again and screws over the librarian and forerunner forces leaving her stuck on earth. Meanwhile on the ark bornstellar didact is forced to activate the rings and kill all life in the galaxy to defeat the flood including most but not all forerunners. Ur is still trapped in requiem butthurt that his wife is a cheating whore and that he failed and slowly gains more resentment for humanity.

Bornstellar makes humans the heirs to the forerunner empire(which is why humans can only activate forerunner stuff). then takes all few remaining forerunners and leaves the galaxy.

100,000 years later john accidentally revives the Ur didact and man is he pissed at humans.

Tl;dr Ur survived and is in halo 4. Bornstellar left the galaxy.


ahhh, that explain a lot. I only read up to ghost of Onyx.
So is Bornsteller alive or did he die?

  • 12.28.2012 3:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Infomaniac
So is Bornsteller alive or did he die?


He's alive, outside the galaxy with the remaining Forerunners looking for the Precursors.

  • 12.28.2012 3:38 PM PDT

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Apparently Bornstellar-Diact went looking beyond the galactic rim for the Precursors, and we don't yet know what became of him.

I assumed he died when activating the Halo array. I mean, how would one survive that? Although, apparently he did it from the Ark... so maybe he survived quite easily...

To be fair, when Guilty Spark babbled on about it (ERMERGERD: Spark is a fragment of Chakas's mind, and Chakas and Bornstellar were friends), we were in the control room of Installation 04, and I think everyone since then assumed that's where Bornstellar did the deed. I know I did until just now. :O

  • 12.28.2012 3:39 PM PDT


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It's implied to be Bornstellar, but he acts more like the original.

  • 12.28.2012 3:41 PM PDT

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When did halo become soo... intricate?
Around the time they decided to make more money by making books that shouldn't be tied in to the main story but are anyway.

  • 12.28.2012 4:34 PM PDT

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