Shadow-of-Sundered-Star , also more commonly known as the Ur-Didact or simply as the Didact , is the main antagonist of the video game Halo 4 and a posthumous antagonist in its sequel Halo 5: Guardians. He is an ancient Forerunner and the creator and leader of the Prometheans , who intended on corrupting the entire human race as he viewed them as the greatest threat to the galaxy.
The Didact was once the supreme commander of the entire Forerunner military. He was a known military genius and was highly strategic and skilled in the art of war. He was unmatched in combat, and a sight to behold, standing over Like many Forerunners, he wore a Hyper advanced exosuit of armor.
Early in his career, he gained the nickname Didact from his students while serving as a professor at a Forerunner Military Academy. The Didact was opposed to the creation of the Halo rings, as he saw them as a sin above everything else, that they stood against the very fabric of the Mantle The Forerunners belief that all life is equally precious, and that if possible it must be preserved above everything else this was the core to the Forerunner belief system, war, to the Forerunner was looked at as a last possible resort, being looked down on, and seen as shameful in a way, it was only to be done if all other options were exhausted.
The Didact was also the lover of the Librarian, the highest ranking of the Lifeworkers A social class that specialized in all forms of life within the Forerunner , she was responsible for the preservation of all life before the Halo's were activated, she hid every species she could gather safely inside the Halo rings.
Eventually, they were sent back to their worlds of origin to re-evolve and thrive. Before the Flood was a direct threat to the Forerunner many hundreds of thousands of years ago they were a threat to the Humans, and San Shyuum , this eventually took form of a losing war, and when the humans eventually started losing planets, they were forced to push their colonies back into Forerunner territory, eventually forcefully taking it.
When all looked lost, the humans found a cure for the Flood and beat them back, but the cost was great, and before this the Forerunner had been forced to defend themselves against the humans forceful entering and taking their planets, the humans were now at war on two fronts, unbeknownst to the Forerunners at the time.
Unfortunately, once the Forerunner war machine was started there was simply no stopping it, the humans and Forerunners war had a long and brutal war, it was the Didact who controlled the Forerunner military at this time, and it was he who defeated us. Once the Creation of the Halo rings started, the Didact was so opposed to them that he chose to exile himself rather than take part in their creation. He hid on Charum Hakkor Ancient earth inside his Cryptum hoping not to be found.
Afterward, the Humans and the San 'Shyuum would both be put onto separate planets, our ancient homeworlds, and devolved back to primitives by the Halo rings as punishment. About a thousand years afterward a young Manipular A Forerunner builder class by the name of Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, and two humans found the Didacts Cryptum while looking for treasure, soon after re-awaking the Didact.
Eventually, the Didact melded with Bornstellar, giving him his memories, knowledge, and many of his physical traits, eventually being re-embodied as a new form. He would become a second Didact. No recent wiki edits to this page. Born Shadow-of-Sundered-Star , The Didact was once the supreme commander of the entire Forerunner military, he was a Military genius, and proficient in the art of war, he was unmatched in combat, and a sight to behold standing over The Didact was opposed to the creation of the Halo rings he saw them as a sin above all else, that they stood against the very fabric of the Mantle The Forerunners belief that all life is equally precious, and that if possible it must be preserved above all else this was the core to the Forerunner belief system, war, to the Forerunner was looked at as a last possible resort, being looked down on, and seen as shameful in a way, it was only to be done if all other options were exhausted.
The Didact was the lover of the Librarian , the highest ranking of the Lifeworkers A social class the specialised in all forms of life within the Forerunner , she was responsible for the preservation of all life before the Halo's were activated, she hid every species she could gather safe inside the Halo rings.
Eventually they were sent back to their worlds of origin to re-evolve and thrive. Before the Flood were a direct threat to the Forerunner many hundreds of thousands of years ago they were a threat to the Humans, and San 'Shyuum the Prophets , this eventually took form of a losing war, and when the humans eventually started losing planets, they were forced to push their colonies back into Forerunner territory, eventually forcefully taking it.
When all looked lost, the humans found a cure for the Flood and beat them back, but the cost was great, and before this the Forerunner had been forced to defend themselves against the humans forceful entering, and taking their planets, the humans were now at war on two fronts, unbeknown to the Forerunners at the time. Unfortunately once the Forerunner war machine was started there was simply no stopping it, the humans and Forerunners war had a long and brutal war, it was the Didact who controlled the Forerunner military at this time, and it was he who defeated us.
Once the Creation of the Halo rings started, the Didact was so opposed to them that he chose to exile himself rather than take part in their creation.
He hid on Charum Hakkor Ancient earth inside his Cryptum hoping not to be found. Afterwards the Humans and the San 'Shyuum Our allies at the time would both be put onto separate planets, our ancient home worlds, and devolved back to primitives by the Halo rings as punishment. About a thousand years afterwards a young Manipular A Forerunner builder class by the name of Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, and and two humans found the Didacts Cryptum, while looking for treasure, soon after re-awaking the Didact.
Eventually the Didact melded with Bornstellar, giving him his memories, knowledge, and many of his physical traits, eventually being re-embodied as a new form. This continued even after the two had been separated, with the Didact's imprinted consciousness offering his view on various matters and making occasional wry comments to Bornstellar, until fully subsuming his consciousness in order to continue the original Didact's work as the IsoDidact.
By the time the two reunited years later, their relationship quickly became much less amicable, in particular due to the IsoDidact's acceptance of the Halo Array as a final option. The one hundred thousand years the Didact spent locked away in meditative hibernation on Requiem did nothing to heal his damaged psyche, or soften his grudge against humanity. Upon being reawakened by John, he remained as determined as ever to ensure Forerunner supremacy, and resolved to compose the entire human race to finish what he started all those ages ago.
However, his rage and overconfidence in his abilities led to his defeat at the hands of the Master Chief twice, the first time leading to his fall into a slipspace portal, and the second leading to his physical body being destroyed by the Composers; the very device with which he had planned to enslave humanity.
The Didact was considered in his time to be the supreme enemy of humans, viewing mankind as a grave threat to Forerunner peace and considering them to be extremely contentious, bigoted and self-centered. This new stance, combined with his desperation to stop the Flood, was behind his heinous actions toward the end of the Forerunner-Flood war.
Prior to his transformation, while dismissive of the potential for humans to take on the Mantle, the Didact also respected humans as warriors and regarded them as honorable, unlike their San'Shyuum allies who had surrendered earlier in the war. His respect for the humans was demonstrated when he met with his main opponent, Forthencho, the Lord of Admirals , in person after the humans' defeat, speaking to him as a fellow warrior and reassuring him about the future despite humanity's grim predicament.
The Didact commented that he had specifically requested that the Librarian save the Florians because he saw them as peaceful yet full of cleverness.
However, the Didact made it clear that this just made them worthy pets to him. While he understood humanity's motives for aggressive expansion after studying their records of their struggle with the Flood, the Didact agreed with the Old Council's decision to eradicate the contemporary human civilization and banish the remnants of the species to their homeworld, as he felt that the humans had wrongly taken the Mantle upon themselves in their attempts to contain the Flood.
The Didact also held that the Forerunners were more deserving of the Mantle than humans because of the latter's propensity for finding objects of worship in nature and in Precursor artifacts, whereas the Forerunners had always derived their beliefs solely from the Mantle.
The Didact's antipathy toward humans was at least partially curtailed by the Librarian, who was, in stark contrast, regarded as humanity's greatest protector. The Ur-Didact appeared to regard Chakas and Riser, the two humans who accompanied Bornstellar, with relative indifference, viewing them as mere annoyances, though he tolerated them because they were part of his wife's plan and because he likely recognized the value of their personality imprints.
When Bornstellar became annoyed with the Didact's way of referring to the two as Bornstellar's humans, the Didact grudgingly adjusted his method of address for them. However, he was less than pleased initially at Chakas' form as it reminded him too much of the ancient humans who had cost the Didact so much and stated that Chakas' presence provoked him as a result. As an immensely powerful Forerunner with incredibly advanced technologies at his disposal, the Didact has a number of extraordinary abilities.
He has the capability to generate and manipulate powerful constraint fields at will, [69] in effect granting him the power of telekinesis to restrain or physically harm his opponents from a distance.
He can also use the fields to levitate himself to some extent. The Didact possesses extraordinary neurological, mental and physical abilities bestowed by his senior Promethean form. One of these is the augmented state of perception known as "battle mode", splintering his perception of reality into several variable frames of reference with a slowed-down experience of time, granting him impressive multitasking abilities.
Like Warrior-Servant armor in general, the Didact's personal armor was designed to attune itself to enemy weaponry; this allowed his armor to become virtually invulnerable to numerous successive hits from Forerunner infantry weapons. The Didact can also manipulate the architecture of areas under his control, such as within Requiem or his ship. For example, he disintegrated a wall John was taking cover behind, [47] and later manipulated the platforms inside a tower on Requiem to hinder the Master Chief's progress.
In comparison to other Forerunners, he stood nearly twice a Manipular 's height and weighed four or five times as much. In his original form, the Didact's skin was grayish-pink in color [75] and he had patches of bluish-white fur on the top of his head and shoulders, as was common with Warrior-Servants. The new form assumed by the Didact near the end of the Forerunner-Flood war, caused by a failed attempt to decipher Flood immunity, [36] had a more grotesque, bestial appearance, with more pronounced facial features, much less prominent lips and the addition of large fangs.
His eyes also became more deep-set and red as opposed to the original grayish blue, and his fur changed from pale blue to dark brown. The Didact's original body-assist armor complied with Warrior-Servant tradition in both design and coloration; bearing the mottled gray and blue colors of a Warrior-Servant, [76] the suit was, despite its wearer's lofty status, considered austere in contrast to more lavishly decorated armor worn by the Builders.
It is composed a number of silver armor sections with complex patterns of orange light. The bodysuit, which spontaneously adheres to the body, [2] is colored black and dark red, resulting in an appearance similar to exposed musculature.
The helmet of this armor suit appears to be modeled after a skull, with orange "eyes" rather than a visor, as well as a small breathing port on the nose. John facing the Ur-Didact in the Scanned trailer. The Didact, guarded by Warrior-Servants, striding toward the bridge of the Lord of Admirals' flagship. The Ur-Didact, with a combat knife in his right eye, crushing John's helmet. Early Halo 5: Guardians concept art of the Didact.
Article Discussion Edit History. This article is about the original Didact, encountered in Halo 4. Concept art of the Didact's armor for Halo 4. Three-dimensional model of the Ur-Didact in armor, with and without his helmet.
The Ur-Didact in the final fight aboard the Mantle's Approach. This speech is heard overlaying scenes set after his attack, although it is unclear whether it is actually occurring in real-time. A Industries employee posting in the guise of Catalog stated that the speech in question is actually part of legal proceedings that took place prior to the last contact with the Domain, and thus before the Halos were fired. Despite this, some of the Didact's statements appear to correspond to his actions in the modern era.
He speaks of his "sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy" which corresponds to his attack on humanity. While he carries out similar actions , years prior in Halo: Silentium , the events of the novel would not leave an opportunity for a scene of him standing before a tribunal of any kind with the Forerunner government all but disbanded following the destruction of the greater Ark.
He also mentions that "the Reclamation has already begun", which would correlate with humanity's position as of while seeming out of place in , BCE. Catalog replied to the resultant discussion with the comment "Statement was not in error.
However, Catalog does note difficulty in interpreting Shadow-of-Sundered-Star's commentary. Currently under review due to multiple sources of authority. It is [suasoria]. It is possible that the Didact was merely resistant to the effects of the Composer, rather than completely immune, as the energy released by the overlapping pulses of five Composers would be orders of magnitude greater than the energy released by a single pulse.
In the Library Edition of Halo: Escalation , however, it's stated by Brian Reed that the Ur-Didact wasn't composed but the explosion did do something to him. While not used in the same manner as the constraint fields described in Halo: Cryptum , it has been assumed that the Didact's abilities are based upon the same or a related technology.
Contribute Halopedia's pages can be edited. Is this page incomplete? Is there anything wrong? Change it! Edit this page Discuss this page Page history. Recent contributors to this article The following users recently contributed to this page:. Having lost the political battle, the Didact was stripped of his power and forced into exile. In his exile, the Didact entered a state of meditation inside of a Cryptum, which was placed by the Librarian in Djamonkin Crater on Earth.
Over one thousand years later, he was discovered and revived by a young Forerunner Manipular, Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting , who had come to Earth in search of Precursor relics. During his subsequent travels with Bornstellar, the Didact performed a brevet mutation on the young Bornstellar to allow him access to the Domain.
With the mutation, the Didact transferred all of his memories and knowledge to Bornstellar. This made Bornstellar essentially a copy of the original Didact. After surviving the Mendicant Bias ' assault on Maethrillian , Bornstellar Didact would reunite with his wife, the Librarian on Installation 00 and resume his duties as supreme commander of Forerunner military due to the present threat of the Flood.
At some point during the Forerunner-Flood war , the Ur-Didact, still in the Burn, was reawakened from the stasis bubble the Master Builder trapped him in due to a power failure. He was subsequently captured and tortured by the Gravemind, leaving his sanity severely shaken.
The Didact was subesquently released by the Gravemind and returned to the Ecumene. Still adamant in his opposition to the Halos, the Didact returned to Requiem where he began to devise new, more extreme methods of combating the Flood.
After all the Didact's efforts to decipher Flood immunity, most notably an experimental procedure which left him disfigured, ended in failure, a subordinate suggested the Composer , a device capable of transforming organic minds into software format, as a solution.
Since the Composer did not work on his new form, the Didact's fellow Prometheans all volunteered to undergo the process, becoming the first Promethean Knights.
Despite this new army of soldiers no longer susceptible to Flood infection, their numbers were too few to prevent the parasite from continuing to spread. Seeking to both increase the size of his army and exact a measure of revenge for their actions during the previous conflict , the Ur-Didact would turn the Composer upon humanity; planning to eventually have the entire species composed and turned into new Prometheans. After seeing the results of his "conscripting" Omega Halo's human population, the Librarian would remove the Composer from the Ur-Didact's custody and seal both him and his Knights away inside Requiem , putting an end to the Ur-Didact's plans and sentencing the galaxy to the activation of the Halo Array.
The Ur-Didact shortly after awakening in The Ur-Didact [13] was sealed in a Cryptum that required a Reclaimer to activate and release him. In , the Ur-Didact tricked John into releasing him by manipulating transmission signals from UNSC Infinity , leading him to the center of Requiem under the pretense that it was a transmission network. The Didact, with Jul 'Mdama's Covenant now at his command, launched an assault on the grounded Infinity , but UNSC forces, aided by John , were able to push back the assault and even drive the Didact's vessel away.
He was followed by John However, John survived due to the Librarian's genetic manipulation which made him immune to the effects of the Composer. The Didact then departed for Earth to create a new Promethean army by transforming the entire human race into Prometheans using the Composer.
Again, John followed him.
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