Yeah as seen in the books the Lord of Admirals was a dick but the Didact did respect him. A copy of the Lord was awakened in the mind of a human named Chakas after he, another human named Riser and a young Forerunner named Bornstellar rescued the Didact from a similar Cryptum on Earth 100,000 years ago. The Lord of Admirals had been executed through the Composer and the Librarian had placed copies of his mind and the people who had been Composed in humanity's genetic code as part of her plans. Meeting the Didact and traveling with him awakened Forthencho (because that's his actual name) and his copy actually tried to side with the Flood on Installation 07 in a final effort to defeat the Forerunners. Didn't work but he survived in the mind of Chakas, transformed into 343 Guilty Spark, for over a hundred thousand years. Spark got rid of him for good between the events of the Forerunner Saga books and his rescue during Halo: Renegades in 2557 where Spark teamed up with the crew of a salvage ship led by the daughter of John Forge from Halo Wars who was searching for her father and the Spirit of Fire.

I’m the 117th like on this post. I take GREAT pleasure in doing what MUST be done

@@WarGrowlmon18 The forerunners are the only real dicks in this ENTIRE thing.

They could have used the terminals as normal cutscenes which would explain the story far better But nope. They crammed it all in 1 cutscene

@Mr.Tweezy007 Bruh, they got all mad that their creator picked humanity for the mantle and they killed them for it....It indeed is Black and white

Always pulling that Archeology tip. Fucking annoying. I'll bring up history wherin you existed in the bedroom and the fucking kitchen only.

KH4444444444N ...you're trying way too hard buddy

Dante Kenway Shhhhh.. Let other people Enjoy things

@@dantekenway7900 is a super-sensitive simp.

I laughed harder than I should

Dalek Emperor I am a monument to all your sins.

The precursors were literal gods. They transformed into the flood to stop the forerunners, were successful, and then caused the forerunners to build and fire the rings.

@@TheFoxfourty8 they didnt mean to transform into the flood, an unnfortunate accident

@@TheFoxfourty8 They mutated into the Flood. Since the Precursors were being wiped out they changed into a dust form to preserve themselves while they waited it out. While in that form they unintentionally mutated since they were dust for a LONG time and that was when the humans discovered the vials they were in. Humans learned that applying that dust on their animals (pets) and it changed their behavior and physical traits positively. After a while the pets began to become deformed, eat themselves, and the infection started the Flood.

Yeh except the precursors were going to eliminate the forerunners just like they had done their other creations and THEN give the mantle to humanity

they are just terminals not the actual gaming experience. its like making good movie and a not so good gaming experience. or a bad sequel

Spot-on xD ahaha 🙏

You know, is a shame, 343 got a fucking good starting point for the new trilogy, they could have built an incredibly good trilogy with this history as the starting point. Too bad 343 abandoned it entirely

@@jhomkarlopatinoperez3 Agreed. I will always prefer the Bungie titles but Halo 4 was actually a good game and a solid starting point. Halo 5 completely threw all of that out the window which is just a shame.

@@rdcarbonk1885 I wasn't making any comparisons to the gameplay. I was just refering to the cutscenes on their own.

They’re pretty cool

Humans nowadays suck...

How come they were so Western when Western society didn't exist yet?

@@arnoldacademy8294 I don't know.

@Arnold Academy Probably there was no western civilization or eastern civilization at that point. Humanity's cultural and technological evolution might have been different the first time.

Where do this quotes belong? It touches deep inside

@@danidisu Halo 3 from the GraveMind

@@danidisu sympathizing with the flood now are we?

@@link0931 hahah maybe (?) I do not sympathise with the method. Bit indeed Gravemind has a trascendental way to see life, as an amcient being he is, so...I can't deny I like him😅😅

@@Bamaca_B58 Once Chief initiated the firing sequence for the remade Halo, on the way to the warthog.

I've been noticing that kind of trend in video games recently too. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

@Tyrell Suraiya That's what the spinoffs are for mate. You don't do that smack bang in the middle of a trilogy.

B-but Buck isn't forgettable,,

Sorry I can't stand Spartan Locke

@i hate anime there is a reason why the Elites are enemies again. They're in a a Civil War over Arbiter alliance with Humans

I know, right? and it's so well made, love the games, terminal videos, comic books... all that needs to be made is a TV show!

Agreed. Kinda makes me sad T_T I love the Universe/Lore, read all the books and stuff, its so interesting to me, glad to see other big fans :)

***** Sorry to hear that, but I'm glad you like Halo :) It really seems like the only people who like cod but hate Halo are douchebags, aka people with no creativity who wish they were badass soldiers but would piss themselves if presented with any real danger. cod has no story. Halo has an extremely deep and well-written story. cods about 'kill the bad guys, blow up everything', Halo is about unity and what we can achieve when we come together.

i like the lore more then the games

Adam heyman I love 'em both, but the games are just fantastic

The Librarian ultimately became humanity's greatest protector while the Didact was driven insane. Its all in the books.

gravemind ruined the didact

I love how the Master Builder's answer to objections that Halos defied their "protect life" doctrine was to essentially grow gardens on them. Like planting flowers on a rifle to argue "it's a tool to support life!" Such a scummy spit-in-the-face loophole it blows my mind. No wonder their creators considered them a mistake

@@Zlarel Faber was a prime example of why they weren't considered worthy of the Mantle.

It should be said that war with Ancient Humanity and the desperation of Forerunners after centuries of defeat at the hands of the Flood, along with thousands of failed plans. Lead the last Forerunners down their final paths.

@@TK199999 Ancient Humanity was deemed worthy of the mantle because they chose to sacrifice their own people in an attempt to stop the flood. The forerunner were selfish and sacrificed others to stop the flood.

​@@KrayZGames Exactly and that's why the flood pulled back from attacking them. Forerunners devolving humanity after winning their war was what really pissed the flood off.

Pretty much

thank fuck we got rid of that didact guy so we can have awesome villains like warden eternal.

+gruntmaster0 Please tell me you're joking.

the didact got 3 books, numerous terminals and comics to tell his story before he entered the game, warden eternal got like a sentence, and then another towards the end of the game. Such engaging character development!

also yeah, totally joking. Halo 5 is the worst shit ever, well the story is anyways. multiplayer is pretty good though.

Avalanche That was nicely put. This is why I don't believe the flood was a precursor weapon or revenge against the forerunners. What the primordial told the didact would have all been lies. Humanity being the precursors chosen species; whilst wiping them out along with everyone else. The whole cure thing. I think the flood became the "flood" when some parasitic organism was encountered by the precursors. And that this organism infected them (or some). And given the unique biological properties of the precursors themselves this organism was able to mutate into the gravemind/flood that the inhabitants of the milky way encountered.

nihilityjoey that could also be true. No information directly pertaining to the precursors and what happened to them has been released yet, all we have is the primordials word, and he was basically already a gravemind when the Didact killed him. It could well have all been lies

I disagree, The flood was the Precursors way of punishing the Forerunners. In the books it was stated by the Forerunners that the Flood could've consumed the galaxy in just a few centuries. This shows the Flood was holding back to make the Forerunners suffer. What's most intriguing is how that well coordinated their efforts. Having their AI turn against them which is ironic as how the Forerunners turned against their creators. And as farfetched this might sound the Flood allowed the Forerunners to fire the Halo Array. Instead of destroying them outright, the Flood let the Forerunners destroy themselves and also the Domain which was like the soul to the Forerunners. In truth I believe this was the Precursors way of cleaning the slate if you will to the galaxy to start fresh. The galaxy was heavily ruled by the Forerunners who were not suppose to have the Mantle so the Flood carefully planned strategically have the galaxy wipe clean with no Forerunners. It's also worth noting how much the Flood was saved humanity and was secretly helping them since humanity was the species the Precursors chose. With the Flood being the main threat the Forerunners sparred humanity instead of wiping out. Even in the current time, the Flood was secretly helping humanity from the Covenant. It was the Flood that infected High Charity which was the capital of the Covenant and if it wasn't for the Flood humanity would've been killed off by the Covenant.

Anthony Doc​ That still doesn't say the flood was a precursor weapon against the forerunners, created or otherwise. The precursors could have destroyed the forerunners I think they chose not too, for a number of reasons but most of all I believe because of their philosophy - the mantle. So, if they would not destroy the forerunners even in defence of their existence it makes no sense to me that they would take revenge in the form of the flood. Not only that but if the humans were the true inheritors of the mantle why was the flood destroying them wholesale as well? The only references to the flood being a weapon against the forerunners came from the primordial, who; as avalanche stated was already an infected precursor, or a proto gravemind. It would have been filling the humans and forerunners with lies for the simple tact of devide and conquer. The humans were doing a hell of a job attacking the flood before they had to contend with the forerunners as well. And by the time the forerunners forced an end to the war the flood had spread too far for the remaining forerunner empire to stop it. I believe that whilst hiding from the forerunners in the dwarf galaxy the the precursors came across some sort of biological organism, it could have been an organism or sub set indigenous to that galaxy, kind of like the araithus bug in the pegasus galaxy (stargate atlantis). And this organism infected some or all of these precursors. Now from what is told about the biological attributes of the precursors this organism could have mutated along with the precursor creating the flood. Kind of like the goa'uld getting an ancient for a host mmhh very bad. This new organism/flood would have had access to all of the knowledge about not only the precursor forerunner war but of the milky way and the humans. That along with the precursors neural capabilities this organisms infestation and merger with a precursor could have totally given rise to what the milky ways inhabitants called the flood. The pod the humans found containing the primordial and the "dust" would have been the trojan horse by which thd flood could achieve its foothold in our galaxy. You have a new organism with the memories, neural ability and knowledge of a life seeding race - the precursors and the mutagenic, hive mind capabilities of this organism. That right there is a bad combination - the flood. They never destroyed the domain. They just cut the forerunners off from using it.

nihilityjoey *That still doesn't say the Flood was a Precursor weapon against the forerunners* The Flood are the Precursors but by accident so they went along with it. The Flood was the Precursors way of getting back at the Forerunners for their betrayal. This was stated by the Primordial. *it makes no sense to me that they would take revenge in the form of the flood* It would make sense. You have to remember that the Precursors cannot not truly be killed. They are a transcendence race of beings that are beyond the concept of life. That transcend the physical realm. Their physical bodies that the Forerunners destroyed are more like avatars. As it states in the novel. "The Precursors live in many different forms, can die, reborn or reincarnate". The Precursors let the Forerunners go on their rampage thus proving why the Forerunners do not deserve to inherit the Mantle. The Flood is a means to wipe the slate clean of the Forerunners for their betrayal. *if the humans were the true inheritors of the mantle why was the Flood destroying them wholesale as well* Remember the Precursors has to test each species. The Flood outbreak was Precursors way of testing humanity to how to deal with the crisis which they passed. Ancient Humanity sacrificed 1/3 of their population to counter the Flood. They passed which in turn the Flood retreated and left them alone. Also by doing so this gave the illusion that Humanity found a cure to Flood infection which made the Forerunners not destroy humanity. As a quote in Halo Silentium by the Didact. "Only the threat of the Flood kept me from utterly destroying humanity, but now I realized the tactic of the Flood. First Infecting and then redrawing and so implying humans knew of a way to combat the disease. Favored by the Flood". Futhermore, during the last stages of the Forerunner-Flood war, The Flood destroyed the greater Ark which housed the remaining Forerunner Empire while the lesser Ark housed the remaining species including humanity which the Flood didn't destroy even though they could have. *primordial, who; as avalanche stated was already an infected precursor, or a proto Gravemind. It would have been filling the humans and Forerunners with lies for the simple tact of divide and conquer* Highly unlikely, remember the Flood are the Precursors reincarnated. The Flood was already dominating humanity and could've finished them off but chose not to for 2 reasons which I already gave. 1.) To give the illusion that humanity found a cure to flood infection which in turn would spar humanity from the Forerunners wrath. 2.) To make their presence known. If a force was strong enough to overpower ancient humanity which was stated by the Forerunners to be the 2nd most power species in the galaxy then the Flood would be a huge threat to the Forerunners. *They never destroyed the domain* The Domain is sentient which the Halo destroys sentient life. The Domain was caught in the Halo's firing.

Hmm, well, you never know. That'd actually be really awesome, with ship v ship combat as well as ground combat against the flood and forerunners, maybe even bringing in the alliance with the san shyum?

+1 we need this to happen.

Maybe after halo 6? I think that's when the reclaimer saga ends

I think the details of this story also doesn't make any sense. We probably won't get a game because of that

Ghost user one They do if you read the forerunner saga.

You know it

I know he's my favorite character...how do you edit your voice to make it like that???

He's sounds like a smoker.

Didact’s is even more so.

It's kind of scary, he's scary in general, probably the worst villain in the entire universe, apart from the Flood, but even they have their motivations. Faber is just a sadist.

They need to design a completely new weapons, armors. Damn whole new fucking game universe.

There are the books, the forerunner saga. Not a game, but still better than many popular books.

@@user-qp3uz6bd8z so basically like destiny

I wish they did but asking for that is like asking Disney to make a few movies of ancient times in Star Wars if it doesn’t get botched it will never be done properly

The Didact's voice actor played Daniel Holtz in Angel and currently plays Donatello Redfield on Supernatural.

Grow up, and maybe you will.

@@WarGrowlmon18 Wait prophet donatello? Like the crazy soulless old guy? I had no idea

@@MarioTheLiopleurodon Not so crazy anymore but yeah.

The Didact kinda sounds like Dracula from Castlevania

The Humans were far more spiritually advanced than the Forerunners, it is one of the reason of why they were ready to sacrifice huge chunks of their galactic population for the greater good. This is why they were able to access so many Precursors artifacts and even made the Precursors themselves chose them as the rightful mantle holders. The Forerunners are the direct opposite of Ancient Humans. Hence why after many awakening events, the Librarian eventually realized that she and her species has made a great sin and yet to commit another one. That's why she finally achieved the understanding of our ancestors, to sacrifice everything for the greater good.

Time is full of mystery, nothing is certain in time

The ancient San’ Shyuum betrayed the ancient humans causing them to lose the forerunner war that was originally stuck at a deadlock.

That was the Didact and the Master Builder. Read the forerunner books; better story than what Bungie gave the Forerunners. 343 just expanded on that Idea.

+Unknown Entity Yeah I agree. There's bound to be problems with Canon and pleasing existing fans. But 343 have done a good job of expanding the universe. I think they need to explore the time of the human, forerunner, flood time period. But they should make it really dark, like 18 dark. Explore the flood in a more "deadspace" way. A score more reflecting of the horror of what you are up against. Expand on what the flood actually is and what is really known about its origins; not just fan based theories. Again new cannon will be made, fans will cry but I reckon a trilogy of games like that will refresh the halo universe a hell of a lot, and in a good way. I really hope that happens.

Silentium tells you the origin of the flood. Silentium could have a movie made of it, it is epic Sci Fi.

GNJWKang​​ Silentium tells how the primordial tells of how the flood came about. When the librarian goes to the dwarf galaxy the only thing she finds is ancient forerunner wreckage, and a planet with an off shoot forerunner race. What I thought was strange, was that the librarian only found out who these forerunners were, and the history of why they believe they stayed in that galaxy, AFTER she was bitten. The way she describes how she got that knowledge from the bite was interesting. I would hazard a guess and say that maybe the precursors found some sort of organism in that galaxy and tried to create a weapon out of it or some means to augment their own bodies in some way and it destroyed them. The capsules the humans found in the milky way could have been scientific in nature carrying specimens and the already infected precursor. What the primordial told the didact could have been a lie, along with telling him that the humans once held a cure. It could have been setting two species that were possibly smart enough to destroy it against each other, in order to devide and conquer. This organism would have all the information about the forerunners, humanity and the milky way it would have needed from infecting a precursor. The primordial could have been a flood trojan horse. Just my theory though.

So, are you saying that the Primordial is not a Precursor? But didn't he say that the flood and the precursors were the same? Sorry, I'm just so confused.

THIS IS THE KIND OF PEOPLE I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH IN REGARDS TO HALO: "Sorry Im a Halo and 343 hater and Im never gonna play Halo and I'll betray my childhood game to go play this piece of crap game Destiny and CoD 'cause I'm a traitor just 'cause a new company (343) who totally loves their work, didn't give me "no sprint" and tried something new to be fun, called load outs. But since Im a tweanty five year old jerk who has a youtube account and think Im the coolest thing since sliced bread and think its fun to get wasted, Im now gonna tell my hundreds of followers and subscribers how awful I think Halo 4 and 343 is and hopefully they'll turn the communiy into a bunch of COD bootlicking MLG jerks who swear and are probably inbread 'cause heck yeah! So lets go buy a bunch of lame playstations (jk ps4s cool) and go ruin other great games like Assassins Creed 'cause Im depressed and completely ignore lore and amazing books and never provide any reasoning to back my lame ass opinions! Ha!"... SO THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO HALO... sorry for the angry rant but that's what I've been dealing with for the last two years both on all social networks and IRL.

I have no issues with 343, in fact they've enhanced and strengthened the Halo gaming experience by improving gameplay and actually sticking to the original concepts created by Bungie. With a larger budget, better tech and more resources, they've been able to neatly blend modern demand for increasingly better graphics and gameplay features with an engaging storyline.

I would agree with you 100% but as I said above in my rant, I have dealt with dozens of ding dongs in the darkest depths of the youtube comments sections and with friends IRL, alot saying that Halo 4 is the spawn of demons. Which is nonsense, but I get really irritated with all of the unfounded hate and criticism. I find it difficult to enjoy one of my favorite games (Halo 4) when I go to listen to who I thought were cool commentators say stuff like "Oh hey remember that awful game Halo? Hah Cod is the coolest ever, any one who doesn't worship MLG tryhards and the Punk/Jag lifestyle sucks!!" Ugh...

Well most of those expressing that opinion are either uneducated or simply ignorant. Halo 4 is perhaps the best title since Halo: CE. It basically took everything good from Halo 2/3 and got rid of some of the glitches and issues. I found it to be a very enjoyable game.

Totally agree, I love Halo to the point where I watched Legends, Forward unto Dawn, bought ALL the books and am at the moment playing Halo 3 with my high school buds. (-Typing this between matches)

you are right!

But that was reverse engineer to be weared by the Spartans which are toooooooo much inferior to the ancient human

The ancient weapons sound very nice, and truly sci-fi. I dunno about you, but I prefer the sound of the energy weapons to the hard sound of the projectile weapons.

@@dasbubba841 Hard light is arguably a projectile based weaponry

@@mohammedfachrydwihandoko7557 plasma energy projectile

No race is perfect. You should watch Forbidden Planet, the Krell had a hand in their destruction.

I generally feel sorry for them. The pre cursors essentially told them that they were not worthy of the mantle. Then as per their previous times we’re going to wipe the forerunners out. They fought back and would not accept being wiped out. As any species would. Then essentially give birth to the flood as a corrupted version of the ore cursors revenge.

Yeah the terminals completely changed how I felt about halo 4s story

Izanagiii you should both read the forerunner saga, amazing books and amazing story that really helps understand Halo 4 (these terminals are snippets from the books)

+Philippe Then you didn't ''GET'' halo 4's story or you're a machine at heart.

I loved both!

I wish this was a campaign

roberto bandana interestingly, the Hellcat armor from Halo 5 I believe was actually designed from ancient human battle suits. The resemblance is mainly in the helmet, cool nonetheless

@@KindredMixedBlade yeah but the ancient humans were more than 10 ft tall giant titan and had the power like the god emperor in 40k, chief still wouldn't be able to work anything out unless his evolution runs rapidly and end up being ancient humans

@@KindredMixedBlade The ONI designed the suit by the blueprint of ancient human resources, not directly taken from the suit

Matthew Langdon Definitely

I think we'll see the Ur-Didact again. Despite what happened in Halo: Escalation, I think that powerful Promethean (just like John-117 believes) is merely "contained" and far from dead/finished....

@114219646974858188649 Glad to hear you're someone who actually knows what happened to him because many fans get the misconception that he is dead. He was basically only used to advance the story thus making fans generalize and hate him. I liked him when I began to learn his story. Composing him like that was a total waste, now if he comes back, it won't be the same if he's digital.

+Emily Hill I hope that in the future of Halo the Didact after countless years of strife, hardship, and battle with his sworn human enemies he can be redeemed and find peace and forgiveness in his former foes and help them rid the galaxy of flood once and for all.

Staff Blood That's what I have always hoped for. I can sense good in him somehow.

yes librerian saved human race

*back to tier 7 civilisation i.e. hunter gatherer. Tier 0 is transsentience i.e. precursor.

Nope humanity is setting itself back to 0 fuck humanity

Sam Britches Fuck humanity? Why Bro? Aren’t you human? 😂

Pretty much; *at least* three times

They tried but since ancient humans were wiping out the flood and all its traces the forerunners thought they were lying. The humans were very efficient and complete in their hunt of the flood. It was only after they had killed billions of forerunners they realized but by then it was too late to stop the war, the forerunners are very proud and it is their failing.

GNJWKang Right and still they could of sent a message before the first fleets started to wipe out worlds saying "So there's this nasty parasite on that world. Here's our data on it. We need to do something about it."

I assume they did as much. They talk about how the forerunners kept an eye on humans long before the war and how humans chose to expand along the galactic arm outwards and mainly left forerunner space alone but the forerunners still didnt like the humans and their quick expansion and population growth. I imagine there was some economic and political troubles between the two leading up to it and they were just looking for a reason to go to war. The pride of the forerunners and their need to hold on to the self claimed mantle is a big theme in the saga. It makes sense they would hate any race that would advance to a point where they could be a remote threat to the empire. The forerunner empire was vast in comparison and I think they just didn't like the idea of having to share anything even though space is massive. Even the librarian was all for killing humans at first until she realized the mistake. The ur-didact even though he hated the race didn't really want to truly wipe them out(hence being persuaded by the life shaper to not kill them all and also the mantle). What he did with the composer is explained in silentium but I don't believe he would have composed all the humans if the events in silentium didn't change him. The forerunner saga books doesn't make him out to be as big as a dick as the game does, but his dickishness in halo 4 is also explained in the last acts of silentium.

GNJWKang Sounds like neither side did

Yeah Srsly that's the one thing I the Canon that bothers me. How they couldn't have sent scoring reports to confirm the flood so the two races could find them off together

You said it man! I wish there was more lore in the games too! Then i wouldnt have to buy the books or smth

Read the Forerunner Saga books. The terminals really only tell you a fraction of the Didact's story. Suffice it to say, he has been driven buttfucking insane.

Well said! I really loved the Didact as a character after watching this and I personally feel like 343i wasted him as a character in the game and escalation.

***** I liked him in the game-- If only because it's a direct continuation of the horrible stuff he did during the end of the forerunner-flood war.

Tenthyr Yes I liked him in the game too, and it's good how his backstory leads up to how he is when you encounter him in the game, but what I mean is, I feel like he could have had a bigger role in the game.

Ikr. When he said "shall we take revenge?" I got chills.

Zir S His whole "Lord of Admirals" monologue still raises the hairs on the back of my arms.

+SinDawg030 God damn it I'm so pissed didact wasn't in H5. Warden eternally friendzoned was just the worst replacement.

Zir S There is still much about the Warden that we don't know. Perhaps the Warden is the Composed remains of the Didact?

+SinDawg030 idek how he'd get composed when he says in the terminals that the composer doesn't work on him. I'm feel that the Warden is just some AI construct inhabiting armor.

Not all visitors to the domain are strangers (from the didacts toy in halo 5) so no he isn't dead and is in the domain possibly controlling cortana

Didact is still alive tho. But problem is when they will introduce him again

@@immortalwarrior2695 thankfully they’re releasing a book with him as the main focus this fall! I know it being a book isn’t as interesting as having him in-game, but I’m hoping they try their best to fix their fuck up of cutting him from the plot.

They scrapped the Darth Vader of Halo. Shit’s a crime.

Rajiv Aiyar Well it did use its main guns in the front to blow a whole big enough for MC's Broadsword to fly through. Does that not count as a scratch? It's on the level Midnight in Halo 4

AlphaWolf28 Its funny how a lot of Orbital Defence Platforms cannot penetrate mantel's shield. But a single shot from infinity main guns penetrated shield and hull. Bullshit. sorry if my english too bad

Назар Ильдаров Yeah I'm also gonna call bull**** on the logic there. Your English isn't too bad by the way. You only misspelled two words.

This aged well

@@judgejudys3xdungeon94 haha dont dude, i was super pissed when infinity got shrecked instantly

Ikr, they had so much potential but they did not have Didact and they just had the stupid ass Warden Eternal.

Omg thank you

If they used this lore, I bet that 343 would be the worthy and better successors

@@basudebsarkar5487 they would, perhaps even surpassed the bungie

@i hate anime the lore always changes, it's how all games have been through, Halo 4 trilogy was enough to surpass the whole bungie lore of halo, 343 gave us more lore than we expected, more data, more deep sense than bungie ever did, more actual sense what forerunners a million years advance species would look like, taking ancient humans on the side, they made the lore a bit more deeper to understand, Although yeah, halo 5 shit fucked that up,

I bet he died immediately

Назар Ильдаров Yeah. If he lived he would probably have severe brain damage.

Halo 4 was terrible as far as pvp goes but the story was good. I am 28 years old and have been playing since the beta came out for halo 1. I think halo 1 through 3 was the best as far as pvp and halo 4 possibly the best story, but the fact that reach and halo 4 had terrible pvp I stopped playing them after a few weeks

ganargsjfhf Why?

Looks like human prehistoric military armor was shitty. Single hit from binary rifle destroyed helmet completely. Where is the energy shields? I dont think that energy shield cannot withstand a single hit. A spartan armor energy shield can withstand a multiple hits from forerunner weapon. But a far superior prehistoric human armor cannot? Bullshit.

What's more ridiculous is that you have to buy Xbox LIVE Gold to access Halo Waypoint. It's Microsoft milking the series. Want answers to plot holes and crap left out of the game? Buy Xbox LIVE and our crummy books!

HaloModder555 AND the fact that you need to have Gold to play Spartan Ops - even if you're only doing single player.

HaloModder555 Crummy books?? are you out of you're god damn mind? they are amazing books!

chris liberty I've read a few of them, and Ghosts of Onyx, the kilo-five trilogy and First strike were the only ones i really liked.

TheAsgardFilms Did you not read fall of reach? The only new ones I have read (post halo 3) are the forerunner saga, they are all good to really good.

“If we warn them, we give The Flood time to spread. You know we have no choice. *Cleanse* the planet.”

We do not yet the full purpose of her decision, needles were the deeds in life by the Librarian

Spencer Patterson What would happen if the ancient humans at the height of their powers came into the 40k galaxy during the Horus Heresy and joined the imperium. What would the forerunners think of the imperium, the emperor, the primarchs, and the bloodbath that is warhammer where everyone is killing each other.

Even the infantry in the ancient human had the power equal to the primarchs, and I am having a thought that the ancient humanity was nothing but the next step of the imperium of man, and the emperor was one of the lord's in the ancient human society and went to the past, it would be a great novel

she wanted humans as the mantle care takers to find a cure for the flood, so if the infection were to come back life in the galaxy will be ready for it

@@Jaehaerys7 then why keeping alive the guy who wanted to destroy humanity.. besides, if you fire halo, all floods die. they come back only because she chooses to keep them alive :S

Fabrizio Incoronato because she expected him to be healed by the Domain. She didn’t know it would be damaged by the Halos until it was too late. And they knew the Flood was actually the Precursors who could easily just return from outside the galaxy. There was a 1000 year gap between when they first fought the Flood (Forerunner-Human War) and when they returned (Forerunner-Flood War). So she decide to keep them in stasis to study them, before the inevitable return from beyond the Galaxy.

​@@cucciolino94I think the decision as emotion fueled as logical. She thought the domain would help him. And... this is her husband who she loved and be loved for gods knows how many millenia...could you easily do it?

Star Pillars Trust me, the Ancient Human-Forerunner conflict is probably the most interesting part of Halo lore yet unexplored. The biggest lore deposit for this time period is in the Forerunner trilogy of books, if you are interested.

That sucks. It really does because the books in particular expand upon the lore of the games and are used as source material in SO MANY ways. The Forerunner Saga expands upon the story of the Didact, the Librarian and 343 Guilty Spark who survived Halo 3 and is still out there. Halo: First Strike covers the EPIC story between Halos 1 and 2, featuring the Master Chief's EPIC journey home from Halo. Contact Harvest, Silent Storm and Oblivion take place in the early war time with the first two heavily featuring Sergeant Johnson. He's the main character of Contact Harvest which shows the first contact with the Covenant and how the war began. The Arbiter is a main character in The Cole Protocol as is Captain Keyes. The Kilo 5 trilogy (which I haven't fully read myself) partially covers the story of how Jul 'Mdama became the leader of his own Covenant. It also introduces the Infinity and features Admiral Osman, the woman who ordered Halsey's execution in Spartan Ops. Halo: Renegades features 343 Guilty Spark (who survived Halo 3) working with the crew of the salvage ship Ace of Spades in 2557 as they try to find the Spirit of Fire (the captain is the daughter of John Forge from Halo Wars) and Spark tries to make contact with the Librarian for his own purposes, eventually succeeding through another AI like the one on Requiem in Halo 4 and Spartan Ops, albeit on Earth this time.

WH40K like big bully of all sci-fi but fear not Marvel/Disney well destroy them just like they destroy like they did on star war

The history of mankind, The mass effect timeline The 40k timeline The ancient human timeline Modern human timeline

ganargsjfhf Through the librarian's comments we can assume that the forerunners were always meant to hold the mantle, and that the humans were meant to be the next in line. This does not correlate very well, if not at all with the original story. It implies that the librarian and the other forerunners did not have any point of conjecture when facing the precursors. Therefore 343 is suggesting that the precursors didn't exist at all and that the flood is borne out of human error, by some scientific experiment.

ganargsjfhf No originally, the mantle was a philosophy passed down by the precursors. After the Forerunners and humans had reached Tier 1 technology, the Precursors had intended that the humans take on the role of inheriting the Mantle and the Forerunners be eliminated. The Forerunners discovered the Precursors' plot and rose to seize the Mantle by killing every Precursor. The precursors favoured humanity, and that having two races with the same technology would spark a war. This war would be in direct contradiction to what being the guardians of the galaxy means, holding the mantle. Therefore, they knew they had to get rid of one of them and they wanted to destroy the forerunners for unknown reasons, other than that they were competition to their favourites.

Ganarg☣Kraken i believe you are correct in the forerunner mantle idea, but the flood was the last revenge that the precursors sent to the humans, it was originally meant to make them immortal and perfect, but it corrupted into the flood, and the flood first attacked the humans, but had favored them more so even as being corrupt it returned to attaack forerunners instead

Andy Smith The Precursors at first were going to make the Forerunners the guardians of the Mantle but they instead rose up defeating and destroying the Precursors taking the Mantle believing it to be their responsibility alone and the Flood was unleashed on them as revenge and to the Humans as a test....the Humans combed worlds and cleansed them of Flood and the Forerunners created the Halos to wipe the galaxy of all sentient lifeforms so I think it's safe to say Humanity passed the Precursors test for the Mantle....and it's funny that the Ancient Humans and San Shyuum (Prophets) were close allies in the fight against the Flood infection and then Millenia later they would be the Humans greatest foe in starting the war between Humans and their Covenant Alliance when the three High Prophets learned the truth that Humans were in fact the reclaimers of the Forerunners' legacy and technology hence why Forerunner tech i.e the Halo controls and others require a Human to even access but eventually the war ended...but war.....war never changes.....

Andy Smith How is any of what you said in contradiction to the video? They seized the Mantle for themselves when the Precursors passed over them in favor of Humanity.

Holy shit!!!

Honestly these should have been in the cutscene when Chief meets the Librarian. That way you have more details about the Didact directly in game instead of hidden away. Even then there’s so much more in the actual novels that’s not here.