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Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*
By:Archilen
Date: 5/9/13 1:17 am

: So true.

: And what exactly was MB? Was he made from millions of cloned copies of a
: Forerunner? Or was he made some other way?

: And how well do stone age humans fit into the original concept of Prometheans
: as a collective of disparate parts? Knights, Rooks, Bishops, Pawns, etc.
: Why would brainwashed, technologically illiterate, mentally challenged
: cave men be the logical choice to implement that design?

Because they're not the product of a logically thinking mind at all. I used to be baffled by this and I've asked the same question a few times, but I think Silentium provided an adequate answer. While the Terminals in Halo 4 failed to communicate this, by the point of composing the humans, the Ur-Didact is nothing more than an indoctrinated puppet doing whatever the Gravemind wants him to.

I thought Silentium handled the issue surprisingly well, because it outright dropped the pretense that there was ever any viability or logic to the Knights. They're nothing but delusions contrived by a madman. On top of that there's an obvious irony at play there: the Didact's plan with the Composer is just a mechanical version of the Flood - no doubt the Gravemind's idea of a final insult.

While this solves the problem of the Didact's motivations (for the most part), it also presents us with another one. All this touting about us facing the Didact - who we know is supremely intelligent and noble, or actually an interesting antagonist - and then the Didact we end up with is but a sad, broken shadow of his former self (who also looks like a vampire for some reason) whose motivations are purely driven by his raving insanity. On top of that his minions consist not of his once formidable legions of warriors, but a horde of boring, emotionless robots.


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Designing the PrometheansPostmortem5/6/13 8:15 pm
     Re: Designing the Prometheansserpx5/6/13 8:24 pm
     Re: Designing the PrometheansTDSpiral5/6/13 9:19 pm
           Re: Designing the Prometheansdavidfuchs5/6/13 10:28 pm
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     Re: Designing the PrometheansHyokin5/7/13 12:16 am
           Re: Designing the PrometheansGeneral Vagueness5/13/13 6:36 pm
                 Re: Designing the PrometheansDevil Mingy5/14/13 1:44 am
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     Re: Designing the PrometheansQuirel5/7/13 12:41 am
           Re: Designing the PrometheansGeneral Vagueness5/13/13 6:57 pm
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                       Re: Designing the PrometheansNikGntre5/14/13 12:47 am
                             The energy sword I mean *NM*NikGntre5/14/13 12:48 am
                             Re: Designing the PrometheansQuirel5/14/13 1:07 am
                                   Re: Designing the PrometheansNikGntre5/14/13 1:50 am
                       Re: Designing the PrometheansGeneral Vagueness5/14/13 12:55 am
                             Re: Designing the PrometheansQuirel5/14/13 1:12 am
                 Re: Designing the PrometheansRC Master5/14/13 1:03 pm
                       Re: Designing the PrometheansPostmortem5/14/13 1:37 pm
                       Re: Designing the PrometheansGeneral Vagueness5/15/13 3:00 am
                             Re: Designing the PrometheansZackDark5/15/13 11:43 am
     Re: Designing the PrometheansSliding Ghost5/7/13 6:51 am
     'imprisoned and tormented soul'RC Master5/7/13 10:34 am
           Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul'Jaydee5/7/13 6:46 pm
                 Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul'Quirel5/7/13 9:55 pm
                       Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*Jaydee5/8/13 1:27 am
                             Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*serpx5/8/13 2:24 pm
                             Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*Quirel5/8/13 9:10 pm
                                   Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*TDSpiral5/8/13 9:55 pm
                                   Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*scarab5/8/13 11:25 pm
                                         Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*Archilen5/9/13 1:17 am
                                               Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*scarab5/9/13 2:12 pm
                                                     Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*MacGyver105/9/13 3:24 pm
                                                           Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*Postmortem5/9/13 6:56 pm
                                                                 Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*scarab5/9/13 7:55 pm
                                                                       Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*Postmortem5/10/13 2:14 am
                                                                             Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*MacGyver105/10/13 5:26 pm
                                                                                   Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul' *Silentium SP*Postmortem5/10/13 10:24 pm
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                       Re: 'imprisoned and tormented soul'General Vagueness5/13/13 7:00 pm
     Re: Designing the PrometheansSliding Ghost5/8/13 12:15 am
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                 Re: Designing the PrometheansSliding Ghost5/8/13 3:22 am
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                 Re: Designing the PrometheansGeneral Vagueness5/13/13 7:01 pm
     Re: Designing the PrometheansDayandKnightly5/18/13 8:48 pm
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