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Dammit!

: He also reiterated that he was the one who worked on the Halo 4 Terminals

I suspected as much. Nice to know it for sure.

: and established that the Didact couldn't be composed. This implies that there
: are more plans for the Didact and that while he was defeated he's not dead
: and was not composed.

: Hood seemed to think that it was safe to consider the Didact is dead. Chief
: thinks it's safer to assume that he's only contained. This is both an
: in-universe nod to the opening of the arc where he did not report the
: Didact dead because he did not visually confirm the kill, as well as a
: seed that the writer is planting permitting his return.

Why don't they just confirm that the Didact we fought was a Doombot and get it over with?