Didact (just Didact, it's a name) was a male. His love interest the Librarian (a female) died on Earth soon after sending a bunch of humans through the portal.
Didact probably wasn't the last (just one of the last) as any Forerunner on the Ark would have survived. He also says something about going to sleep, in fact it's entirely possible that he was alive in stasis when Master Chief activated Halo.
Here's a good read on the subject. [http://blog.ascendantjustice.com/halo-3/the-terminals/shediedineden0/]
Yeah, I knew I'd made a mistake somewhere but I couldn't pinpoit where. I just got the names mixed up. The Librarian was the female, Didact's lover, and she built the Ark near what would become New Mombasa thousands of years later. However, despite what has been said in your link, I can definitely tell you for a fact that the Libararian was the only surviving Forerunner during the Forerunner-Flood War, and she died on Earth after sending the humans through the portal in the Ark (so you were right about that). However, there were no other Forerunner on the Ark at the time that the rings were fired, and it's definitely true that no Forerunner managed to enter any of the Shields, including Onyx, so there were no Forerunner survivors, but their seed passed down through humanity enough that humans are the 'Children of the Forerunner', as stated by the Hierarchs and the Monitor on various occasions. What Didact said about going to sleep may well have simply referred to his death due to the firing of the Array. People often refer to death as like 'going to sleep', and the Array could have various ways of killing sentient life (it only affects sentient life, after all, and we never find out exactly how it works).
The record isn't comprehensive, all that's there is Didact's diary and his conversations with the Librarian.
Since we do know that the Librarian was rescuing primitive sentients by sending them to the Ark I assume that a number of Forerunners were on the Ark managing their populations and sending them back after the Array was fired. Didact never says he is the only one left so others surviving can't be ruled out.
It's all vague and mysterious. We need more Halo to get the story straight.
Translation: Nah, we were fucking with you with that ending. We're going to milk the shit out of Halo and the character so much that fanboys will still weep and buy our shit. Soo..... yeah, we're doing a Sonic team.
And just when I thought the series was never going to die with the recent release, and my subsequent "Play-the-living-shit" out of Halo Wars. *sigh*
I'll leave my own opinions of this particular franchise out of this.
In general, I wonder if publishers and developers really intend to have n sequels before they put the good ol' bullet between the peepers and lay it to rest. Leave them wanting more, rather than have the fans get disgusted at the mere idea of yet ANOTHER sequel.
I actually forgot there was a Halo 3. I don't own an Xbox of any type so perhaps I am out of the loop. Now we have ads for Halo Wars on the Escapist site, and I say to that, "meh."
i really hope they arent thinking of milking halo for more after osdt halo wars (playing right now BUNGIE FIX THE GOD DAMN THRID MISSION WHERE THEY RUSH BANSHEES)
I can't believe I'm the first person to point this out, but there aren't any air units in the third mission. It's underground, remember? Perhaps you mean the fourth, where the banshees are easy to take out with your hornets. Park them between ship 1&2 and move them when you need them.
i really hope they arent thinking of milking halo for more after osdt halo wars (playing right now BUNGIE FIX THE GOD DAMN THRID MISSION WHERE THEY RUSH BANSHEES)
They won't do a Sonic with the Master Chief, because with Halo Bungie and Microsoft have stated at various times that they have fleshed out a proper expanded universe and know exactly what they are doing. You still get logistical problems, of course (look at the Duke Nukem Forever style delays in the comic series Halo Uprising...), but the story of Halo has been stated as being a very much controlled thing and something that nobody at Bungie or Microsoft want to see outstay it's welcome. They'll keep releasing new content and media for Halo as long as they still have a story to tell and the fans keep on supporting the series, but the series isn't only about the Master Chief. With Halo Uprising, the lack of Master Chief was a major criticism of fans and critics alike, but the series has generally been praised for focusing on other characters outside the games (half the novels don't even include a mention of the Master Chief at all, and one doesn't even include any Spartans...). Basically, I think we're safe with Halo for now.
Keane Ng said:
Now if only someone would say something about whether or not we'll ever see Sgt. Johnson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Halo_characters#Avery_Johnson] again.
Avery J. Johnson still has quite a bit of backstory to look at, but we saw a lot more about him in the prequel novel Contact Harvest, which keen-eyed fans will notice is set on the same planet as (albeit 6 years prior to) Halo Wars. It's hinted at, but never explicitly stated, that he was a Spartan in a project (Project Orion) designed to be a precursor to the Spartans that the Master Chief is a part of. That is, while the Master Chief is a Spartan-II, Sgt. Johnson is a Spartan-I. However, I agree that I'd quite like to see more of him in the future. More prequels maybe, after
his untimely death by Sparkey near the end of Halo 3.
Exactly. The Sonic franchise was ruined years ago. And in my honest opinion, the Halo franchise was ruined when Halo 3 came out. Now we get a bland RTS, a spin-off that has the exact same multiplayer as Halo 3, and now possibly a Halo 4. *deep sigh*
Sounds ok. Master Chief is a pretty cool character, I'd like to learn more about him, if the next game could have some backstory on him.
Or have him crash on that alien planet you saw if you beat the game on Legendary.
He would have crazy adventures n kill aleins n stuf and no afrade of anything
I'd be more interested in Master Chief had a personality. Or at least highlight his LACK of personality. He's such a grey lifeless bowl of soup in Halo 3.
i really hope they arent thinking of milking halo for more after osdt halo wars (playing right now BUNGIE FIX THE GOD DAMN THRID MISSION WHERE THEY RUSH BANSHEES)
They won't do a Sonic with the Master Chief, because with Halo Bungie and Microsoft have stated at various times that they have fleshed out a proper expanded universe and know exactly what they are doing. You still get logistical problems, of course (look at the Duke Nukem Forever style delays in the comic series Halo Uprising...), but the story of Halo has been stated as being a very much controlled thing and something that nobody at Bungie or Microsoft want to see outstay it's welcome. They'll keep releasing new content and media for Halo as long as they still have a story to tell and the fans keep on supporting the series, but the series isn't only about the Master Chief. With Halo Uprising, the lack of Master Chief was a major criticism of fans and critics alike, but the series has generally been praised for focusing on other characters outside the games (half the novels don't even include a mention of the Master Chief at all, and one doesn't even include any Spartans...). Basically, I think we're safe with Halo for now.
Keane Ng said:
Now if only someone would say something about whether or not we'll ever see Sgt. Johnson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Halo_characters#Avery_Johnson] again.
Avery J. Johnson still has quite a bit of backstory to look at, but we saw a lot more about him in the prequel novel Contact Harvest, which keen-eyed fans will notice is set on the same planet as (albeit 6 years prior to) Halo Wars. It's hinted at, but never explicitly stated, that he was a Spartan in a project (Project Orion) designed to be a precursor to the Spartans that the Master Chief is a part of. That is, while the Master Chief is a Spartan-II, Sgt. Johnson is a Spartan-I. However, I agree that I'd quite like to see more of him in the future. More prequels maybe, after
his untimely death by Sparkey near the end of Halo 3.
Quote in spoiler box to avoid a huge wall'o'text...
I can confirm now, without any possibility of denial, that Sgt. Johnson definitely was a Spartan. Not a Spartan-II, but a Spartan nonetheless. Here is the link to the Halo Wiki page if you still don't believe me, and all of this information has been confirmed in Contact Harvest as well as by Bungie and Microsoft themselves:
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