IsoDidact

"Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder, just like his father — but this Manipular has other plans."

- Description

Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting (commonly known as "Bornstellar") was an untried Forerunner Manipular whose family and ancestors came from a long line of Builders, the highest and most powerful rate in Forerunner society. He effectively became another incarnation of the Promethean known as the Didact after being imprinted with the latter's consciousness and memories; this incarnation was known as the Bornstellar-Didact.

Early life
Of all his father's children, Bornstellar was the most rebellious, refusing to follow in his footsteps and become a Builder. As a result of this, his father sent him to learn discipline in a step family of Miners on Edom in the distant Sol system. There, his ancilla taught him of the near-mythical Precursors. Three years later, Bornstellar sneaked aboard a supply transport and traveled to Erde-Tyrene to hunt for Precursor relics. In the city of Marontik, he met two humans, Chakas and Morning Riser, who would serve as guides in his search for Precursor artifacts.

His guides led him to Djamonkin Crater, where he found and opened a Cryptum belonging to the Didact. The Didact took Bornstellar and the two humans with him on a ship grown on-site from a design seed planted by the Librarian. During his subsequent travels with Bornstellar, the Didact performed a brevet mutation on him to allow him access to the Domain. Through the mutation, the Didact's consciousness, along with all of his memories and knowledge, were transferred to Bornstellar.

After being captured by the Master Builder on the San 'Shyuum world Janjur Qom, Bornstellar was shipped back to his family. Not long after, his presence was requested at the trial of the Master Builder in the capital. The trial was interrupted by an attack by the rampant Mendicant Bias. During the battle, the Didact's personality took control of Bornstellar, allowing him to escape the AI's control and maneuver an escape pod amidst the chaos and successfully escape to the greater Ark along with Glory of a Far Dawn and Splendid Dust of Ancient Suns.

Becoming the Didact
After surviving the assault on the capital, Bornstellar arrived on the greater Ark, where he met with the Librarian, who revealed that Didact had been executed at the hands of the Master Builder. As the Didact's expertise was necessary to combat the increasing threat of the Flood, the Promethean's personality completely overtook Bornstellar's physical body, making him a reincarnation of the Didact; he stated that he would return control to Bornstellar when his mission was finished. Although Chakas could still recognize him when the two later reunited on Installation 07, the Bornstellar-Didact mentioned that he was Bornstellar "no more, except in [his] dreams".

However, it was later learned that the original Didact had in fact survived, having been abandoned in a Flood-infested system by the Master Builder's forces, effectively causing two Didacts to be in existence; the original Didact, identified as the Ur-Didact, and his active personality imprint within Bornstellar, now referred to as the Bornstellar-Didact.

Over 100,000 years later, a record referred to as the "Bornstellar Relation", supposedly containing a testimony or archived personality of Bornstellar, was discovered by the UNSC on Onyx.

Physical description and personality
Presumably like all Manipulars, Bornstellar was young, inexperienced, and was close to the age of becoming an independent member of society. However, despite his noble class, he was quite rebellious in nature, even to the point of defying the history and trade of his family as builders. Because of this, Bornstellar had become increasingly interested in the Precursors, an ancient race of sentient beings far predating his own people.

Physically, like other Manipulars, Bornstellar bore a moderate but noticeable resemblance to humanity than he did to other Forerunner forms, such as a Second or Third-Form. He possessed a thin, pale fuzz over much of his body, such as his arms, along with the partially-furred body and hair that was a notable feature of his kind.

After his brevet mutation at the hands of the Didact, he began to resemble those of the Warrior-Servant caste than he did of the Builders, with grayish-white skin, thicker, a more muscular physique, harsher facial features. Even with these characteristics, he still bore traces of the Builder caste, resulting in him possessing a blend of physical features of both; however, his physique continued to mutate further over time, and he eventually came to resemble the original Didact very closely, aside from being conspicuously younger.

Trivia
Bornstellar is the main protagonist of the Greg Bear novel Halo: Cryptum, the first of three novels in The Forerunner Saga.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Cryptum
 * Halo: Primordium
 * Halo: Silentium