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 ===Fateful reunion===
 {{Quote|The Halos? Violating the Mantle all over again, with even greater destruction! Wiping out all intelligent life across this galaxy! By itself that proves you are a poor version. You’ve altered your strategic vision... Don't you feel the truth of it? We gave the Precursors reason to retreat into madness. A passion for vengeance. And the Gravemind gave it all right back to me. I am filled with that passion, that madness, that poison! If we fire Halo, we lose everything.|The Ur-Didact responding to the IsoDidact's changed views on the Halos.}}
-Later, a meeting was arranged between the Ur-Didact, the Librarian and the IsoDidact. The three gathered in the Didact's and Librarian's family domicile on [[Nomdagro]], now ravaged by Council agents looking for evidence of possible crimes. The reunion soon turned out to be less than a happy one: the Ur-Didact, his perceptions and views distorted by his madness, began to argue with both the Librarian and his own duplicate that the latter's actions and methods endangered the Forerunners and new, more extreme strategies had to be adopted in order for the Forerunners to survive. The Didact had deduced that the Flood had consciously favored humans by deliberately receding ten thousand years earlier and that they were specifically targeting Forerunners as an act of revenge. By extension, he came to the conclusion that the Librarian's favoring of humanity was a goal shared by the Flood - something he saw as a profound betrayal.<ref name="string12"/>
+Four years after his return to the ecumene,<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 28, 197''</ref> a meeting was arranged between the Ur-Didact, the Librarian and the IsoDidact. The three gathered in the Didact's and Librarian's family domicile on [[Nomdagro]], now ravaged by Council agents looking for evidence of possible crimes. The reunion soon turned out to be less than a happy one: the Ur-Didact, his perceptions and views distorted by his madness, began to argue with both the Librarian and his own duplicate that the latter's actions and methods endangered the Forerunners and new, more extreme strategies had to be adopted in order for the Forerunners to survive. The Didact had deduced that the Flood had consciously favored humans by deliberately receding ten thousand years earlier and that they were specifically targeting Forerunners as an act of revenge. By extension, he came to the conclusion that the Librarian's favoring of humanity was a goal shared by the Flood - something he saw as a profound betrayal.<ref name="string12"/>
 The Ur-Didact took off to brood in a desolate region of Nomdagro, near the planet's only Precursor artifact, where he was soon joined by the IsoDidact. In the resulting exchange, it became apparent that the two Didacts had diverged into very different individuals indeed, with the original only finding fault in the IsoDidact and accusing him of being a poor copy of himself. While the IsoDidact had begun to realize the inevitability of having to use the Halos to halt the Flood, the Ur-Didact was adamant in his opposition, now further reinforced by manipulation by the Gravemind. Before the confrontation could turn physical, the Flood was detected approaching the planet. The two Didacts took off into orbit in their own ships as millions of [[Flood dispersal pod]]s rained down upon Nomdagro. As the IsoDidact and the Librarian departed toward the [[greater Ark]], now the last remaining defense of the ecumene, the Ur-Didact followed in his personal flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 26''</ref>