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====Composer's Forge==== | ====Composer's Forge==== | ||
{{Main|Skirmish on Installation 03}} | {{Main|Skirmish on Installation 03}} | ||
{{Quote|More of [[SPARTAN-II program|you]]? Unacceptable.|The Ur-Didact | {{Quote|More of [[SPARTAN-II program|you]]? Unacceptable.|The Ur-Didact upon seeing Black Team on Installation 03.<ref name="esc9"/>}} | ||
[[File:Halo Escalation Ur-Didact.jpg|thumb|right|The Ur-Didact immediately after the attack on New Phoenix.|150px]] | [[File:Halo Escalation Ur-Didact.jpg|thumb|right|The Ur-Didact immediately after the attack on New Phoenix.|150px]] | ||
Unknown to the UNSC, the Didact survived his fall into the slipspace fissure. Hurtling through the portal along with a number of his Promethean constructs, he crash-landed on [[Installation 03]] near the Composer's original location, the [[Composer's Abyss]]. Shortly after his arrival, he was discovered by Spartan [[Black Team]], all of whom he quickly and brutally slaughtered upon regaining consciousness. The Didact was soon confronted by [[859 Static Carillon]], the [[monitor]] of the [[Composer's Forge]] and the keeper of the Composers, who had arrived on the Halo to investigate the recent activation of a service [[slipspace portal|portal]] leading to its installation. The Didact asked the monitor to take him to the Composer's Forge, where he established a base in a deserted Forerunner city. He requested Static Carillon to deliver him a slightly damaged Halo installation, which he planned to repair and use as his final instrument of vengeance against humanity in spite of his earlier opposition to the Halos. In return, the Didact told the monitor he would cease his creation of Promethean Knights from composed humans and that he would not bring them to the Composer's Forge, as Static Carillon considered the constructs "abominations".<ref name="esc9">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue #9]]''</ref> | Unknown to the UNSC, the Didact survived his fall into the slipspace fissure. Hurtling through the portal along with a number of his Promethean constructs, he crash-landed on [[Installation 03]] near the Composer's original location, the [[Composer's Abyss]]. Shortly after his arrival, he was discovered by Spartan [[Black Team]], all of whom he quickly and brutally slaughtered upon regaining consciousness. The Didact was soon confronted by [[859 Static Carillon]], the [[monitor]] of the [[Composer's Forge]] and the keeper of the Composers, who had arrived on the Halo to investigate the recent activation of a service [[slipspace portal|portal]] leading to its installation. The Didact asked the monitor to take him to the Composer's Forge, where he established a base in a deserted Forerunner city. He requested Static Carillon to deliver him a slightly damaged Halo installation, which he planned to repair and use as his final instrument of vengeance against humanity in spite of his earlier opposition to the Halos. In return, the Didact told the monitor he would cease his creation of Promethean Knights from composed humans and that he would not bring them to the Composer's Forge, as Static Carillon considered the constructs "abominations".<ref name="esc9">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue #9]]''</ref> | ||
[[File:HE10 Didact burned.jpg|thumb|left|150px|The Ur-Didact is composed.]] | [[File:HE10 Didact burned.jpg|thumb|left|150px|The Ur-Didact is composed.]] | ||
The following day, on July 26, Static Carillon informed the Didact that a [[Blue Team|Spartan team]] led by John-117 had arrived at the Composer's Abyss and had crossed the portal. However, the Didact considered the Spartans' actions inconsequential and decided that he would welcome them to "his world".<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue #8]]''</ref> After Blue Team arrived at the Composer's Forge, the Didact confronted the Spartans, who opened fire, to no avail; the Didact stomped | The following day, on July 26, Static Carillon informed the Didact that a [[Blue Team|Spartan team]] led by John-117 had arrived at the Composer's Abyss and had crossed the portal. However, the Didact considered the Spartans' actions inconsequential and decided that he would welcome them to "his world".<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue #8]]''</ref> After Blue Team arrived at the Composer's Forge, the Didact confronted the Spartans, who opened fire, to no avail; the Didact stomped the ground, generating a shockwave that caused the Spartans to stumble and fall to the ground. The Didact then summoned an army of newly created Promethean constructs to the Forge to battle the Spartans. While Static Carillon fulfilled its end of the bargain, transitioning Installation 03 over the Composer's Forge, it also turned on the Didact as he had violated his side of the bargain by bringing Prometheans to its installation. The Didact departed for the portal, planning to repair the Halo and use it against Earth; he also took one of the Composers from the Forge and transported it to the Halo. The Spartans followed in close pursuit, assisted by the betrayed monitor.<ref name="esc9"/> | ||
Back on the surface of Installation 03, the Didact confronted Blue Team again, intending to kill them once and for all. However, John-117 managed to stab him in the eye with a [[combat knife]] in a surprise attack. Bemoaning his refusal to kill the Spartan when he had the chance before, the Didact lifted the Master Chief off the ground in retaliation and crushed his helmet.<ref name="esc9"/> The Promethean quickly halted the other Spartans' efforts to save their comrade and knocked them all to the ground. Before he could finish them off, however, Static Carillon attacked the Didact from behind and teleported him to the Halo's [[Control Room (Installation 03)|Control Room]].<ref name="HE10">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 10|Issue #10]]''</ref> | Back on the surface of Installation 03, the Didact confronted Blue Team again, intending to kill them once and for all. However, John-117 managed to stab him in the eye with a [[combat knife]] in a surprise attack. Bemoaning his refusal to kill the Spartan when he had the chance before, the Didact lifted the Master Chief off the ground in retaliation and crushed his helmet.<ref name="esc9"/> The Promethean quickly halted the other Spartans' efforts to save their comrade and knocked them all to the ground. Before he could finish them off, however, Static Carillon attacked the Didact from behind and teleported him to the Halo's [[Control Room (Installation 03)|Control Room]].<ref name="HE10">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 10|Issue #10]]''</ref> | ||
John-117 soon arrived in the Control Room with the ring's [[Activation Index]] and confronted the Didact; the Spartan explained that because the Didact could not be killed by conventional means a different approach must be taken. The Didact became puzzled when John inserted the Index into [[the Core]]; he asked why the Spartan would | John-117 soon arrived in the Control Room with the ring's [[Activation Index]] and confronted the Didact; the Spartan explained that because the Didact could not be killed by conventional means a different approach must be taken. The Didact became puzzled when John inserted the Index into [[the Core]]; he asked why the Spartan would fire the ring just to eliminate him. John informed the Didact that he did not activate the ring's weapon, but instead disabled its safety protocols; this allowed the monitor to eject a large section of the ring containing the Control Room toward the Composer's Forge. The monitor rescued the Spartan while the Didact was subjected to the Composers' effects, disintegrating his body but storing his essence in digital form;<ref name="waypoint didact"/> John later told [[Terrence Hood|Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood]] that he believed the Forerunner was merely "contained", not dead.<ref name="HE10"/><ref group="note" name="composed">In ''Halo 4''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Terminal Five, the Didact claims the Composer would not work on his new form, and in the level [[Midnight]] is seen levitating himself within the Composer's active beam. It is possible that the Didact was merely resistant to the effects of the Composer, rather than completely immune, as the energy released by the overlapping pulses of five Composers would be orders of magnitude greater than the energy released by a single pulse. In the Library Edition of ''Halo: Escalation'', however, it's stated by Brian Reed that the Ur-Didact wasn't composed but the explosion did do something to him.</ref> | ||
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