Ur-Didact: Difference between revisions

Unknown to the UNSC the Didact survived his fall into the slipspace rift. 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]], whom he killed immediately 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, tortured souls forced against their will.<ref name="esc9">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue #9]]''</ref>

As an immensely powerful Forerunner with incredibly advanced technologies at his disposal, the Didact has a number of extraordinary abilities. He has the capability to generate and control powerful [[constraint field]]s at will,<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 303-305''</ref> in effect granting him the power of [[Wikipedia:telekinesis|telekinesis]] to restrain or physically harm his opponents. This was demonstrated when he used this ability on John-117, immobilizing him and causing him to float helplessly in the air, before throwing him against a wall.<ref name="forerunner">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Forerunner (level)|Forerunner]]''</ref> Later, during the final confrontation aboard ''Mantle's Approach'', he used this ability to physically torture the Spartan, who was only saved by Cortana's intervention. He can also use the fields to levitate himself to some extent.<ref name="midnight"/> The Didact was also capable of generating a shockwave by stomping on the ground. While at the [[Composer's Forge]], the Didact used this ability to cause [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] [[Blue Team]] to stumble to the ground.<ref name="esc9"/> Later during his battle against the Spartans, he generated a powerful linear energy blast to disable [[Kelly-087]].<ref name="HE10"/>It may be possible as seen on Installation 03, also known as Gamma Halo, that the Didact may posses the ability to generate Crawlers and given the right conditions freely manufacture Promethean Knights.