[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ferrrari [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 I guess this is considered a "retcon" since the UR didact didn't [b]hate[/b] humans. He anger stemmed from the loss of his children more than anything else. [/quote] Well he sure as hell didn't like them...[/quote] And the part where he finds out that humans were destined to take up the Mantle, not Forerunners, which would reasonably be seen as an injustice by him since hye thought us to be aggressive animals. And the part where Forerunners were seen as such comparable failures that the Precursors wanted to erase them. And how the Librarian--his own wife--shot him twice and imprisoned him for 100,000 years to save these people he didn't even like to begin with since they committed genocide against Forerunner and kind of wiped out his whole family and turned his wife against him. And than there's the practical issue with humans, that they're readily available for Composition to fight the returning Flood threat. Yeah, Didact doesn't hate humans at all.[/quote] You might want to read where i said "retcon". The Didact Did not Hate humans he looked down on their aggression but didn't hate them as he [b]understood[/b] WHY they were actually attacking the forerunners. Even after the war he reflects on how he would have acted before hand had he known or the outcome had they been full force and [b]wanted[/b] to wipe them out. We see During the entire novel of cryptum that he wasn't going on some spree to wipe out humanity nor did he constantly berate them, he even called them [b]brethren[/b]. As i said before he was more made about the loss of his children and how the time with his family had been so brief. The Original Didact doesn't know about anything that happened in Primordium (currently) that was all Bornstellar. His wife shot him because he overstepped his boundaries by going to [b]her[/b] ring and composing [b]her[/b] specimens which she was highly found of. She didn't shoot him purely over the humans but the fact he was serious willing to even do such a thing which goes against the mantle itself! What "returning flood threat"? He has absolutely no reason to think the flood should ever return as of current canon.[/quote]He didn't initially hate humans, but the way he sees it, they unleashed the flood, they turned his wife against him, they killed his family, and now they want to take his place in the galaxy. After brooding for 100,000 years he has likely gone insane and blaims humanity for everything bad that has happened to him. He is no longer the same person as he was in Cryptum. This isn't a retcon, just a fall to the dark side. [Edited on 11.24.2012 12:09 PM PST]