been passed down to them genetically regardless it's a fascinating part of the lore that I know many in the lore community would love to see explored in greater detail number four the Didact got his name for being a bit of an ass on the more humorous side we have this little factoid at this point even the most casual fan should be familiar with the forerunner known as the Didact once the leader of the forerunner military the leader of the Prometheans the highest class of forerunner warrior servant and husband of the librarian the Didact first showed up in halo threes terminals and made a proper appearance as the main antagonist in Halo NUMBER_TOKEN however what fans may not be as familiar with is the fact that the Didact is not the beings true name that would be shadow of sundered star in his younger days sundered star taught at a War College where he earned a reputation for being quote overly demanding and too precise in his definitions didactic from which Didact has derived in the real world means to instruct others especially in regards to morals so his students basically nicknamed him capital T teacher because he was a bit too strict or in other words a bit of an ass number NUMBER_TOKEN Prell it's first appeared in a map description this might sound a bit odd without the context so let me give you some background if you've read the short story halo shadow of intent either in an e-book or from its inclusion in halo fractures you'll remember the character known as Temba tech a san shyuum or prophet who was a present a prelate was a prophet who had undergone genetic physical and chemical augmentation at the sacred promise or Eon charity basically they were the profit version of Spartans being his profits were few in number by default prelate were even rarer however shadow of intent wasn't the first place that prelate were mentioned that honor goes to some of the flavor text for the Halo NUMBER_TOKEN DLC map Gemini while in-game its lore is limited to a one sentence description the manual included with the halo NUMBER_TOKEN multiplayer map pack gives us a bit more detail on each map including this line for Gemini the restful and contemplative space towering above the lights of high charity is meant as a refuge for thoughts and meditation by senior pellets in the profit hierarchy so yeah a one-off line in the map description became the basis of an interesting class of san shyuum and a great character in a book number six humans discovered evidence of the forerunners in the NUMBER_TOKENst century halo alternate reality games or Arg s have always brought fascinating new lore to the table with Halo threes iris campaign we got among other things the Society of the Ancients a human organization from the NUMBER_TOKENst century that believed earth had been visited by aliens in the distant past while not an unfamiliar claim in our day and age the Society was actually partially onto something founded by a man named David George and NUMBER_TOKEN the Society came into being after David had a discussion with his neighbor Aaron Elliot at a barbecue one night Aaron brought up a series of books he had been reading that talked about various unsolved ancient mysteries soon after David became obsessed with the idea of ancient alien visitors and by NUMBER_TOKEN the society had NUMBER_TOKEN members as one would expect the Society's evidence of ancient aliens included a number of
NO_SEGMENT_TOKEN