Near the end of the war, the Didact, still adamant in his opposition of the Halo Array, resorted to the use of the Composer, converting his Promethean warriors, as well as a large number of humans, into powerful robotic forms immune to infection. Under the Didact's leadership, the Prometheans would lead the ecumene's defenses against the Flood until the end of the conflict and the activation of the Halo Array. Called upon to defend the ecumene against the onslaught of the Flood, the new Council elevated the Prometheans back to their former status, and the Didact resumed his duties as the supreme commander of Forerunner military forces. Shortly after his revival, a radical shift occurred in the Council, and Faber lost his political power due to his crimes against the Mantle. Disgraced, the Didact and some of the other highest-ranking Prometheans were allowed the dignified choice of exile in a Cryptum, while some of the lesser-ranked commanders were accorded more severe punishments.Īfter a thousand years of exile, the Didact was reawakened amidst the Forerunner-Flood war. They lost the political battle and were subsequently removed from the Ecumene Council, with the Master Builder's allies rising to power in the Council instead. Following the Human-Forerunner war and the discovery of the Flood, the Prometheans, under the leadership of the Didact, stood in opposition to the radical faction of Builders led by Master Builder Faber, who proposed the construction of the Halo Array. Requiem, the primary fortress world of the Prometheans.įor thousands of years, the fortified shield world Requiem served as the main command center of the Prometheans. Īn example of an Armiger is the Promethean Soldier.
The Didact used them during the Human-Forerunner war to raid human ships and after his exile they were used by the Forerunner Ecumene to combat the Flood and guard various Forerunner sites after the firing of the Halo Array. They are bipedal combat platforms that are skilled in the raiding of spacecraft and close quarter combat. Unlike Promethean Knights, Armigers aren't created from composed Prometheans or humans and are instead advanced Artificial intelligence constructs. Various Promethean units, including Knights and Watchers, have distinct heads embedded in their mechanical carapaces, complete with stylized facial features this feature was shared by the War sphinx used by the original Prometheans. Visually, unlike most Forerunner technology which is chiefly angular and geometric, these Promethean units have a more curved, almost biomechanical aesthetic. However, as these Prometheans were too few in number to turn the tide, the Didact used the Composer on a large population of humans transplanted on a Halo Installation to create many more Prometheans. In order to render them immune to Flood infection, the Didact used a machine known as the Composer to convert his warriors into digital intelligences the warriors willingly accepted and were relieved of biological form. Significantly different from the original Prometheans, these constructs were created by the Didact toward the end of the Flood conflict. The Promethean forces encountered by UNSC forces and Jul 'Mdama's Covenant insurgents on Requiem were primarily mechanical in nature, and encompassed various classes of leader units known as Knights, support drones known as Watchers, and small, pack-oriented Crawlers designed to overwhelm the enemy from different directions.
The Prometheans were responsible for creating "Warrior Keeps" known as Cryptums, where an exiled warrior could live in suspended animation for thousands of years.Ī Knight Battlewagon, one of the types of Promethean inhabiting Requiem. In order to combat the parasitic Flood during the Forerunner-Flood war, the Prometheans' arsenal of weapons was specifically tailored to disintegrate targets to prevent the Flood from repurposing any available biomass. They also used powerful vehicles known as War sphinxes for large-scale operations. Prometheans were also capable of controlling a million remote-controlled craft, such as weapon-ships, simultaneously. Their mental capabilities were also very sophisticated it was common for a Promethean to share information and sensory input with the warriors under their command. They were heavily muscled, their hands capable of easily crushing a human skull. Physically, Prometheans were the highest form a Warrior-Servant could mutate to, standing around two times the height of a Forerunner Manipular and weighing about four or five times a Manipular's mass. The Ur-Didact, the commander of the Prometheans, in his original form.
0 kommentar(er)
