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Back on the surface of Installation 03, the Didact confronted Blue Team once more, intending to finish them off 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, the Didact lifted the Master Chief in the air and crushed the Spartan's helmet.<ref name="esc9"/> The Promethean quickly halted the other Spartans' efforts at saving their comrade and knocked them all to the ground. Before he could finish them off Static Carillon attacked him 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 once more, intending to finish them off 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, the Didact lifted the Master Chief in the air and crushed the Spartan's helmet.<ref name="esc9"/> The Promethean quickly halted the other Spartans' efforts at saving their comrade and knocked them all to the ground. Before he could finish them off Static Carillon attacked him 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 activate the ring just to destroy 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 him 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.</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 activate the ring just to destroy 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 him 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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