[quote]at the beginning, the Didact wants to save the Humans. [/quote] from complete eradication, yes. [quote]I don't see how this could lead to his hatred of them. [/quote] erm, you're right. the causation occurs later [and additional context is provided in silentium]. [quote]Furthermore, the Librarian seems to want to destroy the humans, [/quote] yes she does. [quote]yet in the next terminal, she wants to save them (it seems like her and her husband are in opposite opinion.[/quote] erm... i'm too lazy to check right now but isn't the next terminal the one where the librarian basically states "oh sh1t it's war and humanity's got the plans and i don't like war didactmandude?" the real reason the librarian wants to save them is after seeing what the didact's punishment was. just watch the rest of the terminals. seriously, this is like a mini version of the tried and true "character development = character inconsistency" except OP is actually sincere in judgement and not going under a weird confirmation bias. [quote]in the second one, the humans hav found a planet they think might be flood-free. how hard could it be to send a message to the forerunners "hey, there's this alien parasite attacking us, it'd be great if you guys could help out. also, this is why we've been eradicating your planets. you would have done it, too."[/quote] because forerunners would have taken over the place. [quote]how could the halos be a better plan than the didact's prometheans (which were decently effective. option 1: killl everything in the galaxy. option 2: let stuff live, get more soldiers in the composer, and defeat the flood. then return life to the galaxy. it seems like the halos are ridiculously unreasonable when the prometheans (in enough numbers) could at least put up a good fight.[/quote] A) mantle of responsibility/idealism plays a part here in that librarian feels that they are unworthy. B) prometheans would never have been able to stop the flood. ever. [i]ever.[/i] even with the didact's desired numbers. librarian even calculates this [well she probably does] and [i]then[/i] says that the halo array is the only choice. [quote]why didn't they just leave the galaxy? it's not like they couldn't make it to another near by galaxy. i know that they touch on the galaxy topic a bit in cryptum, but that doesn't explain why they'd rather completely irradicate life in that galaxy instead of just moving to another one.[/quote] A) but they did. B) because the flood would reach a goddamn interstellar phase and follow the nearest form of suitable biomass to wherever the fck.