- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
ok here is my input, i found a webpage that has all the marathon terminals from all the games in order :http://marathon.bungie.org/story/, check it out. in the marathon story, marathon wasnt launched until 2479. now in the first halo book "fall of reach" this is the opening for chapter 1
0430 Hours, August 17, 2517 (Military Calendar) / Slipstream space unknown
coordinates near
Eridanus Star System
this could explain why marathon could not do slipspace, because it hasnt been established at that point. also it could explain why the "cyborgs" are wearing mark IV armor. in the book first strike in this chapter shows the date of the Mark V armor :
0901 hours, August 30,2552 (Military Calendar)\Epsilon
Eridani system, ONI underground facility, planet Reach.
now the end of H3 has the date of 2553 (as we all know). as for the ark theory, we have to remember that the ark was in a portal and not really beside mars, where it actually is, nobody can tell, but when the master chief was cut off, it left him in the same place where the ark was.
now in the marathon story, marathon wasnt attacked until 2794, a good 200 years after the events of halo.
back to the master chief. he put himself into cryo sleep which literally stops the aging process and he could quite possibly have been sleeping that long. the planet at the end video being marathon? dont think so maybe just another planet he passed (it is a big universe out there!) but with the similarities between the marathon story and the halo story are hard to just pass, the armor, the weopons, (hell the hunters are in marathon-tho they look a little different, but are described as in the same manner as the ones in halo). could master cheif have been picked up by marathon, very good possibility, different universes, negative, just a different point in time. by the way its not time traveling, hes just sedated for 200 years and thats when he happened to wake up, when traveling in space, it goes by years (light years, you know the length of time for light to reach any point in the universe) so time travel is out.
halo and marathon, i think so. bungi is good at hiding things. cliton says he never slept with that girl, but did it really happen?