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Liberated from the Marathon story-page.....

The controversy is basically over; the player is most definitely one of these cyborgs: the tenth Mjolnir Mk9

By 2773, the Marathon had arrived at Tau Ceti IV and the colony was established by 2787. The cyborgs were assimilated into the colony population after three hundred years of stasis. At some point during the journey from earth, Durandal had become rampant, embittered by his demeaning work, Strauss' "humiliation" on Mars. He detected a scoutship in an outlying system, and called it to the Marathon. This ship belonged to the Pfhor, a race of alien slavers who gained their technology primarily from the abandoned outposts of the Jjaro. The Jjaro were a race of supersentient beings who had been in contact with humanity briefly, in the early spring of 1994, when a hologram of the Jjaro diplomat Ryu'Toth warned the leaders of the United States that they had 8 days to save the world. A creature of pure chaos, believed now to be a W'rkncacnter, had been neutralized during a war ages ago, in the battle that created the Magellanic clouds. This creature had drifted, inert and unconscious, through space for ages until striking the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago. The Jjaro told the Earth's leaders that this being was awakening, and that a team of humans would have to travel to the bottom of the pyramid which the being had formed above itself and detonate a low-yield nuclear device. Though it could never be killed, this would stun the being, further encase it in rock, and buy time for the Jjaro to perform more permanent measures when they arrived on earth 2.5 years later. The mission was successful: though seven members of the team died in the labyrinth, the eighth managed to detonate the device and escape to the surface. We can only assume that the Jjaro arrived on schedule shortly thereafter.


Assuming the Marathon games are in the further future, and though the numbers and dates are a little wonky... can't alot of this reflect on Halo 2 plot? The ancient uber-monster, something sent to Earth and apparently buried in a Pyramid (I was with him in the tomb from the Cortana letters or all the ruins talk from the Ilovebees story involving the widow).

  • 07.26.2004 11:01 AM PDT
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Wow, cool.

  • 07.26.2004 11:04 AM PDT
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A bit more from the story summary... The time travel ideal opens an interesting argument. Is the 10th Marine... a "spartan mk 9" the forerunner that Guilty Spark knew from before? An infinite time loop?


This is where Marathon 2 ends - but not where Marathon Infinity begins. Marathon Infinity covers timelines before and after the end of Marathon 2, but not always in the same order...
... and then, something went horribly wrong. The sensors of the Pfhor fleet began to register impossible readings, "as if the universe had forgotten its own rules". One of the W'rkncacnter, long ago imprisoned in Lh'owon's sun by the Jjaro during the S'pht creation, was now free. The marine was sent back, via a bizarre way that Jjaro technology allows sentients to travel an infinite path along time and probability, to prevent the release of the chaos. Fighting on various sides and in various times through the Lh'owon conflict, the marine eventually found the path which would allow him to activate an ancient Jjaro station that projected a synthetic gravity well. The nova and the W'rkncacnter were contained, the Pfhor fleet destroyed. But Lh'owon, once a world of marshes inhabited by the benevolent S'pht, had been left a radioactive desert by wars, and now its sun was going nova in a containment field. The final night settled over Lh'owon as the Jjaro allowed the marine to escape the end of the universe, fulfilling Durandal's dream... or not, depending on your interpretation of the Marathon Infinity final screen. Play it and decide for yourself.

  • 07.26.2004 11:15 AM PDT
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may be forrerunner stuff buried on earth and some flood guarding it?

  • 07.26.2004 11:16 AM PDT

-S

Two things to keep in mind:

1) Marathon and Halo are seperate story universes.
2) The Cortana letters lost about 95% of their relevancy during Halo's development.

  • 07.26.2004 11:26 AM PDT
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All the hex-stuff hidden in the pictures implies things like hidden things beneath a tomb, and unstoppable forces (as the flood have been described). Similarly the Marathon games referred to the unkillable war-machine-like creatures in similar terms.

Could, in a twisted re-telling of the Marathon history, the Covies be the Jjaro? IE the race that would come to Earth to help stop the buried creature? If "help" and eradicate go hand in hand... in a sense their intent has always been to kill humanity.... OR stop what was on humanities home world?

Likewise, the other marathon alien race is described as a slave-master race... not unlike the prophets on Halo 2???

  • 07.26.2004 11:27 AM PDT
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About the I Love Bees thing.

I don't think it has anything to do with halo at all.

I think we should look more into the Marathon side of this story.

I believe that this whole thing has to do with Marathon not Halo.

  • 07.26.2004 11:28 AM PDT
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Sorry Shishka... could you explain that later bit? How did the Cortana letters find themselves dismissed during the Halo development? Weren't they still indicators of what happened behind the scenes in terms of a crucial AI?

  • 07.26.2004 11:28 AM PDT
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Funny point Anubis if you consider this....

On the Dana/Bee blog both a Cortana and a Shodan had posts deleted by mysterious means. Cortana being from Halo, and Shodan the obvious AI construct from System Shock 2.

With various AI's posting across several games... why no Tycho, Leela, or Durandal?

  • 07.26.2004 11:30 AM PDT