- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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).