- homocidalham
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- Exalted Mythic Member
"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Now try how and why."
Marathon and Halo are canonically irreconcilable. The reason people make a link between Halo and Marathon is because they share a number of visual and thematic motifs. However, even most of the similarities are on a fairly superficial level at that.
Other than that, I suppose it's also because of the tons of continuity nods that were made to Marathon when Halo was still in development and the connections that already existed between bungie's other games. While I admit that it would have been cool to have a huge continuity between various games, the fact that bungie no longer owns the rights to myth or halo will mean that while we will probably never know what the connection between the great devoid and marathon is, it also means that bungie doesn't have to worry about losing any rights to marathon, which I'm guessing could have become a possibility if it had been made explicitly connected with their other properties.