- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: SPARTAN O43
I posted this a while ago, but I'll repost it again, seeing as how this is the only fragment of tru7h connecting Marathon and Halo that comes directly from a former Bungie employee (at least, the only one I know of)
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While reading the new November issue of XBN (the Halo2 one), I noticed a very interesting quote from The Man(Alex Seropian, co-founder of Bungie) himself. The quote isn't from the Halo2 singleplayer article, but from an article on the making of Halo1.
The article reads, '...But for Seropian, it all starts with Marathon...What they [Marathon players] didn't know is that the character they were playing was the very first incarnation of Master Chief... "I don't think you ever find that out, but it's the same character," Seropian says. "God, we've never said that before, but it's completely obvious. Cortana isn't in Marathon, but there are three A.I.s in there that came from the same stylistic story line." '
Now, the only question left is, is the security officer literally the same character as the Chief, or a previous incarnation of the same entity?
Alex does not say that the two storylines are crossable in that article. What he says is that they were basically cut from the same design, and I get the idea that Halo was maybe another story line idea that they came up with when making Marathon perhapse. And again he says the thing about Cortana not being in Marathon, but that they came from the same stylistic story line. This all indicates similarities, not crossable stories. When he says MC and the SO from Marathon are the same character, it does not look like he means they are literally the same person, but rather the same design for a character.