: Only references to teleportation in Marathon are in the M1 manual: From the
: Intro: Through the degenerating clouds of the airlock passageway, instead
: of looking upon the Tau Ceti starscape, you see the Tuncer Mirage Effect:
: space blurring and focusing in diminishing cycles. The TME is commonplace
: to you, humanity has used teleporters for almost five hundred years, and
: you yourself have been teleporting since before you were born. But you've
: never seen the TME cover an area so big before, and never at all without a
: landing pad. And yet another first: a space fighter materializes right in
: front of your eyes.
The interesting thing about this passage that I'm surprised nobody has ever mentioned is, it appears to imply that the Pfhor TELEPORTED a ship. Perhaps the Pfhor FTL drives are actually just really big, long-range transporters.. their jumps are referred to as "folding"... and since Pfhor technology is implicitly stolen from Jjaro technology, and the Jjaro could beam entire moons around by bending spacetime, perhaps Marathon transporters are basically just personal wormholes or some such - you are folded in on yourself through a hole in space and unfold somewhere else. It would match the TME and the in-game effect (which is supposed to BE the TME).
