: The first terminal is also a trove of information. It is a general call to
: broadcast information about the PiD incident of 96 (I think Blake37's
: right, it was 94) so that the Pfhor will understand what a release of the
: trih xeem into Earth's sun could do. This is exactly what the S'pht tried
: to do at Lh'owon in the Infinity manual, without deterring the Pfhor in
: the least. There are some interesting points here - this level takes place
: in a future war between humanity and the Pfhor, humanity is winning the
: war and the Pfhor are using their "destroy what they can't have"
: policy. Adam's right about one thing - destroying the S'pht before they're
: enslaved by the Pfhor would have had a major effect on Pfhor development
: and things would have gone quite differently for them. I think the point
: that Forrest is trying to make is that the Pfhor would have attacked the
: Marathon regardless when they did because it was Durandal that called them
: there. The presumption then is that although there was no S'pht rebellion
: that Durandal could exploit, The Pfhor were not nearly as robust and he
: was still able to defeat them or at least find some means of escape so
: that he could warn Earth of the impending attack. Without the S'pht,
: although they had Tycho, the Pfhor lacked the degree of technical
: sophistication (at least in computers) that we are familiar with and, as a
: result, their attack on humanity was on more equal terms, so they could
: not win. I think that all of this is a bit of a stretch, but this is all
: conjecture after all and this explanation is as valid as any.
Odd - the first terminal didn't work for me.
