: 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)
IIRC I reffered to it with both dates; PiD was in 94, and the Jjaro returned two years later.
: 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.
You guys are on slightly the wrong track, but I'd rather not explain outright, so here's some clues:
1) The humans don't refer to "the Pfhor" in any way. They refer only to Tycho, and his use of Pfhor tactics, and there happen to be Pfhor attacking the station. If we won on Marathon, why would Tycho be with the Pfhor?
2) Failure dreams are always in the future of the timeline you just left, not of the timeline you are leaving to create; and they don't always take place in the same part of time, just on the same station.
And yes Adam, much better job on story analysis in this one. When you guys figure out what's actually going on, maybe I'll be able to figure out how to make that a little more obvious.
