: Yeah I figured that might have been where you were going with the argument,
: and I like your writeup. The W'rkncacnter's release would presumably lead
: to the closure that Durandal was planning for ... planning to escape, and
: perhaps in the M2 timeline this took all that time, but Durandal was by
: then able to pinpoint the time at which things could be changed, and used
: his by then acquired knowledge to effect a time anomaly; a splintering at
: that point into an Infinity of timelines - not just the six or seven we
: experience in the confines of the scenario, possibly with that depicting
: the quickest eaten path as you so eloquently put it :).
But why Durandal? And why the rush? If the W'rkncacnter takes a billion+ years to be released then the Jjarro station could be activated at your leisure. Instead of popping off to another timeline the instant somebody activates the trih xeem.
There are some hints that the release of the W'rkncacnter was chaotic enough to split the timelines, but in such a strange way. Both the Infinity Manual and Ne Cede Malis describe a timeline that doesn't split from Marathon 2 at the point of the W'rkncacnter release, but much much earlier.
The more I think about it, the more I'll stand behind my "GK was unsatisfied with M2" theory. It seems like such a canon-redaction to me, going back to the beginning of Marathon 2 and doing it over again in a more interesting way.
No wait I changed my mind.
