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	Posted By: VikingBoyBilly	Date: 6/2/16 8:21 a.m.
	In Response To: Something odd that occurred to me: (XaleManix) : I draw my keyboard and pound the switch to compose a post. : Oddly, this is familiar to me, as if it were something from an old dream, but : I can't quite place it... : Oh well. On to business: I noticed something while reading through the story : page (Most of it. Facts and Puzzling Things and the Terminal Texts), and : something occurred to me, a piece of fridge logic from reading the 'You' : section, which hit me somewhere in vicinity of Weapons of Marathon : section. Something that, to me, reinforces the fact that you're a Cyborg, : right there in the manual, before the game even begins: You had a : childhood on Mars. : How is this evidence? Well, allow me to speculate: According to the Manual : section on Civilians, the Marathon's passengers included 1,200 officers : (50 Senior Staff+1,150 Officers), plus about 24,000 civilians. : Furthermore, some individuals were placed in stasis for the journey, but : most people remained awake on board, and it was in fact their descendants : who arrived at Tau Ceti to become the Born-on-Boards, aka BoBs. : Given that Stasis chambers would be at a premium, one can imagine that only : the most important staffing positions would be placed under stasis: The : fifty senior command staff, perhaps a few hundred officers... but, most : likely, not a security officer. : Especially given the fact that 24th century Sol-system politics likely meant : that the Security staff were most likely in place mostly to protect : against mutiny from any discontents among the Martian-sourced population, : it seems more than absurd to put the security staff into stasis, where : they couldn't do their jobs. : Yet the Security Officer remembers his childhood on Mars. : I posit that, perhaps, the ten cyborgs Strauss mentions in Low-Flying Defense : Drones weren't put into stasis, but lived among the generations of BoBs : that grew up aboard the Marathon. Approximately 7even generations later, : they were likely so thoroughly integrated into the BoB's society that no : one even noticed that they'd been hanging around for 300 years. The only : entities with the ability to notice would be Leela, Tycho, and Durandal, : and perhaps they simply weren't meticulously tracking the awake crew. I thought of those as false or implanted memories because he's, you know, a reanimated corpse. His original memories would have died... or not? People point to the "dent" as an in-manual clue that he's a cyborg... whatever. Tycho's terminal about those asteroid wars testing them out was what made me first suspect the player might be one of those guys.

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	Something odd that occurred to me:	XaleManix	6/1/16 6:52 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	General-RADIX	6/1/16 8:19 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	XaleManix	6/1/16 8:53 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	General-RADIX	6/1/16 9:30 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	XaleManix	6/1/16 9:54 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	Durandal_1707	6/2/16 1:09 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	XaleManix	6/2/16 4:01 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	General-RADIX	6/2/16 8:05 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	VikingBoyBilly	6/2/16 8:21 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	Bob-B-Q	6/2/16 11:42 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	XaleManix	6/2/16 11:59 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	VikingBoyBilly	6/2/16 2:23 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	XaleManix	6/2/16 2:30 p.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	Hopper	6/3/16 8:47 a.m.
	Wouldn't you have to go and find the wheelbarrow? *NM*	XaleManix	6/3/16 10:52 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	Durandal_1707	6/4/16 10:21 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	Johnnie A. Padgett	6/6/16 9:07 a.m.
	Re: Something odd that occurred to me:	Bob-B-Q	6/7/16 6:35 a.m.

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