: Strauss smuggles ten Mjolnir Mk IV battleroids aboard the Marathon and
: integrates them into the colonists with help from Durandal, and keeps the
: battleroids in store with plans to have them take over the entire colony,
: far from Earth. It's why Marathon was never attacked by MIDA over Mars,
: because MIDA intended to take over the UEG colony for themselves.
My personal headcanon has long been that the reason Strauss and MIDA care to infiltrate the Marathon and the Tau Ceti colony is because, as they say, "JJARRO WERE AT TAU CETI" and a select few humans, including both Strauss and co with MIDA and also the people ultimately behind the launch of the Marathon, know about this. Some humans know the Jjaro exist thanks to the incident with them in the mid-90s, and if there's any reason to think some kind of technology of theirs existed on Tau Ceti and could be scavenged from there, then whoever controlled the fate of that tech would also control the fate of life back at Sol, eventually...
