: But apparently this virus has been sitting down here under the Citadel with
: no Pfhor to carry it for a thousand years and the Pfhor STILL catch it.
: Maybe Lh'owon "viruses" aren't quite like earthborn ones.
From the Scrapbook:
Like the first Marathon, there were a few elements that never made their way into the final game. Chief among these were the Zombie Pfhor. Originally, these were Pfhor fighters that had been mutated by the highly radioactive Lh’owon atmosphere. In a later version of the story these sadly deformed creatures were victims of a biological weapon developed by the S’pht rescued in the first game. Though close to being completed, the Zombies were dropped when someone pointed out that a superintelligent race like the S’pht probably wouldn’t design a biological weapon that didn’t actually kill its victims, but transformed them into shambling, blood thirsty savages.
I too was under the impression that the zombie Pfhor were infected by the S'ct'lac'tr (ancient S'pht bioweapon) until I read and actually comprehended that passage while researching this post right now. The tru7h is still out there, I guess :P
OTOH, the general appearance of the Zombie Pfhor is very, very similar to the Flood from Halo. When I asked one of the other Bungie guys about this, he said something like "just goes to show how long Rob's been kicking that idea around". If they had made it into M2, it would have really thrown a monkeywrench into all the "marathon is|isn't in the Halo universe" arguments :P
