: Maybe I'm missing something here, but Ian says that we can either stay here
: and go down with the ship, or "finish what we started with
: Joshua"...Ian doesn't seem to be giving us a second chance, and
: sounds like he's pretty much resigned to what's become of us. So I'm
: guessing that the next level (and the ones afterward?) is us feeling all
: remorseful, trying to change our past, the way the Marathon Marine did in
: Infinity.
That's a valid interpretation, but I always though "what we started" was when Ian sent us in on Tastes Like Evil. Our mission there was to try to neutralize him, so I assumed Ian wants us to give that another shot, and push us more forcefully towards changing our ways as you say.