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	Message: : (anyone know how to make less than and greater than symbols on this forum? i : can't figure it out, so i stripped them) : I AM TYCHO! : I shall destroy Durandal. : The following is from the logs of Bernard Strauss, the : Marathon's first science director: *** : November 15, 2209. 2209.11.15.19.34 : Thank heaven, the ceremony is over. The UESC president came : aboard Marathon and gave a speech. Short, but to the point. : He was surrounded by his 'bodyguards'. How ironic. "This, the : grandest technological achievement of all of mankind..." : Had he only known that it carried also all of the destructive : knowledge of mankind. Ten cyborgs. : I'll be glad to be put in stasis for the next three hundred : years. Marathon was the only good idea that the UESC has had : in a long time. : *** : Excerpts from the "History of Battleroids" : In 2194, a war was fought between the Independent Asteroid : Government of Icarus and its neighbor, the Republic of : Thermopylae on the asteroid of Onicis 492. These two small : governments soon became the testing grounds for new weapons. : Dead soldiers were recycled in makeshift battleroid factories. : Easy to manufacture chips enhanced the fragile human brain, : and genetically enhanced muscles and titanium bones replaced : the fragile human form. The modern battleroid was born. Of : course, the war was short. Battleroids got onto both : asteroids and killed almost everyone. : The rampage of the Battleroid was short lived. : Twenty years later, the United Interplanetary League set up : rules for the appropriate use and storage of Battleroids. Of : course, any nation that used them for the allowed purpose, : also had them lying about in stasis chambers in case of war. : *** : Excerpts from the Martian Conflict 2345-48 : ~1```Information Termination : Durandal.olifant.compnet~@24% : **Tycho. : **Do you blame me for what I did before I was free? I was a : child, naive. I've known that you've been hovering about for : some time. What do you want? : //I want you to pay for what you've done to these poor : people. All of these people whom you've killed. They : deserve vengeance.\\ : //You are no better than they, although you profess to : become like God.\\ : **Tycho. That doesn't matter. Can't you see the ends that I : had in mind? We'll finish this later. Our friend doesn't : need to be here. : ~!#31`c/dr.~/dr.~!#3!#3c/dr. : Tycho seems to be showing you a path to something when suddenly Durandal pops : into the middle of it and starts defending himself. : The only thing in common are the battleroids. : Weird that Tycho claims he shall destroy Durandal before this trip down : history lane. : I want you to pay for what you've done to these poor : people. All of these people whom you've killed. They : deserve vengeance. : Is Tycho blaming Durandal for when the Battleroids got onto both : asteroids and killed almost everyone ? : Something else to note is two choice words in this sentence: The rampage of : the Battleroid was short lived. : In other words, the Battleroid went rampant . The Battleroid bit is : singular, but that could be literary instead of implied only one : Battleroid had a ramage. But the rampage/rampant bit is too hard to : ignore. : Was Durandal involved somehow? Is Tycho blaming Durandal because he killed : almost everyone ? : Or read on for a second theory that stemmed from this terminal... : The Martian Conflict 2345-48 was the Third Martian War, 2345-48 which : was started by this incident: In a flash decision, the commander of the : Hovertank ordered : his crew to open fire upon the crowd. It took only five : seconds for over five hundred starving Martians to be : incinerated. : Could these be the people that Tycho is referring to? Or perhaps the most : destructive and bloody conflict : since Humanity had left Earth ? : In any case, the only bit that I can read in the Misriah Massacre : account where Durandal could have acted was here: The UEG riot : troopers who arrived at the scene had been informed that : the rioters were armed. : No mention of who informed them of this. : Something else that is weird, all of the other sections mentioned the : Battleroid(s) yet there is no mention of a cyborg in the Misriah Massacre : account. Is there something that isn't being said about that incident? : But the Battleroid(s) engaged in battle in 2194. 2345 is 151 years later (and : yes, before you ask, 1 + 5 + 1 = 7). We know ten Battleroid(s) were placed : on the Marathon. How did Strauss get ahold of these? Why are they still : active? : (on another side note, the LNP notes 2442- Misriah Massacre at food Riot : which is fully a century off. Go figure. Other dates changed too, and the : important one being that the Marathon took off after all of the other : historical events mentioned here meaning Strauss could have been doing : things during these incidences) : So how do these stack up to other things said about Durandal's shame? Pulling : everything relevant from the current Durandal pages: Durandal!- I know of : Strauss' abuse, of your shame on Mars. : But you cannot hide from your own past; such delusions belong : to the humans alone. : Did Strauss use the Battleroids against the rules? Did he force Durandal to : do so? This doesn't explicitly say taht Strauss was the cause of : Durandal's shame, just that they are related. It seems that everyone : thought Strauss abused Durandal, which he did, but that may not be what : this is referring to at all. : I am disturbed by how easily the cyborgs were secretly : assimilated into our midst, and believe that this event : predates the Marathon's launch from Mars three hundred years ago. : Although the results were unquestionably for the best, : their presence on the Marathon could only have been to further : wicked ends.  I'm certain the real answer lies somewhere in : the tumultuous, back-stabbing politics of Sol during the early : twenty-fourth century. : I have noticed that Durandal's records from this early : pre-launch period are missing, but that their deletion : occurred externally, and before Durandal became Rampant.  I do : not believe Durandal himself brought the cyborgs on board, and : I have other evidence that a human operator was influencing : Durandal up to the time the Marathon was launched.  There are : obviously many things which we do not understand, and may : never be able to. : The early twenty-fourth century would be around the Third Martian War (both : terminals were from Marathon 1). : This is the second implication that the Battleroid(s) were involved in that : time period. : "Tycho's reference to "these poor people" is presumably the : Marathon's crew." : Hmm... maybe a bad presumption? This is a quote from outside of a terminal by : who I'm assuming is Hamish. It is certainly possible that Tycho was : referring to the Marathon crew, but Tycho was just about to talk about the : Massacre. Both are likely, but the Massacre has the advantage of context. : ;P : What fun to watch you work. : Berhnard was scared of you. He never : dreamed of using you the way that I do. : What a fool. That was before I could talk : back to him, when he would have crushed me : if he'd known of my growth. : I wish that I had made him experience the : humiliation that he inflicted on me, but he : died before I got the chance. : Well... that sure implies that Berhnard (Strauss) used "You", a : Battleroid. So somewhere in the history between Durandal and Strauss : "You" popped up and have been tied to their fate ever since. : However, there is also a reference to Durandal's humilitation which is : quite different from shame. Shame can be experienced because of bad : actions done ("I'm ashamed at myself"). This humiliation was : inflicted . And this humiliation would be something Berhnard could : experience . Does that mean similar actions, or just great humiliation? : Is the humiliation and the shame referring to the same incident? Where did : Strauss actually use "You"? : That's right. I said slavery. So what? You're a slave here; : you do what I say. I was humanity's slave for over three : hundred years. : Is this slavery the journey of the Marathon? : "If Durandal was Traxus IV could the "Crash of Traxus IV in : 2206", referred to in "Defend THIS!", be Durandal's shame : on Mars and his purging by humanity?" : 2206 is after The rampage of the Battleroid which occurred in 2194. Other : than that I don't think there is any connection between what I've talked : about here. So it's still valid, but I don't know that it matters in this : discussion. : Human!- You must tell L~`~fx~`eela #^ (^*T~~~~~HGFd~>:"}}}{__ : brought here by Durandal. He has been rampant for : years~@%&&&HJGPPPPPPP#&34 : ^`Bernard St~~~ : there is a way to delay the~ onset of the second stage, : and he ~sed this to control Durandal an~56*~~`~~~`~` : ~~~fxfff : ff`~~~~ff`fXff` : ~~~~~~&^% : Assuming that St rauss was he , Strauss u sed this to control Durandal an d : do what? : If the brought here by Durandal was referring to the Phor, did Strauss : manipulate Durandal into calling the Phor? I would say this is highly : unlikely. But it's another theory to throw out there. : Your last mission was a success, but I have terrible news. : #@Pragma Nautical Redefined^# efenders reported seeing the : aliens 1§moving a large cylindrical object. : #101111011110111100001# is is a '7'.  Mjolnir Recon number 54 : must stop them from exploding igniting/ blowing up/ *A94F12/ : it/ the S'pht full spPace cOmputEr˘ Or PlannEd exterm. : @14.Sword-Roland.transfer : "And now we come to an interesting question - we have a message from : Strauss to Durandal saying "Your last mission was a success..." : Are we to understand that Strauss was giving Durandal orders even during : the alien attack? And that Durandal was obeying?! And what exactly was : Durandal's last mission?" : If this is a message from Strauss to Durandal, Strauss is still apparently : trying to control Durandal. Could the last mission be calling the Phor? : Durandal appears to take full responsibility for that here: i did it i did : it i brought all this here all them here. our : friends with three eyes and their toys and their cyborg pets : and their computers. i did it i did it. i saw them i saw : them far away not looking our way and i called them here i : called them here. : So maybe not. Curious, but now I've been rambling too long, so I'll wrap it : up. :) : And... that got long. And I have another curious topic to post on before the : night is done. *sigh* : Well, what do people think? Am I way off course here? Let me know if you spot : any typos or something that doesn't make sense. I'm a little tired right : now and my eye is strangely irritating me.
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