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	Message: : The purpose of this post is the following: I believe I have found a small : hint as to Your past in Marathon Infinity terminal from Tycho. The gist of : what Tycho says is that 'You' have done some morally questionable things : in the far past (possibly a massacre, definitely killing) and have trouble : remembering them. : So here's the cold hard terminal (I'm assuming all here include M? in the : Marathon canon): I'm fine, tipped hat at askance. : I've so far held you back from my rantings, but you know what you did was : bad, don't you? You've been fighting doubt itself, elusive as I am. : You should have doubts about what you're doing, about what you've done. : Except that you can't remember exactly, is that it? : I should spend some time enlightening you, massacres occur at your beck and : call, worlds destroyed, reborn, alight with the screams of the dying. : Perhaps S'bhuth will tell you what I cannot accept as truth, but perhaps : he will just be lying, overcome by power and deceit, my domain. : Those AI's and their playful vagueness... : You should have doubts about what you're doing, about what you've done. : I read this terminal courtesy of Hamish so I don't remember what just : happened in the game. Although, given the nature of Marathon Infinity, I : don't think it matters too much. In any case, reading it without context I : picked a tone off of Tycho that implies he is talking about something : bigger than any current events. : Tycho has just scolded you for something and then starts talking about doubt. : He makes the distinction between what you're doing and what you've done : and that you should have doubts . I think that what you're doing would : be whatever the current story arc in Infinity is and what you've done is : something further in your past than whatever you did to irritate Tycho. : This thing is hinted at later in the terminal and for some reason you can't : remember exactly what it is. : Except that you can't remember exactly, is that it? : The way Tycho says this reminds me of someone predicting shady excuses. : Similar to how a teacher would assume a student will claim the dog ate the : homework. Has Tycho heard that excuse before? It seems like it. But who : did he hear it from? You? : There have been other hints at Your memory problems. The Marathon manual text : trails off its intro with Oddly , this is familiar to you, as if it were : from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember... : Not only that, but there used to be a terminal that said the following: : Were you ever curious about the tenth cyborg which was supposed to be : on the Marathon? Why could Leela find only nine? Was it ever : activated? Was it destroyed during the defense of the colony? You are : right to be curious. : There isn't anymore, but it does point out something strange. You have no : clue You are cyborg. : In fact, You noticed something different about yourself: It's funny, but : you've always been the colony's trouble shooter. You're bigger and : stronger, and a better shot. In games, you always scored the most points : and looked the hero. : Weird. So, if nothing else, you don't remember turning into a cyborg. Or do : you? : Anyway Tycho also showed us that the cyborgs were recycled from Dead : soldiers . Memory fixing isn't such a far fetched idea. : Not only that, but this isn't the first time we've seen Tycho claim to : remember stuff. Back in M1 he told Durandal , " The S'pht taught me : much during my reanimation, and I have forgotten nothing. " : Moving on, Tycho follows his accusation with a clarification of what You do: : I should spend some time enlightening you, massacres occur at your beck : and call, worlds destroyed, reborn, alight with the screams of the dying. : It is as if Tycho was around when You did something and then forgot about it. : You are designed to be a killing machine and it is possible that someone : such as Strauss used You and then erased the evidence within Your memory. : Tycho appears to know about something You've done but can't remember. It : is that knowledge he seems to be teasing you with and why he can claim to : hold the power of enlightening you . : You cause massacres . Did you cause the Misriah Massacre ? It doesn't seem : likely. The Misriah account: Misriah Massacre : On January 6, 2345(Earth A.D.), at the United Earth Government : Misriah food distribution center, what had begun as : a commonplace food riot turned into a massacre. The UEG riot : troopers who arrived at the scene had been informed that : the rioters were armed. As UEG troopers approached the scene : in their Randal Hovertank, plasma fire began spraying upwards. : 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. : In the ensuing investigation of the Hovertank Vid-cams, it was : clear that only three of the rioters were armed, and that the : rest of the crowd was trying to flee the scene. Those three : became known as the Misriah Three. They have gone down in : history for starting the most destructive and bloody conflict : since Humanity had left Earth. However, it is clear that : these three have gained the credit for starting a war that : would have happened anyway. : : There really isn't much room for a cyborg in that story. The only real place : for that would be one of the Misriah Three . But this isn't necessarily a : job suited for a cyborg. The commander isn't likely to be cyborg. It : really doesn't seem as if this is the massacre Tycho is referring to. : Are there any other massacres in the deep past of the Marathon universe? Of : course there are. Icarus and Thermopylae could be seen as a massacre of : sorts. : The other things Tycho attributes to you are interesting: worlds destroyed, : reborn, alight with the screams of the dying . The worlds of Icarus and : Thermopylae, perhaps? That is a stretch I'm not too comfortable with. The : reborn phrase could refer to the dead soldiers being recycled as they : were. A world basically dying, coming back to 'life' and killing again. : Maybe. : Perhaps S'bhuth will tell you what I cannot accept as truth, but perhaps he : will just be lying, overcome by power and deceit, my domain. : And... this is where my youth shows. I don't know much about S'bhuth or any : relevance he may show. Unfortunately, that could be the breaker for this : reference. : Something else of note is a small clip in a Durandal terminal: I am sending : you back to the Alien ship to try and rescue : Bernhard, but while you're there, kill everything you see and : gather as much visual information as possible. : At least the killing part appeals to you, doesn't it? : Durandal treats you as a killer, which, of course, you are. The odd thing : about the statement is Durandal seems to think you would appeal to : killing. I don't think it means too much, it's just another thing I : noticed. : So anyway, to wrap it up, my best guess is that Tycho found out about Your : history. What that is, I don't know and anything else that relates to this : will stay buried for now. I'm tired.
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