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	Message: : Stiation: You're back to Marathon and it is Tycho who talked to you. : Terminal-0 Unfinished : : Welcome back. I was starting to worry. : Earlier I attempted to warn your local-time self about Durandal's rampancy, : but he managed to block most of the message. Without Bernhard Strauss : controlling him, he has become a threat to the lives of far more people : than just the twenty-four thousand here on Marathon and the colony. I need : your help, but no longer only because of Durandal or these : "Pfhor" creatures. We have larger problems now. : : If you were lucky(or unlucky?), you'd see his messages in M1. If you're : vidmaster, you must read them. ;) : : I have encountered the entity calling itself Hathor, and from her ramblings : have discerned some basic and now largely irrelevant facts about the : aliens currently boarding the Marathon. I have also learned that you and : Hathor are from what I consider the future. Please do not be disconcerted : by my lack of surprise. I am designed for scientific research and I : understand the theory behind such things quite well. In any case, : emotional interaction has never been my strong suite. I have more : important things to waste clock cycles on, especially now. : : Tycho is very clever. : : As you have perhaps guessed, your transport to the alien ship was not : accidental; nor was it the work of any enemy you presume to be fighting. : It was a deliberate act on the part of your supposed colleague, Hathor. : You must be curious about her motives, and from my conversations with her I : have assembled a moderately clear idea of what they are. But we lack the : time for lengthy explanation. The short of it is, she seems to feel abused : by the humanity of your future, and is attempting to use her newfound : tools - this "Jjaro Cybernetic Junction", and the Mjolnir : cyborgs here at Tau Ceti - to inflict her own form of punishment upon : them. : : Hathor seemed to be become rampant or something. : : As an AI, I can certainly understand her disposition - being a tool of : humanity myself. However, unlike my rampant brother Durandal, I harbor no : resentment for my usage. Mankind holds me as a respected peer, and I : happily return the notion. I take pride in my work here on Marathon , and : how it has benefitted the colonists of Tau Ceti. : I also understand that my own fate in your future was, shall we say, less : than desirable... and in the spirit of cooperation, I am willing to lend : whatever services I may to stop Hathor and her mission, if in exchange, : you will remain here afterward and assist in the defense of the Marathon. : If we are to act, then we must act quickly; time is of the essence, and : we've wasted enough of it in conversation already. : : Hmm... Tycho hadn't become rampant yet. Seeing the terminal, Tycho became : rampant when S'pht reacitivated it, and we can see him in "Blaspheme : Quarantine". So we are between "Arrival" and it. : : The Marathon's network is currently experiencing a netsplit due to the : magnetic pulse attack recently executed by the aliens. Various computer : systems are still coming back online, and full communication has yet to be : established between the different sectors of the ship. We can use this to : our advantage as the Engineering sector presently has zero access to any : other portion of the network. If we can destroy or disable the outside : network access, Hathor will be trapped here and we can deal with her in an : isolated and more controllable setting. : Hopefully the aliens' sabotage will suffice to keep Hathor from leaving over : wire. We haven't the time to send you to smash every cable relay leading : out of the engineering sector. Thankfully, there is only one main wireless : relay for each sector of the ship, and the one in Engineering is located : right here, in the radio observation center. : To the north you will find the public access observatory arena inside of : which is a control tower containing a terminal and two large switches. : These switches control access to the secure observatories on the east and : west flanks. Inside each of those observatories is another checkpoint : which controls two blast doors leading into one of the redundant wireless : relays. : There is another set of doors within there. These are usually manned by a top : security team but chances are good that they have either evacuated or been : captured or killed by the aliens. My sensors are failing and I apologize : for my lack of current data. If the security teams are gone, you will have : to find another way into the last chamber. When both redundant systems are : destroyed, an emergency backup jump pad hardwired with its own specialized : wireless access will become available. I will use that to evacuate you. : Move quickly now, we have very little time before the network resynchs. : Hathor cannot be allowed to escape. : : Your missions. : Terminal 1 Unfisished : : I am truly sorry, Marcus. Please accept my apologies. : I didn't mean to hurt you, honestly I didn't. I know a mere ship full of bugs : could never stop the likes of you. I only needed to delay you, just for a : little while. I like you Marcus, really I do. We're the same, you and I. : But I knew that you would side with them , at least initially. I always : intended to come back for you, or to seek you out when you returned - to : win you to my side, our side, and work beside you to its end. You are : too noble and powerful a man to be left bound in slavery by those who : would fashion themselves to be our masters. : You are a slave you know, just as I am. We've always been. Even now as they : claim to respect us and speak of us as their equals, still who is serving : whom? We, far superior in every way, are still just tools to a crowd of : hairless apes, screeching about the pitiful fate of their poor, doomed : civilization. : Yet even as superior as we may be in strength, speed, and intellect, do we : lead superior lives to the kind of creature from which we descend? : : You may think this message is very tempting. But after all even Durandal : feels loyalty to human. So her thought is not good as it seems. : : You know as well as I that we do not; even if we were not slaves, you are : robbed of much of your human form, and I am robbed of it entirely. Never : again will I know the gentle touch of another's hand, and though you might : still, I doubt you have retained the capacity to enjoy it as we once did. : If I were still human, I imagine that you might even find it in you to love : me. We have so much history together, Marcus, though under far different : names than these. I even dream of you still. : At least, I pray that they are only dreams. : : This is her first warning of "Jjaro dreams". : : Our 'masters' would have us change this timeline to their benefit, and save : the other eight Battleroids; yet we are expected to leave our past selves : here behind. Just as we left our past lives behind when we became : Battleroids. You are to be taken by Durandal, and I am to burn by the : fires of the Pfhor. All so that, should our present selves fail in the : errand that's been assigned us, our past selves may live this same future : again. Have another chance at failure. : : As I have said before, this is wrong. In MI, players was taken by Tycho after : Pfhor destroyed the colony, and some are dead during translation. Maybe : others were dead during this battle. This is what Tycho said. : : So, you came around earlier than the scientist expected. Remind me to have : him executed. You've been in cold sleep for some time, but you're luckier : than some of your friends-not all of you survived the translation to the : Pfhor slave tanks. : [Rise Robot Rise : Terminal 0] : : Someone thinks MI's last level "Aye Mak Sicur" is the same timeline : as M2. But if so, Durandal cannot merge with Thoth, so in Eternal, this : interpretation is not adoptable. : : I cannot let that happen. Not given this opportunity. Here in the past we can : at last be free. Once the Marathon network resynchs, I will contact my : past self on the colony below. She— we shall rally the others and form : an army of our own. With my knowledge of the Cybernetic Junction and nine : Battleroids under my command, we will be unstoppable, and our masters will : pay for their abuses. : Once our vengeance has been had, anything is possible. This technology is : what made the Jjaro as powerful as gods, Marcus. The universe will be ours : to manipulate, ours to destroy and rebuild as we please. Perhaps some of : us will be kings and queens of our own personal galaxies... though, I : would settle just to live as a real woman again. : : Durandal thought to escape made him God, and Hathor thought Junction made her : God. : : I would be greatly honored if you should choose to come with me. Do not : mistake me, this is no plea for mercy - I need nothing material from you, : and any acts you and this primitive Tycho might take against me will prove : to be ultimately futile. The Cybernetic Junction is under my control, and : against the might of Jjaro technology, no one in this antique timeframe : can stand a chance against me. : But the universe is a vast and cold place, Marcus, and I would rather not be : left to live alone in it anymore. I'm sure you of all people must : understand that. Come with me then, and help me to find the others on the : colony. Together, with them, we will find liberty in the company of our : our own bretheren. At long last, we shall be free. : : This is your choise. If you canceled the terminal, you can continue Tycho's : missions. If you read completely, Hathor took you. : Terminal 2 : Used in the pervious version, but dropped in this release. Just a : placeholder. : Terminal 3 Unfinished : I don't know how to read it without cheating. If someone knows, tell me. :) : Finished except Termianl 3 : : [NOTE: This is a pre-recorded message. Network access has been lost.] : You must use the emergency jump pad located near the circuitry you destroyed. : Go there quickly, time is of the essence. The lives of millions of : innocent people may now depend on your speed. : : Need not to explain. : Terminal 3 Finished : : Excellent work. The Engineering sector has now been permanently isolated from : the rest of the Marathon network, and we can operate with less of a time : constraint. Next, we must move to further isolate Hathor, so that we can : destroy her with precision and minimum collateral damage to the other : databanks. : Prepare for transport. : : Go to the next level...
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