Just finished the first game again, and it occurred to me to wonder how the player gets from the Marathon, where he's left at the end of the first game, into stasis on Durandal's ship, which he's woken from at the beginning of the second.
I was looking through the terminals from the start of 2, and Durandal says the colony was later wiped out, but he doesn't mention what became of the Marathon itself. I'm trying to remember any other exposition of this time period, but I can't. Can anyone point me towards some insight?