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	Message: : Chapter 4: Legacy Stage 3: Revelation : : Act 1: Dread Not : Last time on Tour of Duty, we thought we succeeded in destroying the : Jjaro dreadnought Mighty Philanthropy but instead Hathor stopped the : self-destruct sequence, fully powered up the ship and used its cybernetic : junction and her own to kill the Pathways into Darkness W’rkncacnter that : was trapped in our sun all along. She became Sekhmet: Honou no Saiyaku, : the flames of disaster in doing so before literally setting the universe : on fire. Hellfire that is, as it took a long time for the lion’s share of : matter to be consumed by it, more to torture humans. : She dumped me on Fourth Earth further into the future than when I initially : arrived at the end of the timeline, but I fought through her fire and her : flames to a spare cybernetic junction conveniently on an alter to Iblis : inside the volcano at the heart of my grandmother’s hometown. : Now I intend to prevent that happening by doing something I didn’t do last : time and was unable to try when I returned to the ship in the failure : plank: Hathor is hiding on Mighty Philanthropy’s Cybernetic Junction, : which is in a door I previously didn’t take. I’ll spare you the majority : of this map’s second time as usual but the same main thing happens: : This time, I head for the door next to the kiosk that I didn’t enter the last : time I was here. It’s the one where the exit is on Run Coward. : : There you are you sneaky AI copy of the Lioness! She was hiding in that : server all along. : : Caught you! All I have to do is smash the panels on the server tower. As the : end terminal, except for Leela mentioning that destroying the Electric : Sheep just in case wasn’t a bad idea either and maybe one other word, : literally nothing changes. Now we redo our last, interrupted mission fully : and actually destroy the dreadnaught this time. : Act 2: Once More Unto the Breach : : This map is more or less the same as Map 35 but with new areas open and : others locked off. The east wing of the flagship is now sealed and I can’t : get in, and this time I teleport into the thundrillium pool hub perimeter : hall on the east side of the map. : : There used to be Pfhor cyborgs in here but they were replaced with those : enforcers in 1.2. The star platforms must have been power sources for : them. : : Just north of here is a 1X shield terminal and a save terminal. A Comm one is : in a small recess nearby. The message appears to be the same as the : failure plank: : : This glitch doesn’t warrant a Gordon Ramsey clip as you aren’t supposed to : reach here (without grenade jumping) anyway, but you know Halo fans and : their love of deliberately breaking out of bounds. Actually that applies : to all 3D games. True 2.5D ones i.e. Marathon and Ion Maiden style 2.5D : too. : This map is a lot less hard than Bug-Eyed in Space and better for it. : The big cargo hold like area to the south is still there, as is the tough : windows room north of the oval fuel pool I started at and the door to the : latter is locked again, meaning a trip upstairs. We also make a trip to : the fancy bridge room and its switchback stairs. It’s literally the same : dealio as before. : : Act 3: Genie in a Bottle : : “drictelt ‘07” : : The control glands of the pfhor seem to be inside those “head tails” they : have. They are apparently an opposite Marathon equivalent to the CNI : transponders from Halo. : Christ on a bike do I hate this map. I only like 1 part of it and that’s the : northwest area for a very specific reason. It’s full of tough enemies : including the hitscan enforcers with scatter rifles. There’s a big room : near the end that sucks hard and you may need to use the portable halo : there. Save your zero-point energy cells though. You’ll need them later, : trust me. To summarize, too many tough enemies, not enough health and : shields and it’s a fucking maze. And not a good maze either. : After listening to Leela’s message and saving, I head through the northeast : door and deal with some drones in a dark grey-green room. There’s a 1X : shield terminal over the wall. Hopefully just shield terminals and no : plain health ones on this map but I can’t remember. You need shields too. : There’s hunters and enforcers in here too. I soon come to a junction with : a thundrillium solution fountain: : This is where the map starts sucking, despite the lovely fountain: hitscan : enemies you can barely see let alone counter. I lose all my shields and : almost all my health dealing with those guys and their hunter buddies when : drones swarm in and I see the suns fired by a plasma flamethrower enforcer : come flying in through the doorway with the drones. I survive and save. : Looking at the pool up top, it reminds me of Duality/Two for the Price of : One, or Gemini as I knew it. There’s a hole in the right corner when : facing out over the fountain falls. It leads onward northeast. Once you : jump down, you’re trapped down there and not even jumping will save you. : I doubt there’s any shield terminals down here either. Down a small curving : staircase is an enforcer and 2 hunters. Behind them is a goo room with 2 : more hunters and some fighters including a commander hunter. : : This is the part I like. It reminds me of a similar outer hallway on the : Space Colony ARK back over Third Earth. : : https://youtu.be/HGonkFXk_GU?list=PLbIN7v5nv4aNEpa7YCLyOHL1A85ECjfR9&t=18 : Instead of a copy of the ARK’s observation room complete with escape pod : hatch (the one that got rigged with C4 that one time), I find a pattern : buffer, a Comm terminal and a switch that opens a shortcut back to the : stairs. I also find out after saving that a Halo grenade jump + grenade : climb lets me backtrack to the shield terminal by the fountain. Ha! >:) : : Leela teleports me to the worst part of the map. : : Lots of fighters, hunters, enforcers I cannot see and troopers too. Feel free : to use the wave motion cannon here like I said before. Just don’t use too : much ammo. There’s no saving here for a while either. Have fun! Killing : thus gained, you need to go into the door at the end. There’s stairs with : 2 buttons in here. The left button door has a switch guarded by more : lizards and 1 bird (a minor enforcer). The right button door just has a : simple switch. : These open a couple of more doors. One opens the right side of the star : shaped room next to where you teleport when you enter this area. The other : opens the northwest at the opposite end of the bad room (the switches are : in the southwest) Use the shield terminal in the star room as soon as you : can and risk a grenade jump or just take a normal jump to reach the : pattern buffer nearby as the only other way to reach it is via stairs : behind a locked door I don’t know how to reach let alone open. : The northwest door is a massive ambush in a long, winding blue hallway. : Fighters and troopers teleport in behind you while more simply wait up : ahead, forcing you to turn back to avoid getting sandwiched. All that for : some tiny stairs with 2 enforcers and drones at the bottom. There’s a : pattern buffer and 2 switches: 1 opens the door back to the room with the : commander hunter and the other does…something. There’s a switch I missed : north of the star room that opens the left side of said room. : : Both halves have panels that are guarded by hunters and drones with a : connecting passage between the rooms to let the drones into the hunter : one. The latter also has a pattern buffer. : : : : *Whistles* It must be one of the 700 wonders of the universe! Sound familiar? : It should, though this is a Dyson sphere like the Shield Worlds from the : same game in question such as Trevelyan AKA Onyx from the books and : Requiem from Halo 4. Unlike Halo, living Jjaro still exist within this : fortress world. Well, unlike Halo until Halo 4 that is. : : : I’ll be perfectly honest, I was a little pissed off when I found out that the : Jjaro were just humans. That’s boring! I preferred it when the Jjaro were : simply an alien race with better technology. When reading into it a little : further, I found out that the Jjaro title used to refer to ancient humans : and it now refers to any alien species that reaches their level and : joins their collective in the Macroverse. : : Those advanced ancient humans from Halo that were devolved by the Didact? : Those are the Jjaro. In fact in the Marathon universe, the Jjaro were : the Forerunners as well. I reference a quote from Forrest from a few years : ago regarding Eternal as well: “Well all the leaked info I remember is : basically in the plot of Eternal now, though I had to add some extra to : fill in the gaps that I didn’t know. But in an old, pre-Microsoft version : of the Halo story, Master Chief was the player-character from Marathon, : the Covenant were the remainder of the Pfhor empire after its sacking by : the combined Human and S'pht'Kr fleets, the Forerunners were the Jjaro : and, as in Eternal, they were human (though the exact mechanism of how a : human spacefaring civilization existed prior to when we think human life : evolved on Earth was not revealed to me, so the time-travel part of that : plot point was made up by me for Eternal). : The rest of the details of Forerunner/Jjaro history and the plot of the game : were, as far as I’m aware / can recall, the same, as was the nature of the : Covenant/Pfhor having stolen most of their technology from the : Forerunners/Jjaro.” : Refer to the Halo SPV3 Tour of Duty Primer (starting with Circle 1) to see : what I mean. : And for the first time ever, this is what the Jjaro look like: : This is despite the universes having been separate for a long time. : The Jjaro as they are now are essentially the personification of the same : idea that forms the core of the Covenant religion in Halo: species who : ascended to godhood even if they are not any of the God species. Gods of : our own time who used to be humans like Tenjin, the Japanese god of : knowledge and Dionysus, the Greek god of wine were likely Jjaro. The : ancient Egyptians likely tried to recreate this with their pharaohs, : presumably hoping to become Jjaro post death. : With that, I activate the Electric Sheep with Leela and travel through time : for the final time. : Act 4: Floating in the Void : : : You know the drill; it’s the same as last time, just go. : : Calling back to the first success plank dream level, I see. : : : : I guess the “old bard” in this case was named not William Shakespeare or : Edgar Allen Poe, but Howard Phillips Lovecraft? Great stuff he wrote: I’ve : got the complete works on hardback. There’s also Stephen King for concepts : like the Macroverse AKA the “Outside”. : : : : Indeed it does. The more sentient we are, the more we want to preserve our : lives as we are self aware enough to TRULY fear death. : Now comes the final timezone. From now on, the gloves come off: the remainder : of the game is brutally hard and very unfair in ALL levels, even harder : than the original trilogy but thankfully not completely unplayable on : Total Carnage like many other mods (looking at you, Rubicon X and EVIL). : I’ve only played Marathon Eternal on Major Damage and Total Carnage to the : best of my knowledge, though I possibly played the original Eternal X for : the first time on Normal. Major Damage is like the main trilogy on Total : Carnage, Chapters 1-4 on Total Carnage is harder and Chapter 5 on Total : Carnage is like https://youtu.be/puYhzJvXz2s?t=110 . Yes, the first time : I beat Marathon Eternal X 1.0.3 on Total Carnage it was a Vidmaster run, : thank you very much. : Tune in next time for the final timezone, the Jjaro Shield World itself, : Chapter 5: Antiquity. Don’t miss it! : I now end this with a footnote. You can safely skip this part: As I travel : through time, I prepare myself with a battle hymn from during the events : of Infinity, especially the ending as well as something that occurred : before I became a Battleroid, back on Earth centuries ago post a traumatic : event I shall refer to as S1E13 and during an unrelated time travel bit : where Solaris himself intervened (I was not present in the original : timeline and it was doomed in a similar way to every other failed one I’ve : seen). This period was S1E15 and S1E16. : : : Waking up! Breaking out! : This is what it’s like to be free! : Rip it up, tear it down! : This is what it means to be free! : : Jet sounds a distant roar behind you, : As you try to clear your head. : : You start to look and answers find you. : : Your inner purpose lies ahead. : Waking up! Breaking out! : This is what it’s like to be free! : Rip it up, tear it down! : This is what it means to be free! : Waking up! Breaking out! : This is what it’s like to be free! : Rip it up, tear it down! : This is what it means to be free! : : One step to calm the storm inside you. : Unlock the secrets in your head. : : Not another day, no more confusion. : No more living like the dead. : : It seems she’s just out of sight. : The ones with answers always get their way. : And I think they should know… : : …THAT I’M COMING FOR THEM! : : Waking up! Breaking out! : This is what it’s like to be free! : Rip it up, tear it down! : This is what it means to be free! : :
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