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	Message: : Chapter 5: Antiquity Stage 2: Full Circle : Forward: Plans have changed so I'll be covering the final three sections : counting the epilogue. : : Act 1: Frog Blast The Vent Core : Last time on Tour of Duty, I travelled into a Jjaro Shield World that : doubles as a Halo ring, met 343 Guilty Spark as a more conventional AI : than a glowing metal ball and instead of killing Hathor, saw that she had : reformed on the brink of death, now coming up with a solution that doesn’t : involve firing the Dyson Sphere: nuke the W’rkncacnter the Jjaro first : found before it can defend itself, using a Trih Xeem. : : DMA antell software : I start opposite a 1X shield charger next to a large room filled with : skitters and nightmares. Down the stairs and to the right I find a large : square room with a fusion turret in the middle. The southeast has a chip I : likely need so I get it and return to the pattern buffer by the square : turret room. : : That’s so cool! An actual alarm light made using chase lights! Aleph One : needs more of those in more mods, especially in colored lighting. Duke : Nukem 3D could do the latter the same year as Marathon Infinity (such as : using colored chaselights for nightclub lighting), Marathon should do the : same, albeit for anything the mapmaker wishes. A button in here opens the : middle room with a terminal and pattern buffer. : : I actually picked up both chips without realising so this works out perfect. : Now I need to get to the bridge. I hit some switches north of the lower : hall to the turret room, the first opens the second and the second : activates an elevator to another shield charger between the alarm room and : turret room. : North of the alarm room is a small side area with another charger and save : terminal. It connects to an area with PID monsters and a third chip. In : the north area I find the bridge and place the chips. : : It looks like a working radar next to other controls. It’s nice and cosy in : here. : : Act 2: I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This : Boy, you always got a bad feeling about something. That’s a Halo reference, : not an Alien one as I played Halo first. : : I save as soon as I enter and check in with Hathor. : : Just through the door down a short hall, I open what seems to be some kind of : altar. : : Now, here’s an aside on the Gravatronic Blades. The original HD sprite for : them in Eternal X 1.1 sucks as they block a large chunk of your vision, : making them impractical. Contrast to their normal sprites in 1.1 and the : original Eternal X. The 1.2 Dark Energy Swords are closer to the latter : while still being an HD upgrade. : : : A switch on the alter in a purple alcove starts the lift and I take it to : another lift into a small raised booth with a chip and slot in it. : : This is the Jjaro version of what we saw on the Pfhor ship in Killing the : Giants As they Sleep i.e. Forever My Greatest And Only Love, a weapon that : pierces stars and bursts them. Trih Xeem, Early Nova. Using the chip and : button opens a hidden door north of the hall below into the room with a : round structure and health terminal. There’s a passageway under the Trih : Xeem firing tunnel to another 2 booths with a chip in the side of the : tunnel. There’s another one just off the round thing room too. : The round structure has a much needed shield charger and pattern buffer, so : the health terminal in the same room becomes useless once you know a : shield one is there. I head north from here via the door on the west : ledge, passing through a square room with a purple carpet to another booth : in the firing tunnel. At the northernmost of the map is the final 2 : booths. : : The Trih Xeem firing tunnel looks a lot like the Death Star’s main weapon : firing tunnel doesn’t it? This is especially true if you’ve played both : the Xbox and PSP versions of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. : I run through some nicely decorated hallways on the east side to a big hanger : like area. : : What planet is that? It looks like Earth. It looks like it might be made : using an edited Earth photo but I don’t know what it’s meant to be. : : HATHOR! : https://youtu.be/ytckzWAqcSw?list=PLbIN7v5nv4aNEpa7YCLyOHL1A85ECjfR9&t=1859 : Act 3: The Philosophy of Time Travel : : I’m back on Inti Station again, and for the final time. The good news is that : there’s no flames of disaster this time for obvious reasons. The bad news : is that the W’rkncacnter is fully awake again and all the Wrk's dream : monsters are present here, just like the other Chapter 5 levels. The : terminal doesn’t work so I try to do the same as I did before. However, it : turns out I have to place a chip in the generator to bring the power back : on. : I could just cheat and use the spare I have but I want to see the rest of the : new areas so I find out I can finally use the airlock and explore outside. : : Don’t jump off into space however as the sun will burn you and there’s no way : to float back into the radiation shields. It’s achieved with major ouch : polygons. : : The chip is as far along the station as I can go. : : : : And about fucking time too! Bungie aren’t saying so Forrest has done it for : us. : : I… died after the events of *REDACTED*, and was rebuilt as a battleroid, : though I’m not sure if I was part of the Thermopylae/Onicus war or not. I : guessed as much but I did not guess that one of my cyborg parts is a : Cybernetic Junction that backs up my memory, my soul indefinitely in the : Macroverse. : After being brought back as a battleroid with those implants and cybernetic : junction, I have now essentially become a Jjaro myself. Now the remains of : the ascended Jjaro are using me as essentially the Doom Slayer crossed : with the Doctor. (First and Third ones preferably, just like my favourite : Marathon games next to this one) All of my better reflexes, waking dreams, : deji vu, it’s all my mind’s eternal backup server, here in the Macroverse, : in a pocket dimension of my own making dreaming about one potential end of : the world. : This is like if Master Chief and Noble 6 from Halo Reach were the same : person, and the latter became the former if he was rebuilt using : Forerunner tech after Reach was glassed, and said stolen Forerunner : technology marked him as the Forerunner Librarian’s own personal alien : Jesus. Except that analogy doesn’t really make sense even if the last bit : about the Librarian is true as of Halo 4, but more to do with John’s : bloodline instead of his becoming a Spartan. : The Halo SPV3 Tour of Duty's Primer is that way if you don't know who the : Librarian is. The Halo 4 centric bits are better covered if someone does : an LP of Halo 3 & that game in the future, like VBB did Halo 1 and I : did SPV3. : : The W’rkncacnter were aiming for this. The moment Hathor’s soul would shake : violently and yearn for despair with tears she can no longer cry. : : “Time line? Ach! Time isn’t made out of lines! It is made out of circles. : That is why clocks are round. Space is made out of lines. That’s why : everything is a flat trapezoid.” : : Marathon always had Space Odyssey inspirations as opposed to Halo’s Alien : ones and this just proves it further. : She may not have become the Flames of Disaster, Sekhmet this time, but Hathor : could not avoid the other title of the W’rkncacnter Trigger even now. Poor : Hathor probably didn’t even realise that the W'rkncacnter are : transsentient, ultra-dimensional lifeforms that can create new dimensions : and ether code for the universe (i.e. the natrual/physical/chemical etc. : rules that govern how the universe works) constantly, and may not even be : aware they are doing it. Killing even just one here and now, let alone : before like I did with Hathor won’t mean anything. : : Wait. It’s not like I’m out of options yet. I should be able to change this : future if I return to the time I was in and…urrrgh. Light the ring. : : So I head back to where I was. I’m sorry Hathor, but I won’t be able to heed : your advice this time. It’s the Final Run. Tune in next time for the : exciting conclusion of the Marathon Eternal X Omega 1.2 Tour of Duty: : Chapter 5 Stage 3: End of the World. Don’t miss it!
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