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	Message: : Chapter 1: Despair : (Tycho’s Mutiny and Coup) : We are shown events in a different timeline, where Tycho serves the Pfhor and : the main character serves Tycho. : Rise Robot Rise: : The level opens as Tycho is in the process of a mutiny aboard a Pfhor ship. : He awakens the main character to help with the coup. Tycho has forged : orders from higher ranking Pfhor and has managed to trick lower ranked : Pfhor into attacking castes still loyal to the ship’s actual captain, : R’chzne. : The main character, along with Tycho’s Pfhor, go through the ship killing any : Enforcers, who are a caste still loyal. : According to Tycho, the captain escapes to the surface of Lh’owon in a : dropship and is hiding in “one of the S'pht ruins, where we detected : signals that could be from an ancient AI”. Presumably this AI is Thoth. : During this time, R’chzne is attempting to contact Pfhor High Command. : Tycho mentions that there are no compilers on board his ship, “Notice the : lack of compilers on board? That's not by accident; my new ship has quite : the effect on their collective unconscious.” : Location: : fleet vessel 65-f cr'etz'ih : Success status: : Durandal is alive and approaching Lh’owon. Tycho is taking control of the : Pfhor ship. Tfear is not present. Thoth is not activated, S’pht’kr have : not arrived. : Comments: : We roll back to the original (retconned) ending of Marathon 1. Durandal did : leave the main character behind on the UESC Marathon, and the main : character was captured by the Pfhor, like Tycho, when Pfhor reinforcements : arrive at Tau Ceti. : Tycho’s statement that there are no Compilers on board his ship might be : contradicted in a later level, in another Chapter where Tycho has his own : S’pht aboard his vessel and uses them to disable Durandal’s ship. : Tycho’s report that Captain R’chzne escapes to the surface in a dropship : might be contradicted in the next level where it is revealed that the : Captain dies on the bridge of the ship. : Poor Yorick: : Tycho sends the main character down to the S’pht ruins where a signal is : detected that could potentially be a S’pht AI. However, Tycho expresses no : interest in the AI. Tycho just wants the main character to locate Captain : R’chzne’s transmitter and destroy its power sources. : Tycho reveals that part of why he needs to take over the Pfhor ship is : because the Pfhor plan to capture Durandal using S’pht Complilers. But, : according to Tycho, Durandal can turn the S’pht against the Pfhor, so the : plan to capture him would actually give him the tools for victory. : While the main character kills Troopers on the surface of Lh’owon (because : “there is no room for them in [Tycho’s] new regime”) back on the ship : Tycho has managed to trap the remaining, loyal Enforcers on the bridge. : Then all of a sudden, according to Tycho, “the captain attempted to use the : bridge transporter to escape planetside, and was killed when the signal : was redirected to nearby space”. Presumably this “accident” was actually : caused by Tycho in his attempt to kill the captain. : Back on the surface, Pfhor Leader Rr’pt manages to route R’chzne’s Pfhor from : the S’pht ruins and the defeated Pfhor loyalists retreat into the : mountains. : Human commando units begin transporting into the area. : Tycho decides to let Durandal’s commandos enter the ruins so they can lead : him to what Durandal is after. : Location: : S’pht ruins, where [Tycho] detected signals that could be from an ancient AI. : Success status: : Durandal has arrived on Lh’owon and is exploring the planet. Tycho has taken : control of the Pfhor ship and has possession of the tri xeem. Tfear is not : present. Thoth is not activated, S’pht’kr have not arrived. : Comments: : Tycho states that R’chzne was on the bridge and was teleported out into : space. Does this contradict the statement in the previous level about how : the Captain escaped to the surface in a dropship? Or did Captain R’chzne : only send his transmitter down to the surface in a dropship to distract : Tycho, while he himself remained on the bridge with his Enforcers? : If that second suggestion is true, then R’chzne is a particularly intelligent : Pfhor, and it makes sense why he would be one of Tycho’s allies among the : command class (before Tycho’s mutiny, of course). : Tycho mentions there is no room for Troopers in his new regime. This will be : contradicted in the next level when he uses Troopers to board Durandal’s : ship. Is this a plot hole, sign of Tycho’s inconsistency, or an aspect of : Infinity’s avoidance of a cohesive, literal canon? I know this has been : discussed before, but it is worth mentioning, nevertheless.
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