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	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss
	Posted By: Godot	Date: 5/7/22 4:55 a.m.
	In Response To: Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss (UrsusArctos) : The "he's been rampant for years" phrasing does cast a certain : level of doubt on the idea that Durandal's been rampant for the entire : duration of the Marathon voyage, but it's the same terminal where Tycho : addresses the player as "Human!" - when just about everything : else suggests that he's the 10th Mjolnir Mk. IV cyborg. It is possible that at this stage in the game Tycho was no more wiser than Leela as to your true nature. In this theory it is only at the point of being assimilated does he realise that Strauss was controlling a rampant Durandal. Hence his garbled warning to us early on in the game. It is only later when the S'pht reanimate him (in Durandal's image) does he understand the full extent of what is going on. At which stage he shows us the logs of Bernard Strauss on Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drones... so that we might also understand. : Tycho was being assimilated at the time and my guess is he jumped to the use : of the phrase "years" rather than "centuries" either : because his thought processes were a mess due to being assimilated, or as : a deliberate attempt at - (1) Trying to obfuscate the length of their : voyage, like Leela messing with the dates or (2) Trying to avoid bringing : up something that would cause further confusion and panic. : Personally, if I were told that Durandal had been rampant for years , I'd be : less likely to wonder if something else was going on in the background of : the whole alien invasion than if I'd heard Durandal had been rampant for : centuries . Fair point. While the prevailing theory is that Durandal was stalled in the 1st stage during the 300 year voyage there is another which suggests that Strauss only began to experiment on Durandal when he awoke from stasis in 2772. A year later the Marathon arrives at Tau Ceti. Seven years after that the colony is established. In fact 22 years pass from the time Strauss comes out of stasis and the Pfhor attack. 22 years to drive Durandal into the 1st stage and hold him their for years. This theory avoids all those difficult questions such as the size of Strauss' balls for putting himself into stasis for 300 years with a ticking time bomb onboard. ;) Sadly this theory dispenses with the highly amusing idea that Durandal was held in the 1st stage of Rampancy by making him carry out mundane tasks like opening and closing doors for 300 years. Which is so Douglas Adams. You see in Marathon... nobody wins. Cheers Hamish

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	Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	UrsusArctos	5/2/22 6:13 p.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	Godot	5/4/22 6:42 a.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	UrsusArctos	5/6/22 4:54 p.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	Godot	5/7/22 3:38 a.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	UrsusArctos	5/8/22 5:52 p.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	Godot	5/7/22 4:55 a.m.
	Rampancy as a metaphor for social revolt	Forrest of B.org	5/7/22 1:10 p.m.
	Re: Rampancy as a metaphor for social revolt	Godot	5/7/22 11:02 p.m.
	Agreed on both points! *NM*	UrsusArctos	5/8/22 5:11 p.m.
	Jjaro cybernetic junctions and social revolt	UrsusArctos	5/8/22 5:49 p.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	UrsusArctos	5/8/22 6:27 p.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	General-RADIX	5/10/22 4:02 a.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	Godot	5/10/22 5:47 a.m.
	Re: Durandal, Tycho and Strauss	UrsusArctos	5/10/22 9:22 a.m.

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