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	Re: Rubicon Volunteers - The Ascension Factor
	Posted By: Inverted Sock Puppet	Date: 7/4/02 12:47 a.m.
	In Response To: Rubicon Volunteers - The Ascension Factor (Steve Levinson) : The Ascension Factor is at a critical point in Rubicon. Of all the dream : levels, it is by far the most challenging. Indeed, it is one of the most : difficult levels in Rubicon, period, and was one of the last levels to be : successfully vid. More importantly, it offers the player the last chance : to switch to the Salinger Plank, and the marine (as distinguished from the : player) the final opportunity to control fate and prevent the meaningless : deaths of billions of people. : The player starts out at the bottom of a large single-turn helix which must : be ascended in order to complete the level. Along the path are, : successively, a hulk, a major PCM, minor fighters, 2 major hunters, major : fighters, 2 major troopers and 2 enforcers. I think you get the picture – : this is one tough path with a lot of bad guys to kill. Ironically, you : don’t have to kill any of them, but it will be pretty tough to reach the : top without doing so. A single-turn helix? I call it a circle :) : The dream character and Kate were inseparable. Now that Kate has been : removed in a sense, it’s as if she’s still there. Could this be referring : to the relationship between the marine and Durandal? But by analogy, that : would imply that Durandal is operating in concert with the Dangi : corporation. My take on this is that by following Durandal in the Pfhor : plank, we are helping to perpetrate the evil being planed by the Dangi : board of directors – but we’ll have more to say about that when we : actually get to the Salinger plank. Another take is that Durandal is the : marine’s surrogate soul. But the Marine and Durandal have never been removed from each other. : The Jjaro are being pretty direct, here – this is the last point of : decision. Reverse course in this dream while you have the power to alter : the time line you’re in, or continue on the current, destructive path. Did you actually realise this the first time you played through Rubicon? I totally missed the point of Te Ascension Factor the first time I played the Pfhor plank through. That's some good analysing there.

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Replies:

	Rubicon Volunteers - The Ascension Factor	Steve Levinson	7/3/02 3:28 p.m.
	Re: Rubicon Volunteers - The Ascension Factor	Inverted Sock Puppet	7/4/02 12:47 a.m.
	Re: Rubicon Volunteers - The Ascension Factor	Steve Levinson	7/4/02 9:34 a.m.
	Re: Rubicon Volunteers - The Ascension Factor	C Lund	7/4/02 3:38 p.m.

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