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	Marathon Send-off Speech.
	Posted By: Dispatcher	Date: 9/23/01 10:20 p.m.
	From Hamish's collection of text: Marathon - The Manual Text ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pages 2-4 >snip< The Mirata lurches from its bay on the back of its powerful rocket booster. After the jolting of the separation ceases, you find yourself pondering the fate of the colony receding below you. With apprehension, the same apprehension you felt three hundred and twenty-two years earlier, you envision Marcus Tiberius Buendia, one of Sol's greatest leaders. "Mankind will venture out past its earthly bounds, and move into a future grander and more real than the total of its own written history." Buendia, the president of the Unified Earth Space Council, had spoken those words to the people of the Sol System on the eve of the launching of the Marathon. "This, the grandest achievement mankind has ever conceived will be for the purpose of peace and the preservation of the human race. May this great technological ark carry with it the sum total of all human wisdom, and may neither time nor distance weaken our common ties." Dis- Timelines are one thing. Speeches like the above are another. Even I can't reconcile the Halo and Marathon timelines in light of this, since "this great technological ark" should at least have the latest practical technology. If the two games had a common timeline, they diverge when FTL is discovered. 8={

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	Marathon Send-off Speech.	Dispatcher	9/23/01 10:20 p.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Speaker-To-Animals	9/24/01 8:58 a.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Hamish Sinclair	9/24/01 9:08 a.m.
	Buendia - Additional Info	REB	9/24/01 8:32 p.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Claude Errera	9/24/01 9:10 a.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Rincewind MoG	9/24/01 12:58 p.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Dispatcher	9/24/01 9:46 p.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Inverted Sock Puppet	9/24/01 10:55 p.m.
	G-'day.	Dispatcher	9/25/01 8:37 p.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Speaker-To-Animals	9/26/01 1:03 p.m.
	Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.	Claude Errera	9/26/01 1:17 p.m.

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