: interesting... but the pfhor actually do use teleporters throughout M2 and MI
: to send reinforcements. also on the third level of the mac version of m2,
: "come and take your medicine", there is a large block in the
: first outside area under which several pfhor run and telport out.
: so i suppose the M1 engine simply didnt support that sort of enemy
: placement...
Agreed that M1 doesn't support this. There are teleporters on the Pfhor ship however. Indicating that they do use them (we just don't see it in-game). They also teleported in the space fighter that destroys the Mirata. From the Marathon Manual (PDF VERSION)
Grey white decompressing vapor fills the cylindrical passageway of the airlock. Through the degenerating clouds of the airlock passageway, instead of looking upon the Tau Ceti starscape, you see the Tuncer Mirage Effect: space blurring and focusing in diminishing cycles. The TME is commonplace to you, humanity has used teleporters for almost five hundred years, and you yourself have been teleporting since before you were born. But you've never seen the TME cover an area so big before, and never at all without a landing pad. And yet another first: a space fighter materializes right in front of your eyes. Since you don't recognize the model, it must be an Alien ship.
Cheers
Hamish
