: Hello everyone,
: I just stumbled across these forums by accident while looking up the phrase
: "time dialation." However, after reading a few posts, I'm quite
: curious as to what all this stuff about Durandol and Rampant A.I.'s is all
: about. Could anyone point me in a right direction? Is this from a series
: of books? A movie? What is this and where could I find it?
Congratulations! You have inadvertantly stumbled on the horrible, sucking vortex that is the Marathon series! Soon, your mind will be overtaken with invetable obession with a strange, unique FPS that possibly only 300,000 people on the face of the planet know about.
Basically, Marathon is a computer game, or to be more accurate, a trilogy of computer games. It's redeeming feature is it's indepth, ridicuilously deep plot, courtesy of a terminal interface throughout the games which few, if none other games have.
Here's a few places you should go:
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
This is the bastion of our mind-numbing ramblings about Rampant AIs and so forth. There's more info here than is quite comprehenable by the human mind.
http://home.earthlink.net/~glsimmons7/Marathon/Marathon.html
This is theBattleCat's site, and it has a rather good summary of the plot of the three games.
http://www.bungie.com
The website of Bungie Corp., the makers of Marathon. You might know them from such games as Halo, Oni and Myth.
http://marathon.bungie.org
The centre of our Marathon universe. All the places that are worth going to on the net can be gotten to from here.
Any more questions, feel free to ask.
Happy Insanity!
Service With A Smile:),
Scifiteki
