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Posted By: poena.dare #CP#Date: 12/21/02 8:44 p.m.

In Response To: Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me This (Hamish Sinclair)

: In the game
: itself the colony is only ever referred to as the "colony" or
: "colony station". Indeed you the player refer to the colony as
: "colony station". What better proof. ;-)

Good try, Hamish, let's look at the quote from the manual:

You hit the switch for open communication, "Colony station, Durandal just decompressed the landing bay. Marathon, anyone listening, we are having a problem with Docking Bay one.

Do we write "Los angles" or "Saint paul" or "West memphis"? I don't think so. Capitalization of proper nouns is practically reflexive for us all. Surely, if that was the name of the colony it would have been written "Colony Station". Hmm?

So maybe the name was simply "Colony"? But I think that's silly.

Regardless, Bugnie has hinted that the Marathon served as some sort of base after the colonists set down. Read this snip from Bungie's original web page:

STATUS REPORT

At 0820 hours the UESC Marathon Space Station came under surprise attack by unknown alien forces. You were returning from the colony in a shuttle that was also attacked. Your escape pod reached the Marathon 30 minutes after the attack started. There have been numerous security breaches all over the station. The spaceport on the planet below was destroyed by low yield nuclear weapons minutes after the attack on the Marathon began, but the aliens seem to be more interested in the station. Most communications with the colonists have been interrupted because the medium range radio antenna has been disabled.

So when our hero was calling "colony station," he was talking to someone aboard Marathon, not the colony. This also makes sense to me - why complain down-stairs to the colony about Docking Bay One and a malfunctioning AI? Wouldn't it make more sense to tell someone up-stairs who could possibly be there to help?

Ooops, it says right there in the manual text. Right there in that first snip our hero says, "Marathon, anyone listening"...

I ramble.

Regardless, Hamish, you are very close. 1038

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(Marathon) Trivia Me Thispoena.dare #CP# 12/19/02 5:00 a.m.
     Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me ThisTodd 12/20/02 4:03 a.m.
           urgh, This is why I stopped doing this *NM*Alfred Mordeir 12/20/02 5:12 p.m.
                 Answer on Sunday - Stay Tuned *NM*poena.dare #CP# 12/20/02 6:14 p.m.
     (Marathon) Trivia Me This, Come On Guyspoena.dare #CP# 12/20/02 9:10 a.m.
           Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me This, Come On GuysTru7h 12/20/02 9:19 a.m.
           Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me This, Come On GuysElliott 12/20/02 10:29 a.m.
           Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me This, Come On GuysHamish Sinclair 12/20/02 10:46 a.m.
     Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me ThisPillar 12/20/02 10:23 a.m.
     Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me ThisHamish Sinclair 12/20/02 10:45 a.m.
           Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me ThisJamie K. G. 12/21/02 1:24 p.m.
           18 Hours Leftpoena.dare #CP# 12/21/02 8:44 p.m.
                 Re: 18 Hours LeftHamish Sinclair 12/22/02 6:32 a.m.
                       Re: 18 Hours Leftpoena.dare #CP# 12/22/02 11:44 a.m.
                             And the Answer is...poena.dare #CP# 12/22/02 8:15 p.m.
                                   Re: And the Reason is...? *NM* *NM*Aaron Davies 12/22/02 10:27 p.m.
                                         Re: And the Reason is...? Oh, sorry about that.poena.dare #CP# 12/22/02 11:07 p.m.
                                               Re: And the Reason is...? Oh, sorry about that.Hamish Sinclair 12/22/02 11:39 p.m.
                                                     Re: And the Reason is...? Oh, sorry about that.Vid Boi 12/23/02 6:31 a.m.
                                               Good explanation, but...ReB 12/23/02 5:40 a.m.
                                                     Re: Good explanation, but...poena.dare #CP# 12/23/02 8:06 a.m.
                                                           Re: Good explanation, but...ReB 12/23/02 10:06 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Good explanation, but... Aha!poena.dare #CP# 12/23/02 11:14 a.m.
                                                                       Re: Good explanation, but... Aha!ReB 12/23/02 12:02 p.m.
                                   Re: And the Answer is...Hamish Sinclair 12/22/02 10:37 p.m.
                                         And the Debate is...Elliott 12/23/02 8:52 a.m.
                                         Re: And the Answer is...Tru7h 12/23/02 2:43 p.m.
                                               Re: And the Answer is... SevenReB 12/23/02 4:04 p.m.
                                                     Re: And the Answer is... SevenElliott 12/23/02 11:16 p.m.
                                                           Re: And the Answer is... SevenAgent Shem 12/24/02 4:37 a.m.
                                                                 Re: And the Answer is... SevenElliott 12/25/02 8:42 p.m.
     Re: (Marathon) Trivia Me Thisarchon 12/21/02 2:00 p.m.



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