: Say, i'd really hate to sound like an idiot, but i'm up to 'Thing what
: kicks...' on M3 and i still haven't the slightest grasp on #3's storyline,
: am i meant to have no idea what the hell is going on are am i just missing
: it? I read something about different parrallel universes or some such
: thing, but am i going to be told why?
Yes, no, and no.
That said, I never actually beat Confound Delivery; maybe if I went back and played the levels in order on Normal, I'd understand it a little better. But there still remain questions that can't be answered, and information that was omitted for no logical reason; for example, whether Mjolnir 54 chose to enlist with Tycho for some reason, or was dumped there by Thoth.
: And it seems all the dates on the Terminals are the same so far, yet you
: are still fighting on Lh'owon and are still waiting for Battle Group Seven
: to attack (but the date on the terminal is the same as the date on the
: ending terminal on M2).
I don't think a scenario can even control the dates on terminals; they just start at some hard-coded value and increment based on how long you've been playing. (Although, if memory serves, Infinity originally had all the dates in 1900 instead of 2337; it's only when you use Aleph One that the dates are always the same.)