Marathon Ares Research Station (MARS)

Storyline for a Mars expedition, complete with main character sketches.

Downloadable from Orphanage as a 8kb zip file.

Author & contributor: Dean Dunakin

Designed as a prequel to Marathon 1 the story describes Ares I, the first manned Earth expedition to Mars, to explore the surface, and discover the fate of a couple missing earthprobes. It was intended to tie in to the Marathon story, from Pathways into Darkness through Marathon Infinity.

Several key characters are sketched out: the expedition crew members, the ship's AI and various new Jjaro & Pfhor creatures. The player is one of the crew.

The plot covers 15 levels and an epilogue incorporating new weapons and races into a developing story. The epilogue sets the stage for the creation of the Mjolnir Battleroid prior to Marathon 1.

As it stands the scenario would require designing new weapons and textures, principally early human space technology with a suitable appearance of pre-Marathon environment.

Marathon: Bloodlust

Storyline covers Durandal & Leela assisting the player in interaction with a new alien species

Downloadable from Orphanage as a part of 89Mb scenario zip file

Author & contributor: Dean Dunakin & Joe England

A basic plotline made in the early stages of a scenario project, covering only the minimum details of the story:

In brief: a new alien species wants to wipe out all life in the galaxy. Durandal finds a small Pfhor ship that survived a Pfhor battle with these aliens; unaware of the new species he believes the damage to have arisen from a Pfhor mutiny and sends the player to investigate. While analysing the retrieved data Durandal comes under attack from the aliens; he teleports the player onboard a pursuing ship to gather information. A human ship controlled by Leela then comes to assist, telling of a S'pht planet, the population of which has been annihilated, that has computer records on the aliens. While en route to this planet aliens beam onboard but the player saves the day. The S'pht computers contain details of a virus lethal to the aliens, stocks of which exist elsewhere on the planet; the player retrieves some of the virus and is teleported to the pursuing alien ship to release it. Subsequently the player is teleported to the lead ship of the alien fleet to sow the seeds of destruction for the entire fleet.

The plot is simplistic covering only a handful of levels and would need some rewriting for full plausibility. More detail needs to be added.

Marathon: Edge

Story from the now defunct Marathon: Edge project

Downloadable from Orphanage as a 89Mb zip file

Authors: Ben Fisher ("Zudo") & Johannes Rydh

The working story doc from the now-defunct Marathon:Edge project. Includes deep story background, plot outline, level sequence, and other details. A very professional job! In DocMaker format.

Hadar Alliance

Story from the now defunct Hadar Alliance project

Downloadable from Orphanage as a 89Mb zip file

Author & contributor: Drakkar Azura

The Background and Plot notes for the Hadar Alliance scenario. Includes docs in MS Word format and plain text. Both original and updated versions.

Marathon: Leviathan

Plotline & sketches from the now defunct Leviathan scenario

Downloadable from Orphanage as a 89Mb zip file

Author & contributor: Jay Thurman

Twenty-one web graphics and story notes related to the Leviathan project. Among these are screenshots (some of now-lost levels), project logos, and monster sketches. Readme included.