Filename:	final-art.jpg
Size:	640 x 353
Date:	September 2004 (goodbrush.com)
About:	It has been pointed out that this image contains a helmet similar to that worn by the player suggesting that this is an image of the security officer. The helmet is gone in the Blake Chater screen. See the Blake Chapter screen below with its exposure increased. Craig takes up the story about the missing helmet: "If I remember correctly, which is doubtful, I did this as a chapter screen for the Blake level. It is supposed to be Blake. I think he was a security officer like the protagonist? I did the image at much higher resolution than the 640 px image floating about, but computers being what they were at the time, I think I had some disk corruption and the higher rez image was lost. I never painted out the helmet, so that must have been Bungies doing. As far as darkening, the original was dark. The image you linked was brightened and sharpened considerably. Looks better anyhow." So there you have it. Craig originally drew Blake as a security officer, hence the helmet. Perhaps that was the original intention but when he became a mechanical engineer Bungie removed the helmet to avoid any confusion. Below are some comments about this image left by people who visited goodbrush.com back in the day. AfroRyan       [Sep 26, 2004 at 11:49 AM] I love this picture, it's just the casualness of it...it's like, "To think I used to be a simple security officer." some guy       [Sep 26, 2004 at 05:01 PM] This isn't the player, this is blake, a bob who gives the player orders in a few missions in M2. eMCee       [Sep 26, 2004 at 06:09 PM] Check out the helmet on the table. I never caught that before. And Lt Devon       [Sep 29, 2004 at 09:51 PM] I would love to have that Mug. Marathon+Coffee = awesomeness. Enkidu       [Oct 02, 2004 at 07:34 AM] Excellent job bringing a "home"-y touch to the Marathon and yet still keeping the claustrophobic feel intact. This is an incredibly moody piece. And I too want one of those coffee cups. Beau Thigpen       [Oct 16, 2004 at 07:26 PM] IN the game the helmet wasn't on the table...lol Mkell       [Dec 02, 2004 at 10:00 AM] Heh heh. I still think he looks like James Garner. The Chihuahua       [Dec 28, 2004 at 08:50 AM] Goddamnit that mug is the best toutch EVAR! Bob       [Jan 29, 2005 at 12:45 PM] I'm sure this is the player, not Blake. This is almost certainly on the Marathon, before the pfhor attack, when Blake was just an ordinary technician. There's no reason he'd be sitting around with a gun. Now a security officer, on the other hand... When Freeverse ported Marathon 2: Durandal to Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) in August 2007 they used the helmet version of the Blake image for the Blake Chapter screen. The image was also used as a banner for Freeverse's product page. See below. Note that the Xbox version of the game is called Marathon Durandal. Bruce Morrison from Freeverse would later add in 2011: "We re-did all the Chapter Screens using various Craig Mullins sources, as well as backed up files from years ago. You'll notice a Marine's helmet on our Blake screen. Originally we re-did them as Microsoft wanted them translated, we talked them out of it. However the Xbox has a "Safe Zone" that all games must stick to. Basically some TVs don't draw everything, and cut off the edges. We had to reposition the chapter screen text to ensure it fit inside the safe zone. In some cases there were higher resolution versions online rather than what we ripped out of the game files."