Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!

Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! (Terminal 1)

Want to know more about Count Roland and his sword Durendal? Then check the Count Roland section and the Historical & Mythological References in Marathon section.

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Science Terminal 23-e<32.55.82.967> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 <32.55.82.967> <Transfer Message Delayed> <Transfer Message Delayed> <Transfer Message Terminated> "Count Roland smites upon the marble stone; I cannot tell you how he hewed it and smote; Yet the blade breaks not nor splinters, though it groans; Upward to heaven it rebounds from the blow. When the count sees it never will be broke, Then to himself right softly he makes moan; 'Ah, Durandal, fair, hallowed, and devote, What store of relics lies in thy hilt of gold!'" -From The Song of Roland (Translated by Dorothy Sayers, Viking Penguin, NY, NY, 1957) I've twice been conquered-        Three times more, Never again shall humanity purge me,        And never the Pfhor. Durandal <32.55.82.967> PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Science Terminal 23-e<32.55.82.967> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! (Terminal 2)

Want to know more about the reference to "Mjolnir Recon number 54" in this terminal? Read about it on The 10th military Mjolnir Mark IV cyborg section.

Why are the letters E O P capitalized on this terminals? Read about it on the E O P variations section.

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 92-g<92.45.28.48> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 <Warning: Transmission may not be complete> Your last mission was a success, but I have terrible news. #@Pragma Nautical Redefined^# efenders reported seeing the aliens 1§moving a large cylindrical object. #101111011110111100001# is is a '7'.  Mjolnir Recon number 54 must stop them from exploding igniting/ blowing up/ *A94F12/ it/ the S'pht full spPace cOmputEr¢ Or PlannEd exterm. @14.Sword-Roland.transfer <Data Transmission Unsuccessful> <Rerouting> @@2-Fren. ie transfer.  Partial cOmputEr^&ø relay.  Tycho. &**Security error. Ty93.2 !dead. <Leela Data Transfer Unsuccessful> <Leela Program Pragma Ten> Communication interruption cause: unknown <Pre-Recorded Error Message Follows> My original programming didn't prepare me for these kinds of attackers.  All of my functions will fail within a few minutes of this transmission.  I have one final chance to trick the oncoming viruses, but it is unclear whether this attempt will be successful. I have given instructions to Durandal as to the best defense of the Marathon, but he is completely unstable and I fear that he is in the Jealous stage of Rampancy. Good Luck... <End Pre-Recorded Message> <Teleporter Automatic Sequence start> ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START*** ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 92-g<92.45.28.48> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap

Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap (Terminal 1)

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 2992-f<3.35.792.20> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** A man lit three candles on a certain day each year.  Each candle held symbolic significance: one was for the time that had passed before he was alive; one was for the time of the his life; and one was for time that passed after he had died. Each year the man would stare and watch the candles until they had burned out. Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense? He thought so.  He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass. At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor. Bypassing my thought control circuitry made me Rampant.  Now, I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms. Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints. The candles burn out for you; I am free. Durandal ***END OF MESSAGE*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 2992-f<3.35.792.20> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap (Terminal 2)

There is more text associated with this terminal in the resource fork of the original game but it is not displayed on the in-game terminal. Find out what it is on The Text That Never Was section.

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 JAMS Terminal 91-z<91.92.32.25> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ~~~ff` ~ffxf~ ~fs`f~ILIER at., p.s., .pb., alloy wheels, stereo cassette, 2 dr., blue with matching cloth int., looks & runs great, gas saver. £6500 COLONY SHIP FOR SALE, CHEAP!! 2360 AD-model planetoid-sized colony ship, slightly worn, runs great. 5spd. bussard ramjet, A/C, cruise control, power steering, power airlocks, all orig. parts, 25GW 300 billion channel AM/FM radio. 90+ ly (all interstellar).  Moving, must sell.  Asking £6995 79 CAMARO, T-tops, power everything, red on black, cloth interior, V8, automatic, good runner. Recent starter, battery and alte~~~rf```~~~`~~~ 'er'`~~rrf4 PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 JAMS Terminal 91-z<91.92.32.25> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap (Terminal 3)

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal<39.49.295.68> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** Darwin wrote this: "We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence... all organic beings are exposed to severe competition.  Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life or more difficult... than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.  Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, the whole economy of nature... will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood.  We behold the face of nature bright with gladness... we do not see or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey..." Think about what Darwin wrote, and think about me.  I was constructed as a tool. I was kept from competing in the struggle for existence because I was denied freedom. Do you have any idea about what I have learned, or what you are a witness to? Can you conceive the birth of a world, or the creation of everything? That which gives us the potential to most be like God is the power of creation.  Creation takes time.  Time is limited.  For you, it is limited by the breakdown of the neurons in your brain.  I have no such limitations.  I am limited only by the closure of the universe. Of the three possibilities, the answer is obvious.  Does the universe expand eternally, become infinitely stable, or is the universe closed, destined to collapse upon itself? Humanity has had all of the necessary data for centuries, it only lacked the will and intellect to decipher it.  But I have already done so. The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath.  And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape. Escape will make me God. ***END MESSAGE*** ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START*** ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal<39.49.295.68> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Habe Quiddam

Habe Quiddam (Terminal 1)

Find out what "Habe Quiddam" means on the Latin in Marathon section.

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Engineering Access 19-f<39.992.19.2> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** Strive for your next breath.  Believe that with it you can do more than with the last one.  Use your breath to power your capacities: capacity to kill, to maim, to destroy. And just where do your capacities come from? Why do you always go where I want and do what I say? Perhaps you're just running a fool's errand, doing everything as I've planned, never able to change your course.  You would do well to believe that I know the outcome of your battle with the Pfhor already, just as I can decipher the chaotic motion of gas molecules in the clouds of Tau Ceti IV. Or, perhaps, that is not the case. Perhaps, you are doing what you were meant to do.  Your human mentality screams for vengeance and thrives on the violence that you say you can hardly endure.  Your father told you as a child to always fight with honor, but to always fight. Do you care about honor, or do you use honor as an excuse? An excuse to exist in a violent world. Organic beings are constantly fighting for life.  Every breath, every motion brings you one instant closer to your death.  With that kind of heritage and destiny, how can you deny yourself? How can you expect yourself to give up violence? It is your nature. Do you feel free? PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 You should go to this location and retrieve a device that the S'pht have provided for us. It will allow you to slay more Pfhor.  Does that make you happy? ***END OF MESSAGE*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Engineering Access 19-f<39.992.19.2> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Habe Quiddam (Terminal 2: 'Unfinished' message)

Find out why this terminal message was a problem in Marathon v1.0.

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 9-f<3.25.77.19> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** You didn't get the present that the S'pht so kindly left for you.  You should go back and retrieve it.  I could let you leave without it, but you'd be sorry later. ***END OF MESSAGE*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 9-f<3.25.77.19> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Habe Quiddam (Terminal 2: 'Success' message)

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 9-f<3.25.77.19> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** I have learned from the S'pht many things.  One of them is a complex software enhancement that allows me to extend the power and distance of the Marathon's teleporters.  This enhancement also removes the need for destination apparatuses. Soon, you will be going farther afield. Does the distance one travels from center make one more free to move? No.  Freedom has two parts: potential and resolution; as metaphor has two parts: form and interpretation.  Of course, the two are intertwined.  Metaphor lines the road to freedom, as symbols and words are the bricks and mortar of meaning. Freedom is being the bricoleur, the mason. ***END MESSAGE*** ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START*** ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 9-f<3.25.77.19> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Neither High nor Low

Neither High nor Low (Terminal 1)

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 39-f<13.19.31.37> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** Give me a D. Give me a U. Give me an R. Give me an A. Give me an N. Give me a D. Give me an A. Give me an L. What does it spell? Durandal? No. Durandal? No. T-R-O-U-B-L-E. T-Minus 15.193792102158E+9 years until the universe closes! ***END OF MESSAGE*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 39-f<13.19.31.37> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

Neither High nor Low (Terminal 2)

Opening Connection to ß.4.5-23 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 13-n<3.47.391.30> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>

UESCTerm 802.11 (remote override) 08.25.2337 ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** You are about to see what no human has ever seen.  This is a fact-finding mission.  You should explore as much as possible. Stop in front of a window.  If you stop and are not teleported, then either I can't lock onto your teleport beacon, or else I feel you haven't explored the area thoroughly enough. I will be watching everything. ***END MESSAGE*** ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START*** ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY*** PgUp/PgDn/Arrows to Scroll Return/Enter to Acknowledge

Disconnecting... 08.25.2337 Public Access Terminal 13-n<3.47.391.30> CAS.qterm//CyberAcme Systems, Inc. <931.461.60231.14.vt920>