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Saturday August 23, 2025  



This Day in Marathon.

Day #823.
The S'pht'Kr have arrived and they are enraged.
Paz (@TheRealQuenny) gives us the Marathon's Security Officer and his homies.


Eleventh Clan by Paz (@TheRealQuenny) on x.com. August 21, 2025.

Paz writes:
Security officer / S'pht / S'pht'Kr models by 810_dude. Magnum model by NotARealStudio.

Background by Craig Mullins.

Rendered in Blender 4.5 cycles and edited in GIMP.
In contrast to this piece of UESC propaganda the enslaved S'pht don't appear with the S'pht'Kr in the last chapter of Marathon 2: Durandal.

And while the enslaved S'pht try to resist the Pfhor on Lh'owon they never come to our aid.

Durandal says on Come and Take your Medicine:
It must seem peculiar, fighting the S'pht
when they are whom you seek to free. You
should be told that they deliberately fight
poorly, that they are constantly resisting their slavers.
Of course they don't fight poorly as kamil-a (@kamil-a) found out recently and drew her experiences of being bullied by the S'pht in Marathon 2.


Bullied Marine by kamil-a (@kamil-a) on tumblr. August 12, 2025.

kamil-a wrote:
"my spht are only pretending to fight for the phor"
YOUR SPHT ARE BULLYING!!!!! ME !!!!!
However we do have a somewhat surreal encounter with F'tha on Come and Take your Medicine.


F'tha on Come and Take your Medicine. Marathon 2: Durandal. 1995.

If you resist the temptation to attack the S'pht standing in front on this terminal on Come and Take your Medicine you will experience something quite unique.

The S'pht won't attack you and will communicate to you through the terminal.
I am F'tha, S'pht-compiler, your deeds
reached far into the S'pht consciousness.
The vile (?ugly) Pfhor slave us to more
powerful (?painful) machines, but we resist
them.
Of course if you had followed Durandal's instructions about your mission and stayed on the course he plotted you would never have met F'tha or indeed explored this vast complex and its mysteries.


Come and Take your Medicine. Marathon 2: Durandal. 1995.

But that's Marathon for you.

So raise a glass with F'tha as you watch Lh'owon's sun go nova.


Were not so different after all... by kamil-a on tumblr. July 8, 2025.



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