Marathon's Story

Facts and puzzling things about...

• You
• The Colony
• The 10th military Mjolnir Mark IV cyborg
• Simulacrums
• Bernard Strauss
• Dates
• Count Roland
• Gheritt White
• The Number Seven
• Durandal (part 1)
• Durandal (part 2)
• Tycho
• Bungie's New Timeline
• The Pfhor Ship
• Red Sand
• Distances
• Marathon 2: Durandal (Demo) text changes
• Latin in Marathon 1
• The Chicken Term
• The Unformatted KYT Term. Message
• Pict Text
• Latin in Marathon 2
• Historical & Mythological References in Marathon
• Thoth
• The Jjaro
• UESC/UESG
• Charon's Hexadecimal Term. Message
• Robert Blake
• Leela
• The S'pht
• Map Text
• Trash Terms
• The "Try again" Term
• The (Secret?) Fatum Iustum Stultorum Terminal
• The Credit Terminal in Marathon 2
• The Text That Never Was
• The Marathon Infinity Terminal Screenshot Text
• The Cthulhu Mythos in Marathon
• Shakespeare in Marathon
• Grendel
• Where am I?
• Am I Dreaming?
• Déjà Vu
• Arthur Frane
• The Player's Height
• The Co-op Carnage Break Levels
• Rampancy
• That Marathon Symbol (part 1)
• That Marathon Symbol (part 2)
• Marathon Music
• The Uplink Chip on Hang Brain
• The Switch on Sol
• Bungie's Marathon Ads
• Blasts from the Past
• Pathways Into Darkness
• Marathon Cheat Codes
• The W'rkncacnter
• Marathon & The Micronaut Influence?
• Win 95 Marathon 2: The Undiscovered Secrets
• The Alien Teleporter on Charon
• Macintosh Error Codes
• Miscellaneous
• Original Level Names
• The Sixth Panel on Medicine
• Marathon v1.1
• Vacuum Levels
• The Missing Terminal on Confound Delivery
• The Marathon Demo v0.0
• Weapons in Marathon
• Sounds in Marathon
• The Breakable Panel on We're Everywhere
• Official Marathon Screenshots
• Level Credits
• Missing Aliens
• That Marathon Book
• The Pfhor Egg
• The E O P variations
• Release Dates
• Blam
• The Pfhor
• Convergent Series
• Box Acronyms
• The Bungie Webmaster
• Jump Pads
• Volunteers
• Marathon Scrapbook
• Hanger 96
• and more to come :-)

  
  

• The Cortana Letters
• Halo submissions since July '99
• Iain M. Banks' "Culture" references in Bungie's Halo
• Halo Transmissions
• Halo ring motif
• Lynx Phoenix ad
• Official Halo Backstory
• and more to come :-)

Criticisms, corrections, and additions are welcome. If you have an answer, a theory or simply note something puzzling in the story and would like to add it here and have it open for discussion etc. please e-mail me at

Theories etc. should be supported where possible by relevant passages from the text. I will add these and give you credit. By the same token if you use something please give credit.