For ease of reference:
[quote]2472/11/17 — 4.9°S 0°E
AUDIO ONLY
Strauss is gone. Whole sky alight as his ship set off. I might be the last MIDA survivor on Mars. The gun detected teleports yesterday and I had to move camp. Cannot shake the fear that they will send battleroids; even this AI marvel couldn't save me.
Shot the ice this morning. The gun fired a thermal round and then a pellet of water purifier. Came out pure and sweet. Marvelous. I've been reading the gun's Encyclopedia Arcana. All about the crash that became Strauss's obsession and hope. “Metastability in the salvaged construct!” Ha ha! Let's hope our ideals too can pass through grief, fury, and envy into a new freedom elsewhere.
Wonder if the gun heard me when I asked to go somewhere better. Wonder why it led me here. Going to follow its compass tonight. Down below.[/quote]
There are several interesting things in this lore entry. First, an overt reference to Marathon's Story: the name "Strauss." The ship taking off is most likely the Marathon, given the date stamp, which is the day after the launch of the Marathon with Strauss on it. Second, the massive implication here is that Strauss was a MIDA insurrectionist, one of the last apparently, which is huge for Marathon's Story.
Third, last but not least, we're given a location: 4.9°S, 0°E. This is just north of the Airy-0 crater, the chosen marker for the prime meridian of Mars, and also squarely located within Meridian Bay, our playground in the first Destiny, and would be near the Black Garden.
Is the suggestion here that this MIDA rebel was being directed toward the Black Garden, and is it possible that the Garden existed in the Marathon Timeline on Mars as well?
Please share your thoughts!
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My question is what part of the gun does he do the reading on? lol
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Edited by CareyOn: 2/27/2018 10:48:30 PMWow. Mind explosion. I loved marathon. I never finished uncovering all the lore and secrets though. Too busy on my LAN with friends and family
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I've been thinking about how a lot of the armor and their sets, give a story of their experiences...held in data, that must always exist.
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I'm just sad our guardian only uses it to shoot when it can do so much more
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Are you Mylein Games?
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This all sounds really interesting...and yet...at the same time, I have NO idea what you’re talking about! Ha! I know it would take forever, but I wish more stuff like this was flushed out in the game.
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Better story telling than the hacks over at Bungie could piece together..... with their “folklore”
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Am I the only one who gets pissed when people use it in pvp? It's a -blam!-ing horrible price of shit gun. It has the lowest impact of the three types of SMG, and it only has one perk. It's the equivalent of a green price of shit omolon SMG. Either get a real gun or stop using the one shitty thing you have.
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Dose it say what day they are turning off the servers for this dead game
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What is the source of this tidbit?
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[quote] Cannot shake the fear that they will send battleroids; even this AI marvel couldn't save me.[/quote] I believe you mean [quote] Cannot shake the fear that they will send battle droids; even this AI marvel couldn't save me.[/quote] [spoiler]jk very interesting could be that we will find more MIDA weapons I. The next expansion to fill the story[/spoiler]
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Edited by Sturm with no Drang: 2/27/2018 12:20:58 PMThis. This is Lore done right.