How do you interpret it?
I just finished Infinity last night, so I'm still trying to put everything in the right order (having the forums turn into this didn't help lol).
But the fact that the final word of the Marathon trilogy is the name of Bungie's new IP can't be a coincidence (this is Bungie we're 7alking about), and thus I raise the question again as to what the Durandal-S'pht entity meant by this.
The first thing I really grasped onto was that this was a comment on the Security Officer being Cyborg, and, more importantly, that his cyborg status is destiny. Given the nature of the S'pht, and the final nature of Durandal, it would seem that Cyborgs are the most powerful forces in the Marathon Universe. We see similar themes carried into the Halo universe.
Is Durandal saying that Cyborgs are the destiny of intelligence? Given how much Durandal talks about evolution in Marathon 1, and the fact that Evolution would very much favor immortal life in the long-term, I find this a fitting theme. What's your interpretation?
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It's a wink to the fact that you, the player, are the ultimate driver of the in-game universe. Dead a thousand times, hopeless encounters successfully won - no matter how many times your in-game character fails or is killed, you just reload your saved game and keep playing the game until its conclusion. There is a path/fate mapped out and it comes to pass because you play the game - in other words, you are 'destiny.'