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Marathon Infinity Ending and Destiny (Infinity Spoilers)

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 not a question about you being a cyborg or not. Durandal is speaking to you in the final quantum moment before the collapse of the universe. You are, somehow, still there. Both you and Durandal-Thoth exist in that final moment, and, I am quite sure you both must be beings of pure thought at this point given the nature of the Big Crunch. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. Through the course of the three games, you've defied all odds, survived more potential deaths than any man has the right to, and then, to top it all off, you have skipped through a number of timelines, ultimately preventing the destruction of reality as we know it. And if that weren't enough, you may very well have previously saved the world from such a fate way back in 1993. Things seem familiar to you... as thought from a dream... Remember the Kill Your Television terminal from M2? It's heavily metaphoric, but discusses the player as being analogous to Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, and other heroes of legend. And this is what Infinity takes as fact. That the Security Officer IS a hero of legend, but not just any hero, the final and ultimate hero. You represent something greater than the other heroes of the past. You surpass any and all things: you are destiny.

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