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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So I came into the idea that the story that is presented to the player of Destiny may not be the truth and so then the next question that I had was what's really going on, not what is the story but what's really going on right no, is the traveler good or bad right now are we good or bad right now etc... And in all that I came to a quick thought about the singularity. Maybe because I brought it up on 4chan, maybe it was that date last night whatever, long story short, and you can tell me if you'd like more, If Detinty is a possible post singularity collapse, that is, one possible way that a singularity could lead to the downfall of humanity, than it would make sense why matter can be so easily digitally manipulated, why time travel is somehow an available technology, and why salvage is such a huge theme in the beginning of the game. Then I thought , the Traveler could be computer running the whole holodeck, And it took off from there For some reason I thought of the Awoken as knowing about this, the exo's being extroverts on the fact they are being run on technology, and humans being sort of like the true believers, the youngest of the oldest tribe sort of thing Than I thought of matching up each enemy type with Awoken becoming hive, humans becoming Cabal and Exo's getting those stomach yellow white crystals as throats, like the way the Vex have an energy cask as their lower midsection so could a brass Exo have a golden light visible within its bust. Visuals as much a part of how these clues speak to me, I'm thinking of some enemies from Marathon , floating red robed bejeweled cyborg things.