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Kaldrenthebold posted...

Eh it has blatant references to the series including Durandal and his ultimate goal. That and UESC as well as the derelict Marathon above Tau Ceti 4. It's doing more to throw in the series lore but I'm mostly confused where this fits. Post trilogy?

It can't be post trilogy because the trilogy ends in the final moments at the heat death of the universe. In existing lore Tau Ceti gets colonized and then wiped out in 2794. At the end of that fight Durandal leaves and never returns, yet this new game takes place in 2850 and he's apparently involved. So at best it's likely to be a bunch of corporations ("factions") picking over the abandoned remnants of those wars about 100 years later, but Durandal should be nowhere in sight unless it's like an offline backup that got left on the planet.

It also can't serve the larger Marathon plot because the events that occur here 100 years later are meaningless to Durandal or your mission. Technically at this point you've already found the pfvor (spelling?) homeworld and they've unleashed their superweapon and ruined everything. So the only possible place for this game to have any meaning to Marathon is if it takes place on any of the doomed timelines explored in Marathon 3.