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Durandal spent the next seventeen years surveying various solar systems in search of Lh'owon. One of the S'pht myths Durandal learned of made reference to the lost eleventh clan, who used Jjaro technology to exfiltrate from the solar system using one of their homeworld's moons. Durandal hoped to use it in his plan to escape the closure of the universe. <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/durandal2.html ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' For Carnage, Apply Within, Terminal 1]</ref> | Durandal spent the next seventeen years surveying various solar systems in search of Lh'owon. One of the S'pht myths Durandal learned of made reference to the lost eleventh clan, who used Jjaro technology to exfiltrate from the solar system using one of their homeworld's moons. Durandal hoped to use it in his plan to escape the closure of the universe. <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/durandal2.html ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' For Carnage, Apply Within, Terminal 1]</ref> | ||
During that period, Durandal would heavily modify Boomer to his personal specifications with all manner of alien tech <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/M1%20Final%20Screen.html ''Marathon'' (1994), Endscreen]</ref>. | During that period, Durandal would heavily modify Boomer to his personal specifications with all manner of alien tech <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/M1%20Final%20Screen.html ''Marathon'' (1994), Endscreen]</ref>. His rampancy as well would stabilize. | ||
=== Liberation & Destruction of Lh'owon === | === Liberation & Destruction of Lh'owon === | ||
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Orbital bombardment began quickly, and the Security Officer was first sent to cripple the Pfhor garrison's water purification systems. While commanding the offensives across the theatre, Durandal would maintain communications with all humans throughout the battle. He justified his actions on Tau Ceti, and framed his current operation as a way of tipping the balance of power before the inevitable war between the Pfhor and humanity <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/lhowon.html#M2.02.1.2 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune, Terminal 1]</ref>. | Orbital bombardment began quickly, and the Security Officer was first sent to cripple the Pfhor garrison's water purification systems. While commanding the offensives across the theatre, Durandal would maintain communications with all humans throughout the battle. He justified his actions on Tau Ceti, and framed his current operation as a way of tipping the balance of power before the inevitable war between the Pfhor and humanity <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/lhowon.html#M2.02.1.2 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune, Terminal 1]</ref>. | ||
To do this, Durandal sought to fulfill the prophecy of S'pht myth and recall the eleventh clan, the S'pht'Kr, | To do this, Durandal sought to fulfill the prophecy of S'pht myth and recall the eleventh clan, the S'pht'Kr. With their help, he believed he could instigate a rebellion across the Pfhor Empire <ref name = "charon">[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/lhowon.html#M2.03.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Charon Doesn't Make Change, Terminal 1]</ref>. | ||
Operations continued without much contest from the Pfhor, at first. The Security Officer successfully completed his objectives as they were issued. Slaughtering Pfhor outposts, securing a human command center and recovering valuable information on the disappearance of the S'pht'Kr. However, these early successes would be | Operations continued without much contest from the Pfhor, at first. The Security Officer successfully completed his objectives as they were issued. Slaughtering Pfhor outposts, securing a human command center, turning the Pfhor defense drones against the garrison and recovering valuable information on the disappearance of the S'pht'Kr. However, these early successes would be undercut by Tycho revealing himself in the network and the Pfhor Battle Group Seven gathering in a nearby system <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/volunteers.html#M2.06.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' We're Everywhere, Terminal 1]</ref>. | ||
With the Pfhor reprisal imminent, Durandal quickly sent the Security Officer to investigate the Citadel of Antiquity, the site of the final battle between the S'pht and the Pfhor during the former's enslavement <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/citadel.html#M2.10.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Eat It, Vid Boi!, Terminal 1]</ref>. The citadel's records there were the last few pieces of the puzzle regarding the means to contact the S'pht'Kr, but Battle Group Seven arrived quicker than Durandal anticipated <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/citadel.html#M2.11.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' The Hard Stuff Rules, Terminal 1]</ref>. | |||
While the Security Officer rummaged through the S'pht ruins below, Durandal fought with the newly arrived fleet, commanded by [[Admiral Tfear]]. For a time, Durandal managed to hold his own thanks to Boomer's heavily modified weapon's array, but was eventually overtaken. Despite the Security Officer successfully retrieving the last fragments of information on how to contact the S'pht'Kr, the information came too late to change the battle <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/citadel.html#M2.13.6.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Six Thousand Feet Under, Terminal 6]</ref>. With the situation rapidly deteriorating, he attempted a crash landing on the S'pht moon, [[Y'loa]] <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/citadel.html ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Six Thousand Feet Under, Terminal 2]</ref>. | |||
On the moon's surface, the Pfhor began their assault on Boomer's crash site <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/durandal2.html ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay, Terminal 1]</ref>. The human defenders were routed, despite assistance from the Security Officer. Meanwhile, Tycho fully revealed himself and infiltrated Durandal's systems to crippled him. | |||
With defeat quickly approaching, Durandal ordered the Security Officer to destroy his core logic centers to save him from meeting the same fate as Leela <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/durandal2.html#M2.17.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry!, Terminal 1]</ref>. His remaining datastreams were downloaded and sent to a containment unit of Tycho's own design. | |||
The remaining humans, alongside the Security Officer, were captured by the Pfhor and subject to interrogation for over a month. | |||
==== Durandal "Offline" ==== | |||
With Durandal no longer active, [[Robert Blake]] took command of the human and S'pht survivors and rescued the prisoners. Blake says that his last instructions from Durandal were to bring an ancient S'pht AI, [[Thoth]], back online <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/blake.html#M2.19.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' This Side Toward Enemt, Terminal 1]</ref>. | |||
Thanks to the efforts of the Security Officer, the human survivors were successful in activating the ancient AI. When Thoth comes back online, he fulfills his main directive to contact the S'pht'Kr for reinforcements. | |||
==== Durandal Returns ==== | |||
However, Durandal himself was not completely offline. Throughout the Security Officer's tenure under Thoth's command, Durandal hinted at his survival <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/simulacrums.html#M2.23.2.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Where the Twist Flops, Terminal 2]</ref>. And once the S'pht'Kr return, he revealed himself by breaking free of Tycho's containment unit and subverting the Pfhor battleship, [[Khfiva]] <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/sphtkr.html#M2.26.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' Fatum Iustum Stultorum, Terminal 1]</ref>. Tycho's ship was destroyed, and Durandal carved his epitaph onto one of Lh'owon's inner moons: Fatum Iustum Stultorum. | |||
Durandal once again assumed command, and the Pfhor were subsequently slaughtered by the newly arrived S'pht'Kr and the Security Officer. The remaining human survivors hijacked a Pfhor refueling ship in the chaos, and fled the system. The Security Officer was left behind. | |||
==== The Sun Broke ==== | |||
As the Pfhor were on the verge of defeat, they activated the [[Trih xeem]] in the hopes of containing the rebellion. A device of Jjaro origin, meant to cause a star to go supernova. The S'pht began efforts to evacuate the planet and quickly fled the system along with Durandal. Though, Durandal would waste no time in taking the Security Officer to another star system in search of more ancients technology aboard the Khfiva, renamed Rozinante <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/sphtkr.html#M2.28.1.1 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' All Roads Lead To Sol..., Terminal 1]</ref> | |||
=== Post Lh'owon liberation === | |||
Durandal would continue his searches for ancient technology for the next ten-thousand years. During that time, he would discover an ancient Jjaro dreadnought he named the [[Manus Celer Dei]] before returning to Earth around 12811. His stay was brief, as he only intended to stop by and ensure that Earth did not forget him. | |||
He would never reveal what he learned of the Jjaro. | |||
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== Relationships == | == Relationships == | ||
=== Leela === | |||
Throughout the Battle of Tau Ceti, Durandal did not make any outwardly aggressive moves towards Leela, though she tried to contain him. His feelings at that time were complicated, and likely colored by his rampancy <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/counterattack.html#M1.05.3.1 ''Marathon'' (1994) The Rose, Terminal 3]</ref>. Though he instigated the events that lead to her destruction and the destruction of the Tau Ceti colony, Durandal does feel some remorse over what happened to her <ref>[https://marathon.bungie.org/story/volunteers.html#M2.04.1.2 ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' What about Bob?, Terminal 1]</ref>. | |||
=== Tycho === | |||
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=== Security Officer === | |||
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=== Bernhard Strauss === | |||
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