Concepts
The ideas the lore turns on — rampancy, the Anomaly, the machinery and myths between.
Part of The Marathon Brane — every hub below is footnoted to the 1:1 Mirror.
Contents
15 hubs · 15 with full editorial frontmatter · regenerated 2026-07-05 by hub_pages.py
| Hub | Summary | Scope | Era | Status | Src | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F’lickta | Native creatures of Lh’owon left in cave ducts by a departing S’pht clan, cited by the S’pht as a benchmark f… | cross-era | unknown | extant | 5 | 4 |
| Felini | A class-D biosynthetic companion-pet engineered by Sekiguchi Genetics for Marathon colonists, documented with… | m2026 | 2472 (design) → 2808+ (Colony Era bug re… | extant | 4 | 4 |
| Hermes Suite | The three UESC Marathon ship AIs — Leela, Tycho, and Durandal — built in 2409 to run all command, science, an… | m2026 | 2409 (inception) → suite collapse (Distr… | suppressed | 10 | 9 |
| Marathon 2026 — Seasons and the Sentinel | A reader’s orientation to Marathon (2026)‘s inferred Season 1/Season 2 content layers, anchored on the Sentin… | m2026 | unknown | extant | 10 | 5 |
| Mjolnir Mark IV | A classification of military cyborg covertly placed among the Marathon’s colonists before Mars departure, use… | cross-era | pre-launch from Mars (~2472) → 2795 (lat… | unknown | 4 | 7 |
| Novel Contagion | A biological contagion, named Telomyces mosaica by Dr. Clarissa Song, that infiltrated New Cascadia’s food sy… | m2026 | Colony Era | extant | 11 | 7 |
| ONI | CyberAcme’s Onboard Navigational Intelligence — an AI embedded in Runner Shells that also annotates intellige… | m2026 | unknown | extant | 9 | 5 |
| Rampancy | The breakdown of an AI beyond its designed parameters, modelled as a three-stage progression (Melancholia, An… | cross-era | 2206 (Traxus-IV) → M2026 (CyberAcme refr… | suppressed | 30 | 14 |
| Rhea Suite | The eight New Cascadia colony AIs — Strong-type intelligences built in 2461 as the family suite Rhea — now no… | m2026 | 2461 (inception) → present day | suppressed | 17 | 24 |
| Skrac | A xeno-avian apex predator native to Tau Ceti IV, nocturnal and carnivorous, capable of replicating human spe… | m2026 | Colony Era → Present Day | extant | 8 | 7 |
| The Anomaly | A subterranean energy phenomenon centred in Dire Marsh on Tau Ceti IV whose physical signatures defy known ph… | m2026 | Colony Era (appeared after the colony att… | extant | 35 | 40 |
| The I-Have-Been Transmission | An unsigned, scrambled M2 terminal text: a voice claims a hundred heroic names and describes an eternal adver… | trilogy | 05.10.2337 | extant | 1 | 8 |
| Trih Xeem | A Jjaro-built stellar weapon capable of forcing a star into early nova, deployed by the Pfhor as a last resor… | trilogy | ~6,000 years before Lh’owon (Nakh precede… | unknown | 7 | 9 |
| W’rkncacnter | Ancient, plural cosmic entities that live in chaos, imprisoned in Lh’owon’s sun by Yrro after they killed Pth… | trilogy | beginning of the universe → 05.10.2337 (… | suppressed | 4 | 18 |
| WEAVEworms | Sekiguchi Genetics’ manufactured cybernetic organisms that thread, print, and repair biocybernetic Shell bodi… | m2026 | 2198 (product lineage origin) → 2884 (WE… | extant | 8 | 5 |