Acknowledgments

This vault stands on karnemir’s shoulders. Every word of in-game text here — all 1,102 terminals, codex entries, and intercepts across four games — was captured from the extraordinary archive at marathon.karnemir.com, preserved word-for-word with per-entry source links throughout. karnemir compiled the Marathon corpus “for the common heritage of all mankind,” and gave this project explicit permission to build on that work. The Brane’s analysis exists because their archive exists. Thank you.

Marathon is Bungie’s. Marathon (1994), Marathon 2: Durandal (1995), Marathon Infinity (1996), and Marathon (2026) — the worlds, the words, the terminals, Durandal’s laughter — are © Bungie, Inc. In-game writing is reproduced verbatim here for transformative research, commentary, and community-reference purposes, clearly delimited from the vault’s own analysis at every seam. No ownership is claimed. Rights holders may contact the maintainer at any time.

The vault’s own analysis — hubs, threads, landings, frontmatter, structure — is shared under CC BY 4.0. Attribute to “The Marathon Brane (Bob Discuits)“.

Maintained by Bob Discuits · bobdiscuits@gmail.com · every factual claim in this vault is footnoted to primary source material.