Editing Marathon (section)

===Humans===

Your standard run-of-the-mill humans, the ones in the game are also known as BOBs, short for Born-on-Board, a derogatory term for those born among the awake crew (the majority were in cold sleep) during Marathon's long journey. Unlike Halo's "Humanity Fuck Yeah!" treatment, here they have an opposite treatment: The 50 year war they wage with the Pfhor? A sideshow. Anything bad that happens to them? Who cares. Anything good that happens to them? Irrelevant to us. The only human we're supposed to care about is our hero, the Security Officer (who turns out to be something way beyond human in the end). The game encourages killing BOBs, not helped by A-BOBs, the Pfhor-made simulacrum suicide bombers that look like regular BOBs, and the Xbox Live port of Marathon 2 has a achievement for killing every single one you encounter.

Their fighting force in-game is represented by:

'''MADD:''' Short for Marathon Automated Defense Drones, these flying, machine gun drones are a critical part of Marathon's defense. Durandal later modified a number of them to carry grenade launchers, but something in their programming made them also attack humans.

'''BOBs:''' In the first game they are helpless, unarmed civilians that run around in panic just asking to catch a stray projectile in a face. The Pfhor captured and put many humans to cold sleep in the first assault on Marathon, and when Durandal hijacked the ship he decided to keep the things as it is. When Durandal arrived to Lh'owon, he woke them up and gave them a choice: Fight for him or return to unreliable cold sleep units. Many reluctantly chose to fight, and were given basic training, were modified with basic cybernetics and armed with accurate if weak magnum pistols.

'''VacBOBs:''' Trained for combat in vacuum, these guys wear basic power armor and are armed with fusion pistols, specifically designed by Durandal to haywire Pfhor electronics.