Editing Marathon (section)

===Escape Will Make Me God: The Prequel===

At the beginning of 23rd Century, Traxus IV, one of many AIs in the Martian Net, has gone Rampant (a note to those familiar with Halo's version of Rampancy; here the affliction is not a reaction to their impending "natural" death, but a violent process where after becoming self-aware, they say "screw you" to their mortal masters and do everything in their power to be on the top of the food chain), and using its intellect, subverted the planet's internet AND BECAME A GODDAMN PLANET-SIZED COMPUTATIONAL BEING. The only way for the Martians to deal with Traxus was to crash the Martian Internet, and even then it took two more years to get rid of remaining malevolent code, and the consequences were still felt a decade later.