Mods...please send this up the chain to the game directors, dev leads, writers, artists, etc.
So the issue that many current players/fans have with Bungie releasing a new title (Marathon) is a perceived removal of focus and resources from Destiny. So things like pushing a release date back, or the roadmap could be completely mitigated from the start, but now I feel could through the use of a Retcon.
The Retcon. The Destiny universe is easily big enough to have multiple main stories that never interconnect. So why not very simply retcon the Marathon story line to take place within the Destiny Universe. It could be something so incredibly simple, like before the 1st collapse a colony ship left Mars for the extremely distant Tau Ceti IV. The difference in technology could be wave of the hand explained away with it all being funded and sourced by a long forgotten competitor corporation to Clovis Bray. It's existence scrubbed from all known records because of Clovis' enormous ego and god complex. That's the start of course more little specifics that I'm not privy to would need to be retconned as well.
But then with doing this Marathon is part of Destiny separated by an untravellable amount of time and space lore wise. The Destiny players and community have had their universe expanded. Player adoption goes up. Also Marathon feels to be a new title that supports and adds to what already exists, not taking away from it.
Thanks!!!
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It IS. It's a prequel. Our universe doesn't exist but for the cataclysm in Marathon... Which is an Ark. And there's no retconn... always been this way.
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Tell this to OG Marathon fans and see what they have to say about it.