The Game Marathon was insanely inspirational to me in the mid 90s. As a precursor to Halo, many of the concepts we know and loved in the game where actually first seen in Marathon. The idea of AI that act as knowledge bases obviously became “cortana” in Combat Evolved. Leela, to me was most memorable, and so I decided to breath life into “her” my own way. As if she were Cortana’s great great grand daughter.
