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===Marathon=== | ===Marathon (1994)=== | ||
The [[Marathon]] series began and ended before Oni's release, and was a major source of new Bungie fans in the ten years before Bungie released Halo. | The [[Marathon]] series began and ended before Oni's release, and was a major source of new Bungie fans in the ten years before Bungie released Halo. | ||
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[[Image:Halo's ONI.png|right]] | [[Image:Halo's ONI.png|right]] | ||
This one is actually a back-reference to Oni from a later game. Oni doesn't refer to Halo (unless you count the [[Oni matrix]] naming Cortana), but [[wp:Halo (franchise)|Halo]] features an entity called ONI. It stands for [https://www.halopedia.org/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence Office of Naval Intelligence]. A military intelligence service called the Office of Naval Intelligence [[wp:Office of Naval Intelligence|actually exists]]: it's the United States' oldest continuously operating intelligence service (est. 1882). It seems likely that Halo | This one is actually a back-reference to Oni from a later game. Oni doesn't refer to Halo (unless you count the [[Oni matrix]] naming Cortana), but [[wp:Halo (franchise)|Halo]] features an entity called ONI. It stands for [https://www.halopedia.org/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence Office of Naval Intelligence]. A military intelligence service called the Office of Naval Intelligence [[wp:Office of Naval Intelligence|actually exists]]: it's the United States' oldest continuously operating intelligence service (est. 1882). It seems likely that Halo builds on that longevity and tries to imagine what influence today's ONI would have in the 2550s. | ||
There has been a lot of speculation around Halo's ONI, most of which you can see on the [http://halostory.bungie.org/oni.html Halo Story Page]. A specific entry which draws the parallel between Halo's ONI, the [[Oni (myth)|Japanese myth of the oni]], and Bungie's "Oni" is [http://halostory.bungie.org/newssearch.html?newsitem=695 HERE]. | There has been a lot of speculation around Halo's ONI, most of which you can see on the [http://halostory.bungie.org/oni.html Halo Story Page]. A specific entry which draws the parallel between Halo's ONI, the [[Oni (myth)|Japanese myth of the oni]], and Bungie's "Oni" is [http://halostory.bungie.org/newssearch.html?newsitem=695 HERE]. | ||
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===Marathon (2025)=== | ===Marathon (2025)=== | ||
[[Image:Marathon (2025) - ONI.jpg|256px|thumb|right]] | [[Image:Marathon (2025) - ONI.jpg|256px|thumb|right]] | ||
Another back-reference to Oni from a later game. In Bungie's new Marathon, you control a runner who can take contracts from various corporations. One of these corporations, CyberAcme (CyAc for short), uses an AI agent called ONI. "She" is responsible for overseeing a runner's "grounding exercise" when their consciousness is installed into a newly manufactured body, according to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1s this short film] (see 2:43, 4:00, 8:03). | Another back-reference to Oni from a later game. In Bungie's new Marathon, you control a runner who can take contracts from various corporations. One of these corporations, CyberAcme (CyAc for short), uses an AI agent called ONI. "She" is responsible for overseeing a runner's "grounding exercise" when their consciousness is installed into a newly manufactured body, according to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1s this short film] (see 2:43, 4:00, 8:03). Unlike Halo's all-caps "ONI" which is pronounced as separate letters, this ONI's name is actually pronounced like the word "oni". You can hear ONI say her own name in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Jv5H3_yAo this intro cinematic] at 1:27. ONI is voiced by Donnla Hughes. | ||
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