MIDA and the Marathon

Destiny's MIDA weapons share their name with the revolutionary MIDA movement from Bungie's Marathon. In the MIDA Multi-Tool's lore Zavala jokes that it stands for "Mars Is Damnably Arid", and the MIDA Mini-Tool's lore is dated one day after the colony ship UESC Marathon left Mars in Marathon's timeline.

Destiny 1's scout rifle Fate of All Fools likely takes its name from Marathon 2, where the AI Durandal carves "the just fate of fools" into a moon after destroying the AI Tycho. Destinypedia notes both of these links; Bungie hasn't spelled them out.

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