Technologies of Violence I

Technologies of Violence I is one of Arachne's standard repeatable contracts in Marathon, designed to earn the faction's favor through sustained machine gun combat. The contract awards progress for defeating any hostile target with a machine gun, but Runners who specifically kill opposing enemy Runners with machine gun fire earn substantially higher efficiency toward completion. This prioritization reflects Arachne's core philosophy: the faction is less interested in clearing AI-controlled UESC forces than in measuring a Runner's capacity for violence against other Runners, whom the faction views as the only truly worthy subjects for its thermodynamic experiments.

Technologies of Violence I is part of Arachne's suite of weapon-specific combat contracts, each focused on a different class of armament. The machine gun focus here encourages aggressive, sustained-fire engagement rather than cautious long-range or stealth play, which fits the faction's ethos of pushing Runners to their physical and tactical limits. Completing the contract earns 100 faction reputation and 500 Credits, with the rewards scaling appropriately to the contract's repeatable, progression-supporting nature.