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It's sort of amusing to see Deimos described as "little-known". I grew up playing Doom, so I learned about Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos way earlier than I did any of the other, better known moons in the solar system.

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You got some strangely heated responses to this, but I just wanted to say I share your boat. Its nice to see real pics as an adult now of it all. Also, my trip to Phobos and Deimos was, you could say, hellish. 11/10, would rip and tear again.

It's a nice boat.

In Marathon it was converted into the titular generation ship and launched towards Tau Ceti. But I suppose you could call Marathon little known too...

This was my first thought too as I grew up with the game.

On the subject, for a little blast from the past...the Marathon's Story website is still around-

https://marathon.bungie.org/story/

28 years old, a little noteworthy!

I remember binging that over ten years ago... glad it's still around.

I think the first I heard of it was in another game, Ambrosia Software's top-down scroller Deimos Rising, which came bundled with my Pixar lamp iMac back in the early 2000s.

The soundtrack to that game really stuck with me, as it was installed on the eMacs in our classroom so we played it during indoor recess. Since the addons page is long gone, I threw the soundtrack up on the internet archive.[1] Ben Spees, who did the Soundtrack went on to found the math rock band Mercury Tree.[2]

I mostly remember Ambrosia for the Escape Velocity series though, especially Nova.

1: https://archive.org/details/deimos_rising_soundtrack

2: https://themercurytree.bandcamp.com/

Ah ah, similar experience here as well, though through the board game Terraforming Mars.

According to the boardgame High Frontier, Deimos contains a lot of water, and yet the Deimos Down card in Terraforming Mars does not place an ocean tile. So which is it? Why are different boardgames so inconsistent about Deimos?

I'm a Zone of the Enders nerd, so know about it through that too.

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