Stand by, Runners, because Marathon is about to get even more challenging. Today marks the launch of Cryo Archive, the game’s fourth map, and one that will include endgame activities and loot.

Since Marathon launched on March 5, players have been working to solve an alternate-reality game that has sent them looking for clues, solving messages, and scouring the game for terminals and information. The ARG has finally been solved, which revealed a countdown timer for the release of Cryo Archive. Developer Bungie dropped a trailer and blog post with lots of details about the map, including what you can find there and what it takes to get inside.

Cryo Archive is set aboard the Marathon, the massive colony ship for which the game is named and which is the setting of Bungie’s original Marathon games from the 1990s. In the story of the series, the Marathon set out from Earth some 300 years before the events of the gam, and then went dark. Contact from the Tau Ceti IV colony the Marathon was sent to establish was lost not long after–the latest game is about various forces and interests from Earth finally making the journey to Tau Ceti to find out what happened.

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