Marathon Unveils Three-Month Seasons with Fresh Starts and Evolving Content

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Marathon will run three-month seasons that reset gear, contracts, faction progress, and level, but keep cosmetics and Codex progress; each season adds free new content (zones, weapons, implants, events) and evolves Tau Ceti, with Ranked mode arriving in Season 1's second half and Season 2 introducing Nightfall and the Cradle system to give players more control over builds.
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