Marathon Contract Boost

You have to meet the following requirements to buy Marathon Contract Boost:

• Marathon account
• Season Level and contract progression required
• Faction unlocked for Priority and Standard contracts

Need levels first? Our Marathon Leveling Boost gets you to max Runner Level fast.

• Priority: Moves your Marathon Contract Boost to the front of our order queue. Your boost starts faster than standard scheduling, beginning as soon as a booster becomes available.
• Stream: We provide a link to a private stream so you can watch your Marathon Contract Boost progress live. See gameplay in real-time without screen sharing or installing anything.
• Faction Selection: Pick which faction's contracts you need completed – CyberAcme, NuCaloric, Traxus, MIDA, Arachne, or Sekiguchi. Multiple factions can be selected in one order.
• Standard Contract Quantity: For Standard contracts, select how many completions you want. Each completion earns baseline reputation and rewards for your chosen faction.
• Introduction – Unlock NuCaloric: Complete CyberAcme Liaison contract "Introducing: NuCaloric" to permanently unlock NuCaloric faction access.
• Introduction – Unlock Traxus: Complete CyberAcme Liaison contract "Introducing: Traxus" to permanently unlock Traxus faction access.
• Introduction – Unlock MIDA: Complete CyberAcme Liaison contract "Introducing: MIDA" to permanently unlock MIDA faction access.
• Introduction – Unlock Arachne: Complete CyberAcme Liaison contract "Introducing: Arachne" to permanently unlock Arachne faction access.
• Introduction – Unlock Sekiguchi: Complete CyberAcme Liaison contract "Introducing: Sekiguchi" to permanently unlock Sekiguchi faction access.

Contracts are Marathon's core progression loop. Before every deployment, you pick one active contract from any unlocked faction. Complete its objectives during the run, extract alive, and you earn reputation plus rewards. Simple on paper. In practice, contracts are where most players bleed time.

Three contract types exist, and each serves a different purpose.

1. Standard contracts are repeatable. Kill UESC, loot specific containers, use abilities, deliver salvage to DCONs – straightforward tasks that build steady reputation across sessions. They rotate per faction, and if you don't like what's available, you can spend credits to reroll. Standard contracts are the grind backbone for pushing faction rank between Priority milestones.
2. Priority contracts are one-time missions tied to faction storylines. They're required to advance your Faction Rank past certain thresholds – skip them and you hit a wall no amount of Standard grinding will fix. Priority chains like NuCaloric's Data Reconstruction (3 parts) or Traxus's Equitable Distribution (4 parts) demand multiple successful runs in sequence. MIDA's Protect/Destroy chain runs 5 parts deep. Each step completed unlocks the next, and many require finishing all objectives in a single run.
3. Liaison contracts unlock factions. All five Liaison missions route through CyberAcme early in the game, each sending you to a different zone with faction-specific objectives. Finish one and that faction opens permanently – Liaison progress even carries between seasons, so you never redo unlocks.

Single-Run Objectives Are Where It Falls Apart

Many Priority and Liaison contracts carry an "in a single run" requirement. Every objective in that contract must be completed and extracted in one deployment. Die halfway through a multi-step mission like Traxus's Equitable Distribution 2/4 – hack a terminal in Algae Ponds, loot supplies from a Transport Drone, exfil with a manifest – and you restart the entire thing.

For Arachne, contracts demand PvP kills. Downing enemy Runners isn't optional flavor text; it's a hard requirement. Players who mostly avoid PvP engagements hit a brick wall here. And dying while hunting other Runners means losing your own gear on top of wasting contract attempt.

Multi-step chains compound this problem. NuCaloric's Data Reconstruction 3/3 asks you to hack 2 Data Repositories in North or South Relay, download an AI maintenance protocol from Hauler, and then exfil successfully – all in one run. That's three separate POI visits with UESC patrols, other Runners, and ticks between you and extraction. One bad fight near the end resets everything.

Our Marathon Contract Boost cuts through failed attempts by running each contract with extraction discipline built from months of ARC Raiders carries in the same genre. Same death-costs-everything pressure, same need to know when to pull out vs push one more objective.

All Contracts for Every Faction

CyberAcme Liaison

• Introducing: NuCaloric
• Introducing: Traxus
• Introducing: MIDA
• Introducing: Arachne
• Introducing: Sekiguchi

Priority

• Welcome to Tau Ceti 1/2
• Welcome to Tau Ceti 2/2
• Return on Investment

NuCaloric Priority

• Survival Directive
• Data Reconstruction 1/3
• Data Reconstruction 2/3
• Data Reconstruction 3/3

Traxus Priority

• Cutthroat Competition
• Equitable Distribution 1/4
• Equitable Distribution 2/4
• Equitable Distribution 3/4
• Equitable Distribution 4/4

MIDA Priority

• Order/Chaos
• Truth/Lies
• Protect/Destroy 1/5
• Protect/Destroy 2/5
• Protect/Destroy 3/5
• Protect/Destroy 4/5
• Protect/Destroy 5/5

Arachne Priority

• TBD

Sekiguchi Priority

• TBD

Contracts as Faction Fuel

Every completed contract feeds faction reputation. Priority contracts give the largest rep chunks (150 per objective step on most chains), while Standard contracts give 60 per completion on average.

Players chasing faction rank progression still need Priority contracts done to break past rank milestones. And anyone building out upgrade trees for specific factions needs the rank those Priorities unlock before they can purchase higher-tier nodes.

Contracts also drop gear, credits, and materials on completion and extraction. Nothing is wasted – every run toward a contract feeds multiple progression systems at once.

What Makes Each Faction's Contracts Different

CyberAcme Priority contracts are the most accessible. Welcome to Tau Ceti sends you to defeat UESC patrols and scan FTL arrays in Perimeter – low-stakes objectives on a familiar map. Return on Investment asks you to exfil Frag Grenades and Claymore Mines. Good starting points with forgiving objectives.

NuCaloric shifts toward data collection and scanning. Survival Directive downloads geological surveys and botany reports from terminals in Station and Overflow. Data Reconstruction sends you hunting Bioprinters across South Relay and Overflow, then downloads reports from North Relay – spanning multiple POIs per run.

Traxus focuses on salvage and disruption. Cutthroat Competition demands Deimosite Rods from Field Maintenance in Dire Marsh. Equitable Distribution chain escalates from data drive deliveries to eliminating a traced UESC Commander.

MIDA contracts revolve around sabotage. Order/Chaos has you trigger alarms, steal Commander credentials, and download encrypted data. Protect/Destroy is a 5-part chain involving lab destruction, biohazard acquisition, malware uploads to dropships, UV Protocol tagging, and container scanning across multiple zones. Truth/Lies requires hacking a transponder in Flight Control and uploading malware to UESC dropships.

Arachne contracts demand Runners combat. PvP damage and kills are hard requirements, making these the most dangerous contracts in Marathon. Players who avoid Runner engagements can't progress Arachne without fighting.

Sekiguchi contracts center on specimen recovery and research tasks. Necrotic Sample injection, shell scanning, and Deimosite Rod collection across Dire Marsh and Outpost zones.