All Marathon Runner Cores

One of Marathon’s main buildcrafting elements is the Cores that enhance your Shell’s abilities, whether enhancing your Prime abilities, Tactical abilities, or your traits. As you get further into the endgame zones, kitting out with the right Cores will help you win fights more often or survive hopeless runs. This list shows you every Core in the game, along with their rarity, price, and passives.

Standard Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
Cash Flow	Standard	35	Opening an unlooted container pings a nearby data card.
Close and Personal	Standard	35	Your melee and knife attacks generate less heat.
Glass Canon	Standard	35	While at critical health, your Heat Capacity is increased.
Like For Like	Standard	35	-
Restorative Flow	Standard	35	Using a patch kit briefly increases your hardware. Using a shield charge briefly increases your firewall.
Static Casket	Standard	35	When downed, you gain the Signal Jammer effect until revived or eliminated, scrambling your appearance to others.
The Big Score	Standard	35	After opening a locked door or container, your Loot Speed stat is temporarily greatly increased.
Trophy Hunter	Standard	35	Defeating a UESC commander grants tactical and prime ability energy.

Destroyer Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
Bombardier	Enhanced	70	Defeating hostiles while your Search and Destroy is active extends its duration.
Heavy Ordnance	Enhanced	70	Defeating hostiles with explosive damage reduces the cooldown of your next Search and Destroy
Ankle Breaker	Deluxe	200	Your Thruster generates less heat while a hostile is nearby
Bombing Run	Enhanced	70	Each successive homing missile in your Search and Destroy volley deals increased damage.
Lock 'N Load	Deluxe	200	Your weapons are ready and reload more quickly, and you receive less flinch from incoming fire.
Myrmidon	Deluxe	200	After using your Thruster, your Melee Damage is temporarily increased.
Bullrush	Superior	600	Your Riot Barricade does not passively drain energy while you perform your Tactical Sprint
Intake Vents	Superior	600	Your Tactical Sprint generates less heat.
Counter Attack	Prestige	2500	When Riot Barricade takes damage, you periodically release a retaliatory missile at your attacker.
Impact Siphons	Prestige	2500	Incoming damage dealt to your Riot Barricade is returned to you as shield energy.
Missile Barrage	Deluxe	200	Search and Destroy launches an additional missile.
Explosive Payload	Enhanced	70	Missiles from Search and Destroy deal increased damage to targets near the impact.
Reinforced Plating	Prestige	2500	Riot Barricade gains increased health and lasts longer.
Adaptive Barrier	Superior	600	While Riot Barricade is active, your shield regeneration is greatly increased.

Vandal Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
Tag!	Enhanced	70	Disrupt Cannon deals additional damage and pings targets caught in the blast.
Cut To The Chase	Deluxe	200	Disrupt Cannon takes less time to overcharge.
Mechanized Holsters	Deluxe	200	Your Power Slide reloads your ballistic weapons from reserves and recharges a portion of your volt weapons' current battery.
Out of Dodge	Enhanced	70	When your shields break, the heat you generate is immediately cleared.
Blast Off	Deluxe	200	Eliminates self-damage from your Disruptor Cannon, allowing you to use the weapon’s knockback to propel yourself through the air.
Adrenal Core	Superior	600	While Amplify-ed, your movement abilities generate even less heat. Using a Cardio Kick extends Amplify's duration.
Microjet Efficiency Package	Prestige	2500	Gain an additional charge for your Microjets that generate less heat.
Adrenaline Rush	Enhanced	70	While Amplified, your weapon handling is increased.
Calling Card	Prestige	3000	Disrupt Cannon also Hacks targets caught in the blast.
Extended Amp	Deluxe	200	Amplify lasts longer.
Low Profile	Enhanced	70	You gain the effects of Signal Jammer while Power Sliding.
High-Octane Propellant	Superior	600	Your Microjets propel you Further Upward.

Recon Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
Hot Pursuit	Enhanced	70	Your Tracker Drone travels faster and further before automatically detonating.
On the Trail	Deluxe	200	The trail left by your Stalker Protocol lasts much longer. Defeating hostiles affected by your Stalker Protocol reduces your generated heat.
Bad Cop	Enhanced	70	Performing a finisher grants tactical and prime ability energy.
Cluster Payload	Superior	600	Tracker Drone detonations create shrapnel submunitions that explode on impact, dealing additional damage.
Intuition	Prestige	2500	Interrogation now triggers upon downing a hostile runner.
Early Warning System	Prestige	2500	You receive an alert on your HUD when a hostile Runner is nearby.
Advanced Tracking	Superior	600	Tracker Drone marks targets it damages, revealing them to your crew.
Echo Chamber	Superior	600	Your Echo Pulse releases additional pulses. Defeating hostiles recently pinged by your Echo Pulse returns prime ability energy.
Eye in the Sky	Enhanced	70	UESC Target Acquisition Devices that you access remain active for longer and release additional ping pulses.
Hunter Killer	Deluxe	200	Each target pinged by your Echo Pulse briefly grants a stacking bonus to your weapons' equip speed, reload speed, and stability.
Pulse Amplifier	Superior	600	Echo Pulse reveals hostiles for a longer duration.

Assassin Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
Breathing Space	Enhanced	70	Your Shroud increases your weapons' reload speed while in any smoke field.
Ghost Protocol	Enhanced	70	Any smoke field you create lasts longer before dissipating.
Flexweave Casing	Deluxe	200	You move faster and ready your weapons more quickly while invisible.
Safe Landing	Deluxe	200	Your Shadow Dive knocks nearby hostiles away when you land and creates a longer-lasting smoke field.
Patience	Deluxe	200	While stationary, your invisibility timer is paused at the cost of generating heat.
Guerrilla	Superior	600	Your Active Camo and Shadow Dive recharge more quickly while in smoke.
Minus Sights	Prestige	1000	After aiming down sights or a short time, you become invisible at the cost of generating heat
Shadow Strike	Prestige	2500	Your Utility Knife deals greatly increased damage when attacking from invisibility.
Cloak and Dagger	Superior	600	Smoke Cloud lasts longer and covers a larger area.
Silent Killer	Prestige	2500	Melee attacks from behind while cloaked deal massive bonus damage.
Predator	Deluxe	200	Dealing damage from behind grants bonus damage for a short time.
Phantom Strike	Enhanced	70	Shadow Step covers slightly more distance.

Triage Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
High Voltage	Enhanced	70	Defeating hostiles affected by EMP reduces the cooldown of your next Battery Overcharge.
Electron Recapture Sinks	Deluxe	200	While your Battery Overcharge is active, defeating a hostile or downing a Runner with a volt weapon instantly restores a portion of the weapon's charge.
Ounce of Prevention	Enhanced	70	Your Med-Drone increases the Hardware and Firewall stats of friendly crewmates it attaches to.
Hypocritic Oath	Deluxe	200	Damaging a hostile with your Reboot+ reduces the cooldown of your next Reboot+.
No Good Deed	Superior	600	You receive a burst of healing when your Med-Drone attaches to a crew member.
Friendly Face	Deluxe	200	When your Med-Drone attaches to any friendly crew member, it cleanses them of all status effects.
Samaritan	Prestige	2500	Sharing a consumable with your Shareware.exe reduces the cooldown of your next Med-Drone.
Combat Medic	Deluxe	200	While inside Restoration Field, you and allies gain increased damage resistance.
Emergency Response	Prestige	2500	Casting Restoration Field on a downed ally instantly revives them.
Extended Field	Superior	600	Restoration Field covers a larger area and lasts longer.
Field Medic	Enhanced	70	Restoration Field heals allies more quickly.
Fresh Install	Enhanced	70	Crew members revived by your Reboot+ have increased ability regeneration, Agility, and Heat Capacity for a short time.

Thief Cores

Core	Rarity	Price	Effect
Boutique	Enhanced	70	The Finer Things also grants weapon reload speed and Agility based on the number of items in your Backpack.
Crime Spree	Enhanced	70	Each container you open increases your Loot Speed. This increase resets when you're downed.
Greed is Good	Enhanced	70	When your backpack is completely full, your sprint speed and slide distance are increased.
Hit and Run	Deluxe	200	Striking a target with a melee or knife attack immediately after grappling Hacks them and knocks random loot items from their backpack.
Keen Eye	Deluxe	200	Hacking a hostile with your X-Ray Visor extends its duration.
Premium Package	Deluxe	200	Your Pickpocket Drone has increased lifetime and is more resistant to incoming damage.
Case the Joint	Superior	600	Your X-Ray Visor has increased vision range.
Hideout	Superior	600	While piloting your Pickpocket Drone, you become invisible.
Partner in Crime	Prestige	2500	While not being piloted, your Pickpocket Drone periodically releases a pulse that pings nearby hostiles.
Break and Enter	Prestige	3000	Gain a second charge for your Grapple Device.
Extended Battery	Superior	600	Pickpocket Drone has extended battery life.
X-Ray Vision	Prestige	2500	X-ray Visor reveals containers through walls at greater range and highlights the best item in each container.