Wielding the light... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, December 18, 2015, 22:22 (3502 days ago) @ dogcow

So, Humans, Exos, and Awoken Guardians can all wield the light. Am I right in that the Fallen can wield it too? For example the Captains use it to teleport, yeessss?

So here's my question, can non-guardian humans, exo, and awoken wield it? My guess is no, if that's correct then why not? Why is it only the guardians from this solar system? It appears "regular" Fallen/Eliksni can.

Also, is that how the queen & techeun(s?) summon the harbingers, through the light?

The way I see it, The Traveler came, terraformed our worlds, then settled at Mars and waited for us to investigate. Once we did, it (somehow) shared technological knowledge that lead to things like NLS drives and Exos and Warminds, but even at the height of the Golden Age we were still just Humans (and Exos) colonizing our solar system and building ever greater achievements. I do think Light probably played a role in the Golden Age. In fact, I know it did since one of the astronauts who went to greet The Traveler said this about his life in the years that followed:

I knew I'd never fly another mission like that. I recognized the need for a new love. That's why I threw my fresh cognitive skills into understanding the Traveler. How can one entity so quickly and utterly remake an entire world? Fifty years later, I'm conversant in high mathematics, particularly topological thoughts and the slippery irreality of Light. I'm involved in a project to study the Traveler's terraforming actions right now.

This is echoed again where a father (on Venus?) was teaching his young son about how things changed when the Golden Age came into being:

When I was your age, people thought they knew almost everything. We had scientific laws and human truths, even a model of the universe. People carried pictures of the past and tried to have a clear vision of their difficult future. I didn't know everything, of course. But when I was a boy, I had every expectation of living a smart short life and learning quite a lot more.

"Then the Before was finished.

"You know why.

"That's when everybody, particularly the smartest of us, learned that we knew nothing. We were children and our little ideas were toys, and the universe was cut apart with great ideas and magnificent, immeasurable potentials."

During the Golden Age, I think maybe Light was seen as the product of using cutting edge technology and knowledge to manipulate the physical world in ways that did not make sense or at least did not fit within our previous scientific knowledge. The new possibilities that manipulating Light brought tripled our lifespans and allowed for inventions and technologies previously thought impossible, but I don't think anyone would themselves direct and channel it like Guardians of the City Age now can.

Likewise, I would expect things be similar with the Eliksni. They had a Golden Age of exploration and technological expansion, perhaps one far more extensive and expansive than our own. But, they too harnessed Light through the use of technology. Variks even briefly touches on this when considering the motives and fate of Skolas in The Wolves of Mars:

“Another Prime, destroyed. Once sources of life, Light. Hope. Now a sign of decay. Machines as gods.

Conspire with Kells. Conspire to kill, to conquer, to control.

This will not end. There will always be new Kell. There will always be new Prime, yes?

Skolas was savage. Skolas was cruel. Skolas was ... right. Only Kell of Kells can end the slaughter. Only Kell of Kells can unite the Houses.

Even we seemed to be using Light as weaponry when the Collapse came, but what Rasputin talks about sure seems like technologically produced effects similar Guardian type abilities:

IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive?

In the end, I think what we as Guardians are doing with Light is unique and has never been seen before. But at what cost? Yes, we pushed back the Vex, killed Crota, and even took on Orxy's powerful fleet but we only did so after Rasputin attacked and nearly killed The Traveler. What will it think of us if it ever awakens? What long term disasters might we have set in motion?

I can't wait to find out! :)