Idle Speculation on the next expansion (Destiny)

by Durandal, Monday, March 07, 2016, 15:46 (3277 days ago)

In the old plan, the Vex were the next antagonists. Much like the Fallen and Hive, the Vex have suffered significant degradation due to Guardian activity. The loss of the Heart of Darkness and the Black Garden, Atheon falling, hasn't fallen, will fall again, the interruption of their efforts to expand their mechanisms on Venus and the depredations of the taken have caused numerous problems for them.

And yet they, not the Hive, are still the ones the Exo Stranger is worried about. Our Exo Dr. Who (bless her mechanical heart) keeps stepping back in time to deal with the Vex.

From our limited perspective, time travel appears to violate both the laws of physics and causality. Technology, and agents can appear without warning and take action to effect time. The only regions not affected by this are those the Vex have "locked outside of time." Only these areas are outside the light cones of the past, and thus allow the Vex to retain information from one iteration to another.

Thus the Exo Stranger must be operating from a similar space, and we know the Vex are searching for it.

What if the Knights of Crota/Taken events are replaced with Vex Search teams? Meanwhile a cosmic treasure hunt ensues while Guardians move to secure places and things of import that protect the Stranger's base in the future? Only to find out we need to locate Osirus, who has been painstakingly mapping the timeline of the Vex portals, rather then their location?

Anyway, just an idle thought since we seem to have given up on the fluff during these Taken King doldrums.