Rasputin says he never used it (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 11:12 (3178 days ago) @ Durandal

Go back and read the logs. Rasputin detects something powerful coming and activates Humanity's various war assets.

Activate VOLUSPA. Activate YUGA

Nothing works. VOLUSPA is predicted to fail. YUGA enters the SUNDOWN condition upon receipt that it too has failed. From there Rasputin does shrug. Instead of fighting to the end he:

Cancel counterforce objectives. Cancel population protection objectives. Format moral structures for MIDNIGHT EXIGENT.

Execute long hold for reactivation.

Basically he gives up and decides to hide out in his bunker. Bun note that morality being at MIDNIGHT is one of the eight conditions listed in the other log.

I'm not sure what you think Rasputin never used. He says it himself:

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?

Unleashing such wonderful firepower did not stop IT ( the Darkness) which I think is what lead to the eight Carrhea White conditions being met. WE even have a good idea of what the Rasputin might have used on the Traveler.

Yes, it's RIGOR. Yes, I believe that's correct. Yes, it is, uh, it is an antimatter payload, a strategic asset. Specifically? Ah, I believe it's an annihilation-pumped caedometric weapon.

The way I read all of this is Rasputin tried, was losing, cancelled his military resistance, hit the Traveler with an antimatter weapon to preserve himself, then went into hiding hoping to wether the storm while the Traveler was forced to fight its own battle.

Given the evidence:

1. A checklist that we can verify was mostly met
2. A course of action that called for stopping the Traveler by any means necessary.
3. A powerful antimatter weapon launched into orbit before the Darkness arrived.
4. The fact that as of the current day the traveler is badly damaged and unable to leave and has thus stayed and defended humanity.

From my perspective, the dots are clearly there and the lines to connect them are fairly straightforward...