Ultimately there is much ambiguity (Destiny)

by Durandal, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 18:57 (3177 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Which of course is intentional.

I agree there is lots of supposition. It's hard to establish a good chronology that makes everything square up.

We know the Traveler is active prior to visiting humanity, there are plenty of "Light" based races and forces mentioned in the Books of Sorrow. The gifts of the Traveller, like the Gift Mast, are seen several times. From the books of sorrow and comments surrounding the age of the Dreadnought, we can surmise the Hive have been active for millions of years.

That means that the Traveller left Fundament before heading to Earth. The Leviathan states that the Deep lived in Fundament, a prison in a addition to a refuge. The Worms and the Deep inhabited the depths of that gas giant, and the Traveler knew it, and moved the moons to ensure that the life the Deep had summoned to it's surface would be eliminated on a routine basis.

This is the only offensive act recorded about the traveler. You never hear it working against anyone preemptively before.

I don't know how to square the fact that the Traveler flees to humanity, which it already knows, after it flees the Deep and the proto-hive. It must have known the Hive were agents of the Deep, it equipped the Ammonites with space magic. How could it allow the deep to chase it all those millions of years, and still have time to raise up new species? Why would it raise new species knowing that it was being followed by essentially a nihilistic death cult?

There are no records in the books of sorrow of the Traveler warning a species (unlike Ultimate Vision warning of the arrival of Ultimate Gal ak Tus in the Marval Comic) of the coming or the threat of the deep. There is some indication that the various "light" galactic civilizations had some contact with one another, and noted the loss of the Fundament system. But if the Traveler retreated to any of the prior civilizations she did not warn them, bolster their defenses or anything. The Ammonite are the only other group aside from Humanity that are given space magic.

Why? What was the traveller doing? This is what I can't square in my head cannon. We know the traveler arrives in our system and uplifts humanity, but never expresses a direct warning. Rasputin has to tease it out, infer the Darkness's existence from the Traveler's own.

Rasputin invest heavily into an arsenal, yet there isn't an indication that humanity fought itself in the golden age. It would seem far from it, in fact.

Why? I guess we will find out in Destiny 2, perhaps, or things could get as convoluted as Marathon Infinity.