So wait. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Saturday, August 13, 2016, 14:58 (3117 days ago) @ Cody Miller

And yeah, Exos probably have a extremely lengthy lifetime. Cayde-6 (as an Exo), for instance, was body guard to Maya Sunderesh on Venus back during the Golden Age.

Which makes me wonder why our account of the golden age is so sketchy. Why not just… ask the Exos who lived in it?

Because they don't remember. Many of them have had their memory wiped several times. (Cayde-6, Lakshmi-2, etc). For instance, from Cayde-6's journal:

Spend some time with an Exo who';s been through it like we have and you'll see all the tells.

We've got issues

See, the reboots, they don't wipe it all away. Not everything. And the new life – plus the Light – does something real funny to what's left. Amplifies it, scrambles it, reshuffles the fragments like a dealer riffling a deck of cards, putting the hands we've already won and lost back into play.

Most of us do what we can on our own to forget.

Let the itch go unscratched.

Me? I learned long ago you gotta play the hand you're dealt.

So, here's a little bit of what I remember. Strike that.

Here's a little bit of what I know.

It ain't all right, but I'll be damned if it ain't the truth.