How big is the Almighty?

out of curiosity, i was just looking up random facts about mercury, and noticed that Mercury is 35.98 million miles from the Sun. Earth is 92.96 million miles from the sun. Mercury is about as far from the sun as Earth is from Mars (33.9 million). So for the almighty to be able to rip apart mercury and shoot into the sun, it would have to be frickin huge.

Also, according to what i've read, the sun in the sky would appear to be 2.5-3.2 times the size that it does from earth. so, while noticeably larger, it wouldn't fill the whole skybox

unless.....space magic/The Traveler/Vex moved Mercury closer to the sun?

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For example, on the Moon, you can see Mars as a disc with your 5x zoom sniper rifle. Mars is so fucking small IRL you can barely see it as a disc with a telescope. The Earth is moon sized from the moon. To illustrate how wrong the size of the Earth is from the moon (and also the moon from the Earth), look at the moon in real life. At around 2:00, there is a circle called Mare Crisium. That is the size of the Michigan basin, and it's barely visible naked eye. Find something the size of the Michigan basin in Destiny on the planets and it's gigantic.

Space stations 5 miles up somehow still in orbit, phobos and deimos being hueg, Saturn being both too large and too small, etc.

Also, the sun should have essentially no features beyond some sunspots. It shouldn't have filaments or visible flares of any kind...and it does. The game just makes shit up.

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The game just makes shit up.

Thank god for that, too. Destiny looks incredible. Destiny that follows the rules of scale would be much less so, at least in these specific instances.

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