A comment thread that made me think... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Wednesday, January 03, 2018, 11:31 (2357 days ago) @ Korny

One of my larger disappointments of Destiny and Destiny 2 is that the stories haven't taken a lot of advantage of each other across content releases. So, maybe this won't happen at all, but:

• Since Destiny 1, we've been every so slowly been introduced to the concept of Warminds via our occasional interactions with Rasputin and his primary data center in the Seraphim Vault in Old Russia.
  
• Rasputin reached out across the solar system in the Last Array mission early in Destiny 1 and infiltrated the network of Clovis Bray's Dust Palace on Mars later in D1.
  
• SIVA, which was original conceived as a super adaptive self-sustaining nanotech construction aid for humanity's Golden Age colonization effort, was designed and perfected by Clovis Bray on Mars.
  
• The Iron Lords who helped establish the beginnings of The City beneath the Traveler heard about SIVA and sought it out only to be destroyed by it (possibly at the behest of Rasputin). Only a few Iron Lords survived.
  
• Some 500 years later the Fallen House of Devils found the SIVA replication chamber in Old Russia and experimented with it enough to make themselves into a real military threat for a short time until the Guardians of the City defeated them.
  
• In Destiny 2, there are a few rumors and references to SIVA, but more importantly, something is up with the Warminds and Rasputin in particular. Ikora speculates that Rasputin is unusually quiet and that perhaps he has been cutoff from much of the Warmind network since the Red War.
  
• Most recently, we learned that Rasputin, Charlemagne (another Warmind from the Golden Age who is believed to be based in the Clovis Bray facility on Mars) and Ana Bray (a Guardian with possible ties to the Bray Family) will be a part of the Gods of Mars expansion.
  
• There have been a few hints and references to Ana Bray in Destiny 2 (a secret scan location in the new Tower, our Ghost telling us that someone with the name Bray scrubbed files from the Warmind vault on Io) that feel somewhat similar to the hints and references to Osiris that also peppered D2 prior to Curse of Osiris.

My hope is that the Gods of Mars expansion will delve back into the stories of Rasputin, SIVA, and possibly even touch a little bit more on the fate of the Iron Lords. And that rather all this being the result of some emergency reboot, this was at least a little bit more of a planned progression.

If nothing else, there were references to Charlemagne on Mars as being part of Destiny 1's mission structure as far back as even the initial Pathways out of Darkness ViDoc way back when. Maybe we're looking at a story thread that was put on hold years ago finally getting to see the light of day?