Weather Conditions in Destiny 2 (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, March 08, 2018, 17:51 (2529 days ago)

For a long time now, I’ve wanted to do something of a survey of each of Destiny 2’s Destinations to see if I could find anything that would point to the temperature of each location. I undertook that survey last night and... here’s what I found.

First, here’s what I was looking at:

• Different states of water. (Ice, Liquid, Gas/Fog)
  
• The types of clothing Human characters are wearing
  
• Steam and Condensation around objects that are hotter or colder than their environments
  
• Light-bending heat waves / air currents
  
• Red hot metals or burning materials

The Results:

The Tower & The Farm

• Virtually everyone is wearing long pants and long sleeves, but nothing particularly heavy.
  
• A number of people are wearing hoods or other head coverings, but these seem to be more cultural than for warmth

Conclusion: Temperature is likely in the 50s-60s given the amount of time those on guard duty probably have to stand outside.

European Dead Zone

• Absolutely no ice anywhere
  
• Devrim Kay is dressed in a long sleeve, coat-ish outfit.
  
• There is sometimes some light fog around the river that flows from the dam

Conclusion: Temperature is likely in the 40s or even upper 30s, but could be in the 50s as well.

Titan

• Methane melts at -296 °F and boils at -258 °F. The sea is a “methane sea.”
  
• An overhead announcement in the Archology makes it clear that Humanity, not the Traveler, did work to terraform Titan.
  
• Though there are some air locks on the rig, there’s also a lot of open air doorways.
  
• There is an icy “hail” near the bridge to the Archology, but none of the drizzle is sticking or building up on structures.

Conclusion: Though the methane ocean is liquid, it seems likely that temperatures are not nearly so low as -258 °F. At least not on the rigs or in the New Pacific Archology. Perhaps the rigs themselves are heated and maintain a nearby warmed, breathable atmosphere? No Space Magic, but perhaps good ole Golden Age ingenuity?

Nessus

• Milk is liquid, but its boiling and melting points are unknown.
  
• It is not entirely clear that the atmosphere is breathable or the correct temperature for life as we know it. The only humanoid creatures are Guardians (who come in sealed armor), Eliksni (who breath Ether), Cabal (who’s armor is pressurized with an alternate environment even on Earth), and Vex (who are mostly robot).
  
• Even more telling, all the findable crew of the Exodus Black were still in their space suits. Some have cracked helmet faceplates.
  
• Those trees and birds and butterflies? They’re alien (Vex?) trees and birds and butterflies. Standard rules of pressure and temperature may not apply.
  
• That said, there does appear to be liquid water near Failsafe’s section of the Exodus Black.

Conclusion: Temperatures are likely above 32 °F. Grenades and bullets still work normally, so pressure and gravity are probably earth standard. All else is essentially unknown or unknowable.

Io

• Io was partially terraformed by the Traveler. Environmental conditions are likely safe for Humans
  
• There are some pools of water here and there
  
• There are few if any other indicators of weather

Conclusion: Very hard to say much. Since there appears to be some liquid water the temps are probably above freezing, but that’s about all that can be known.

The Almighty

• Is substantially closer to the sun than we ever get in any other part of Destiny.
  
• The sun facing side is hot enough to harm Guardians and Cabal in their environmental armor.
  
• The Almighty is firing a massive beam and is crunching a ton of the crust of Mercury... it’s probably generating a lot of heat all on its own.

Conclusion: Temperatures are likely somewhere between hot and disentigrating, depending on where you are at the time.

The Leviathan

• There are exterior “waterfalls” that might even be flowing water. The “water” is black and you die if you jump in it.

Conclusion: No idea.

Mercury

• The sun is large overhead.
  
• It is Mercury.

Conclusion: Hot.