Open flame in a spacecraft seems like a bad idea.

It's space magic. Nothing can go wrong.

Open flame in a spacecraft seems like a bad idea.

Knowing you, you probably speak from experience.

I think Destiny storytelling is at its best when it puts multiple NPC’s together to interact with. I’d love a team up of Eris and The Drifter (since Cayde is gone) with their personalities!

So, I don't even know what I don't know with regards to what is happening story wise. Even with Forsaken, I read very little lore because I didn't want to grind.

Even though I have no interest in playing the game, I do have a small interest in seeing what the story brings. What's the best way to 'catch up' so to speak? Are there good youtubers who just lay out the story?

So... that's clearly The Drifter, but what's he doing traveling out to an icy moon of Jupiter? Well... one of his biggest, most frightening discoveries was made by him and his crew on an icy world somewhere beyond the edge of our solar system. Their find was one of the more terrifying things in all Destiny's lore. A quick taste:

So there we were. On that cold hunk of ice with no name, just me and my crew. Everything peachy-keen.

We discovered some kind of alien monolith, a facility left by the inhabitants of that planet long gone by then.

But trapped inside was a creature. In a cage of some sort, frozen in ice. An exhibit? Was it some kind of zoo? Still not sure to this day. We should've brought a scientist. All we had were… well, guys who thought we looked tough in dark colors.

During our long stay on that planet, we found many of those monoliths, each with their own captured creature.

Anyway, this thing—the creature—looked like it shared common bioenergetics with the Hive, but there were no records then or since that I've ever seen of humanity's encounters with them. And the creature had a property the Hive did not have. It produced a field that repressed Light—like a Darkness Zone but contained to a gooey, vacuous form with no head.

The anti-Light fields we had detected from orbit that spread across the planet? It was these things. Our ship's scanners indicated thousands of them were on this planet with us.

We were ecstatic.

In hindsight we all could have done with a few less of them.

—Drifter's thoughts recited to his Ghost, for posterity. The second of five parts

I know it's kinda known by now about the drifter, but it gives me chills when he said "We were ecstatic"

So the title is "Why That Character? Why That Place? *Rampant Speculation*"... and while I do enjoy the relevant filling in (Thank you!), I don't see any *Rampant Speculation*... sooo... I want to add first...

Why go back? The man Survived, for better or worse, some darned Cthulhu Shackleton Shenanigans and is able to tell the tale. And he is going BACK!? I mean... is he trying to do something about the PvP hackers in trials or something? It's not like there is a War of Light right now. What beckoned him to return to whence he was reborn from sea salt and live fire? Referencing the leaked content for a moment... Did Eris beckon him? And goodness, what was that conversation like?

All that said, Why That Character? Well... living a year on that darkened rock must have given some perspective on the goings on. With that plus whom ever else, it's quite a party being built.

Why That Place? Well that's where the money is.

Why go back?... well... everyone wants to know what it's all worth.

I wonder what the interest rate is going to be on all this loaned time?