Exos and The Darkness (Destiny)

by ZackDark , Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Sunday, August 10, 2014, 08:30 (3567 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Ask yourself: what threatened your Golden Age ancestors so much that they constructed the Exos to defend themselves?

I like this line so damn much. :D

But a thought occurred to me today... Aside from Hive mace landing craft and general decay, we haven't seen much actual destruction in Destiny so far. No signs of a devastating war that wiped out the majority of Humanity. On the Moon old Human accelerators and drilling platforms are still operational. We've seen plenty of concept art of relatively intact cities on Mars and Venus. In The Tower, one of the Exos mentions she was there when the Fallen burned London. London wasn't destroyed by The Darkness? Maybe the reason our Golden Age ancestors built self-aware war machines with a diversity of mind and body and the reason our cities and facilities seem largely intact are one and the same?

Could The Darkness primarily have used chemical or biological weapons to wipe out humanity prompting us to respond and fight back with immune versions of ourselves in the form of Exos?

That's a very good point. Very intriguing.