The First Human-Darkness War (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, August 21, 2014, 10:07 (3547 days ago) @ Blackt1g3r

3. In the Golden Age we had already built Warminds. We already had solar system patrols ready to engage enemies. I don't see the Golden Age as an age of militarization but its clear it also wasn't a Star Trek utopia. The interesting question is why have these things? The Traveler is said to have shared knowledge with Humanity. Could it have told us of the Darkness?

Do we have any evidence that the Traveller actually spoke with Humanity? Perhaps we learned technologies from the Traveller simply by the fact that the Traveller existed or from creations of the Traveller like the Ghosts? In which case we couldn't have known about the darkness until it was too late.

Yes. Bungie has said a few times that it shared information with us. I don't have any direct links or quotes at hand unfortunately, but the implication seemed to be that The Traveler did more than just show up and terraform worlds for us. Now, if it actually spoke or if it emailed over a .zip file or whatever we don't know. We really really don't know if it told us about The Darkeness. I kinda think it didn't. If we'd known extinction was coming we'd have built fortresses on other worlds instead of cities and academies.