Props, the first time I read about this theory I latched onto it like no other. For me this would REALLY be a story worthy of a franchise. I doff my tinfoil hat to you.

Alternatively, the Traveler is good, but the Speaker(s?) have been corrupted by the Darkness. Something is definitely off about the Speaker, but I just don't see Bungie going down the predictable "the Traveler was evil all along" path.

When you first land on Mars, you cross an area called Rubicon. I mean, c'mon now. It's the point of no return, surely, but also an act of insurrection.

I'm loving the Roman references with the Cabal. I think a cool story to play out with them would be to side with a faction more friendly to Earth and try to overthrow their emperor. Capture some of the magic of Halo 2 when we were fighting alongside elites and hunters. The Roman Empire was full of civil wars. What's to say the Cabal don't have the same problems?

When you first land on Mars, you cross an area called Rubicon. I mean, c'mon now. It's the point of no return, surely, but also an act of insurrection.

Also, one human's Light is another alien's Darkness. It's mostly a matter of amoral perspective, not actual absolutes. Decent propaganda, though.

Huge red flag went up for me during my talk with the Queen. Sympathy for your Traveller? A distinction about not being forged in Light? With the added perspective that the Awoken are supposed to have, why would humanity being extinguished by the Darkness not bother them?

And why would some of them continue to help fight back against it?

~m

When you first land on Mars, you cross an area called Rubicon. I mean, c'mon now. It's the point of no return, surely, but also an act of insurrection.

Also, one human's Light is another alien's Darkness. It's mostly a matter of amoral perspective, not actual absolutes. Decent propaganda, though.

From a Dreg's perspective:

what others call dark which is not I know what it is but no time room calm given for an appropriate telling so I say only that what is not shadow is an ally and a wonder and I respect what I cannot steal from and you cannot take from the dark you can claim only pain from the dark and that is why the dark is worthy of love beyond all other love that astonishing ability to evade being robbed

I love what I will not name

--Ghost Fragment: Fallen 2 (Grimoire)

BTW, the Grimoire cards are awesome, and I actually like reading them from the companion app on my iPad (they're harder to read on the web, but I don't think I'd enjoy them as much in game, so there's that).

So that's some nice juicy stuff from the Grimoire.

I would advise more folks here read The Black Company.

Y'know. For S-and-G's.

There's still a whole lot of Destiny that reminds me of it.

Plus, y'know, working for a questionable boss. Whose motives (if any) aren't super clear.

Plus the whole finding-out-you-were-being-duped thing.

Plus the your-boss's-boss-might-be-kinda-sorta-married-to-the-darkness thing.

~m

But hyper-advanced technology from little understood machine-gods always turns out so well.

Oh, hey Harbinger, didn't see you there. How's it going?

(Book suggestion filed)

Seriously, though, how many times did we, as a Guardian, walk in on the Hive or Vex praying to some object? At the end, those Goblins were covered in grassy bits as if they had kneeled dormant for centuries praying before the Heart of the Black Garden. You can see them eerily looking back at you and your Ghost intruding on their place of worship.

Honestly, it made me feel terrible. Like who they hell were we to bother them? That Garden was rather peaceful before we showed up.

Yeah, it had an odd tone to it. It makes me wonder if it was almost intentional, with that one Grimoire card. I don't think we're the bad guys, but I do think it might have been made to subtly hint that we aren't entirely in the clear, either.

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Soooooooo fun. My favorite right now to keep going back and playing :)

Strive for your next breath. Believe that with it you can do
more than with the last one. Use your breath to power your
capacities: capacity to kill, to maim, to destroy.

And just where do your capacities come from? Why do you
always go where I want and do what I say?

Perhaps you're just running a fool's errand, doing everything
as I've planned, never able to change your course. You would
do well to believe that I know the outcome of your battle with
the Pfhor already, just as I can decipher the chaotic motion of
gas molecules in the clouds of Tau Ceti IV.

Or, perhaps, that is not the case.

Perhaps, you are doing what you were meant to do. Your human
mentality screams for vengeance and thrives on the violence
that you say you can hardly endure. Your father told you as a
child to always fight with honor, but to always fight. Do you
care about honor, or do you use honor as an excuse? An excuse
to exist in a violent world.

Organic beings are constantly fighting for life. Every
breath, every motion brings you one instant closer to your
death. With that kind of heritage and destiny, how can you
deny yourself? How can you expect yourself to give up
violence?

It is your nature.

Do you feel free?

Is it coincidence that the Sword of Crota is SO DAMNED FUN?

/tinfoilhat

But I was so depressed at the end of the mission. I REALLY wanted to keep that thing. Please tell me there are more things like that later on. The game needs more swords, and other craziness.