It's not our Moon anymore (Destiny)

by Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) , London, Ontario, Canada, Monday, October 13, 2014, 13:10 (3931 days ago) @ Cody Miller

But it's still preposterous. For there to be an atmosphere the traveler would have to:

Firstly, you should note I said that it was the Hive that created the atmosphere, not the Traveler. The Traveler's hallmark is bringing life to lifeless regions; if big-T'd put an atmosphere on the Moon it'd be likely s/he'd also have brought grass, trees, insects, and the like too. We see none of that, just regolith.

1. Somehow cause the moon to become geologically active and restart core dynamo giving rise to a strong magnetic field. Without this, solar wind would strip away any atmosphere.

Solar wind will strip away the atmosphere over lengthy timeframes. Not in the few centuries since the Collapse, but in tens or hundreds of millennia.

2. Physically put atmospheric gasses onto the moon.

Or, say, extract them from materials present on the Moon already... which is what I propose actually happened. My guess is that the atmosphere came from waste gases created from tunnelling through all that Moon rock.

Besides, that the Moon in Destiny has an observable atmosphere isn't up for debate; look up during dawn or dusk and you can see the blue tint of atmospheric scattering of the light.

-- Steve doesn't think it's as dense as our atmosphere, but in game there's some sort of gaseous envelope around the Moon.