How do you know all that stuff? (Destiny)

by Durandal, Monday, December 01, 2014, 09:31 (3870 days ago) @ scarab

In the cards they talk about glimmer coming from pre-collapse catches. Humans used to have tons of the stuff lying around since it is so useful. Think about it, just a tablet and a battery can turn a block of this stuff into anything you want near instantly.

Your ammo supply is supposedly glimmer transmuted into bullets, for example. Well in a battle there will be lots of glimmer lost as those carrying it are blown up, scattering the glimmer around. Also catches and storehouses will be high priority targets for destruction, also spreading it around in a fine mist. So now with the major supplies gone the Fallen have to find another way to gather this precious and amazingly useful substance. Skimming it from the sites of large battles or destroyed storehouses seems plausible, and the moon and old Russia are both.