Encryptions Keep us safe (Destiny)

by Durandal, Saturday, March 21, 2015, 21:56 (3782 days ago) @ Cody Miller

"Creation is built on secrets and the encryptions that keep those secrets safe."

"What is an engram you ask? Data free from matter."

Current science hotly debates if information can be destroyed. If you could measure everything, could you reconstruct a chair burnt in a fire? Of course this mostly has to do with astrophysics and the properties of singularities. If engrams are not physical, as Rahool attests, then they are something only someone who has a ghost can collect?

Did our ghosts res us based on an engram? A heroic moment, echoing through time? The weapons we find are strangely limited to the debased capabilities of the city. No wonder weapons, no intelligent munitions that fire before we are even aware of danger. Are they then echoes of the past as well?

Or perhaps a simpler explanation, that the city and Rahool cannot fabricate anything more complicated? Designs too complex are filed away and we are given shards to tide us over.

Each weapon then has a heroic or infamous history, which we discard for parts daily.