The other races

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 20:59 (4001 days ago) @ SonofMacPhisto

Apologies if posted elsewhere.

What if the other races didn't come from outside Sol? Maybe not natives of the other planets (a la The Silent Planet) but perhaps humans that have changed.

Maybe the Traveler has a sinister like Monolith aspect

Some further ideas in a "lets run with it" style:

- Something stomped Humanity so hard that even The Traveler was heavily damaged in stopping it. What if that damage is also doing other things? Like changing the Humans left on other worlds into the monsters we now see. Or changing Humans on Earth into Awoken.

- Or what if it was Humanity's tampering with The Traveler in the first place that caused the damage, and thus the creation of The Fallen humans and others who now attack us. The Fallen, the new section of Bungie's website says, claim to control colonies on all of Humanity's old worlds. Maybe they're right!?

- Or, on a slightly divergent path, what if The Traveler, the sleeping god hanging above earth, is creating all these evil beings? Pathways Into Darkness was referenced in the very first ViDoc after all...