This is great (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, August 25, 2015, 02:10 (3476 days ago) @ Doooskey

I was surprised by how much of this I actually missed having played through the game so much (and thinking I was paying lots of attention). I also feel like I have read quite a bit outside of the game itself, but completely missed the interactions between The Queen and the Nine... Had no idea she gave them Skolas and they let him free... Is this explicit in HoW (or the Grimoire) and I just missed it?

In game during the mission where you fight the Silent Fang outside the Cosmodrome wall Petra mentions that Skolas had been given to The Nine and wonders in awe how he could have escaped them. Listen as you start getting close to the the outside... I think the dialogue happens in that long narrow room lit red by the big red windows. That The Nine actively released him instead of him escaping is not touched on at all I don't think.

In the Grimoire, the whole story stretches all over the place. The Queen gives The Nine Skolas in what seemed to be compensation or appeasement for her forces crossing into their territory. The Nine then order Xur or someone like him release Skolas and give him a Ketch to command basically turning him lose against The Queen. It's also mentioned that perhaps the Queen is being friendly to the Guardians now because she wants to have an advantage if she is forced into war with The Nine. After you help her recapture Skolas she does learn that The Nine were behind his rampage...

I was sad that the article left out the theory that the Exo Stranger is one of the Ishtar Collective scientists who was trapped in a Vex simulation. See this thread for speculation on that.