I don't think that is a given (Destiny)

by Durandal, Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 13:59 (3446 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The plan is a contingency, and I view it as part of the more realistic military planning like we saw in the Halo backstory. There is no indication that the war actually went that way, just that Rasputin had a plan.

Destiny's story really has lots of uncertainty around the Traveler, if it's motives were truly benign or partially/completely self serving. This line seems to support that even golden age humanity had reservations.

The Traveler's participation in creating the "God Wave" is the first hostile act that I've seen it take in the fluff thus far, and I'm trying too square it up with the Alpha Lupi:

The Traveler
You have lived as invisibly as possible, flicking from solar system to solar system, making grand plans, overseeing the culturing of civilizations, before leaving in a blink. But you have no recollection of ever wanting worship or even thanks from those blessed by you.
But memory is heavy now.
It feels like lead and neutronium and electroweak matter fashioned into a moon-sized ball that you must carry as you move.
Now, your flight is rapid, your vast mind infected with such dread and toxic doubt that you find yourself afraid of the simple act of thought.
And it is your children you must turn to now, in time of need.
The Traveler 2
This has been such a long chase. This will be the place you will fight. Fight and win.
But do you really know why you go where you go, and where this journey is taking you?
The chase leads you where you need to be, you believe.
Unless...you are being pushed.

We know the Hive have been hunting the Traveler from the time of their inception, but that means that the Travelers later gifts came with the knowledge that there was something worse out there, coming after her. Or did she not know of the failure of the commune of civilizations to contain the Hive, and discovered the Darkness Oryx was also pursuing?