Queen's magic (Destiny)

by Durandal, Tuesday, October 06, 2015, 15:52 (3573 days ago) @ someotherguy

The Queen, and her coven of Tech Witches, have unspecified magic or technical power. In a setting where teleportation (Transmat/blink) is common it would be easy to assume she teleported away at the last moment just like you do before the wave hits Eris's ship.

Plus Petra's quest line has you hunting scraps of info that imply that the Queen survived but the Taken are hunting her across the system.

I've always assumed that the Queen's gambit only had delaying or stopping Oryx at Saturn as a secondary objective. She is too smart to bring an ineffectual fleet just to see it wiped out, although she did not know of Oryx's pulse wave ahead of time she should have surmised that the Dreadnought would have significant martial power. Nor does it seem plausible that she wanted to create an opening for your stealth attack, since 1) she didn't know about the pulse, and 2) her forces can fly up to the dreadnought as seen in the cutscene making stealth a moot point.

So a guardian could have run the hive gauntlet and landed a ship. the only reason you use a stealth drive is because the Hive (wisely) sets off the pulse anytime they detect an enemy.

So the only logical reason for the Queen to engage is to implant the Harbingers, and that can only be the starting point of her plan.