clone/copy (Destiny)

by Durandal, Tuesday, October 06, 2015, 16:03 (3432 days ago) @ Beorn

It's also not an ability unique to the Hive. Hiding your "death" somewhere safe so you can be resurrected seems very similar to the function our ghost serves.

I was trying to figure out how the Ghost mechanism is different than how the Hive do it, but I haven't come across something solid yet. They're similar, but seem to have fundamental differences in that the Hive variant requires a different dimension, whereas the Ghost method requires the Ghost/Light.

For the Hive, a True Death means to die in your throne world. For Guardians, a True Death means that your Light/Ghost is lost.

I've always assumed that the Ghost mechanism is an exact reproduction/copy of yourself, using an "echo" of your light as a template. The Hive mechanism seems to be a process where the information describing yourself is stored in an alternate dimension, and only a portion of that extrudes into our own, much like a 2D projection of a 3D object. Thus Crota and Oryx can always return once they have sufficient time to regenerate the extruded portion, but if the stored self is destroyed they are lost, where as a Guardian can always come back unless their light is extinguished or their Ghost destroyed.

Darkness zones are areas devoid of the traveler's light, so the Ghosts need to draw upon their own reserves, which is why a second ghost is needed to res in those areas.