So let's be honest everyone. This is the first game in a 10 year long saga. It is supposed to establish the general mythos of the universe, introduce us to various factions that exist and give us a bit of information about the events going on around Earth. now, if what the AMA on Reddit is even remotely close to true, we know that Destiny might have been very different than its current incarnation. But we'll never really know now and one of the things I like to keep in mind is Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. And keeping a simple story line so that way you can grow the franchise does make MORE sense than writing yourself into a box with an over complex story line. (Think Mass Effect, I truly think the writers just could NOT figure out how to get to an emotionally satisfying conclusion with the material they had created in prior games. Hence, the terribad initial ending.) So what does the ACTUAL incarnation of Destiny offer to us? An unbelievable number of possible directions and hundreds of questions that need to be answered (eventually). Let's deal with stuff sequentially. THE FALLEN 1. Who the hell are the Fallen? How many Houses are there? They regenerate limbs, is this the source of our reborn Guardians? 2. the Fallen are EVERYWHERE. They have invaded: Earth, Moon, Venus and the Reef,. Why are they able to spread themselves so widely? What power lies behind this spread? Especially if the Houses are not acting in a coordinated fashion? Of if the House ARE acting in a coordinated fashion, who's doing the coordination? 3. What's up with the Fallen House names? Obviously translations but names mean something. THE HIVE 4. Found on Earth and the Moon. They've dug up seemingly the entire moon to create a series of warrens that are enormous. Why? And what in earthly hell was that roar in the shrine of oryx mission? Whatever made that is big, like REALLY big. Like, pass me the nuke launcher, rockets just won't do kind of big. 5. Where do the powers of the Hive Wizards come from? 6. How do Ogres come to be? Is it multiple rituals that embiggen them and make ultimately Telthor the Unborn? And if he's unborn, where'd he come from? 7. After you kill Sardok, Ghost informs you the Hive were communing with something OUTSIDE our solar system. What is that thing? And is it approaching us? 8. What materials is the Sword of Crota made out of and how does it absorb the Light of Guradians? Why don't the Hive use this tech on all their weapons? THE VEX 9 Biological machines with a collective consciousness and a distributed computing layout that apparently decided that most efficient means of accomplishing their goals was the worship of the floating gooey black mass (I call it The Aspect, as I think it's an aspect of the Darkness). a. Why worship? Particularly from a computing system where worship might interfere with efficiency. b. Are they allied with the Darkness or servants? 10. Instant teleport is a neat trick. What that source of the tech and why not use it everywhere? 11. Why Venus? Until humanity's Golden Age, the planet would be a hellhole. (900F, air pressure 90 times our own atmosphere, no oxygen, lots of sulphuric acid). So what's there? 12. How and why do they convert entire planets to machines?! 13. Vex also have an interest in Mars. Yet again, why? Dusty desert worlds are kinda not like hot, jungle worlds. So what else does Mars have? Is it just the "location" of the Black Garden? 14. Why did the Vex ignore Earth? Its right between Venus and Mars! THE CABAL 15. Space turtles on Mars. With big guns. Why Mars? Food can't be very abundant and as a militarily dominated society, feeding troops is kind of important. that means Mars has something they want. What? 16. They obviously don't mind having (or maybe using) Vex equipment inside their bases, even though its demonstrated pretty clearly it can be kind of dangerous. What do the Cabal know about the Vex we don't? 17. They blow up planets and moons for fun! How? Why? How? 18. They're awfully interested in Clovis Bray? Why? HUMANITY 19. the Golden Age tech we see doesn't look all that advanced beyond today's stuff. So how advanced were we really? 20. How much of our tech is reverse engineered from Fallen/Vex/Cabal tech? 21. The Awoken are obviously genetically related to us, being human looking, but they come from the Reef. What happened out there to make the Awoken? And what are they awakening to? 22. We see Russia and China had tech to lift people into space. Seems like the Cosmodrome was used to ferry people to developing colonies. How many colonies were there? 23. We get an NLS (Near Light Speed) drive for our ship early on, yet Ghost talks about pathways to other galaxies in the Library on Venus. So did we possess FTL (Faster Than Light) drives at one point? Does that mean there were colonies in other solar systems? What happened to them? Are they the source of the Awoken? Or perhaps the Hive? (The Hive are VERY humanlike after all and they seem to worship the Darkness......) 24. We created AIs that were powerful enough to outthink the Vex collective mind. Apparently several of them. theyre called Warminds. Then suddenly they're all gone. Except Rasputin. A Warmind named RASPUTIN. And he is apparently active and still on Earth, protecting SOMETHING at all costs. And he's linked up to a Clovis Bray facility on Mars, a corporation (or think tank?) that researches energy of some sort. Why? I could continue, but these are major plot point questions that I've thought of as I played through. they're importatn because if Bungie wants to make this game last 10 years, they need to have lots of areas to explore and make the experience unique for each player. An example: the Queen's Bounties. How does the Queen find her Champion among the Guardians? have them do stuff for her. When the Reef storyline hits, perhaps each Guardian will get a slightly different story based on how well the Queen likes you (0 rep and she's cold, level 3 rep and she's VERY friendly and makes you her Champion). the thing is that Bungie REALLY needed to get ALL the stuff out there so people could see the world and begin asking questions. And the start of a game ALWAYS is going to have the least content. So let's begin exploring and thinking of what the world might become.