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Edited by Apolloeye:
9/9/2014 9:51:22 PM
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Conspiracy Theory
Think it's time for some left field thinking.
Anyone else think that the premise of the game could be a lie constructed by the speaker...
The game starts with the ghost reanimating you from bones, so in fact you were a dead human, now infused with 'light' from the traveller.
We're told that the traveller terraformed all of the planets in our system and tripled lifespans - a 'golden age' , and then the darkness came and along - with that the hive and the fallen.
Well how about an alternative theory, along the same lines as the film 'Oblivion'.
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Maybe when the ghost reanimated us he changed our perception so we see humans as aliens and fellow aliens (us) as human; essentially flipped our perspective.
The traveller did in fact terraform all of the planets in our system but only so our system could be conquered, and it was.
We are now fighting on behalf of the traveller to kill the remaining humans. And the darkness is just a way the traveller keeps a reign on us to ensure we don't see too much.
We are the bad guys, and the humans (who look like aliens to us) are the good guys.
Feel free to discuss, for fun of course ;-)
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1 ReplyEdited by TK129: 8/6/2014 9:35:34 AMI think this theory goes a bit too far. I don't think there's been any direct deception on the part of the traveller, at least not yet. I do however think that there are only really two possible reasons for the other alien species to be chasing the traveller and combatting the humans. 1) the traveller is somehow offensive to them, so they want to destroy it and revert humanities advances. And this 'darkness' is just a term to refer to what reigns once the traveller is gone. 2) they want the traveller for themselves, to communicate and learn from it as the humans did. In this sense, these alien species might have followed the traveller through space and time (in the case of the vex) and want to kill the humans (and each other) and claim the traveller for themselves. Either because they learned about the traveller and searched it out. Or because the traveller already influenced them, and enabled their own Golden Ages, advancing them to be able to see it's powers and want more, however it left them, travelling as it does. And when it left, it altered them again, making them lose sense and lead to infighting and regression, or simply making them want to chase the traveller, to avoid the 'darkness' that's left in it's wake. I think either of these are possible. And that the traveller may well have left the humans too, but it never had the chance because the other species caught up and forced the collapse, maybe inadvertently. It's definitely interesting to think about and exciting to wait and find out in-game what the truth is. EDIT: As an after-thought, with the collapse, if the traveller didn't carry on travelling and stayed with the humans by intention, then there may be some overarching reason, other than that the traveller is racist or picky haha. But the traveller is definitely sentient in some way, whether it is a sentient being in itself, or if it's just a giant ship/space station, like a death-star except not a warship, and it's piloted by sentient beings.
