[u]I posted this in another members thread and received a few great responses. So I thought I would start my own thread regarding Destiny"s story theories.[/u] After reading the theory of The Traveler and The Speaker being malevolent agents that are leading our misguided Guardians on the wrong path, I made an observation from the tower. Observe the actual appearance of The Traveler. If you look at The Traveler as it hangs low in the sky over The Last City, notice the primary location of its damage. The wounded side of The Traveler faces the Earth. Did humanity, in a last ditch effort for survival, attack The Traveler with everything they had? Why is the damage from below and not the top where it should be if it were attacked from an outside, space bound enemy? [u]Ghost Fragment: Old Russia[/u] [quote]SABER GREEN this is ICE MINARET. We have your launch. Com check. /ICE MINARET this is SABER GREEN we read you. Lattice is tight. Com secure. Abort advisory check? Check is all nominal. You are now on internal power. SABER GREEN, please human-verify your payload status. /Acknowledge human verification request. The words are RIGOR, APEX, SKYSHOCK. I will repeat the payload status now: RIGOR, APEX, SKYSHOCK. Those are the words, SABER. Human crosscheck complete. Fly safe. /Copy your last, MINARET. We are go for final count. We affirm, go payload, go flight, go final count. [interruption: masked voice] Yes, it's RIGOR. Yes, I believe that's correct. Yes, it is, uh, it is an [b]antimatter payload, a strategic asset. Specifically? Ah, I believe it's an annihilation-pumped caedometric weapon.[/b] [masked voice] Yes, it's covert, it's under SECURE ISIS. We have good confidence in the vehicle. We are not scrubbing civilian launches or clearing the range. Public inferentials would catch that, it's a security risk. /Six at a hundred. Here we go. Godspeed, SABER. You're all nominal here. [masked voice] We both know where the order came from.[/quote] Another theory I came up with pertaining to this is The Traveler actually turned our own weapons, the Exo, against us. After The Traveler received the fatal blow humanity dealt, the Exo’s memories of the event were wiped. Maybe they did not have memories of the battle because their consciousness was hijacked by The Traveler in an effort to utilize them in stoping humanity from implementing their final attack. Lastly, reaching even further with this theory, the Warmind Rasputin possibly turned humanity’s weapons against them in an act of genocide. Not to completely eradicate humanity, but to sacrifice enough of the population that The Darkness believed they had been destroyed. This would delay the extinction of humanity and provide time to regroup and become strong enough to fight the Darkness when it returned. Or out of an last effort for self preservation, Rasputin possibly made an attempt at humanity’s destruction so that the Darkness would move on.I came up with this after reading the Grimoire card [b]Ghost Fragment: Mysteries[/b] [quote]Consider IT the power Titanomach world-ender and consider what IT means. I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive? I AM ALONE I survived alone. I cast off the shield and [b]I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash.[/b] They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well: IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone. IT always wins. I am made to win and now I see the way.[/quote] I don't know, just thought I would throw a couple of my ideas and theories out there.