At the beginning of our journey to become legend we follow in the footsteps of a brave Guardian that blazed the trail ahead. With the work he accomplished, we started down the path to reclaiming our moon, and healing the Traveler. This Guardian died during his trek, but not in vain. We used the intel he and his ghost gathered, and now look at what we've accomplished. We've stopped Phogoth, held off an invasion of Earth, and even defeated Crota! And it is all thanks to an unnamed Guardian that gave his life for the betterment of humanity.
You may ask, "Where can I pay my respects to this Guardian?" Well, the answer is startling. He remains in the dirt on the moon. No mission has been mounted to retrieve his body. No plans are in order to build a memorial in his honor. Instead, we step over (or even ON) him each time a Faction sends us on a bounty through the moon, or whenever we need to get 20 double kills with a fusion rifle.
To be honest, every time I step through this area I look down at this Guardian. Maybe it's because I'm in the military, maybe it's because I'm overly empathetic--even when it comes to video games, movies, or books. The thing is, it actually REALLY bothers me to see him there in the dirt.
Bungie, I'm not currently logged in to Destiny. Please use my ghost, and any of my multiple drop ships to retrieve this Guardian and bring him home. I realize the importance of remembering our past, so I think it would be best to leave something in place on the moon to show that was where our journey truly began. With us thoroughly eradicating the Hive right now, I think a team of engineers can be safely sent to the surface of the moon to build something small at the entrance to the Temple of Crota to show where he fell. Also, there should be something back at the tower to show respect to this Guardian. We should all know his name.
Edit: It's great to see people still commenting on this after so long. Couple of different viewpoints on this. Some people are like me and invest themselves in a story and character. Others, when logging on to play Destiny, are just looking for a way to pass the time. I love both; it's why gaming is so great!
I get a lot of people saying he was a scrub that died to thralls, so I'll respond to that.
First, it's not how he died, but how he lived! Second, the Speaker surely didn't tell him anything he needed to know to prepare for the mission. And if his Ghost was as dumb as ours is, it probably tripped an alarm and alerted the enemy to his whereabouts. All of our Guardians have had a death via thrall. We are just lucky our Ghost wasn't stolen before it could revive us.
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This always bothered me too.
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Edited by MoonScentedHunter: 12/21/2014 10:28:04 AMI think you're going a little to far with this. What they coulda done was, in that scene where you first see him the ghost could say "he should be back home where he belongs, he deserves to be respected and honored for his bravery" and the ghost sends him back home *he vanishes* He sent his ghost away so why not the ghost's guardian.
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Fuçk him. His fault he died. That exo çunt is the one that took us to the moon. I don't even have time to tell you why I don't have time for this shit.
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I would just take his loot and move along
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His name, is Robert Paulsen.
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Agree!
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Edited by JoshMdy: 12/19/2014 8:03:09 AMHis ghost fragment is also very depressing, " At the doors to the Temple he fell for the last time. He fell, and I could not reach him. My own Light flickers. They took me down into the dark, past tiers of massed Hive, more than we believed could exist. Past grisly nurseries hung with pupae. Past writhing worms that they swallow whole. I saw the armaments of war. I am weak, so weak. They have clamped me to this spire while a black foulness eats my Light. The Wizard comes now and then to probe with her scaly claws into my systems, to inquire about my making, the City, what I have seen. I erase and dump as quickly as I can - they will learn little from me - but I am studying them, I know - pain. Always pain. I have seen chasms beneath the surface, falling away to green nothingness. I have seen black seeders prepared for invasion. Their strength is not their own. They draw from another force, something that corrupts, that distorts, that eats and will not be satisfied. The Wizard is near. I feel her presence as a rip and a knot in the world. She tells me things that I immediately forget. I am too small to hold the vastness of them, or the terror. I am fading. I have no more that it can take. With my last light I say to the City: War comes again from the Moon. This time they want Earth. Prepare."
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Wtf? Is this thread for real? Just in case, I rate this troll 7/10.
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Edited by VoodooN88: 12/20/2014 2:41:17 PMI'm with you on this, the reverence, the respect, the right thing to do. I also think about the other and their ghosts. I don't see a ghost with Eris, and we only found the one at three end of the first mission, where are they?
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Disturbingly enough this now bothers me... Damn you...
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Guardian funeral. We should all meet in the tower and slowly walk in two columns to the Speaker.
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Redshirt Guardian needs to be laid to rest before a vengeful Zombie Guardian attacks
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The Loot Cave gets a memorial, but not Guardian Phil or the first team to complete the VoG on Hard.
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The Loot Cave gets a memorial, but not Guardian Phil or the first team to complete the VoG on Hard.
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Mine is named Bob, Bob forgot to go into wearing his pink thong of confusion with a plus 2 in mental retardation. Bob he died.
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Yeah, get him home and put Rahool there instead.
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I dusted off his face with a well aimed fart.
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His name was Smithy Vanhergermanjensen; He was number #1
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He had one job...ONE! But he died taking a selfie... Jk though. I think that is a pleasant idea.
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Permadeath too OP. must nerf
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They should have buried the guy by now.....
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What about the corpses in the archive mission? Those poor souls realized there time was due, and the last thing they did was comfort each other, holding on to another making sure that in that moment of terror, they were also "safe". And by safe I mean not having to die alone.
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He's sleeping
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Edited by dj656: 12/20/2014 6:29:38 AMIt's a pity we're not given great insight into lost guardians like him.Kabr, Toland, Malphur, Pahanin, Yor and Wei.We only have tiny snippets that aren't enough to connect lives spanning at least two centuries unless I am seriously missing something in the Grimoire.
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Agreed
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How do guardians die wouldn't his revive orb be floating or is it when your ghost dies?