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3/31/2013 8:31:36 PM
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Alternate Races: Exo, Awoken, and the Excluded Tigerman

The exclusion of the Tigerman probably points toward the Awoken and Exo not being aliens, as the Tigerman (obviously alien, am I right, guys?) did not fit the vibe they were going for. The two that made the cut are most likely human variations, The Food Chain pointed out that the existence of aliens with similar facial features is highly unlikely. This is a little long but almost all of it hasn't been gone over. As ShadowSlayer218 and a few others alluded to, this is a mythic sci-fi game, the Awoken clearly represent the Elven element of this mash-up. Evidenced by the screenshot from the Destiny Character Development video, they appear to be identified with the Hunter, a ranger-esce class (note the yellow hued warm colors, and the left variant doesn't even have an exposed face). As for the Exo, previously we couldn't see the full concept but The Exalener has provided us with a [url=http://puu.sh/2pNg2]suitable reference[/url]. That helmet doesn't appear to have enough room for a full skull, notice the back top portion appears either blown out, broken, or stylized to have a chunk missing from what would be a full head. Also notice the hands, particularly the the thumbs, where the webbing and muscle should be instead there are mechanical tendons and a blacked out gap. To me the hands appear mechanical with the legs and feet simply being armored, indicating the Exo is not fully machine. Where does this put the Exo? [i]outside, external, turning out, outward[/i]- medically and scientifically this term is used to prefix something that produces something else, such as energy or waste, or something that lays outside of something else. The most prominent term we might think of is [i]exoskeleton[/i] but we know that all classes utilize some form of armor, so maybe this is an external skeletal feature or replacement that does not supplement but attaches at the end of the body as prosthesis. With human civilization facing annihilation it could make sense for recovered casualties to be repaired and sent back into battle, their disabilities replaced with prosthetics, their damaged brains/humanity sutured and cropped (offering a more useful disability: a mental familiarity with and propensity for violence). Or perhaps they've willingly subjected themselves to medical procedures and cybernetic alterations aimed at enhancing their [i]physical[/i] or [i]outward[/i] presence on the battlefield, whereas the Awoken (filling the role of the Elves) might have more of an intellectual/spiritual prowess, scrying abilities or mental connection to physics, or similarly, as most have proposed, a more intense magical presence. What do you think of this speculation, it's effect on story, and the gameplay implications of this may be?

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  • The Awoken and the Exo are simply races split from humanity over the course of Destiny's history. The Exo are clearly transhuman or cyborgs, for those who don't know, to be transhuman is to exchange your human body for a fully mechanical one, the only thing human would be their consciousness, thus destroying the line between what defines man and machine. The Awoken are more biological in their terms of evolution rather than technological like the Exo. You can probably classify them more along the line of mutants or psionic humans. Just like we've seen in our own evolution, our species has split multiple times. With the current rise in speed of technological development and massive population, the Exo/Awoken evolutionary paths are possible within Destiny's time frame.

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    • From what I understand, to be transhuman doesn't necessarily require mechanical augmentation or replacement. For example; the biological difference between any fictionalized Elf and a human determine a great deal of the actual difference. Technological supplementation is just one of the ways to achieve creation of a transhuman figure. I wonder if the entomological origin of Awoken refers to the moment when the Traveler 'shut down' or began to 'rest' and something woke within us, after all the Traveler is still hanging above the Earth, maybe it is having an effect on the population. I don't know if 700 years is enough for such drastic mutations to occur without the concentrated effort of an outside force with such a motive (which would have occurred after the Event). Humans have only gotten taller and developed a longer lifespan within the last 700 years and from the looks of it we only really started colonization for scientific and resource based purposes. I can understand the Awoken maybe evolving before the end of the Golden Age but the Exo could only have been pirates because mankind can't have a Golden Age while it is at war with itself (which kind of makes me doubt pirates as well).

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