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Edited by SmoothbrainSev:
4/27/2017 6:22:53 PM
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As far as I understand it, the Vault is a central node, controlled/represented by Atheon, in which every timeline of our Universe converges. Because of how the Vex have bent time around the Vault, it essentially exists at every point in time in our universe and its infinite variations.
Our current estimate of the age of the universe, according to the front page of Google, is 13.82 billion years old. Venus's age, also according to google, is 4.5 billion years old. If we assume that Vault has existed since the first moment in time it possibly could have, either in the super hot aether of a pecoseconds old universe, or on the formation of the celestial body which would become known as Venus, then the dating of the ruins at "billions of years" could very well be accurate.
Except they weren't "built" billions of years ago; they've always existed. It's just that, from the temporal viewpoint of Ghost and the Guardian, that is how long the ruins have existed for.
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Great post. Love this
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Thanks! I love to ramble about the Vault, so I'm glad you enjoyed it too!
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I love post about the multiverse and time travel
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The Vex are my favorite part of the Destiny lore, so I'm right there with you.
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Sounds legit.. great presentation. Little shaky on the dismount I'll give it a 9.8
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Hey that's 2.8 points higher than my average grade at Uni. I'll take it haha. Thanks!
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You from Iowa?
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Nah, California. Why do you ask?
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Thought you meant UNI (university of northern Iowa) just asking because I am from Iowa.
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Oh hahah nah just meant university. CSUMB rep! Go Otters!
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...wat
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Mind blown
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In that case.. why are they ruins at all? Ha..
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[quote]In that case.. why are they ruins at all? Ha..[/quote]
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We probably never got a good look at the surface of Venus before the Traveler terraformed it. The atmosphere of Venus is dynamic and chaotic, with super storms making their way around the planets surface in only four Earth days. Anything we tried to land there that wasn't destroyed by the storms would have been crushed by the immense atmospheric pressure. It could be the storms themselves degraded the rock over time. My guess is when the Traveler came and terraformed the planet, a process that could easily be imagined as one that causes massive earthquakes as continents shift and are formed, atmospheric pressure and planet density are changed to more accurately mirror Earth, and the unending flow of Light from the Traveler powering it all could explain not only the creation of "ruins" outside the Vault, but explain all the fallen pillars and broken platforms inside the Vault from the entire planet being altered. It might be more accurate, though it wouldn't be apparent to Ghost and the Guardian from within the game, to say that the structures have existed for billions of years, but the ruins themselves have existed in the state they are in since the dawn of the Golden Age, assuming this explanation is reflective of how events unfolded.
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Man you really know your stuff
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Just extrapolating. Finding theories to fit facts. I'm not well versed in a lot of the deep lore, but I love finding ways to overlay the lore into the real world. Thanks for the approval!
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