So I was thinking, and I'm just floating out this idea. What if the Sixth Race, (taking into account the existence of the Taken) is the Darkness, and in their quest to bring the universe to its final form, they created an AI and gave it paracausal properties to help them destroy weaker species. That AI then abandoned it's mission of distruction and proceeded to use its powers to help other species ascend. It saw that instead of destroying the weak, building them up would ultimately lead to perfection. The Darkness, then proceeded to hunt that AI across the universe. In short, the Darkness 'made' the Traveler.
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At one time, I said that I think the Traveller is actually a descendent of the Darkness. It was a shot in the dark, but you might be onto something.
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Before everything, the Darkness Existed so it may have created the Traveler
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Its quite possible
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I think the fact that the Traveler is a non-biological AI makes it more possible that it was created by something else. Because although the Vex are machines, they are biological in nature. And I think it's curious that Bungie is making more of a distinction between Vex AI and Traveler AI.
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I actually can't really say if the Traveler is AI or Biological. As far as I am aware that info hasn't been made clear yet.
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True, but I think the Consul hinted that the Traveler is a pure AI but maybe I'm looking too far into this
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He was hinting to the fallen name for the traveler “The Great Machine”, and I think it’s safe to say (seeing how they Ghaul was killed by the Traveller) they were at least partially wrong about it just being a machine that always works one way.
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I know exactly what you are talking about. However I believe the Counsel was ignorant. In such that he didn't care to learn about the Traveler, but only wanted to aid Ghaul in claiming it to increase their military strength in the name of the Cabal. I don't think the details were important to him. That is only the way I interpreted it though. I could be way off.
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I guess we will have to wait and see. It is cool to speculate though.
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I totally agree. I have a reply to this thread coming up for all your speculation needs ;)
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*destruction