You've heard the tales, the vex stronghold that turned legends into martyrs. The fall of Kabr into madness, the destruction of his entire fireteam. Any who made it out survived only long enough to pass on the horrors they learned before succumbing to tragedy. But you will not faulter. You organize a team of the finest guardians the city has ever seen. You equip yourself with lost relics recovered by the Nine, with the best armor the factions, the vanguard, and the crucible have to offer. The vanguard is apprehensive.. The speaker fears to lose such powerful examples of the Traveler's light... But Lord Shaxx and Lord Saladin for the first time in a long time agree. The time to strike is now with the Vex heart apparently destroyed this may be the only opportunity we get. They send you off with their blessings. Your ghost knows more about the legends than anyone he implores you to be sure. Mentally, physically, back up ammo? Check. Setting course for Venus. All is quiet at the Vault entrance, the door seemingly impassable. A teammate discovers a synch plate.. Dense clouds seething with plasma and electrical charges appear all around.. And it begins... You push through wave after wave of war machines bent on your destruction as you hold the access points just to get through the gate. You descend down into the vault.. the very size of it making you question whether you'll ever make it out alive.. A bottomless abyss around every corner. But you plunge ever deeper your mission can not fail. You crush the Templar, with Kabr's final gift to us. A relic capable of opening a stable pocket of space time, refilling you with the light that is so absent in this hellish labrynthe you're in. Along the way you discover armor and weapons of legendary guardians who succumbed to the darkness... Converted to the vex or lost forever to the corners of time itself... New found power flows through you. You escape the gorgon maze unscathed.. Eluding they're gaze that only offers a fate far worse than death. Now equipped with armor of the legends that came and fell before you, Their light now flowing through you added to your own... You face the greatest threat to existence to have existed or will have existed... That will exist again and has already existed long ago.. Atheon. It flings you through time with a wave of its robotic claw.. As if you're nothing. Its oracles ready to write you from existence.. But you do not falter. Kabr's final gift appears before you.. Perhaps his very will forged in this artifact. With it you forge through the past and future to crush Atheon a crossed all time. And in the span of eternal seconds or minutes.. Or perhaps years... The very fabric of reality contorting around you.. You and your team defeat this atrocity and return the Vault of Glass to it's proper place in space time... At least right now. The battle is won, but you can feel yourself changing.. Darkening.. You feel yourself falling away.. You speak to the vanguards and after careful analysis.. They reveal to you what you already know... This legendary armor is slowly warping you.. This new found power comes at a terrible cost.. You're dying. If it were physical, that would be terrible but you've been through worse.. You have your ghost should things go wrong. But this is a different kind of death. The very thing that has given you new found strength.. Is warping you slowly.. subtly into the very thing you fight every single day. You're edging a little closer.. Every step.. More aggression.. More hatred.. Why did I.... But just as one victory is achieved another threat is on its way... Eris Morne has just been recovered and is in critical condition.. But even in your stupor.. Wavering between light and dark.. Her cry pierces through your very soul.. The hive god is real.. Crota is coming to earth. There's is no time to worry about where this path will take you. There's no time to argue with Shaxx. There's no time to counsel Ikora Rey about the dark thoughts clawing your mind.. A greater threat is imminent and you and your team are the only ones strong enough to stop it. The city vows to take what they've learned from your experiences, the armor and weapons you have reclaimed.. To double their efforts in making the very best they can outfit guardians with. To utilize the things that make your gear so potent.. safe for others to use.. Safe for you too, to use before you too are consumed by the very power you need to protect your home. The tragedy of Dredgen Yor must Not be repeated. Edit: fixed some stuff. This is my feedback on what faction gear should have when it becomes better than old raid gear.. An explanation. Edit bungie do something like this for how now is the time!