I want to add to this by pointing out that there is a vanguard pulse rifle from the Taken King that I used to use all the time called ....... the Apple of Discord. This suggests to me that we are metaphorically the Apple from the story. Perhaps what this will be is it will turn into a hive civil war between the remaining two hive gods. It's already in the works. The description for the sword Dreadfang says "I thank you kingly brother, for the gift of your failure...." presumably, that was one of the hive gods. What I think the this means is the hive gods want to kill us, not for revenge like for what Oryx wanted us dead for, but for power. The hive get more powerful by killing things more powerful than them, like an XP kind of thing. We became ascendant hive in order to get to Oryx to kill him. Now that we have killed the Taken King, we have become immensely powerful. So that would motivate the other hive gods to want to kill us, after all the three have always been at war for more power over the others Thinking so much on this has given way to multiple breakthroughs in the lore that I may post a full thread on what I've come up with later on after I collect the remaining calcified fragments so I have full access to the hive lore. I'm pretty sure I see what Bungie's doing