Just so everyone knows, I'm building off of any "The Traveler is using us" theories. So I just thought: would if The Traveler was just using us to refuel itself with Light. Now listen carefully. If the creator of Light is dormant then how can we gain more Light as we continue to play? Well it comes from the enemies we kill. But they're Darkness. Next I remembered that the Darkness and Light are both similar powers. So would if we are actually transferring Darkness to Light somehow? So basically what I'm getting at here is that we generate Light by transferring Darkness to Light, which then goes to The Traveler, and extra Light turns into engrams for us. Also if we ever use an ability on an enemy it 'disappears' into the light energy correlating to whatever subclass we're using. So does that go to The Traveler? Then after a while of gaining lost Light due to the original collapse it reawakens using the Light we gave it just to go somewhere else? Now this brings up something else. The Traveler is a MACHINE, it is artificial. So does that mean it's light is too? It doesn't seem to be able to make Light on its own, so where did it originally get the Light from? That would make us 'artificial Light' users as well. Also someone/thing else would have had to make it. We can't make our own Light or just generally get stronger without getting new gear. We take it, from the only power that seems to not need to take from others to gain power (with the exception of The Fallen). So this would mean 'The Darkness' is the possible 'original Light'. The Traveler is just a parasitic machine that uses proxy Guardians to transfer Darkness into Light so it can survive. So in the end this would explain why sine dregs scream "THE DARKNESS!" when a guardian walks by. The Light and Darkness are the same thing. (Minor spoiler) So maybe the Darkness at the end of the D2 campaign is coming to reclaim it's lost machine or something like that. [Maybe The Traveler did not have enough Light to fend off Ghaul safely, so it risked it and blew itself up to stop him from stopping it's refueling. In doing so it attracted the Darkness which is why it waited until the end to blow up. The Traveler was waiting to see if the guardians could free it so it didn't have to take such drastic measures] Another thought crossed my mind when making this: Would if The Traveler is the ONLY generator of light and the Darkness is trying to get it. "I walked beneath the blossoms. The light came from ahead and the shadows of the flowers were words. They said things but I will not write them At the end of the path grew a flower in the shape of a Ghost. I reached out to pluck it and it cut me with a thorn. I bled and the blood was Light. The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life. The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me. But I looked behind me, down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine, and I felt doubt." - Grimiore Card: Legend: The Black Garden The Hive are like slaves to the Darkness, in a way aren't we like slaves to the Light? If there is anything I missed, messed up, or if there is just something you'd like to add it'd be greatly appreciated. Edit: Someone in the comments that goes by Fal Chavam added a very interesting point: Osiris theorized that The Traveler is a “god incubator”. This would mean that we are recharging something on the inside, and The Traveler just recharges in cycles as it goes from planet to planet. Now this raises a huge question: What does the Darkness want with this ‘Light God’?