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Edited by bananachops: 10/8/2015 9:01:40 PM
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My theory on the Cabal...

So I think that the Cabal are actually on a crusade [i]against[/i] the darkness, i.e. the vex/hive. Allow me to elaborate: 1. We've only seen the Cabal fighting the vex, which is described as "evil so dark it despises other evil". 2.They've only been encountered on Mars, a planet which we know the vex are attempting to transform into another machine world. 3. The Cabal have the ability to DESTROY WORLDS, if they wanted to decimate humanity, they'd have hit Earth a long time ago. "But the Cabal attacked us while we occupied Mars". True, but we now know that the vex were there long before we were, and maybe the Cabal knew this, and in an attempt to destroy the vex were forced to attack us to get us to flee Mars, as to escape destruction. "The Cabal destroy planets and moons just for getting in their way". Were they just 'in their way', or were they darkness/vex inhabited worlds? And now we have evidence of the Cabal meeting Oryx head on, crashing their very own ship into his dreadnaught on a suicide mission to stop or slow him. I believe the Cabal aren't necessarily bad, and that they're really on a mission to stop the darkness. I don't think they ever meant to "step into a war" with us guardians, we were just too zealous to allow them taking Mars from us. Also, in every encounter with the Cabal (disregarding the assault on Mars), we were the aggressors. TLDR: Cabal = good guys with a plan Guardians = misguided superheroes Edit: So, after a month of this post being made, and the hundreds of comments it's received, I've concluded that the Cabal are indeed, bad. Yes they were running from something, but then collided with us and couldn't conquer us, so they tried to steal the Hive's tactics since they have an effective strategy to combat our ghosts. Now with Oryx, AKA: the darkness, off their tail and an emergency transmission sent directly to the Cabal Empire, I think we'll be seeing a rather large response team in the future.

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  • No, unfortunately that is not it. Trust me, I like the Cabal, Cayde was right, bug on honor but their actions say otherwise. The reason the Cabal smashed a ship into the deadnaught was for entirely different reasons then you think. Cabal reports show that during various encounters with other races, the "Gaurdians" are the ones that prove the most troubling, especially after "re-integration" they observe, pretty much being revived by their ghost is what the cabal are seeing, they find out that we gaurdians are somethimg called, "dead people". Phobos, meanwhile, recieve a report of an unusual occurance by the reef an deploy the Fleet to investigate, leaving the base bare bones security. Phobos is hit. Reports eventually show that the Hive are making pre-emptive attacks and guardians interference is causing more problems. Guardians are observed, "looting bodys", dismantling an repairing equipment on site, "Dancing" and performing "aerobatics" on light vehicles, from one Cabal report. During the events of the Taken King, it was surmised that the Hive were the only race with capable offensive strategies utilized to counter Guardian resurrection. Thus a message fron emperor himself, utilize whatever remaining force you have, attack the Hive Flagship, establish a beachead and compile any and all data you pertaining to Guardians and Hive tactics. --- With all that being said, that was the inital reason for the beachead, the events afterwards is what transpires during the story mode because the Cabal were not familiar with just how trully power Oryx really was. Can you imagine whats going through those cabals heads? Crash lands into a massive hostile dreadnaught, enemjes armed with weapons of arcane an meta physics, a being who can "Take" them and return them as slaves... Those scared Cabal, even inside their own ship, they are constantly fighting to stay alive, Hive in every dark corner, trying to operate under those conditons with a failing command structure and recons teams almost immediatly being butchered upon arrival. How long can the remaining cabal survivors last on the dreadnaught? Maybe a little longer under Vanguard hands?

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