So, I'm sure that many of you have noticed that the Hive looks pretty different from Destiny 1. You can clearly see this from the design of the Knights and Accolities. When I saw them the first time, I've simply thought that Bungie re-skinned them just, you know, to give them [i]"a NeW aNd FrEsH lOoK"[/i], but actually there could be a reason -a LORE reason- why these bad guys look so different. On Titan -precisely, into the Festering Halls- you can find a Scannable that says: [quote]"These Hive spawn pods are different from the ones we saw before. [u]Maybe a different brood. Or a different generation[/u]. Gross and confusing."[/quote] Now, in Destiny 1 we fought the Hive that was the progeny, the blood, of Oryx. In Destiny 2, we know that the new Hive-Boss will probably be Savathun, Oryx's sister. There is a Scannable on IO, a Taken Plague, that points directly to her: [quote]"This is sending out some kind of resonant signal. The same syllables, over and over: Sa... Va... Thun..." [/quote] (IO, Terrabase Charron) So, maybe these guys are different 'cos they do not dscend directly from Oryx, but from Savathun, they are the Oryx-Hive-Cousins.... something like that. Also, there is another little thing: if you see, actually the Taken have the same design of Destiny 1. As we know, the Taken, after the fall of Oryx, have been scattered, confused, disorganized. Now it seems that they've found a new "Boss" with Savathun (still, we don't know this for sure)... but, why the Taken have the same shape of the D1 Taken? I think that this is maybe because actually Savathun took the control (or is trying to do so) of the Taken, but she can't create them 'cos this power has been gifted by the Darkness only to Oryx and she can't do this. Maybe she doesn't control the Taken as Oryx, maybe they just decided to follow her, they "ellected her" as a new Guide, as a new Queen. Who knows? What you think about?