First off: skolas wasn't the kell of kells. That being said, he was nowhere near that power. Some where along the line (most likely when xur released him), he got those obscure horns... horns of a gargantuan beast that gave him power (tainting light), but sort of made him audacious or arrogant enough to call himself such (not that he wasn't before... he got the half of the wolves that weren't killed by the harbingers killed or captured) ... like that of the ahamkara... Any way, the real kell of kells is essentially their god-god. So yeah. Skolas was just a captain/baron who went on a power-trip and consumed WAY too much ether. He was just a tad stronger draksis. Barely that much. Secondly: it kind of does. Yeah, the cabal launched off that distress beacon months ago; meaning we might get an Armada of cabal soon. But we have to remember that the cabal here are just some slaves and exiles. To top it off, they accidentally got here. They were fleeing from something and found Sol. They then detected some powerful thing on Mars (most likely Charlemagne, Rasputin, or the black garden entrance) and decided to stay here. That being said, I'm sure the cabal empire doesn't see saving a few surviving exiles and slaves as top priority. That or they did a pit stop in alpha centauri to blow up some meteorites. The fallen however? They have a reason to start an uprising. Yes they've pillaged countless human outposts, and have done much more. But ever since we got in the picture they've been getting their ass handed to them. They already got pushed out at six fronts. And then they lost at twilight AGAIN and the devils lost their kell. Then we came and killed their archon and their prime (riksis and sepiks). Then draksis died. Next askor fell. Then the wolves attempted a rebellion versus the queen after their loss of their original kell during the reef wars. Suffice to say; didn't work. And they lost keksis, and skolas! Then they tried to rebuild with orbiks on Mars, and boy did that go wrong. They've got nothing. And if they don't do something soon, they'll die out and have never gotten their great machine back. Except their is still the house of kings. As variks said: "house devil plot, house kings [b][u]PLAN[/u][/b], house winter attack, house wolves circle, house judgement... waits" It is well known that house kings has been plotting since the loss at twilight gap. And they've had control of house devil since then as well. And without draksis, and their prime Mia; winter needs leaders. We saw how quickly they decided to fall to skolas' ranks when he came. It's been long enough. The kings want to regain control of their great machine. We were saved at twilight gap. The queen distracted and nearly eradicated house wolf. And those such as Ulan-tan, Lyssa, eriana-3, ana Bray, saint-14, and Osiris protected the walls. And on top of them, the eliksni were pushed back by the iron Lords: similar, radeghast, saladin, segoth gheleon, efrideiet, perun, Timur, skorri, and felwinter. They were thwarted by these guardians and the second generation. But they are all gone. The queen is out of our contact, and Uldren is stranded on Mars. Saint-14 is Mia. Osiris is exiled and will not return to the charlatan. Ulan-tan, ana, eriana are all dead. Same goes for many of the iron Lords. Saladin is the only one who remains that we still have contact with. They have gathered information. And they want their great machine back. Once and for all. [spoiler]we also can't forget that the only reason we beat oryx was due to the fact that he was reckless. I mean, he was already pissed his failure of an heir died. But to put salt to the wound, WE were the ones that did it. You know entities infused with the light of alpha lupi (traveller). The same thing that started the god wave that destroyed fundament and forced oryx to go into symbiosis with akka. And he didn't have the ability to take us since we're already dead. Meaning he lost a lot of battles he could've won. Had oryx had the ability to take us, been more calm and collected, and had savathun and xivu been here with him; it might not have been such a happy ending for us.[/spoiler] [spoiler]also, it's only your guardian and the 5 others who were with you in the raid that are "as strong" as a hive God. Plus their is sword logic which basically means you killing oryx doesn't matter. If their is an entity that killed more enemies that were stronger than those that oryx killed, then that entity IS stronger than oryx, and in turn you.[/spoiler]