titan vanguard hunter vanguard warlock vanguard cryptarch gun smith shaxx new monarchy dead orbit future war cult theres ur 9 and xur is the pawn in their conspiracy black market scheme u go out and fight earning engrams coins marks glimmer then u get back to the tower all excited and decrypt all the stuff u have but u get nothing and thats bcus the cryptarch holds back all the exotics he gets except for just enough random exotic decodes to keep us coming back he gives that to xur which asks u to pay strange coins (for ur own exotics) but in the meantime due to lack of gear u have to go and spend marks to get the gear together the gunsmith provides cryptarch with random crap for the engrams and to take ur glimmer in the process while also getting a slice of profit from the factions and xur the factions are there to provide u with a false sense of accomplishment and to distract u with free stuff once u again donate enough stuff to them its all a conspiracy... ur simply buying ur own stuff from xur while spending ur hard earned currency on useless crap they provide u