So I'm sure someone's probably wondered by now. "Why are the cabal here? Why are they so hell bent on staying even though they're getting torn up left and right?" Well today I'm going try and answer that. As we know, the Cabal are a heavily militarized race. They have an empire (somewhere) with an emperor that has absolute rule on the entirety of the Cabal. The Cabal blow up moons for getting in their way, they are kicked out of the empire when they go to war. Blah blah blah, you've heard this spiel before. Let' s get to find out why their here and why they are bent on staying. The Cabal have interests on Mars and Mercury. They have a particular interest in some of our old golden age stuff and the vex. I believe the reason they're here to stay is maybe more obvious than what we think. Based on where they've deployed special units, we can tell they're after warmind tech. Knowing this, I think we can take a decent guess what they're after. I assume they want to study our warmind tech and make their own warmind with it. They also may want to improve their warmind by adding on some vex attachments. When you consider what we know about the cabal, there are two possible reasons why they want this advanced warmind. Option one could be that they want it to make the empire more powerful than ever, so much so that they may rival the abilities of the light and the dark. Option two, the cabal here may be trying to make the warmind to orchestrate a sort of coup. The cabal here aren't necessarily living the best life. They are fighting on every front and losing territory by the day. All their commanders are now dead, and there have been hints of rebellion here and there.[quote]“Mutiny,” Tlu’urn whispers. “You should mutiny.”[/quote][quote]Some pledge allegiance to that far Empire, obeying their ancient marching orders. Some do not. They disagree among themselves about the answers.[/quote][quote]A hologram of a spinning golden planet, in stasis, turning gently. You can see the storms moving over its face. But when the Commanders congregate below it, when they activate whatever controls are below, it changes. Fissures appear on its face. Is that their home?[/quote] The cabal here certainly can't be happy about constant losses, but their emperor is probably superior in every field of war, so a simply lashing out wouldn't be enough to free them from his grip. Now if they were to make something that could effectively beat the emperor at his own game, (like say, a super warmind) they may have a chance to gain their freedom. They may even be making battle plans with that hologram of their home world. Either way, if they succeed in their plans, it could be bad for us. (as we're all familiar with what Rasputin alone can do.) Hope you enjoyed, feel free to share your thoughts. [spoiler]I'd also like to give shout out to the Ashen Conflux for sparking this theory. A talk with Paradox and Jcaf brought up the possibility that the cabal want to revolt.[/spoiler] [quote]Back to master thread: [url]https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/205238605[/url][/quote]Cheers :D