Original Post and theory: [spoiler] so after watching the reveal today the thing that stood out to me the most was the environment in the European Dead Zone where Humanity sets up its next outpost to rally and strike back at those that destroyed our home. After looking at the footage i feel like the background contains what remains of the Traveler. I made a youtube video that covers basically how this could have happened or why and if you feel like giving that a watch that would be great. https://youtu.be/zxH5OZzt74E If not, my theory is that when the 6 armed device attached to the traveler it began either draining it's light or was preparing it to be towed away. It's possible that when it gets towed away someone or something decided that if the Cabal where about to get away with it it would be better to not have a traveler at all rather than it fall into their hands so they destroyed the traveler in order to keep it out of cabal hands and the remains landed in the EDZ where humanity decided they might as well setup shop. The Traveler could have just self destruct as it was being towed away or perhaps the war mind Rasputin decided to shoot it down to stop the Cabal. Either way, I'm pretty sure the structure in the back ground of the EDZ is the remains of the traveler. But i guess we'll see in 3 months! :D More for thought, if we defeated the cabal and took back the traveler at the end of destiny 2. Wouldn't we start rebuilding under the traveler? Why would we keep an out post in the EDZ? Would bungie really go through all the trouble of making a social space like that to only use it to we where done with the story missions? Again though this is all theory, and I know the writers said "put him in a cage" regarding the traveler. But it could be more metaphorical than literal.[/spoiler] EDIT: So the mystery has been solved and the object in question is indeed a piece of the traveler. However it is one that has been there since the collapse and has no bearing on the status of the Traveler while under Cabal control. Deej himself clears this one up for us: https://youtu.be/NjxUFCSmaO0?t=3m50s