Clips and Sindu were wiped out. The best warrior of both were made shadows. The almighty wiped them out. Arkborn got trapped while passing through and basically got blackmailed into working for Calus at the threat of extinction.

It would be interesting to see a story line where a Psion born a slave had the chance to become freeborn while joining The Cabal Empire. While he/she joins, they fight a tremendous amount in wars across the galaxy and achieve success. They gain a Captain or General status among the campaign and enjoy freedom until The Emperor raids the Home World of this Psion and begs the Emperor to cease the annihilation of their planet. The Cabal Emperor becomes displeased and tell them to lead the advance or risk exile for the rest of their life. The Home world gets destroyed and the Psion sees their kinsmen get slaughtered in utter horror while the emperor sadistically congratulates the psion on a job well done but little does he know, the Psion, in his heart has turned against the empire and begins to plot a coup de atete to free their people from the dictatorship of the emperor. The coup fails and the psion escapes but finds out about these "Guardians" once the war against the tower starts. They somehow make a fatal escape from the legion and find a hurt Guardian at the beginning of the story of destiny 2 and helps him out of the rubble of debris. They both travel days on end to find shelter while the cabal Massacre everything in sight and eventually find Hawthorne. Hawthorne feels threatened and the Psion passes out. Our ghost provides an excellent explanation on why she shouldn't kill him because they helped us get through the days with superior geographical skill. She proceeds to take this psion to the farm and they all analyze this Psion on the hospice bed thinking it's dead bit little do they know, this is one of the most experienced military assets of the cabal empire. It wakes up while farm doctors ready to perform an autopsy and it grabs the nearest blade it could find due to PTSD and war nightmares seeking am escape. Doctors yell guardians and one comes through the door. They have one of the most epic cinematic 1 v 1 fights against a Hunter we have all ever seen with this Psion being highly superior in counters due to us just losing our light and grabs the hunters gun. Knowing the hunter just lost, the psion proceeds to look for an escape while pointing the gun around at everyone ready to kill but hesitant. The radio coms are calling for the hunter but no response and sirens go off on the farm due to Hawthorne suspecting this Psion is alive. The psion makes an escape through the nearest window while effortlessly avoiding all guardians looking for them. They enter in small room only to find hawthrone pointing the "Field Forged Shotgun" in it's face while calling nearby guardians to secure the objective. The other Guardians asked the Hunter what happened and proceeds to explain the superior combat prowess of this psion unlike anything we have ever fought before in detailed flashback sequences. The psion is now escorted to detention room in restraints while having flashbacks of the raid against their Home world and now sits in a room with Hawthorne and security watching him 24/7. This is the part where hawthorne tells our guardian to help the farm out in the EDZ while watching this Psion with maximum security until we get in contact with the Vanguard. Skip forward until the vanguard are re united at the farm and the cutscene happens at night where they are talking amongst each other about the cabal and specifically "The Psion". *Chicken included* 😂 Zavala goes into the detention room and walks back and forth behind in anger reasoning that we shouldn't have brought them here and should have killed it and that we put refugees in danger. Ghost obviously provides explanations on why it could help us and Zavala hopes ghost is wrong. He goes in the room only to see this psion sitting in the chair with its eyes closed and appears to be sleep. *Mediation* *Intense Rainbow six siege like music starts* He asks "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you." *Psion says nothing* Zavala: "We have been at war with the cabal since mars and you have no right to be here. What does Ghaul want with the traveler?" *Psion looks up with unexpected but a menacing look of surprise* Psion: "Ghaul?" *In english* *Cuts to Hawthorne behind glass with other guardians* Hawthorne: "It speaks English!?" Psion: "What do YOU know about Ghaul?" *You as in Humans in general* Zavala: "Only that he wants to steal our light from the traveler." Psion: "I know nothing of your traveler but I do know Ghaul." Zavala: "Who is he!? What is his goal!?" *Psion closes eyes and Flash backs in mental depiction of The Almighty cutscene and music music starts* Psion: "The Almighty. He is the Beginning and the End. He is Alpha and Omega of the Empire. The Star Destroyer. The World Eater. He will consume all of the universe for power and you are no match." *Cuts back to room* Zavala: "What is your purpose here?" Psion: "Freedom." Zavala: "Who's side are you on? Do you serve the empire?" Psion: " I serve no one." Zavala: "You are a threat to all of us here and I will not let you go free!I would kill you with no hesitation if I had the chance." Psion: "I am not your prisoner. I only need time." *Zavala punches wall really hard and craters it* Zavala: "If you even think about escaping, I will come find you personally." Psion: "I know where Ghaul is." Zavala: "Where!? Tell me right now!" Psion: "You will need my help if you want to defeat the empire." Zavala: "You move, You die." *Leaves room and Hawthorne follows* *Cutscene Closes on Psion slowly opening eyes looking angry with menacing music* This is the type of story we should be seeing. Like a halo style covenant type of story where the cabal speak their native language with sub titles and show the history of the said psion. Before and after . . . Bungie has really fallen off with the story telling. Even I could re write destiny's story by simple detailed imagination. All of us could . . .

I. LOVE. THIS. I would like to see psions, Sindu, clipse, etc side with us and possibly the fallen. I would also really like to see the arkborn, clipse, and sindu, in action in the future. Or what about playable psion guardians?! BRAIN OVERLOADING DUE TO SHEER NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES!!!!!!! To bad bungee had to make the psions's faces look hideous. Link to my prof of ugly psion faces: https://www.destinypedia.com/Councilor#/media/File%3APsion-councilor-face.png

I think that the "blowing up planets for fun" line from D1 was just propaganda of the Speaker and the Earth Gov against the cabal or at least the red legion because everything we've learned about the "true Cabal ways" (that's how Calus calls the Cabal society before Ghauls coup) is a little bit more diplomatic or peacefull. Another piece of evidence is the fact that Calus loyalist Cabal forces didn't crush the crippled humanity or our Solar System but offered us a gift if we join him. I'm not saying that he's a good guy but far better than any other faction. We should consider joining the empire because it would protect humanity against all foes. You have to consider the fact, that the technology of the Cabal easily blocked our light and shattered us as a whole. Something even a god (Oryx) couldn't accomplish. With this military might at our side we could prosper again. [spoiler]Oh and I have to say sorry because of my bad english or misuse of some words. I'm from Germany and it's hard to express my thoughts in another language [/spoiler]

I applaud you. This is the first non-bitchy post on trending I’ve seen in a day. Good for you, man.

I think that's very likely to be true. Still, the Roman Empire did much of its expansion peacefully. They didn't work so much through annihilation as through assimilation. People saw the benefits of Imperial membership: roads, security, civilization. If the Cabal had been like Rome, they would have showed up on our doorstep, explained that they were incorporating us into their empire. If we had agreed, they would have shared knowledge (though maybe not technology) with us, chased off the Fallen (or incorporated them as well and told us to play nice together or else), probably blown up the moon to get rid of the Hive (would have caused a few 10.0 earthquakes on Earth, sorry 'bout that), and demanded that we pay tribute. Maybe either conscripted the Guardians or encouraged them to serve as Auxilliae. If we resisted, well, Destiny 2 would have happened.

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Tl;dr please summarize

We've known the psions we're slaves to the cabal since year 1 in destiny

Someone was saying there was lore stating a group of psions moved a planet or moon or something... with their minds. Which... how the F are they losing to us then? I don't know if said lore exists. Just repeating what someone was posting.

You this is a game right? You realise it is all just made up? Have fun and may RNG be forever in your favor.

To much reading nerd

Yoinks Psion Theory: Kill them all (Not really a theory, but they need to die along with every other alien that crosses my path)