Engrams are "encoded" matter.... and are Dodecahedron shaped...and Glimmer is basic uncoded matter(which is why it's a basic color, and generally cubed shaped). What I find odd, is the Glimmer Extractors the Fallen use, my guess is they basically aim for some mineral deposits they need that are under ground, and just "transport the matter in a basic form" like a transporter from Star Trek, and for ease it is stored as glimmer, heavier elements would produce more glimmer due to more electrons, protons, neutrons.... In this sense, the Glimmer/phased matter can be made into anything. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A BLUEPRINT AND INFORMATION OF THE ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO MAKE. So you must have had access to such item before, and had the storage of the information of the item stored in such a way that you could make it again. MUCH LIKE HOW THE GHOSTS REMAKE YOU WHEN YOU BREAK AN ANKLE ON A PILE OF RUBBLE AND SOMEHOW ARE "KILLED BY THE ARCHITECTS" . BUT since the armory and archives of the Cryptarchy were lost during the Red War, and the Ghost network (meaning your personal inventory) was shattered when cut off from the light, means that the City and You LOST EVERYTHING. So unless someone out in the wild had a secondary information bank somewhere of every Destiny 1 weapon, armor, sparrow, ship, accessory, and even that emote you loved....it is lost. So no Gjallarhorn for you unless blasted Lord Salad has some stored somewhere.

Earth isn't a sphere or flat! It's in the shape of Glimmer!

You are taking this way too far, it's currency simply that. And nothing more.

You right about everything except the eating part. Well, you can go ahead and eat the glimmer if you want and just have your Ghost resurrect you when you choke to death. But would you be brought back with the glimmer still in your throat? We get to keep our glimmer every time we die. Can glimmer differentiate between a pocket or bag or the slick fleshy material of our throat? Do you think I would have time to cut out the chunk so I would die from blood loss and shock rather than choking? How many attempts would I make for it to be successful? Am I allowed to do this at the Tower? How many times do bystanders have to stand and watch when I chuck my body over the railings and fall to my death? Do I leave a pit of blood when I land? How many bodies of myself do you think I can pile? Do these deaths not mean anything? With all this glimmer I can make a trampoline but all I want to do is continuously die because I know I can come back I'm gonna aim for that antenna next time! Next I'm gonna aim for ol Miss Gertrude's bushes! I'm gonna fall on that cat! YOOOO! I'm gonna cannonball into the Sun with this cat! Can my Ghost bring me back then? I'll use the glimmer to make a new cat.[spoiler]Attacking the Taken Blight on the third wave saves you ammo and super for the Boss[/spoiler]

Glimmer eaters almost always have endocrine disorders. I hear Fenchurch is selling a supplement for that.

Don't experiment with that shit. It could end like SIVA.

I knew a guy who ate quarters . . . [quote]Afterwards, He was shitting nickels for a week.[/quote]

A Glimmer Gun would actually be a sweet exotic.

I wonder how it was put into our Earth's crust.... the glimmer mining ships we fight off in the EDZ are there to collect it, and it sure isn't here in our current timeline. Is there lore of where glimmer came from?

Glimmer breaks the number one rule of a currency. A currency should be basically useless as anything other than being a currency.

That makes more sense now, the whole eating it and stuff. I always wondered why the fallen drilled for it.

I believe in D2 when you hover over glimmer it’s description reads “Programmable matter used as currency and fuel in the last city” or something close to that.