I cannot locate a reply of what my ghost says the first time we fly to Mercury. It somewhat explained what the Infinite Forest did. I am curious what is official lore in the Destiny 2 universe.
To me, it sounded like three things...
(a) Similar to the novel [i]Anathem[/i], each choice someone makes creates a new "branch" in the multiverse of possibilities.
(b) Similar to the webcomic [i]Planetary[/i], a sufficiently advanced computer can use these choices to explore different possible futures with supernatural efficiency, performing calculations along an infinity of different branches simultaneously.
(c) Similar to both those other stories, a uniquely special computer has some kind of physical ties to the multiverse: it not only observes alternate possible future states, but when its computational processing concludes it can somehow direct how the "collapsing" of states happens so that its own reality matches the desired future. In other words, it not only predicts the future, it predetermines it.
Is that what we are preventing in Curse of Osiris?
Obligatory cool scene from [i]Planetary[/i]:
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25 Replies<The Infinite Forest is a reality engine. It's essentially a machine that can simulate trillions of realities at once. It is the size of Mercury's core at its base form and takes a shit ton of processing power to use. We are trying to stop Panoptes, the "admin" of the Infinite Forest from figuring out a way to ensure the perfect Vex future. Using the Forest, it can figure out what steps need to be made to make it reality. Unfortunately, just as the plan started to come into fruition, we killed it, therefore erasing all the data on how the plan to make the perfect Vex future would work.>