Technically it would have began the year the game came out (2014 I think). To that point, that’s also the number of our guardian in the VIP book from Foraken (I can’t remover its name).

The Traveler arrived in the Sol system around the year 2014 and Humanity made contact with it shortly after. This is when the Golden Age started. In the Brephos I entry of the Marasenna, Mara reveals that the Golden Age lasted “two centuries,” meaning the Collapse started some time around 2214. [quote]“You love Earth the way all adolescents secretly adore two-century-old video of nai nai and ye ye dancing on New Year's Eve.” https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/brephos-i#book-marasenna [/quote] In the Forgeries entry of Stolen Intelligence, the Hidden operative’s report reveals that the City Age has lasted more than 300 years. [quote]“radiocarbon dating clearly identifies the earliest prints as more than three hundred years old.” https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/forgeries#book-stolen-intelligence [/quote] Then there’s the general comments that the Dark Ages lasted “centuries.” This means at least 200 years passed, though it’s very likely that the Dark Ages lasted far longer than that. So we can put together this rough estimate: Golden Age: 200 years Dark Ages: 200+ years City Age: 300+ years Total: 700+ years That means Destiny takes place in at least 2714. [spoiler]Petra [b]did not[/b] say the Dark Ages lasted sixteen centuries. This is a very common misconception, caused by misinterpretation and a lack of understanding of sentence structure (it’s a very small and complex grammatical issue, and it’s very very easy to misunderstand so no one is at fault here except the idiot who invented the English language lol). [quote]Book: The Awoken of the Reef Refusal “She bites back the rest: how she wishes that back in two-thousand-and-whatever, when the Darkness hurled mankind off the height of its Golden Age to plummet sixteen centuries into barbarism, it had done just a slightly better job.” https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/refusal#book-the-awoken-of-the-reef [/quote] A strong understanding of sentence structure is needed for this. “Plummet sixteen centuries into barbarism” refers to the Collapse starting the Dark Age and comparing it to humanity’s state 1600 years [u]before[/u] the Collapse. This can not refer to the Dark Age lasting 1600 years, because the placement of the word “into” bars the possibility that Petra was talking about time passing and structures the sentence to refer to a time period in the past. If we wanted the sentence to mean the Dark Ages lasted 1600 years, we would have to change it to say this: “Plummet [u]into[/u] sixteen centuries [u]of[/u] barbarism” This states that 1600 years passed. Simply the placement of the word “into” has a huge effect on the meaning of the sentence. Society plummeted into the state they were in 16 centuries before. They plummeted 16 centuries, not [u]for[/u] sixteen centuries. Petra knew that humanity was in a state of barbarism 16 centuries before the Collapse (thanks to the history and information the Awoken had stored in the “Shipspire”), and she was comparing the beginning of the Dark Ages to that Pre-Golden Age history.[/spoiler]

At least 10 years

Far enough where everything is high tech, enemies all use energy based weapons ........ But we use bullets... B U L L E T S (and rockets, grenade launcher nades etc) Funny ain't it

It's all a load of nonsense. If you look at the cars in the edz in the bit of D1 when you're brought back to life, they're current-day cars.

<Warmind changed things a bit, so the discovery of the Traveler is somewhere around 2014-2020. The Golden Age, like any others in humanity's history, probably only lasted a couple centuries at most. The aftermath of the Collapse until now was either 7 centuries or 16 centuries depending on who you ask. Petra will say 16, and D1's synopsis will tell you 7. Either way, we're far into the future.>