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Edited by Kell of Rain: 1/4/2020 3:27:16 AM
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The Tragedy of Lisbon-13 Pt2

Obviously, there’s really nothing but questions after all of this. First of all, what happened? Best case scenario? Lisbon-13 defeated his former fireteam and encrypted Divinity with his new Darkness powers to be done with the whole ordeal (which would be why the decryption core needed Nightmare Essence), then took his Ghost and dead friends, then left the Garden to live in exile, ashamed of the deal he made with the Darkness. Worst case scenario? Rekkana killed Lisbon-13, obliterating his body, then she and Yardarm-4 returned the Divinity to the Darkness and are on the lose somewhere in Sol. Unlikely scenario? The Kentarch 3 destroyed each other. The reason there was no bodies is because they just so happened to kill one another with disintegrative attacks, with Lisbon-13 likely trading final blows with one of his former fireteam, and the Darkness or Vex just reclaimed the Divinity afterwards. Spinfoil theory? The Kentarch 3 were turned into Vex. Its an… awful theory, to be honest, but neither the Consecrated Mind nor the Sanctified Mind were ever mentioned in the Raid Lore, but the Angelics were for some reason, implying that the Kentarch 3 never saw the bosses of the domain for some reason. This is sort of bare bones, but basically it plays into Yardarm-4’s Io fight analogy of him having a Goliath, Rekkana having a Thresher, and Lisbon-13 having an Interceptor. Yardarm-4 would be the Sanctified Mind, Rekkana would be Consecrated Mind, and Lisbon-13 would be the Minotaur that the Consecrated Mind was… detaining. That or the Gatelord the Guardian gets the decryption core from. Each enemy would correspond to the Cabal vehicle, Yardarm being the biggest and tank-like, Rekkana being the one capable of flight like the Thresher, and Lisbon having the smallest of the three vehicles being just a Minotaur/Mini-boss. Its dumb. Really dumb, but I can’t get it out of my head. As for the Divinity itself… one can really only spitball on what this things it could be. Perhaps it simply was a relic the Vex chose to connect Sol Divisive to the Darkness with and it just so happened to be a Trace Rifle fit for Guardian use. Or the Darkness gave it to the Vex as a conduit for worship, but knew it would eventually get into Guardian hands and designed it as such. Maybe Divinity wasn’t even the actual divinity. What if it was just a gun, and the actual divinity the Vex worshipped was the Pyramid ship in the Garden. It was at the Tree, it was a threat to Rekkana, and she was by its side in the end, essentially representing her switching sides to the Darkness, which all fits the description the Senior Sybil gave of it. My personal favorite idea was that the encryption and decryption process altered the design slightly, and that the Trace Rifle was originally a beacon that was affixed to a Vex structure the Darkness used. Since the Exotic perk for Divinity is Judgment, it could be that higher up Vex would be struck by the beam to be judged by the Darkness as a form of worship. Again, its mainly speculation, since there’s no real evidence suggesting anything for what Divinity came from and why its a Guardian oriented gun. Its a bit inconclusive, but I guess I just wanted to talk about the Kentarch 3. The true irony out of all of this is that Lisbon-13 acted more like a Cryptocron than Rekkana at the end of the day. The Cryptocron coven revolves around a balance between knowledge and ignorance, believing that while ignorance isn't bliss, there are some things that most people shouldn’t be aware of, and they’re willing to be the one’s who end up knowing every horrific little detail of the universe. A whole “We die in the Dark so you may live in the Light” sort of deal. And when Rekkana wanted to bring the “good news” back to Sol, Lisbon-13 took a step back and realized making a deal with the Darkness, not entirely unlike the Universe’s most abominable monsters who’ve slaughtered entire galaxies, was probably a mistake. But seriously, Lisbon is probably one of my favorite characters now, and the way Rekkana made him carry Divinity because it was a threat to her, but framed it as her trusting no-one more than him was messed up. All things said and done, Lisbon-13 was too good for Rekkana. Or any of us, really. A true Guardian to the end, unafraid to do what’s right, even if the odds are stacked against them. Even when he’d been embedded with the Darkness, with no way of salvation, he still chose to have words with a couple of heathens. Shin would be proud. Pt1- https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/254835018?sort=0&page=0
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  • <Interesting how Divinity's look seems to take after the architecture of the Pyramid Armada. I'll agree with the theory that it was part of something else or merely took the shape of a gun for Kentarch 3's convenience. That being said, I don't think the structure within the Tree is a Pyramid ship per say. The way the architecture and statue wrap around the Garden implies that the structure was MEANT to be there or built while the Tree was there as a lasting vestige, rather than another dormant ship lying beneath. I'm interested in the Cryptochron, as they seem more like an extremist version of the FWC, who also used a Vex device to scan out potential futures. However, from what I've read here, it looks as if the Oneiromantic Circle is what FWC's "Device" wishes it could be and what the OXA Machine, given our newfound insight based on the dialogue from Insight Terminus, likely is similar to. The idea that we can use Vex tech in ways the Vex don't seem to thanks to our neural processing differences is also interesting. How you could use perfect representations of past events and use the surroundings or vague hints of current ones to cobble together an idea or plan of something or someone. It's something intriguing, knowing that even though I do not fully grasp the Circle's power, I can imagine what could be done with the tech of the Forest. A Guardian cannot be fully simulated, but you can use what can be simulated to come up with an idea as to what may happen. Or you can watch and see what has happened, and understand things some may only dream to... even those who once lived it. There's no fear in the Pyramid Armada's eyes, nor the Queen of Final Shapes itself. They were pushed back in the last hours of the Collapse, but that left centuries, possibly millennia to plan. That timespan pales in comparison to the age of the Armada, dating back at least a few billion years, and the age of the Darkness itself, a primordial entity dating back to the year -0... a construct of power before time and space in this universe was a thing. Perhaps the Black Garden really is the Garden the Gardener and Winnower wrestled in and once resided. Perhaps its status as a place outside of time and space should be feared, and not simple glanced at. The track "Eden" from Shadowkeep's OST gives us another hint... this is our Garden of Eden. The origin is likely simple, like the Final Shape itself, every time we enter the Black Garden, we see the birth and death of countless universes, including our own. If the Armada is its own race or collection thereof, and therefore a creation after the origin point of the universe, then perhaps the structure within the stump that was the Tree of Silver Wings is an anchor of sorts. I don't know, but all of this theorizing about the Darkness has gotten so much more interesting... I cannot wait to see the End. Also I don't know if you meant Jaren Ward at the end of the post or Shin Malphur, since the former was very much a Lightbearer while Malphur was the one who preached true balance. Though, Lisbon-13 should go down as an unsung hero, and pray that true idiots aren't roaming the system, biding time till their suicidal pact reaches its conclusion.>

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    • Man I love the vex. Hive and vex have the most interesting lore, CHANGE MY MIND. Also, the way it seems to me, is that at least one of the Kentarch 3 lived, as we only found 2 ghosts. Lisbon seems like the survivor here as he was pretty resourceful and had been running them around awhile, possibly killing their ghosts in the process. Then during their final confrontation, Yadarm dies from the grenade, and Lisbon manages to kill Rekkana before she can unleash her dark power. Or she managed to anyway and completely disintegrated Lisbon and his ghost.

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