Ghost Fragment: Ishtar Sink [quote]The box appears to be copper. The red lid is dented, one hinge shattered. Inside waits a small quantity of the finest, driest powder, more brown than gray, more blue than green. The greatest minds in creation make quick work of the material. The powder is weighed by the grain, and studied close, and remembered. One hundred billion bits of near-nothing reside inside the copper box, all of them tiny and nearly spherical, all etched with the outlines of continents and islands and icecaps. Each sphere represents a planet, and some of these tiny globes match known worlds. There is one Earth and one Mars and a Venus too. The box holds renderings of every habitable world in the galaxy. One of them offers a simple explanation: "The box is a message. The message is the minuscule nature of the box's cargo. It's the image of one hundred billion worlds barely filling two hands." But if so, who is delivering this message? What vastness do they wish to impress on us? Is it a warning, or an invitation, or a taunt?[/quote] This is at first seems to be nothing, but I have come to the conclusion that it alludes to something very significant in Destiny's future, I will post my opinion on the matter later, but without me to persuade you, I want to know: What do you think? Edit: There have been some interesting theories so far, so now I will post my own speculation. First let's list what we know. -The box was considered a message meaning it may have been sent to Ishtar Sink. -The box is damaged, but no sign of age is given, this does not mean that the box is not old, but I think if it was, it would have been included in this detailed description. Since it is damaged there are a number of possibilities that we can draw: It was done on purpose so that the sender could further impress on us the insignificance of our worlds, or another possibility is that someone tried to stop it from getting to us, or that it endured many hardships in getting to us and traveled a long ways. -The box contains very detailed knowledge of planets in systems far beyond our own, meaning whoever sent them has knowledge of or has traveled to these world. Out of our enemies let us consider who among them would have the knowledge to send this. The Fallen? The Hive? I don;t really think that they are that extensive. The Fallen are just pirates now, a shell of their once noble society, I could not see them doing something so mysterious and intricate even if they did have this knowledge, they would be more straightforward. The Hive.. I don't think anyone actually would even consider them as a suspect. The Cabal? I think their messages would look more like shell rounds, although they do have the knowledge to do it. The Vex? They may have the knowledge, but notice that these contain every [i]habitable[/i] planet. It does not include Mercury, even though we know from the game that the Vex were on there and almost turned it into a machine. So the contents of the box doesn't seem to match the their modus operandi. So we have eliminated all known enemies as a suspect. Which makes sense, none of them would sit down and have a conversation with us I think. So moving on, out of all the other organizations and allies we know which one could possibly have information about the habitable worlds in our universe. There are only two. The Traveler, because it supposedly has knowledge far beyond us and the Nine, mainly because we do not know much about them. For arguments sake lets eliminate the Traveler as a suspect, also somehow don't see it delivering a message in a dented copper box. Consider this bungie chose to name those illusive pieces of armor and weapons Xur sells "exotics." Define exotic: originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country. Interesting word choice, I have always thought so. In other words, the exotics that we have possibly originated from or were based on technology from a distant world. Maybe not all of them, but most of them. Xur is obviously not human, or Exo, or Awoken. I theorize that the Nine are an alien species, but where are they from. I have come to the following conclusion: The Nine are a collective of extra-terrestrial or possibly even from an alternate plane of existence species that have placed their bets on Humanity/Awokens/Exos so to speak. Perhaps they know that only those aligned with The Traveler are the only ones that can defeat the Darkness and that is why they are selling us their technology, perhaps their motivations are more greedy, or something altogether different. Their motivations elude me, as well as why they sent this message. They were trying to convey something to us, what? Where they saying that we are ignorant since we do not know all these worlds? Were they saying that the universe is insignificant compared to... something else? I think it will be some time before we find out.