[spoiler]War. War never changes. The end of the bungie.net occurred pretty much as we had predicted. Too many Desticles, not enough space or resources to remove them. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely Floodian ones. The forums were nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by Floodian hands, quickly raged out of control. Spears of fire rained from the skies. Posts were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. The forums were almost extinguished, their Desticles becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed bungie.net. A quiet darkness fell across the site, lasting many years. Few survived the devastation. Some had been fortunate enough to reach safety, taking shelter in great underground vaults. When the great darkness passed, these vaults opened, and their inhabitants emerged to begin their lives again. One of the northern tribes claims they are descended from one such Vault. They hold that their founder and ancestor, one known as the "Forum Dweller," once saved the forums from a great evil. According to their legend, this evil arose in the far south. It corrupted all it touched, twisting men inside, turning them into Desticles. Only through the bravery of this Forum Dweller was the evil destroyed. But in so doing, he lost many of his followers and suffered greatly, sacrificing much of himself to save the forums. When at last he returned to the #home he had fought so hard to protect, he was cast out. Exiled. In confronting that which they feared, he had become something else in their eyes...and no longer their champion. Forsaken by his people, he strode into the wasteland. He traveled far to the north, until he came to the great canyons. There, he founded a small village, #offtopic, where he lived out the rest of his years. And so, for a generation since its founding, #offtopic has lived in peace, its canyons sheltering it from #destiny. It is home. Your home. But the scars left by the war have not yet healed. And the Bungie has not forgotten.[/spoiler]