I'm all for allowing Commander "-blam!- the enemy of my enemy strategy" Zavala recieve the other end of the genocide stick. Seriously, he's the guy responsible for the Cabal being openly hostile towards us, with all his assassination missions against their leaders.

I think that The Traveler is gonna switch sides and work for Hydra.

I haven't read too much on the lore, so this is just personal thoughts. I would like to the see the next game deal with the "Nine". We don't know too much about them, Xur appears every week and takes our strange coins and brings us exotic weapons and armor and other goodies. Xur acts like a middle man, but maybe he and the nine are behind the whole war. (Think Star Wars and palpatine). If we ever went to war with them, they would have all the exotics and armor we have, so it would be a tough fight. I know it's a stretch, but that's what I would like to see. As for supers, I would like to see an earth base subclass. If they keep the supers that we have now, I also would like to see an offensive and defensive stance on each. As an example, a sunsinger warlock the same now, but as a defensive part he might have a wall of flames or something similar as a super. Or possibly have a meter for both offense and defense and when your full you can use either. Just off the wall thoughts while at work, lol.

You want to kill off Zavala...well then. That's the last thing I thought I ever see, it ever. [spoiler]But I think my best friend having an alien baby takes the cake. [/spoiler]

Well, this is some pre Destiny 2 speculation. This is an idea of what the next DLC could be and how it could lead into Destiny 2. This also has some backstory speculation mixed in to help clarify my idea. It is a bit long btw... Maybe the Traveler has been looking for a race that would be strong enough to defeat the HIve. The Eliksni might not have been strong enough, so the Traveler left to search for something even stronger and found us. Of course, it was still rude of the Traveler to not at least send out escape pods or something. Or perhaps leaving them was it's way of trying to protect the Eliksni. The Darkness is mostly after the Traveler after all, so it ups and leaves saying "Ketch Me If You Can!" Then the Hive pursue. The Traveler finds us and gives us our Golden age, trying to strengthen us. When the Darkness arrives, it sees that we are strong enough and stays. After the dust settles, it sends out the Ghosts to collect and revive all of those who fought and died to fight the darkness, because they were worthy of the light. Maybe it tried to flee again to protect us, but the War Mind did shoot it down. After the dust settled in this scenario, the Traveler senses that humans survived and realized that they were the ones that it had traveled so far to find, so it sends out the Ghosts to give all those who fought and died a second chance. The House Kings Eliksni might have found a shard from the Traveler. They believe we destroyed it, which may or may not be true, but since they probably think of the Traveler as their god (All the servitors might be designed based on the Traveler), they want vengeance. So in this up coming DLC or a future game (Speculation), maybe the Kings try to attack us again like most people think. By the end of this set of events, in a Raid perhaps, we fight the King's Kell. When we kill him, the hypothetical shard of the Traveler suddenly appears and begins flashing. Before we defeated the Kell, this shard was shrouded in a veil of Darkness like the one we found on the Moon, but this veil was created by the King's desire for revenge. Once we defeated the Kell, that shard became pure. So after it shows up and starts flashing, it revives the Kell, and spreads Light through the fallen in the area, purifying their minds. The shard shows us all some things making the Fallen aware that we are not the enemy, but that we Guardians are the key to defeating the Darkness. The shard also shows us Guardians that the Eliksni could be a strong Ally to help us in our fight. The Guardian becomes the Kell of Kells (maybe the speaker tries to take that title since he thinks he is the orb whisperer). The Eliksni now are able to become guardians. Destiny 2 coming soon. Of course, there would be more end game content, maybe a mission where we play as an Eliksni of some sort, but actually being able to create an Eliksni Guardian would be saved for a new game since they are the enemy for most of this one. Maybe some of the end game content for this DLC could be us gathering the rest of the Fallen. We could travel throughout the system trying to rescue the last of the fallen from the other threats. The King's Kell would be assisting us from a distance and would show up to let the other fallen know what has happened. Edit 1: Also, since you want Zavala dead, maybe he could somehow die in one of these missions. It could certainly be tied in with little effort. Edit 2: Since the Next DLC is speculated to be called "Rise of Iron", and since you want Zavala dead, what could happen is that when the King's launch their first attack, they end up killing Zavala, and Shaxx steps in to take his place. Then everything else continues as I mentioned earlier. Of course, there would be more to it though.

Blow up tower and our vaults with it. Restart fresh. Allow us to change our names.

I think that it will be a game and will include content.

What about a Raid where you make a new city!

I thought the group of Sunbreakers hated the Vanguards. Why would there leader want to become what they hate?

Anyone read the books of sorrow? [spoiler]Oryx is coming back[/spoiler] What I would really like to see in destiny 2 is a long quest line were the player has to pursue a rogue gaurdian rumored to be controlling the taken remminants, and when you finally defeat the traitor have the game check for destiny data so the the villain can at least look like, maybe even fight like your d1 character (assuming you've built TOM)

If zavala was to die shaxx or Saladin would follow suit as the Titan vanguard... And the Sunbreakers we went to look for are dead.

Cade & eris etc should all be playable characters in pve. Similar to companions in mess effect & dragon age. So a controllable fire-team in some pve/solo story modes. Factions should play a larger roll id like some take back earth style quests backed buy the factions with them building there own little colonies in rebellion against the tower. Beyond that the current story & lore are piss poor at best so id just focus on developing the existing characters more, the traveler will wake up & is just a man made war mind ultron style thing or a huge genesis weapon (startrek) we created to protect us from some shit & it turned on us, created the vex tried to kill us & is cause of the collapse & is ultimate big bad etc... Rasputin is controlled by the few exo in the future trying prevent the human extinction in the past & creation of the traveler. It had the traveler in some kind of stasis but it failed to hold it. Terminator style time travel stuff But don't expect anything too original though it is bungie!

I do like the theories here and your ideas. But, I have to contest your comments on the Sunbreaker lead (who was a woman, yes) taking over as the Titan Vanguard. It wouldn't make sense. It would be neat, but that would also mean that Saint-14 succeeded in confronting Osiris (who also at this point, has all the Sunbreakers with him) , defeat him and the Sunbreakers and then bring their Lead back to the Tower? When Saint-14 left for Mercury, that was how long ago? We don't even know if he's alive or not. Heck, he could be sided with Osiris now, too. In the end, I don't think The Consensus nor the rest of the Vanguard leads would be okay with making someone who ultimately banished themselves because of Osiris - a leader amongst the Vanguard.