Lore question. At the end of the dark within mission your ghost says the hive havnt been on earth in centeries. That would mean that sometime around the collapse or at least 200 years ago, the hive were on earth, and for some reason until we as gardians came along no one had encountered them since at least 200 years ago. The ghost later says that we gave up the moon to keep the hive away from earth. I beleve that refers to when crota slaughtered thousands of gaurdians and the vangaurd declared the moon off limits. My question is basically WTF. I mean if the hive where on earth before gaurdians were around then why didnt they take over the planet yet and if they left earth or went dorment, why? Also follow up questions After crota beat up the vangaurd ranks and took hold of the moon, what is the reason for his apparent deep sleep he under went. Seems wierd that after becoming only one step away from the goal of taking the traveler and destroying humanity, crota took a super nap. Giving the gaurdians enough time to stop him from re-entering our plain of exsistance(which woulnd be a thing if he just stayed in our plain). follow up question to the follow up question. Eris tells us to go to the sunless cell in order to defeat the darkblade so he would be un-able to assume the throne in oryx's absence. Well my question is that i was under the assumption that the darkblade is a highly ranked "acsendent" hive, even called oryx's foster son. If we defeat the dark blade in our plain of exsistance isnt he just gonna come back to assume the power and become king anyway, because we didnt kill him in his throne world?