I hate this kind of cop out story explanation that goes, "it's been a simulation the whole time!" However, it's a well written essay save for a few spelling errors.

Out of curiosity, what class was this? If I wrote an essay about video game fiction, my teachers wouldn't even bother to read it.

But it would need to simulate our teammates who also rose in the same spot

This is quite amazing and makes a lot of sense now that I think about it. But I have one thing in my mind. This may sound stupid, But If Quira can Just make atheon, wouldn't it be able to over run oryx with a army of Atheons and Gatekeepers? Yes that may sound stupid, but in the end this lore continues in ways that our minds would run free. Quira predicted that us, the lost hope, would save the last city and conquer oryx. So as you said it could've been a simulation of what she thought would happen. 1) Kill Atheons Minons. 2) Kill Atheon 3) Kill Oryxs Minons. this my free mind can think of 2 things. This IS a simulation because it is in a order of killing things as Quira thought. Next: Maybe you are battling Atheon and he takes you back from the start. FIRST I HAVENT READ ANY LORE SO YEAH.

Pretty fricken solid dude, nice work. Thus does actualy raise another topic story wise too. In the books of sorrow when quaria attempted to simulate oryx in varrying forms these simulations all rebeled against quaria and broke their programming and became independant. If your theory is correct, and we combine it with both this and another peice of guardian lore. [spoiler]this lore revealing that gaurdians due to our light are effectivley para-causal beings, in essence this means we exists outside standard laws of space time. Our existence is a paradox, we are effectivley our own reason for existing. Its also why as stated in another grimore card the vex have a hard time of calculating and simulating what we will do, this is because the vex use time as a tool for providing infinite time to perform calculations, but since we exist outside of time we have no reference point for the vex to work with, they have to infer and guess at our actions, and then calculate the one we will most likely take[/spoiler] We should be able to break free of the vex simulation and enter the real universe destiny takes place in outside the simulation. And thats where i think this is going, i believe that at some point in destiny we are going to escape the "matrix" as a means of getting back to the real destiny universe where we as guardians will discover that the darkness never left earth and it has been locked in a stalemate with the traveler for all these years.

What class is this I want to take it