Here's what we know... The Exo Stranger stalks us on the moon. Contacts us on Venus. Speaks to us about the Darkness. Tells us are fight is far from over. Gives us a rifle, then phases out of time once again like a phantom. She leaves us with half of a story told. So, here is the other half. Spin foil hats on please... (Comms break in) Voice: "It's time. We are in orbit over the tower. They are coming." ES: "Too late. Returning. How many?" Voice: "It's an entire armada of Cabal." ES: "Hold position kill the engines and don't let them find you." Voice: "Understood." The Exo Stranger materialized on the bridge of an ancient ship. The technology was far more advanced than any Guardian had seen at that point in time; but the architecture was something of old Earth. Millennia before the golden age. The Exo Stranger stood gazing at tactical screens displaying the advance of a Cabal invasion. "They are coming for it. We cannot stop them here. But we can save him." A low voice said from the con several meters behind her. "Agreed. I will extract him in the confusion. But the Cabal must not be allowed to gain possession of the device. I'll phase him out and leave a demo charge. Neither side will know we were here and now." said the Exo Stranger. "You have twenty-seven seconds before initial impact. You have to be there in ten. Take this. We will meet you there and then." said the voice. A hand clad in bronze armor appeared at her side holding a sphere of void energy. She took the sphere with both hands and began to walk forward phasing out of existence. Mara Sov closed her eyes to embrace her fate as she stood defiant before the Dreadnought. A cold, familiar, hand touched her shoulder. "I did not think you would come". In an instant she felt her body dematerialize into the familiarity of the void. Moments later, The Exo Stranger stepped into a dark room. Their boots clanged on the metal floor filling the chamber with echoes. She quickly took a respirator from the doorway and placed it over the Speakers helmet. "Where are we?" he asked disoriented. "Europa. I'll explain shortly." she said adjusting the breathing mask. "Your late." said the familiar low voice. Suddenly, the Exo Stranger and Speaker were pushed to their knees by an invisible force. The world "SILENCE!" filled the chamber from a new voice. An almost ethereal one; but with power behind it. The Exo Stranger looked around the hall. Osiris knelt to her left, several meters away, his hands shackled in front of him. His bronze armor reflected green light from the gas filling the room's floor by nearly a half meter. Xur, agent of the Nine, stepped out of the shadows before her. She noticed Mara Sov's figure shackled to his left toward the back of room; kneeling, staring at the floor as if she were unable to raise her head; broken. Xur stopped in the middle of the room, sweeping his arm wide across its expanse. He spoke in an agitated tone. "You four have interfered with the affairs of the Nine for the last time. You brought the attention of the Darkness to this system after your spat with Crota. Oryx may have kept to his explorations and conquest in other parts of the universe for eons if you would not had orchestrated the death of his son at the hands of the Guardians. His arrival was inevitable. But you accelerated that timeline by thousands of years. Then in your arrogance you lead an offensive and destroy Oryx; but you left a colossal power vacuum within the Hive. Guaranteeing they will be impotent with infighting for years to come! You opened the door for the Cabal to invade this system, THE NINES SYSTEM, unopposed in pursuit of that dead shattered thing this charlatan represents! You have set the Nines commerce back centuries. Then you have the audacity to save this impostor from his well-deserved fate; and then in your contemptuousness you bring him here before The Nine?" Xur stopped for a moment to compose himself. "And how, may I ask, is it you have all managed to be here today before the Nine despite the end of your obvious fates Ms. Bray?" asked Xur pointing to the Exo Stranger. Osiris grinned beneath his helmet. Mara Sov straightened her posture and coldly said one word to Xur through her respirator, "Peasant". Xur turned his head sharply, and Mara Sov once again doubled over. She did not make a sound. Anna Bray raised her gaze to meet Xur's, "Rather than play out our parts in the drama you conceived we decided to make an efficient exit". You may remove your spin foil hats now.