Like everyone, I've been watching and reading everything I can regarding Destiny 2. One issue that is in the forefront of my mind is the issue of character carry over. I've spent so much time with my characters that to see them left behind really hurts. But I can understand why leaving characters behind is being pondered -- Bungie would like to have players new to Destiny 2 start at the same relative standing as existing players. I have a plot line that I'll briefly outline here that I hope Bungie is following. Basically, the model is Dunkirk. The existing Guardians would have fight a battle like Six Fronts but this time we lose and to survive we have to leave everything behind. The existing guardians would retreat to someplace safe, maybe Europe, maybe Zurich, and we would then be forced to fight our way back to retake the City. Along the way we would scavenge for new weapons and armor as we did in the first missions in Destiny 1. Along the way maybe some of the weapons we find would be replicas of the ones we lost in the retreat. Any guardians new to Destiny 2 would be found and revived in a different location, maybe right around the retreat point, say around Berlin, and their first mission would be to find a weapon and ship and make their way to Zurich -- same story just a different start point. I can imagine the final scene in the City or the Tower going something like this: Ghost: "There are too many of them! The battle is lost! We have to retreat. I can get you out but at a cost." Guardian: "What cost?" Ghost: "You have to leave everything behind. All weapons and armor." Guardian: "Why?" Ghost: "I can't carry you and the weapons and armor. I have enough local storage capacity for you but not you and the weapons and armor. You make the choice -- stay here and fight and die or leave everything here and retreat to fight another day. We can replace the weapons and armor but I can't replace you. Decide now." Guardian: "Ok. Do it!" It makes sense if you think of the Ghost as a processor with very little local storage but high bandwidth back to a central database. Its local storage is big enough to so that it can regenerate the guardian from a scan taken at the time of death. After a revive, it flushes the guardian image and then accesses the db for the armor and weapons in inventory. The items in inventory are the first level cache in the ghost and the vault is the active database. If that link was destroyed or the database lost then it would only be able to image the guardian and then get out of Dodge. The guardian would then be responsible for finding weapons and armor as we did in the first missions. One interesting side effect of this is that existing guardians could be given a special mission as some point to recover all of their legacy gear from backup of the tower database. The special mission would be analogous to the mission to the Siva replication center at Site 6 but this time we would be restoring the datalinks between the database in tower that the ghost accesses and the off site storage. (Maybe Felwinter Peak and the Iron Temple is the City's Iron Mountain. Lord Shaladin did say that records were stored there.)