[spoiler]*A Wild Gringo has appeared*[/spoiler]
Little disclaimer, I am not claiming to be the first person who found this, I just want to make it better known.
Now the card I am talking about is Exo 2. The spark notes version of the card is there is an unnamed Exo Guardian who is killing himself to recover memories from his past. While he is dead he has visions. What was unintelligible philosophy stuff actually makes sense with the reveal of Destiny 2. When you read this think about the fall of the Last City[quote]Okay. Three two one
STAG echo six SWORD sierra nine SERPENT
We are falling into the world. Everyone is on fire. There's a ship above us but it's coming apart just like a flower, alloy and fusion flash, pierced through and through -
The voice says Atmospheric interface. Trajectory nominal. Rabid two three you are outside the window. (I think I am the voice)
I can see the whole earth below me and the sky we are falling out of is black without stars.[/quote] Other than the obvious destruction going on pointing to perhaps the Last City (or really any other battle on Earth) for me what screams "fall of the Last Safe City" is the ship flying above our narrator, it "comes apart just like a flower". This sounds very unusual and could perfectly describe the Traveler Supressor flying over the last City as it opens up to contain the Traveler. Our Exo friend is trying to escape this, and it appears that he succeeds when he reaches the ends of our atmosphere.
So assuming this is indeed referring to the future fall of the City and not the Exo's memory, then the next part becomes more unusual. [quote]Ghost, shoot me again.
RAPID four RAMPART four RATCHET tango eight zero
We are on the ice. This is elsewhere and elsewhen. There is a mighty aurora and it is reflected in the ice so I walk between two fires although the one below is cracked and full of corpses. I have and am a weapon.
Up in the sky there is a hole in Jupiter and it tears at me when I look at it. It tears at me. It is hungry. Maybe the hole is not in Jupiter but in me.
CROWN castle candor cobalt coral
Ghost bring me back.
serrate sulfur ANATHEMA amber actual aspen
Ghost bring me back now.[/quote]
If this is in Destiny 2 still, it has to be on a moon of Jupiter, most likely Io since it is the only moon of Jupiter we will be going to in Destiny 2. However the reference to ice implies Europa and this Exo doesn't need to go to where we do in Destiny 2.
Perhaps we will find out what this means on September 6. Perhaps I am wrong and this isn't the future but it is indeed this Exo's past. Only time will really tell.
[spoiler]As fun as my theory is, it is, however, very likely this is just a memory of the Collapse where the "flower" is an explosion. Whether it is to our benefit or not, Bungie had to make a lot of these very ambiguous in the writing of them.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Some people seem to be confused. It is not [i]the[/i] Exo Stranger. It is just [i]an[/i] exo[/spoiler]
To me this card sounds more like the Collapse than the Red War.
Think about it. We see from the trailers that nobody knew the Cabal were coming. And by the time we knew they were here, they had descended upon the City already. There would be no possibility of aerial escape, much less getting out of the atmosphere. We scattered remember? We are the Last of Humanity and we are centralised in one City. We don't have the kind of fleet to evacuate Earth against a force like the Cabal on such immediate notice. That's why we run into the EDZ. Closest place to seek refuge and launch a counter to get our home back.
The simile of the flower is used to describe a ship; how it explodes into flames. I would not think that the Cabal would use a combustible shield to capture the Traveler.
Considering during the Golden Age, we spread out through the system, I would imagine that the imagery on Jupiter is also about the Collapse.