Brief Speculation on Bridge of Chains

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 23:08 (4104 days ago)

As I've said before, my MacBook Pro's Desktop Picture is set to rotate through all the released Destiny desktops. This evening Bridge of Chains rotated in and I began to look at it. For some reason my mind had always associated the large tubular structures with sort of smelting conveyor system. You know, like the big tubs that the melt metal in. I thought we were looking at some sort of conveyor system that was transporting hot metal of some kind down the line. Tonight though the image really caught my eye and I decided to look closer. My conclusion? This scene is far creepier than I first thought.

First off are the four figures down near the bottom. For the longest time I thought they were there just for scale. To show how huge these big containers were. But no. Look at them. The lead guy is clearly in awe of the structure he is walking towards. The two guys behind him have just a bit more detail on them, and it looks to me that all three are wearing oxygen tanks or some similar form of life support. The fourth guy isn't with the other three I don't think. He seems to be the only one holding a weapon, in this case I'm thinking more a stick type weapon than a gun. He also seems to be in a somewhat fancy uniform. Is escorting the three inside? Do they have a choice?

Now take a look at the next nearest structure, almost directly behind the odd man out. It's largely identical to the structure closest to us, but raised up a good amount. You can see its raised up, drawbridge like door, the same kind the three guys are heading towards, thanks to the orange glow. Also note the large amount of smoke (really large amount, remember how huge these things are!) coming out of the left hand side. What's going on in there?

Now direct your focus to the ceiling in the distance. We can see that all these structures are hanging from (gigantic) chains which are attached around those big blue light sources which are in turn a part of a larger stretched out oval. We can see the end of another one of these long oval shapes in the foreground. Note that it is closed off on the end. Unless the whole oval, blue light source, and hanging structures move at once, which I'm just not feeling, these structure don't go anywhere. I'm thinking they can be moved left right to align them with their nearest bridge and up and down, but they don't move nearer or farther down the tunnel / building / whatever all this stuff is inside.

So what the heck are these things?! My best guess is that they are some sort of self contained slave camps with integrated living quarters. Probably not nice places to be. The whole thing is loaded up with workers then raised up and away to make escape impossible. Assuming that's even close to correct, who needs hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of workers, and for what purpose? Out of all the Destiny pictures I think this may be the most interesting, not so much for what it shows, but for what it implies and for the gaps in our knowledge it makes apparent. We even know more about Race 5, the pyramid ship race, than we know about this image!

Any thoughts? Any info about his image I've missed or forgotten?