TYPE: OWL SECTOR INTERCEPT

//CABAL “LOYALIST” BAND TRANSMISSION

💠 https://t.co/0Ul9J7qeMs pic.twitter.com/8w6L9ypU4U

— Destiny 2 (@DestinyTheGame) June 2, 2019

At the end of this transmission from Callus that The City's Owl Sector intercepted, we read Callus saying to his followers:

Your sacrifice shall spark the Shadows of Earth.

I think this refers to Callus' Shadows. Elite warriors he has collected from different races including the Cabal, the Psions, and even a strange race of energy beings that live in filaments that run between stars. Now, he seems to be setting his sights on Guardians, hoping to recruit / turn some of us into his Shadows...

More on Shadows:

I have come to admire how you rally against the impossible. It's not your continual success that amuses me—your Light assures victory—it's your refusal to kneel. You fight and you die without a second thought. For what? Personal glory? Wealth? The wretched denizens of your refugee city?

You have made bitter foes of races older, nobler, and worthier than you.

You struggle so vainly and valiantly when you have so little. When you are so little. Everything this universe has thrown against you and still you persist.

I could finish you. And you would not be at my side at the dimming of the world. You, the Guardian of Guardians.

If I wished it, you would die your final death. But I won't. Why? Because I'm in love.

—Calus, Emperor of the Cabal

(Zenith of Your Kind)

You've shown the Red Legion you fly my banner. I know that when the time is right, I won't have to ask. You're on my side.

I see it when your body becomes a weapon with which you obliterate your opponents, when your knuckles become a part of your foe's countenance, when you smash them with your Light. And it is captivating. But Earth casts no Shadow. Not yet.

When you're ready, you will be magnificent. A Guardian of Guardians. Shadow of Shadows.

I reserve the right to be last when the end comes, and for that, I will need you with me.

You're so close.

—Calus, Emperor of the Cabal

(Turris Shade Mark)

Now, he seems to be setting his sights on Guardians, hoping to recruit / turn some of us into his Shadows...

This is the stuff that I really like in the Destiny universe. I really wish they would lean into this sort of stuff. The Dredge stuff, then the Drifter/Vanguard quest, now this . . .

It will never happen, but I'd love to see a version of Destiny that fully leans into the "pick a side" aspect of either being a Guardian or turning your back on the Vanguard, or something more grey.

Honestly, if Destiny continues after Destiny 3, give me a game set in the past, when Guardians were still just Risen. It feels like all the coolest parts of the Destiny "story" took place hundreds or thousands of years ago, and I desperately want to see that stuff first hand. Or, at least, bring that aspect of the past back into the current Destiny universe. There are hints of it, but I want to really see it.

TYPE: OWL SECTOR INTERCEPT

//CABAL “LOYALIST” BAND TRANSMISSION

💠 https://t.co/0Ul9J7qeMs pic.twitter.com/8w6L9ypU4U

— Destiny 2 (@DestinyTheGame) June 2, 2019

Band Transmission? Band? I think someone at Bungie is a Pantera Fan.

From Facebook today...

Anyone heard the Pantera song "I'll Cast A Shadow"?

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The end will crush the light
And sends a message,
It won't please the naked eye
Without an end there is no light
To foretell, to blind you
The law of the claw reigns on and after still

When I die, I cast a shadow
And I'll rise, I cast a shadow

I'm leaving more eyes open
I close up both of mine
For the ones that chase my life
They're looking over shoulders
Let paranoia in
Spontaneously rule them

When I die, I cast a shadow
And I'll fly, I cast a shadow

When I die, I cast a shadow
And I'll rise, I cast a shadow
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This conspiracy theory has no point.