I'm just gonna say I don't trust the Traveler *Spoilers* (Destiny)

by SIX min WHISTLE , Michigan, Thursday, September 11, 2014, 12:28 (3962 days ago) @ Spec ops Grunt

This could go either way. Our Exo, non-Guardian buddy seems to be from the Traveler, based on her gun having material that doesn't exist in it, and the teleport she does at the end seems to be aimed at it, though I'm not sure if that's supposed to mean this or not. Maybe even the Little Light nickname she uses.

As far as the enemy factions being directly connected to it, I'm not sure. We see the Hive trying to drain it's energy at the very least. The Fallen almost seem like bandits, which maybe know to follow the Traveler/Darkness to find... something? The Kabal feel like an unconnected empire to some degree. Ghost seems to imply they're looking for valuable information or something, and they have a reputation of wrecking shit on a system-wide scale.

The Vex are who I'm not sure about, in game we got very little information on them, just confirmation of the original Bungie mention that they're time-traveling machines, though that biological brain thing certainly stood out to me. Plus the Black Garden kind of seemed it was way in the future based on the mossy Vex in it, though with Mars' ruins being BILLIONS of years old I guess it really could be at any point in time.

My thoughts on the Traveler go two ways. Either it is a herald of sorts for the darkness and I just don't understand the motive yet, or it or multiple Travelers go system to system to sort of uplift society. What I don't get with option 2 is why it would so greatly improve a system, seemingly to make them more advanced, and not warn them of the coming danger. The opening set in present day seems to show it was the Traveler who terraformed Mars, with rain failing on the astronauts.

I guess a lot will come down to what's inside the Traveler. Is it a big computer? A ship? A city? A traveling Shield World? I think that's why our non-Guardian was an Exo. Any explanation would work with a synthetic person like her. I'm under the impression that Exos are human made AI with bodies, not a product of the Traveler, but they CAN use the Light, so maybe they had more Traveler influence in there creation than just the general push on humanity. But if she is from it, and the Travler isn't evil, why didn't it use Exos to communicate a warning?