The Flaw in the Evil Traveller Hypothesis (Destiny)

by Jabberwok, Sunday, September 28, 2014, 16:55 (3950 days ago) @ yakaman

This is sounding too much like Mass Effect, with the reaping and the harvesting. I hope they don't go that route. I was willing to buy it once in that game, but it's kind of a silly explanation.

The thing is, even if the Traveler is the source of the Darkness, that doesn't necessarily make it evil, in the traditional sense. Things could be more complicated than that. And yes, I doubt the Ghosts would turn out to be lying and sinister, that would be silly.

I'm not sure that the Ghosts are our servants, considering that I spent the entire story basically taking orders from mine.

I try to maintain the perspective that I am simply an agent of light, where light != good and darkness != evil. There are so many similarities between factions on both sides that I see no justification for light as right. We're shown so little about the world that I am not certain my motivations are appropriate beyond my own context.

Sure, I am fighting for the Traveller because (as presented) the Traveller is our salvation, and is therefore good in that limited sense.

Playing the Black Garden brings the Garden of Eden to mind, which offers a few lessons on duality; Adam vs Eve or Cane vs Abel.

Alternate possibilities spring to mind: what if the Traveller simply moves from system to system, looking for species to elevate for some purpose, to eventually harvest (via darkness) what it has sown. In this scenario, the Traveller has something to gain from each species it elevates and it takes what it needs with the darkness. Humanity reaches some milestone and the Traveller reaps (via darkness). We fight back and blow it up - leading to the current state of affairs.

All of this has been already discussed, but one possible excuse for the story being so thin is that our Ghost was purposefully keeping us in the dark (no pun intended).