A different spectulation. remember that one mission where ghost says that gatelords protect the realms the vex keep locked out of time? Well if a realm was to be locked out of time, then it would be in between future and past, but still not be the present. UNLESS the realm locked out of time is the realm your in, were it would be the present again, or would it? Also afew facts you'll need to know before reading further: Aethon is most likely an enemy of the blackheart the traveler was the original main protagonist in destiny the black garden was originally planned to be the traveler the exo stranger that can teleport ( really she time shifts, more on that later) was supposed to be one of the primary secondary characters. The gatelord and aethon not only share a very similar battle style, but a slight, almost timely, similarity in there looks and how they are summoned. both fall on one knee and slowly rise up. if aethon is times conflux, and gatekeepers protect the vex timegates, and gatelords protect the actual realms, wouldn't that mean that aethon was a gatelord really, as he gaurds not only one realm but all the realms? or does he? he most likely only protects the realm we are in, but wouldn't that mean he is still a gatekeeper? that would mean the destiny realm was really one of the realms locked out of time. well then, how did that other gatekeeper come into our realm? that's were the gate keepers come in. the gatekeepers each have a counter part in each and every timezone known to vex, and most all timezones are known to vex. This brings up the question, is there multiple gatekeepers, or are there only one gatekeeper? the answer is more complicated than you'd think. There is only one gatekeeper mind, but multiple units spread across multiple timezones each share this mind. how do I know this, in the second venus mission, when your ghost takes you to campus 9 to learn more about the vex, you discover that the vex are just one mind across a million units.the first thing you think of is something like, oh, so there is one main computer machine that's code is spread across multiple units. this is incorrect, it is most likely a situation similar to the omnius evermind in the book series, dune. this evermind is really a single mind spread across multiple units, but as the minds are separated they become different. an update vessel then goes around taking a copy of the evermind at each planet and syncs it with the other everminds at other planets. THis leads me to believe that the vex instead of sharing one mind have multiple minds that regularly sync with each other. but what then is the messenger, that would be the gatelords. they have the freewill to travel through any time realm they wish, so long as the gatekeepers permit it. the gatelords go around regularly syncing with a gatekeeper at one realm, to then go and sync that gatekeeper mind with another. this is going to take a while, so I may comeback in about an hour to continue this theory, in the meantime, try to understand where I'm going with this. I'm trying to not only reveal the location of the chest, but also the original destiny storyline. and I believe it revolves around 3 main things. Time, the vex, and the exo stranger.