originally posted in:Binary Star Cult
My opinion on the matter is the traveller is a force of change, neither good nor bad. However as it moved through the universe, interested parties began hunting the traveler for their own means. Example being the fallen wanting to use the "great machine" to raise their culture back to the glory it once was or the cabal wanting to use it as a weapon against the darkness. I believe that the darkness is something that doesn't want other species to change because their rapid evolution and advancement in technology is a threat to its power and position in the universe. On a lesser note i also believe there are multiple travelers in our universe and the beings who made them are now extinct.
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Actually the Grimoire card implies that the Traveler, or "Great Machine," caused the uplift in Fallen culture and gave them their own "Golden Age" [b]OR[/b] arrived during their "Golden Age." However, the Fallen eventually had their own collapse, or "cataclysm," and the Traveler left. Sound familiar? This seems to show that either the Traveler causes species to collapse on purpose (directly or by attracting a force it knows will destroy the species), or is a construct with very minimal intelligence that doesn't realize every species it visits ends up collapsing.
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Hypothetically, she/he is one of the reason why collapse happened. But fundamentally, darkness screwed everything what the traveler flourished. Anyway, traveler is asshole for bailing fallens.