True. There were actually different stories based on what race you picked. Awoken fought fallen as they fled from the reef. Human was escaping to a city evac from a farming colony outside its walls. Exk was found outside the cosmodrome. Youbalso werent supposed to find thatbship till the end of the near the end of the game when you crash on earth escaping from the reef. There is so much of the origional story that makes you wonder what couldve been. I hear you even fought Dredgen Yor in the Trials of Osiris to get his gun, and that you fought alongside Kabr to get to the bottom of the VoG where he forged himself into the relic so you could beat him. Pataince and Time was also a personal gift from Cayde-6, and it was called "Better than yours" It also had a perk where you could shoot ammo boxes to pick them up. Soooo much has changed.