The card actually has nine different theories about the Nine:
[quote]The Nine are survivors of the cis-Jovian colonies who made a compact with an alien force to ensure their own survival.
The Nine are deep-orbit warminds who weathered the Collapse in hardened stealth platforms.
The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of Europa or the hydrocarbon pits of Titan.
The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster.
The Nine are the firstborn Awoken and their minds now race down the field lines of the Jupiter-Io flux tube.
The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause.
The Nine are the aspects of the Darkness, broken by the Traveler's rebuke, working to destroy us from within.
The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning.
The Nine are the shadows left by the annihilation of a transcendent shape, burned into the weft of what is. [/quote]
So they could be anything. Doubt they're actually PLANETS though.
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The only thing mentioned about the planets in the posts above is that The Nine are potentially rulers of those planets, not the planets themselves. I'm still of the mind that all of these definitions on the card are accurate and because Bungie ... time travel somehow links them all together and perhaps they're different definitions taken from different points in time.