Dude, you know there is multiple Youtube channels, podcast, Slack chats and reddit subforums dedicated to Destiny's lore, right? This article blows it on a big story point, too: Rasputin sees that the Traveler is about to skip out on us. Rasputin attacks the Traveler, grounding him. The Traveler, in a last ditch effort, as calculated by Rasputin, creates the Ghosts so The Solar Systems inhabitants make defend themselves and, ultimately, repair The Traveler. THEN Rasputin goes silent until our Guardians come up.