The article said some of the information Bungie declined to confirm or deny so some information is possible to be inaccurate. This is one that in till Bungie them self outright states Rasputin did not do it some will believe that he did attack the traveler [spoiler]This is a SUBTLE ASSETS IMPERATIVE (NO HUMAN REVIEW) (NO AI-COM REVIEW) (secure/ABHOR). Stand by for CRITERIA: Under CARRHAE (WHITE or BLACK) If SECURITY STATE is EGYPTIAN If event rank is TEILHARD: TRAUMATIC CONTEXT or SKYSHOCK: OUTSIDE CONTEXT If VOLUSPA is ACTIVE and in FAILURE [[synapse to FENRIR::SURTR]] If YUGA is ACTIVE and in SUNDOWN If AI-COM has granted PERMISSIVE POTENTIATION to outboard resilient instances If a CIVILIZATION KILL EVENT is underway [[all flexions]] If tactical morality is built at MIDNIGHT Stand by for DECISION POINT: If available ISR and WARWATCH indicates imminent [O] departure >then [O] departure compromises human/neohuman survival and epoch strategy Stand by for ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE:[/spoiler] This states what If facter you are speakign of, after stating the IF this occurs Rasputin goes into stand by awaiting further action. [spoiler]Activate LOKI CROWN Perform deniable authorization: full caedometric and noetic release Prevent [O] departure by any means available Stand by for effect assessment criteria: Coerce pseudoaltruistic [O] defensive action. Defer civilization kill. STOP STOP STOP V101NTS923ATS00[/spoiler] The next action rasputin takes is he Activate loki crown to prevent O(the traveler) from departing by any means possible then he goes into stand by to asses the effects of the action. The next thing we see is that the Loki Crown attack from Rasputin has Coerce pseudoaltruistic [O] defensive action. Defer civilization kill. What does this mean? This means due to activating the Loki crown the Traveler is forced to stay and Defer or Push back the inevitable Civilization kill which would of been caused by the darkness. Well what about the Mystery card, I can explain that. [spoiler]I AM ALONE I survived alone. I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash. They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well: [/spoiler] This is words from Rasputin, "I cast of the shield and I shrugged my shoulder so that the billions fell off me down into the ash" This is describing how he activated is defenses in this case the Loki Crown and then shrugged his shoulder because after there was nothing else Rasputin could do. the result was that Billions fell off(were affected by) his actions. [spoiler]IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone. IT always wins.[/spoiler] Whats this is showing is that once the darkness finally arrives the traveler instead of admitting defeat decides to attempt to fight back and does not fight alone. So to summarize, Rasputin did not exactly cripple the traveler but did force the traveler to stay. In the end the traveler decided to fight back instead of admitting defeat. With this the traveler was able to push back the darkness but with out paying the price for it resulting in the traveler being crippled by IT.