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Edited by Skarrow9:
5/22/2017 10:50:11 AM
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Destiny 2 - Could The Cabal Shatter the Sun?! (Potentially HUGE Spoilers)
Hey guys! So about a year ago, there was a leak for something called Destiny: Shattered Suns. Nothing ever came of the leak, so most people wrote it off as not real. However, based on multiple parts of the trailers and some of what we played at the reveal event, it looks like that was completely legit, and will be used as the main story for Destiny 2. This is explained much, much better in the video, as it's really easy to explain via voice. (I promise there is no dubstep intro and "ya boi"s). However, if you prefer text, here you go:
So we know the cabal capture the Traveler, but we also see them messing with the sun and Mercury in these shots:
The Sun: http://imgur.com/G2GTsCZ
Mercury: http://imgur.com/tPmev2e
Well the theory is that they take some of the sun's energy using that machine, pump it into Mercury, which eventually would cause Mercury to become a star itself. (The mass of Mercury would attract the energy from the sun via gravity, which would make it have more mass, and the cycle begins anew.) Then, we would have two stars. "But we only have one sun" you may say. And to that I counter:
Two Suns: http://imgur.com/vSycBGC
and again: http://imgur.com/DPmieEg
But why would the Cabal make two suns? Well that would be absolutely catastrophic to our Solar System, and essentially destroy everything (pretty cliche, right?). So we go to their base to stop them, which can be seen here:
Guardian by the sun: http://imgur.com/FhhSRdD
and hopefully we succeed. (Spoiler - we totally do, because there are already 2 DLCs confirmed.)
In conclusion, the Cabal want to make a binary star system to completely wipe out humanity, the guardians, and every trace of us ever existing. Plus they will take the traveler and attempt to use its light. I hope you guys liked the explanation and theory. Let me know what you think about this theory down below. Have a great day!!
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/6cfzln/spoiler_maybe_the_suns_are_different_the_laws_are/?st=j2ytrbe4&sh=302a047e
^ This post on Reddit was the foundation for everything. I just dug deeper to smooth out the theory!
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2 RepliesWell, that's a cool theory, but in all likelihood it is incorrect, and here's a scientific fact that is then followed by my not-really-scientific reasoning: "The diameter of the Sun is 1.392,000 km. The diameter of Mercury is 4,879 km. The Sun's diameter is therefore 285 times greater than Mercury's. If Mercury were the size of a golf ball (43mm diameter), on the same scale, the Sun would have a diameter of over 12 meters." Mercury is so small in comparison that it's magnetic and gravitational pull would not be anywhere near enough to create a binary star like formation. Now if it were somehow Jupiter (it's not, as the planet is clearly a very large terrestrial one), that would be a different story, as it is already a gas giant, and with a close enough proximity to the sun's exceptional gravity, it might be enough to kickstart Jupiter's fusion process, though far more likely, the nearness of the sun would start to strip Jupiter of its gases igniting them as they got close enough to its corona...I think. I'm not a scientist, but I have played A LOT of Mass Effect. Any real scientists feel free to laugh and point fingers at me. Now, if the OP's theory turns out to be true, it might point to a possible future, perhaps like one of the futures Praedyth saw and recorded in his Ghost in the Vault of Glass. It could also be a sneaky way of bringing back the Mysterious Stranger, as we have to jump through time to go back and prevent this extinction level event from happening, setting up future plotlines that may or may not eventually connect to whatever the original story Joe Staten had in mind.
