[i]Hello, it’s me again. I’m just posting this before a certain forum event occurs, to see who have blocked me, and who have not. Of course, this is a part I forgot to include as a way of introducing those who’ve never delved into the lore, or who haven’t played the first game. As always, constructive criticism is appreciated, no hate on this, ‘tis a fan fiction/story. Enjoy.[/i] [b][u]Backstory[/u][/b] Around the year 2019, humanity had discovered a wandering planet, though its course wasn’t patterned, it was random, causing concern and curiosity. It was caught terraforming planets across the Sol system, and the world’s governments came together and sent three astronauts to meet the “Traveller” planet at Mars. Of course, they landed on the Red Planet, and marched for miles… until they found it. Rain poured on the red sand and soaked the first men on Mars. Suddenly, a Golden Age emerged, tripling the human lifespan, introducing programmable Glimmer, for currency and for almost anything, and humanity finally found out how to transfer the human consciousness into a metallic frame, and with it, an extension of human life. Humanity explored the Sol system, with archives of Golden Age intelligence on Venus, metropolises on Mars, scientific endeavors to Europa, Io, and beyond. However, this did not last. After two centuries, something dark came across the system. An ancient enemy of the Traveller, of the Light. The Darkness, one which still haunts those who remember, and those who don’t remember. The event is known as the Collapse, but we weren’t the only species within the universe to experience it. In fact, those who had experienced it before were angered and jealous at Humanity, as it chose is over their species, and despised us for it. They call it the “Whirlwind”, and were left within its wake. We call them the Fallen. Now humanity fights for the Light, the Traveller, and protects it from the coming night. The story here begins way after the events in the Vault of Glass, after the assault on the Hellmouth on Luna, after Skolas’ escapade as the “Kell of Kells”, after Oryx, the Taken King, and after SIVA. This story takes place after the devastating events of the Red War between us and the Cabal, war hungry beasts who want to take the Light for themselves. This story starts after the events with Osiris, the Vex, and the defeat of their bastion, Panoptes. This story starts after the defeat of one of the emissaries of the Deep, the Darkness, Xol, a Worm god, one of those responsible for the creation of the Hive. This story starts in a summer breeze, somewhere which once used to be, New York.