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Edited by Chubby Belly:
10/26/2023 3:24:26 PM
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How did humanity survive the first collapse knowing what we know now?
From the very first moments of Destiny 1, we're told that the darkness had found us at one point, enclosed on the Traveler and almost took out humanity as a whole during what was known as the Collapse. But the Traveler pushed back and forced the darkness away. We know these references are most likely to the black fleet at the point, but I'm just a little bit confused because of what we know now about the black fleet. Massive and over-powering. How were the ships pushed away from us so far? How did the Witness essentially go dormant for centuries when they knew where the Traveler was all this time? I'm just curious about these things, because simply knowing the power of the Witness, the disciples, these ships, the darkness, I'm baffled as to how humanity survived the fleet the first time and then somehow veiled ourselves from them for all this time.
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Edited by Vongola654: 10/28/2023 3:32:24 AMThe correct answer might be the simplest one. The Traveler went dormant after the Collapse, and the Veil had been stolen by Savathun and hidden away elsewhere. In its dormant state, the Traveler's Light definitely wouldn't have been enough for the Witness to create the portal, even if it still had the Veil on hand. So, it left Sol or was forced out by the expenditure of power that made the Traveler go dormant, and waited until the Traveler fully reawakened from dormancy, which occurred at the end of the Red War. Then in [i]Lightfall[/i], it immobilized the Traveler with the Pyramid Fleet and used the Traveler to find where the Veil had been hidden. EDIT: As for what Savathun did to help save Humanity during the Collapse, she is currently alive and we have one more Season before the Final Shape. Whatever she did, it potentially has to do with her stealing the Veil and hiding it away. As mentioned above, the Witness immobilized the Traveler and used it to find where the Veil was.
