Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-69.228.33.19-20140721002858/@comment-75.183.54.221-20150217093219

The traveler is the darkness, just think of it. We find the traveler and it grants us all of this new technology, so we go out and make a powerful civilization. Later the Darkness shows up and beats up the human race or did it? When your ghost talks about how these different worlds were lost it never says the Darkness took them or helped to take them, It simply says that the Hive, Vex, Fallen, or Cabal took the planet. So what happened to the Darkness and how did it cripple humanity? Here's what happened, the Traveler went to these races granting them each different gifts and in return the traveler attempted to use them for its own dark purposes. When traveler helped the humans, some humans figured out that it was truly evil and since you can't have a powerful army that will turn on you what else do you do to make sure they don't turn on you? You weaken them. The traveler caused the collapse to ensure that humanity wouldn't turn on him, because with them in such a weakened state they would be forced to follow the traveler, because it was the only source of great power that they knew of. When humanity was forced to fall back to Earth most of humanity knew that the traveler was evil and thought that they would be better off ditching the traveler and finding a new home. The traveler knowing that these humans might come back like the other races did to try to kill it destroyed the fleet of fleeing humans and the survivors were augmented and became the Awoken. Which is why the Reef hates Earth to this day. The humans who remained on earth still saw the traveler as a force of good and believed the lies that the Speaker told them over the centuries. The only reason why the Traveler has awokened after you raided the black garden is because during the war the Vex stole a great deal of the travelers power and stored it in a place where nobody could find it (the black garden) in order to buy time for them and the other races to destroy the traveler. When you raided the black garden you released a great amount of the travelers power that came back to it.