User blog comment:B1littlehero/Speculation of the Origin of Species/@comment-160529-20140611064056

"Additionally, it's scientifically unlikely humanity will ever venture beyond the solar system physically - it's more than 143 billion kilometers from the sun to the outer edge of the Oort cloud. So naturally, if Destiny wanted to remain realistic, it's unlikely the Cabal came from Deneb or Altair or Sirius. "

Well at the beginning of the newest trailer they show ships leaving the solar system, and they talk about interstellar travel, the Cabal are actually the most likely to have interstellar travel of all of the enemies. Just because humanity doesnt travel beyond the solar system doesnt mean that the other species don't as well, also if you are going to idiotically criticize interstellar travel, then you cannot be accepting of time travel as that is even more ludicrously idiotic scientifically.

The Hive are obviously the foremost worshippers of the darkness, its possible to me that they are impossibly ancient beings that once inhabited the system but were awoken by the darkness.

The fallen probably once had an interstellar society that fell apart, their ships have warp.

The cabal are probably trying to move into the solar system.

I am sure they all have connections to "The Darkness" but I do not think that the Darkness is responsible for the origin of any creature... Want to know my theory though, these four races along with the darkness chased the traveler across the universe, that the traveler did something awful to their solar system and their people, possibly oppressing them.

Humanity wasn't saved by the traveler, humanity was saved when we killed the traveler causing the darkness and the other races to back off. They settled on the worlds in our solar system because they had nowhere else to go.

You will probably deny that the Traveler is evil, but we know of two definitive golden age technologies... the gun called thorn, and the exos... look at them, imagine an exo holding thorn, and imagine those guys patrolling the streets.

As for the Awoken... I have considered two origins, that they were affected by the traveler, or that they are the descendants of corpses the traveler brought back to life to serve as troopers in conflict with the darkness... hence being awoken.

" find it interesting to note that Bungie mentioned humanity's lifespan tripled in the Golden Age. Because the average lifespan in the USA is about 78.64 years, that means the human lifespan average would be 235.92. If this remains true to the Age of Reclamation, would that mean some humans could have lived to see the Collapse? If the game is set in the 2700s (let's say 2730), that means people could have been born as early as 2494. What would they have seen and done? Could they know where the Fallen and Vex came from, or recorded the lives of Exos before the Collapse? "

and no, no people are alive that saw the collapse... that was like... 700 years ago in destiny... we know how long it was since the collapse, and we know that human lifespan is not long enough to have any humans alive... plus I dont think that human lifespan remained expanded after teh traveler was knocked out.

otherwise they wouldnt have mentioned it.

I almost want to consider that a creation myth, the idea that man was once immortal before something bad happened is a popular idea in creation myths.