Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-4814368-20140916164127/@comment-160529-20140919194612

Think about it though...

The Traveler could be a psuedo benevolent being, so afraid of what lays beyond the veil of death that it travels from system to system absorbing hte souls of the dead to try and preserve them from what it percieves as non-existence. In the process perhaps with misguided good intentions it "purifies" them of everything that is dark and evil.

Discarding the negative energies of souls, which have accumulated over eons into the Darkness..

The Traveler is so powerful with the light not because it is the source ofhte light, but because it has absorbed the light from countless civilizations. The reason the ghosts must seek out the bodies of highly specific individuals, is because tehy carry the as-of-yet unproccessed souls from the traveler within them.

I know it sounds a little fantasy-ish as far as science fiction franchises go, bbut not anymore than star wars... or... some horrible bullcrapfrom Star Trek TNG that didnt fit the tone of hte show at all.

Babylon 5 had stuff like this, and especially farscape.

Plus if this is true it brings a new dimension to the themes, essentially we would have technological entity with the traveler and a mystical entity with the darkness, the two locked in eternal struggle... what is known vs the unknown, science vs magic, knowledge vs faith.