Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-5820164-20130403210343/@comment-150.209.33.207-20130413163357

180.131.217.28 wrote: Yeah, this is one of the two things I find myself worrying about so far. I'm never a fan of time travel in sci-fi. In fact, I think it should be avoided like the plauge. It's the surefire way to completely bring a series into oblivion, as it creates so many loopholes and non-sensical plotlines. When Bungie descibed them as "time-travelling robots" I was hoping that perhaps they meant they were from the past - like perhaps they stayed in near FTL speeds for an extended legnth of time under cryostasis, thus aging slowly while the universal time sped passed them. Or maybe they were once an organic species that for some reason downloaded their conscienceness to mechanical bodies long ago, and then went into extneded dormancy for untold millenia.

That would be fine. But travelling from the future? Always a terrible idea. God, I hope Bungie will be smart about this.

The only other thing I'm not sure about right now is the playable "species". *sigh*. Why do developers always have to make friendly "alien" species' look like human replicas? The Exo? The Awoken? Give me a break. These are not aliens. They're freaken humans to the core. I really hope there's a reasonable explanation for this, like that they're some altered or evolved form of the human race - perhaps changed by the Traveller itself. Because I cannot bring my self to accept two species evolving on different worlds to look exactly like each other down to the skeletal core. I understand that some resemblence may be required to make it easier for the audience to connect with, but exactly alike? That's not science fiction, that's fantasy.

I feel the same way about time travel in scifi. I think I'd be willing to swallow the idea if the explanation was that the Vex came from the future of a different timeline. I think you're jumping ahead of yourself with the playable species bit. I'm sort of hoping they turn out to be mutant offshoots of humanity brought about by the traveler or the cataclysm. I mean, just look at the names. "Awoken", could refer to some sort of exposure to the Traveler or some other force that "Awoke" their ancestors and made them what they are. "Exo", seems to me that it could mean they encountered something that changed them in the depths of deep space. Atleast, that's what I hope the explanation is. They did a pretty good job avoiding this trap with Halo, so I'm optimistic.