Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-5820164-20130403210343/@comment-180.131.217.28-20130411233403

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.