Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-170.135.176.108-20160712011300/@comment-25916964-20160713020606

The Hive are the earliest faction to have encountered The Traveler that we know of. Via the Books of Sorrow in the Grimoire, it is revealed that the Hive choose to undergo a symbiosis with a worm like creature to gain power. This power (and perhaps even the worm itself) is derived, or aligned with The Darkness. At some point after this, The Traveler encountered and converted (as in changed loyalty of) some of the Hive. Oryx discovered this, killed off the turncoat Hive, and ultimately followed The Traveler.

At some point after this, The Traveler came to The Fallen (then called Eliksni). I don't know much else about what effect it had on them, other then that it eventually left during The Whirlwind.

At some point after this, The Traveler came to Mars, where it was discovered by humanity, ultimately leading to a Golden Age. Then The Darkness came, humanity fought back (presumably with the aid of The Traveler), but at some stage during this conflict it appears that The Traveler attempted to flee. (as revealed in Grimoire Cards/Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5, where The Traveler is denoted with [O]). Rasputin appears to have shot The Traveler down, to "Defer civilisation kill". This also would explain why the Hive only recently attempted that ritual on the shard of The Traveler, and not back when they first encountered it.

What came be drawn from this, is that The Traveler has a tendency to flee when faced with overwhelming odds.

Whatever the truth of it is, both forces are clearly much more complex then meets the eye.