Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-4814368-20140916164127/@comment-5650583-20140919142005

Kummon wrote: [...] The Speaker gives us this backstory. I think he lies. Here is what I think is the truth. Feel free to poke holes in it, respond, or add: [...] People like Rasputin and Dr. Shin try to find a way to defeat The Traveler, contacting The Darkness in the process. The Traveler realizes that without an army, The Darkness will find him and finally defeat him. After destroying most of humanity, The Traveler gives humankind one last chance to join him or be extinguished. The Speaker (maybe formerly Rasputin) decides it is the only way for humanity to endure and becomes The Traveler’s subordinate. [...] One problem with that: Rasputin was/is a pre-Collapse computer system, a 'warmind' that maintained all of humanity's defense systems. Other than that, your theory is pretty plausible.