This is Part 2 of my previous post on this subject and will cover the 4th through 6th lines of the Grimoire. Let's jump right in shall we? 4. This particular line leads me to believe that the Nine originally may have been a alien race that came to the Sol system from one of the 5 known planetary systems in the Corona-Borealis supercluster. This could even be the group of aliens that saved the Cis-Jovian colonists from the darkness during the collapse. Beyond this little information is given and thus little speculation is to be made. 5. This one talks of the Firstborn Awoken. I believe that is very clear who they are the interesting part here is where they are said to be. For those unfamiliar with what the Jupiter-Io flux tube is allow me to explain. It is a set of magnetic flux lines caused by the mostly perpendicular orbit that Jupiter's moon, Io, takes around the gas giant. The magnetic field lines perpendicularly intersect Io's atmosphere and the moon itself. This causes ions in the moon's atmosphere to be transported to the magnetic poles of Jupiter causing a thermal and magnetic radiation effect in the form of auroras near the poles of Jupiter. It also causes a cyclic effect of ions being energized and then de-energized as they travel from the poles of Jupiter back to Io and then from Io back to the poles. This is important to me in that I think this section of the Grimoire is more of a piece of what happened to firstborn awoken. There may have been humans who went beyond the asteroid belt when fleeing the collapse possibly making it to the outer planet's moons. They very well could've been the first to succumb to the transformation that created the awoken since they would be the first to experience the edge of the light and darkness. However, this also could've caused more violent side effects than those in the reef. The initial teetering and torrent caused by the traveler's last stand against the darkness would likely have been very violent at first, especially at the very edge of this colliding of forces. It is also known that golden-age ships made it to the rings of Saturn but no survivors of the collapse are know to exist out that far. This leads me to speculate that these first Awoken could have been affected so heavily by the violent transitions between light and dark that they could have been transformed into pure ether or ionized particles that still have some form or awareness like the ether that makes up the Fallen's souls as mentioned when they are restoring the Archon Priest in the Venus Strike Mission. The Jupiter-Io flux tube would be capable of containing and preserving these ionic masses unlike most other areas where the ions would simply be scattered and left without any energy. This could keep these Awoken in a state of stasis that keeps their minds intact and operational by some feat of space magic. However this is mostly speculation and theory so take it or leave it. 6. This is seemingly simple but upon closer inspection very cryptic. Who are the ghosts? The ghosts the traveler created? Ghosts of the paranormal variety? Possibly AI that were given the mind and awareness of a previously living being? Personally, I think that it is the first of these options, the Ghosts of the Traveler. This I believe is apparent because it uses capitalization when referring to them which is also done with all other Ghosts of the Traveler. With that out of the way we can look at the rest of this line, they are those that pierced the Deep Black, interstellar space, without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause, the gap between the furthest reaches of the solar media of our sun, Sol, and the vast, violently gaseous expanse of interstellar space where there is a calm and interestingly devoid reach of space documented by Voyager 1 in 2013. This fact is interesting in that it is documented that ghosts can travel vast distances to planets without a ship in search of a guardian to revive. This is mentioned in Grimoire I will not cite here but you are welcome to find yourself. One question remains, is it possible that Ghosts now work for the Nine and do the Nine have the ability to modify Ghosts and their programming in order to follow their motives or are Ghosts they who have found some sort of enlightenment in their travel beyond our solar system. Whatever the case they are near certainly Ghosts of the Traveler and are now part of the Nine. This is interesting and possibly disturbing for those who are vigilant followers of the Speaker and the Traveler. I would love to speculate more but there is just not enough information on this to allow for deeper conjectures. This is the second of 3 posts that will comprise this series of lore theory on the Nine. The links to Part 1 and Part 3 are below. [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/142420902/0/0]Part 1[/url] [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/142621762/0/0]Part 3[/url] Again, please comment below and tell me what you think, agree with, disagree with, or wish to discuss further! Thanks!