The fact it runs around with this darkness following it, which it knows its following it, we know Oryx has hunted the Traveler for quite some time with the other dark things that chase it. So this thing is indeed evil for if it wasn't it would go to some part of the universe where there is nothing and stopped mindlessly having races be wiped out because of its incompetence. Rasputin had to freaking stop it to keep it from leaving mankind to die. So really screw the traveler I'm going to go live in Rasputin's bunker.