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6/14/2016 8:12:22 PM
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The SABER Strike is the Devil's first try to get SIVA!
[spoiler]A Wild Gringo has appeared[/spoiler]So ever since RoI has been confirmed, the SIVA technological plague has been of much discussion. And all we know so far is:
It is somehow related to the Warminds
It was built in the Golden Age
The Iron Lords died trying to contain it
The Fallen wanted/ got it.
Other than that we don't know much.
Now I was looking at a Barron's Ambition (Machine gun from SABER) with the description:
[quote]"To crack open that depraved Earth-Servitor. To use its secrets to reclaim the Great Machine..." —Translated from Fallen Language[/quote]
For those of you who don't know, the "Great Machine" is the Fallen way of saying "Traveler". This has been confirmed several times over.
The stranger part is "That depraved Earth- Servitor". Now most people assumed it was Rasputin, a large computer like a Servitor, but I believe it is much more literal. Let me explain.
The point of the Strike is to stop the Devils from bypassing Rasputin and gaining access to his Warsats (the meteor things). This we know. What Zavala assumes is that the fallen wanted to use them to destroy the City, but this makes no sense in actuality. Destroying the city would at least severely damage their Great Machine and more so it doesn't relate to Barron's Ambition. They are not in fact "cracking open" Rasputin, just going around him. I believe they wanted the Warsats to actually crack open a servitor. This one http://imgur.com/B9aOIqk
Bungie's description of the Plaigue Lands is as follows:
[quote]This area near the Cosmodrome has been quarantined for centuries. Now the Devil Splicers have broken through the walls, dug deep into the earth and found technology of almost limitless power. The Splicers are using this forbidden technology – SIVA – to transform the region to fit their twisted desires.[/quote] Take a note to the "dug deep underneath the earth" part because it plays a big role in my theory. What if the Fallen had discovered this "Servitor" (http://imgur.com/B9aOIqk) that was made by the Warminds (post colapse so their respurces were limited to what they had nearby). They wanted to open it but couldn't. They tried to access the Warminds to destroy it and get inside and find what laid below. Our destruction of their plans held them off for a year, but they eventually got in anyways. When inside, what they discovered was the SIVA, and from there is Rise of Iron.
It makes sense because this image http://imgur.com/B9aOIqk is often used in tandem with the raid, which Bungie stated involves going underground to stop the SIVA at its heart.
What do you think? Did I leave something out or do you believe I am horrible wrong?
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Personally I subscribe to the theory that the strike was staged by Rasputin. Incase you don't know the theory is that Rasputin creates the modified shank and is in control of it and the fallen in the strike we captured by Rasputin (or lured in). The theory is supported in a few places. During the defending of the Warsat at the start why do we A) have to crack a code to gain access to the vault and B) need to access the vault If it was imperative we help Rasputin could have GIVEN us the code or just opened the doors like he does in other missions. What's more is Nolan bot says it's like Rasputin is testing him. The theory is that he's testing us to make sure that we^(referring to either us as a guardian or us as a race) are ready to wield the power Rasputin has or to ensure we have grown enough to assume direct control over the warmind as we did in the golden age. Further evidence to this is the fact that it's a shank and not a servitor. On Venus in the lab the fallen try to hack in using servitors. So why a shank here? Finally the shanks name S.A.B.E.R 1 doesn't seem like the kind of name Elsinki come up with. It does however sound like the kind of thing humans would come up with, and since rasputin was made by us it stands to reason that he names things like us. Also the whole engagement room looks like a manufacturing facility and there St happens to be a door the perfect size in the floor.....
