Let’s discuss whether we should be bringing Rasputin to full power, especially since we were teased with Osiris questioning Rasputin. We don’t know when that cutscene takes place, whether it was during Season of the Dawn or after Season of the Worthy when it’s too late.
Osiris is clearly spooked and here we are bringing Rasputin back to full power with these bunker upgrades. I feel like it’s another situation where we’re being tricked just like we were in the Dreaming City.
And before anyone states we need his help to stop the Almighty, how do we know he didn’t plan it this way and manipulate the Cabal into sending it to Earth so we’d [i]HAVE[/i] to power him up to repel it. He’s a super powerful Golden Age A.I. that has the potential to run rampant like in the Halo universe
I just feel like we’re being set up for a betrayal and that we should let Rasputin be. Our hubris will be our downfall
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I don’t really see why this is a question to begin with. It’s clearly stated that there is indeed a real reason why the Cabal are doing this. Due to the failure of the Sundial mission, the Red Legion has no more options left, no more plans, no more cards to play. Launching the Almighty is their last move of pure desperation. Rasputin has nothing to do with this. The Red Legion isn’t stupid, they know who and what he is. They wouldn’t listen to him if he told them to do something so crazy. They definitely no he is their enemy. Additionally, how would he even communicate with the Cabal, let alone without someone like Ana catching wind of it? And that cutscene with Osiris and Rasputin was clearly placed in the context and timeframe of Season of Dawn. As far as I remember, Bungie has never shown us a cutscene that takes place in the future, especially not that far. And lastly, as others have already said, Rasputin has never stopped protecting humanity after his reemergence. He clearly states in the end cutscene of Warmind that this is still his primary directive. He’s distrusting of Guardians and the Traveler. His method of protecting humanity are unorthodox to us and have been controversial, but he would never let the Last City get wiped out like that.