So after seeing some interesting comments on the latest community spotlight, I have a rather frightening theory.
The Traveler is merely a spherical space craft for a powerful space tiger. You heard right.
The Traveler = A TIGER.
Proof, you say?
1. As most of us should know, the original project title for Destiny was Tiger.
2. "A 'random' tiger tail in the center of the 20 years of Bungie artwork, a tiger in the Deej letter videos and now a huge cat collage of the Destiny traveller wallpaper... Something is going on here... And I bet that it's related to tigers and destiny...." - Joen in the latest articles comment section.
Two reasons seems plenty enough evidence for me, so there you are.
Theory: During the early space-faring days of man, a tiger was jettisoned into space. He floated through the cosmos contemplating his own felinity, when he became awashed in gamma radiation Hulk-style. The jumbo-sized jungle cat was bestowed with magical powers and knowledge exceeding anything that humanity had ever dreamed of. He landed on a faraway planet and forged himself a large chrome spherical craft with which he could return to Earth. Out of thankfulness for the great gift he had been given, he bestowed mankind with a fraction of his knowledge and technological bounty ushering them into their Golden Age bringing us to the Destiny timeline. Pretty neat, eh?
I, for one, welcome my new striped feline overlord. Do you?
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A great way to end the game would be to have the orb-thing open, and you look inside...and promptly get your head blasted off, without ever seeing what was in the ship. And then the Traveler destroys the world. The end!