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so I think there's a pretty clear thing that most seasoned Destiny veterans spotted in the season
finale for the season of the Seraph namely it was this moment where the traveler hung above
the Earth in a fashion that mimicked the original key art for Destiny from about 10 years ago it's a
pretty iconic image and a lot of people were very quick to point this out it was a very
important moment in the story no matter what and well I think Bungie knew that and maybe has been
planning for it for a while however there are a lot of little bits in the rest of the finale
that you might not have noticed which are also pretty special so let's go ahead and talk about
those to start us off there were more moments of the traveler in space than just that final shot
above the Earth namely there's this moment here where Bungie is showing us the moment
as the traveler is leaving the atmosphere and it's actually a moment that they believe was so
special that they're selling it on the bungee store which is odd considering that the first
shot we discussed is well I mean it's easily a lot more iconic it's certainly a lot more
recognizable but what you might have missed is that this art piece replicates a law book
that we got within the shadow keep expansion and the law book's cover looks like this yeah that's
a pyramid on the other side of it and that is absolutely The Traveler getting into position
the law book was sent to us from the perspective of the witness and it's called unveiling note how
the traveler is perfectly framed within that shot on the left hand side yeah this was probably a
really clear callback to this particular law book this moment is only made all the more important
when you listen to Rasputin's final message which contained a note about a discovery from
within the Novelo stronghold files that references something or someone or somewhere called The Veil
this hidden Veil whatever it may be is a coincidence that can't be ignored considering the
name of that law book being unveiling maybe it's time to go back and re-read this law book it's a
very important read as far as understanding the perspective of the witness but it also explains
some of the primordial myths of the destiny Universe to this day it's the oldest record
we have of the Darkness and Light and canonically assuming that it is indeed correct and not filled
with lies which is always a possibility it would actually represent the first moment in chronicled
history and Destiny that we can reach back to next up something cool that only players with a really
Keen Eye would have noticed it's this if you go through the final mission the abhorrent imperative
Mission you can actually get a potential look at the idea that the traveler and its departure
might have been hinted to in advance during the mission well sort of Let Me Explain as you're
going through that season finale mission on the left side of your screen you always get a bunch
of contextual information there's your objective there is your ammunition there is the status bar
that fills up with things there is the little notification series of pop-ups and then there's
your radar yeah this is another one of those moments your Radar's Loadout in this particular
mission is not being used to designate location in fact it has no correspondence with your location
at all as best I can tell it does however track where you are in the mission as far as chronology
and the reason being is that it's telling us the events that are playing out in that moment
below the radar you will see what is happening in war mind code for the most part A lot of it
requires breaking down as a result but it tells us things that we otherwise might have missed
this is what it will tell us as you go through you can start and you will see the following at
the beginning of the mission aicom Rasputin assets War watch imperative I believe this is Rasputin
trying to assess the state of the warsats being engaged in the attack on The Traveler
the next following line reads compiling latest bracket zero close bracket intelligence
event is skyshock and context is Hades error rasputin01 Cognito not detected Rasputin root
bypass initiated in sequence these bits of War mind code mean the following first of all Rasputin
is looking up the current state of the traveler we can tell this because whenever a warmind code
Notes The Traveler the notation of bracket o bracket with the O being a capital is used and I
think that's very deliberate because the O is just a big old Circle kind of like the traveler this
is something that comes up a bunch in the actual code for this particular bit and in warmind code
generally so remember the bracket o bracket bit it's going to be important in a moment the current
event of Aramis engaging the warsats in order to destroy the traveler is ranked as a sky shock
event classifying Aramis correctly as an extra solar threat skyshock alerts are often listed
as either an outside or inside context but in this instance the context is listed as Hades an inside
context Sky shock alert is one that the war mind has prepared for in some manner an outside context
Sky shock alert is one like the pyramids which Rasputin has not been able to plan for I can only
imagine that a Hades context Sky shock alert means something apocalyptic is happening or something
that will quickly lead to death and that Rasputin could have only planned for it in his worst
possible nightmares rspn01 Cognito not detected is perhaps a way of saying that Rasputin's new EXO
form is not present within the control of Seraph station and as a result the information we get
then is that Rasputin is hacking in represented by that next line of code rspn root bypass initiated
Rasputin then begins to regenerate encryption keys for the station in order to gain control
and as we are scaling the outside of the station this takes place a virus is detected Within These
station systems and in order to skirt this Rasputin enacts the silent valleys protocol
which as best we can tell is designed to evade the detection of hostile defenses within a data
system our map then reads the following morality processes offline midnight exigent in effect
this shows up as we fight Aramis and the note of midnight exigent is essentially saying that all
Rasputin's morality codes are released he is able to make his own choices which previously
included abandoning Humanity in order to devise a long-term strategy for their survival this is one
of the most underappreciated but important lines of code in this whole mission because essentially
it implies what has always been the case but really drives the point home Rasputin's decision
to sacrifice himself wasn't a programmed action within its code midnight exigent implies the
opposite it implies that Rasputin has no limits no restrictions and is free to make whatever
decisions he believes is most important his moral decision wasn't enforced by data in fact it was
given Freedom by data it was instead something that he personally determined and he chose to
sacrifice himself anyway now of course that is assuming something here which is that the data
readouts in the top left are all From Rasputin's perspective and I think that might not necessarily
be the case considering the later interactions within the mission especially the bits that we're
about to go over but it's worth noting that all of this bit about midnight exigent goes down as we're
fighting Aramis and we can see that Rasputin then starts gaining root access to the station's system
as the fight draws to a close he then begins to initialize Station security and it's this moment
that he begins to start deploying those heavy frames to Aid Us in battle when we get inside
we then see the following from the data feed activate Loki Crown this is aramis's work this
is the code that Clovis Bray originally created that would make the war mind unleash its weapons
on the traveler this was rolled into a greater protocol that the mission is named after abhorrent
imperative we then see the following lines of code which are our early hint as to the idea
that the traveler was going to leave the system after all they are as follows prevent traveler
departure by any means available spoof ISR and wall watch indicates imminent traveler departure
traveler departure compromises human survival and Epoch strategy stand by for abhorrent imperative
now here's the thing when you read the code at face value it indicates that according to whatever
the ISR and warsat network is The Traveler is preparing to depart the system remember
that bracket capital O bracket is the code for the traveler however the word spoof being before all
of that seems to indicate that this was actually just a tricked line of code that Aramis had used
in order to initiate the system for abhorrent imperative and to get the warsats to shoot at
the traveler it's not clear if that is the case but regardless this is something worth looking at
and this is why I say it might have been an early look regardless the idea of the traveler leaving
is discussed immediately and right on our screen there and to a certain extent it does make sense
this was the original design of the protocol if the traveler left it was something that Rasputin
was able to do abhorrent imperative was changed internal only by Rasputin systems so that it could
be used not that it would be used and also changed in a way that would allow Rasputin to shoot the
traveler as a possible exercise should it leave however the original protocol of Clovis Bray is
still in there and that is Loki Crown Loki crown of course is what would have turned him into a
god something that allowed the war mind to ascend something that allowed it to take the Traveler's
place as a result the protocol then counts upwards with Loki Crown being the code that we see for the
rest of the mission its status starts at 20 and goes all the way to 98 by the end of our
final boss encounter this indicates just how close Aramis got to her goal if we had been a little bit
later the warsats might have fired before red was ready to make his ultimate sacrifice regardless
of this it seems that the warsat network might have detected the potential for The Travelers
departure well before we actually saw its descent in game so keep that in mind we actually got a
little bit of a hint as to what was going to happen in the finale cutscene in the mission
as we were fighting our way through so all of that was a lot of code and jargon leading to something
pretty circumstantial however we can do a lot more simple stuff and we can take a look at some of the
other little bits and pieces that were Easter eggs during the finale take a look at the finale cut
scene again and look at the fire team standing behind icora and Zavala they are pretty mundane
looking but if you look closer and if you're a real Destiny veteran you actually might remember
that these three Guardians were from some of the original Destiny 1 trailers namely some of the
live-action ones it's a pretty neat throwback here and I think it sort of canonizes these particular
Guardians and their fire team and this isn't the only reference that throws things all the way back
to some of the earliest concept art in this last shot of the pyramids near Jupiter Bungie is making
another deliberate throwback namely to this piece of art here which is one of the first shots where
we actually ever saw the pyramid Fleet it's an old piece of art it's in fact one of the oldest pieces
of art that we have relating to the darkness and it's a pretty neat little look at things
considering that yeah we have actually been able to see this in-game now it's also pretty amazing
considering that this art is nearly 10 years old as far as its publication and we wouldn't even see
pyramid ships for another three to four years after this first piece had been published it's
another neat throwback that Bungie included in the season finale you might have missed but it's
not the only little detail that you might have missed from that particular shot take a look at
the middle of the fleet of ships and you'll notice that one vessel is notably different from all the
others that surround it I'm sure that a lot of you might have made this connection already and
I've mentioned it in a previous video but this is actually callus's ship you can tell because there
is the recess in the front of it where a massive statue of callus's face can be found this ship is
markedly different from all the other pyramid ships and It's featured in a bunch of trailers
for lightfall it is known as the Typhon imperator and it will set down in neomuna during the plot of
lightfall at some point in the meantime I think you can expect to see it joining the witness's
forces in their eventual assault on the last City next and probably most obviously we can see the
weapons inside the warsats during this trailer which look like upscaled sleeper simulants this
in itself isn't too surprising as it's probably more accurate to say that the sleeper simulant
is a scaled down version of this weapon when Rasputin began to reform itself around the time
of the taken King and warmind expansions it in engaged a protocol that had been running in the
background for quite some time a protocol known as iclos the ikelos protocol was intended to create
weapons for the war mines agents in this case Guardians in the field the sleeper simulant is
merely the first and most obvious result of this effort other efforts include the ikelos weapons
including the shotgun hand Cannon submachine gun and sniper rifle so given that Rasputin already
had these weapon designs it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that such weapons could have
been miniaturized initially this might have been done to Aid Rasputin's Golden Age agents known as
the seraphs now however these weapons are here as a repurposed tool for Guardian hands and lastly
the only detail that I think you guys might have missed on top of all this is this little detail
in the background moment from when Rasputin makes his ultimate sacrifice moments before
his frame drops in Earth you can see behind Anna Bray that there is the monitor with Rasputin's
code Matrix visible in the background as the Aurora sacrifice protocol is activated Rasputin
dies and the Matrix that for so long was akin to his face or Voice or personality something that
we've seen since the war mind expansion begins to disappear until it Peters out and then [Music]
yeah it's a neat little detail to include alongside the EXO frame going dark as for
a lot of us older Destiny players this is what we associate as being Rasputin watching It Fade Out
in the background is as much a part of watching Red's sacrifices watching the frame dive was it's
odd that some spaghetti lines on the screen should have such an impact but it's almost strangely
enough like watching a heartbeat stop or watching a hard monitor Flatline so there you have it those
are some things that you might have missed during the season of the serif finale I hope you enjoyed
the video and if you did go ahead and leave a like and of course know that your viewership
as always is quite enough for me and that in the meantime my name has been my name is beef
I'll see you starside
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