greetings guardians my name is biff here so i wanted to cover something that's a bit of
a terrifying leftover mystery this is the mystery of gouging light the sparrow from the raid vow of
the disciple the sparrow in itself isn't all that interesting i mean sure it has the cool fractal
patterns that come from its engines and they look similar to rolex resonance energy that's a cool
flavor thing but the appearance of the sparrow isn't the reason the sparrow is interesting
as is usually the case it's what you can read from its lore what if i told you that amanda
holiday reconstructed this sparrow after the first iteration of it was nuked what if i told you that
the reason it was nuked was because something that came from within it came from rock's pyramid
and couldn't be allowed to go any further it's about to get strange here i don't even
have all the answers to this one but be prepared to lock in for a very interesting
and honestly open-ended mystery so what's going on with gouging light well let's go ahead and
read the flavor text on the law tab and then we can focus in on some specific bits and pieces
all told i can't believe holliday was able to put it back together not a lot
left after a small-scale nuclear blast in the moment his sparrow crashed there was no time
to react to brace to think there was however an instant for him to feel an unbearable brief
eternity when everything in marco's world was pain nothing else existed just the simple
sharp agony that made up his whole universe and just as quickly it was gone stillness the sound
of a motorized wine returned to him first ringing in opposition to the pulsing ache in his head
slowly his eyes adjusted and he glimpsed the unbearable brightness of the martian sun
slowly and all too quickly payne returned to smother all else the sparrow beside him
smoked reactor shielding intact but only just he hide a long gouge in the ground
where the bike had bottomed out and scraped its way across the ruddy landscape where it had rolled
over his he looked down at what was still attached of the leg broken twisted meat bile caught in his
throat and he choked it down before realizing the mangled limb was the only corner of his flesh free
from pain the sun royals white beyond white plumes lick wounds hope births agony births stillness
strained electro mariachi music still sputtered through the sparrow's speakers
marco struggled to inhale and a flutter in his chest hinted at a punctured lung
punctured his ragged breath caught and he looked for the sample containers packed so
carefully and cautiously by the guardians who'd survived the raid on the throne world pyramid
his gaze fell on container 6010 lying cracked against a spar of basalt
yawning plasma thick embrace light gouging light only warm shadows black veins snaked through the
red dust through the wreckage hand-delivered glory strips pain from those too weak to savor
they wound through the soil and where flesh met dirt had already traced into his limb
the sparrow's carriage throbbed like a heart and marco could feel the hymnal rhythm
in his leg worlds burned free sweet still ash visions crowded his mind spilling into his mouth
and lungs threatening to drown him in bliss his shattered leg turned and popped and righted itself
and euphoria filtered through him where pain should be deep still safe embrace
he dragged his sidearm from its holster gasping as he took careful aim at the cracked reactor
shielding so soft and still his mind tore free and in an unbearable brief eternity
he gulped one final breath lie still what remained of marco squeezed the trigger
so that's how this sparrow that was carrying all the things that had been recovered from the raid
on the pyramid in the throne world got nuked on the sands of mars probably on the way back to
the enclave if i had to make a guess so that they could be reported to the hidden anti-core array
and from here we have a whole lot of questions one quick thing i want to point out before we go any
further is to do with syntax if you take a look at the dialogue that you get in that law tab you get
the perspective of marco in normal text and then you get these reverse square brackets which seem
to in many cases indicate that something else is going on it feels like dialogue from another
person in this instance and it's very hard to confirm who that is but we'll talk a little
more about that later the questions that we inevitably get from this particular law tab
start with inevitably what was being transported in specimen containers 6010
how dangerous was it and what was it doing to poor marco to start with the what was being transported
question first i think we need to look at some context clues that we get from both the raid and
the law tab to really have a clue as to what's going on and at this point i should leave a note
here that everything that you're about to hear is speculative at best not a single thing that i'm
going to talk about from here on is confirmable and can be clearly stated as anything other than
head canon or at very best as theory informed by what we can see in game that is still at best an
educated guess so buckle up let me know your own thoughts in the comments section because no one's
view here is completely valid until we know more about this stuff from the law entry we can see
that whatever was in container 6010 snaked towards poor marco in black veins across the sands of mars
it seems almost sentient in this way like it's moving of its own accord but we can't confirm
if that's just the nature of its function or if it actually does have a will of its own
the black veins began to seep into marco's leg and sort of replaced it healing it but
not in quite the right way it was noted that marco's feeling of pain was replaced with one
of euphoria and the substance also seemed to fill marco's head with visions and made his
leg beat in the rhythm of the sparrow's engine block it's also crucially noted at the end here
that the healing process as it's been noted isn't truly healing by the looks of it
because when the law entry ends it's noted that what was left of marco pulled the trigger
implying that the thing in container 6010 was transforming marco into something else entirely
and not really healing so much as replacing what his legs should have been now that description of
black veins isn't particularly solid but i think there's actually something we can see in the raid
which might relate to what that is when you kill either of the two raid bosses you can see this
nasty looking black ooze coming from out of them in strange vein-like patterns they seem
to commonly form in what looks at first like right angles but then quickly seems to descend into more
of a root-like structure a little bit like the symbols on the side of various walls in the raid
that you can see in the upended it just sort of grows outwards in singular lines that break off
you can also see something similar on the side of the upended but i don't believe the two are
actually related it's just kind of similar and ultimately i mean look at this thing it's like
the root system of a tree arcing out in all directions almost as if searching for something
if you sit around and wait for the caretaker to finish the animation on this one it goes for quite
a while and the root system grows pretty big now this to me is the closest we can see to something
that fits that description of black veins but again i don't know if the two are connected
we don't actually know what this stuff is but the fact that it bursts out of rock and out
of the backpack of the caretaker which creates the resonant suns sometimes referred to as bees
or fish tells us that we're dealing with some kind of dark energy so if and that's a big if
but nonetheless if the stuff that comes out of the caretaker and rulk when they die is related
to the substance in container 6010 then there's clearly some kind of potent dark energy within it
something that is clearly harnessed by the witness and its minions what's more
the dialogue throughout the entire lore tab seems to imply that the substance was talking to marco
almost that's that overwhelming thoughts that we were getting with the triple square brackets
intermediately throughout the entirety of the lore tab we're going to go ahead and run a really
scary theory here and i'm going to go ahead and remind you again that none of this is confirmed
so again go wild with your own thoughts in the comments section but these are my thoughts
we've seen a ton of stuff in this expansion about how the darkness and particularly objects like the
relic are linked to the dark power of deep sight it generally implies that the darkness and its
power is linked to memory the hidden investigation board links to this even more with speculation on
the nature of how the witness took mars and caused some areas of it to be overrun with
temporal anomalies now let's take a wild leap and assume that the contents of container 6010 are in
fact salvaged from where we see the black veins in the raid in other words from either the corpse of
the caretaker or more fittingly perhaps from the corpse of rulk imagine for a second that this is
the remnants of him and one can see a potentially interesting interpretation of this substance and
its purpose imagine if you will that the voice speaking in these odd triple square brackets is
in fact rulk and that the fluid contains his potency power or even memory and personality
that would act as a sufficient explanation of why marco was beginning to become well not marco by
the end of the lore entry the parlance of the dialogue seems to fit well with wulk and his
patterns of speech it's almost arrogant but some of it is very grandiose in the way that it chooses
its vocabulary it could be some other character maybe even some influence of the witness but i
wouldn't put too far a stretch on it to be the witness i think that this is some kind of strange
implication that there's reconstruction going on here and again the reason i think that's possible
is because the darkness and deep sight and that power generally is all linked to the power of
memory and if this does contain the memory or at least the semblance and personality of rok
perhaps that's what was being reconstructed here again that's my particularly strange and
odd theory but nothing can truly be confirmed here not least because of the fact that this thing got
nuked from orbit speculation is the best we have but i am gonna throw a line down here
and say there's one very clear thing that it's not in spite of the visual representations given
and how similar i'm sure many people think it looks like no i do not believe this thing is siva
don't even entertain that let's just no i'm sorry the visual similarities aside this is very clearly
something different but this is realistically where i pass the baton and ask you what you think
what do you reckons going on here i personally haven't got a clue my best guess is that the black
veiny substance that came out of it is something related to the deaths of rock and the caretaker
but even that is a theory at best and i don't know what's truly happening here
the name gouging light doesn't give us too many clues either as best i can tell maybe you have a
better idea maybe someone else does but either way this was dangerous enough that in his last moments
marco pulled the trigger of his sidearm and nuked himself and it and all the other specimens
recovered from the throne world pyramid this is a big deal and i just don't think we've gotten to
the bottom of it yet so let me know your thoughts down below in the comments section let me know
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