greetings guardians my name is biff here and this place and time we have reached another
inflection point in destiny's story the first perhaps was the understanding that the darkness
can be wielded by guardians this came with our fight against the house of salvation and eramis
when we were learned that the darkness and its power could be controlled whilst its influence is
corrupting we slowly learned that its corruption truly originates from the presence of the witness
behind that power darkness itself is a neutral force not good or evil just as the light has
been used for ill by the warlords the darkness can be used for good as we have used it for good
but this was not something so easily understood by the citizens of the last city who saw their
guardians beginning to wield the very thing that they had sworn to protect those citizens against
they did not see the inflection points minutiae or nuance they saw only the evil that the darkness
had inflicted upon them being wielded by their protectors and then came another series of actions
that began to sow distrust the armistice with the cabal the incorporation of the house of light
and the realization that one of their great protectors osiris had been possessed by the
hive god of cunning this was the first set of inflection points it rattled the trust of
the city to its core and shook the foundations of their trust in the guardians now comes the second
inflection point the existence of hive guardians a challenge that may will break the fragile silence
of the citizens of the last city and challenge their beliefs to their core today we're going
to be talking about the way that the citizens of the city reacted to the news about hive guardians
by both looking at a few anecdotal accounts from characters and also by observing the nature of the
citizens of the last city when they are faced with challenges namely challenges such as the house
of light and the realization that guardians were beginning to wield stasis the reason we're looking
at all of these moments in their totality is because i think they represent a rather important
movement in the morale and trust of the citizens of the city and the support that the guardians
truly enjoy remember that that support does matter in fact the guardians only have a place in the
city thanks to the citizens and whilst we could sit up in our ivory tower forever inevitably we
are beholden to those that we protect and so the opinion of the people of the city matters
so let's chart where that popularity for guardians stood and where that trust for guardian stood
and see how we got to this moment because i do believe there was a point very early in the city's
existence when he was believed that guardians could do no wrong when i say early in the city's
existence i mean in the infancy of its existence before it was barely even a shanty town and
when the first few guardians they had seen were nothing but noble protectors this is an illusion
that would very quickly have been shattered and it would have been made clear that whilst the
traveler might have good intentions its guardians chosen by its ghosts well maybe they didn't
between dredge and yore and the warlords it was clear that evil guardians were indeed possible but
this distinction did not have a great effect when on the whole the guardians did make their attempts
to defend the people of the last city and as a result i think the citizens of the city fell into
a place where it was very easy for them to draw moral conclusions in simple black and white terms
now however wherever they look there are only shades of grey to question and be concerned about
so today we're going to go ahead and talk about the moments that led to that new status quo
and hopefully you'll all understand it just a little bit more i mentioned it in the beginning
but i think that first true inflection point where it was understood that guardians could
be corrupted is important to at least mention of course i already talked about dredging your the
fallen light bearer and the warlords who used the light for ill means and i mentioned them because
again they represent that important cardinal truth that the light does not make someone incorruptable
it does not mean that someone cannot be evil but from here we then start blurring the lines more
and more and we did this over a long time we did this when guardians made more and more morally
questionable decisions but then we reached the inflection point of beyond light and the wielding
of stasis remember that stasis itself as a power is not evil but the people of the last city do not
necessarily know this zavala and ikora have made public decrees that they do not condone the use
of stasis and they will not support the operations of guardians that go seeking out this power they
made these decrees publicly because the people of the city are still scared of the power of darkness
and they need to present a face of united leadership to the civilian population and
guardians at large some of whom are either questioning whether darkness should be used
or are actively hunting stasis users but then when you have examples of stasis being used within the
city such as the example shown in the reese walker shotgun from the iron banner you can start to see
what the real effect of guardian's wielding darkness does there is a very simple set of
reactions for all the characters in the city and i want you to take a quick note and remember the
reaction not only of those citizens to seeing stasis but also to the elixir in this story
vrxis you'll start to understand how terrifying this general sentiment about stasis really is
take a listen to this a hurled bottle strikes an elixir in the head sending him staggering to the
side in a crowded street glass glitters on the ground people gather in a semi-circle around him
shouting invectives and slurs as he bleeds midnight blue from a deep cut in his brow
he has nowhere to run cornered between a neon-lit club pulsing with the bass beats of rhythmic music
and an alley blocked off by rubble left over from the red wall please no harm verix is friend
he cries two hands clutching his head another held out flat as if it would ward off the crowd
looking for brother missing please the crowd does not care and they continue to work themselves
up into a further lakshmi two's words fill their mouths many of them too young or too naive to
realize it vrexis can't understand so many unfamiliar languages shouted at him at once but he
understands the tone of violence well his posture says everything the fear in his eyes carries
additional nuance he fears what happened to his brother hate begins to take root in his heart
a foundry worker steps out of the crowd threateningly racking around into a shotgun
he aims down at the elixir hands trembling you want to ask about family the human yells vrxes
does not know what he's talking about your people kidnapped my sister she was running supplies from
earth to titan you raided it rixx's does not he is cut off by a blast from the shotgun that
pulverizes the street beside him vrixis crumples to his knees and cowers please he says and in the
same motion picks up a broken piece of bottle he'd been hit with earlier to defend himself
the crowd screams in outrage when the foundry worker advances on vrixis and racks another round
into the shotgun there is a sudden cold snap that fills the air with mist the shotgun flash freezes
shatters like glass and scatters into pieces of blue black stasis the worker recoils clutching
his half-frozen arm screaming vrixis sees the crowd part behind his attacker and a hunter clad
in black and gold with luminous markings on her armor strides toward them both darkness coalesces
around her hand stasis crystals drift like tiny moons around her that's enough aisha shouts
you should all be ashamed of yourselves look at you aisha grabs the injured foundry worker by
the collar with her free hand and shoves him back into the crowd clear out before i clear you out
now wind swirls around aisha's feet kicking up crystalline debris in whirling threads of darkness
the crowd recedes like a violent tide some tripping over others in their haste to flee
as the crowd disperses aisha dismisses the sickle of stasis and the swirling wind at
her feet fades as well she turns looking at vrixis and offers a handout to him
i'm sorry she says with a tightness in her voice he cannot see her expression behind the facade
of her helmet rixis does not take the offered hand his eyes show the same fear the same hate
it's okay aisha says slowly offering her hand again you're safe now they're not safe vrxes
snaps aisha his eyes dipping down to her hand and then back up to her helm you are just like eremis
mind poisoned aisha's breath hitches in the back of her throat and she slowly lowers
the offered hand closing gloved fingers into a briefly formed fist you're hurt
at least let me escort you to a medical her voice trails off freaxis is already
backing down an alley blue eyes locked on her she feels a weight on her shoulders in
her heart the elixir disappears into the shadows leaving aisha alone under an endless night sky
the crowd that was assembled saw the power of stasis and went reeling in terror
some of them tripping over each other just to get out but what's even more telling is the reaction
of the elixir that was saved by this dark power vrixis was also terrified and even went as far
as to say that the guardian was mind poisoned like aramis this is really only half the story because
this also gives us insight into the beliefs of the citizens of the last city about the elixi but
furthermore than that that's really only something that gives further catalyst to point us towards
this belief amongst the ranks of the city's people that the guardians are no longer trustworthy
protectors we can see this clearly in the lore tab for another weapon from the season of the splicer
the lost cipher it's clear that vrxis's brother that he was looking for has been murdered in cold
blood by the city's civilians a small excerpt from it which i will only read a little of again
tells us part of the justifications used for such a heinous act for such a murder
and all of this is spoken by a mother to her daughter while she's trying to rope her into the
act of disposing of the body of the elixir they've just killed that small extract reads as follows
i don't have time to talk about this now her mother snapped you don't know what's
going on you didn't see them looking through the windows you didn't hear what one of them said in
the ramen shop for the first time her mother looked up dangerous intensity burned in her
eyes they're using the dark to blind us and we're not gonna let it happen now help me
helena walked slowly to the trash piled in the corner towels soaked with blue fluid rubbery tubes
strange scraps of metal a laminated card that read temporary her voice was small mama what did you do
the point of all this again is to simply demonstrate that the use of stasis by the
guardians has clearly not allowed them to earn their trust within the last city as easily
it has made them lose trust that was previously garnered and perhaps more importantly actions
such as the harboring of the house of light even if eventually in the season of the splicer there
was a degree of reconciliation have not helped either the decisions and leadership of the city
has ultimately been unsteady it has been rocked by the decisions of the guardians
and without any civilian government there to harbour up support and for the citizens to use
as a means of erring their grievances it is even harder now for them to trust us and all of this
results in what we have begun to see manifest in the new exotic titan armor the horfrost sea
within we see the perspective of another civilian who has lost faith in the guardians
i will say though his choice in new compatriots is rather interesting he's examining a dead ghost
that has been recovered most importantly this dead ghost is a dead hive ghost
take a listen to this the last city earth gx818 experimental notation
recovered hive ghost inoperable still responds to electrical impulse ran gauntlet of tests and
gleaned welcome protocol data new chest rig comes in handy for experimentation and observation every
time the ghost exhibits movement can render it inert without so much as lifting a finger
must employ this technique in future studies hardware architecture analysis confirmed
that this derelict creature exhibits a malleable structure certainly wasn't created with a specific
framework in mind and looks to have adapted its configuration to its light bearer once acquired
is this necessary for the bonding process for creating the perception of companionship
is it possible for a ghost to connect to a light bearer without undergoing restructuring previous
behavioral studies have shown that ghosts can be selective given lack of pre-programmed directives
it is now clear that they make conscious choices about whom to revive hardware
evidence suggests that ghosts were always capable of reviving hive perhaps they always intended to
addendum for spider you've asked me why i like to tinker with your toys before i deliver them
well here you are proof of what i've been saying all along we live at the whims of a
god who blesses the few at the expense of the many we follow leaders who claim to understand
this speechless orb and we are expected to do as it wills no matter the cost to ourselves
so many people still condemned to die and it willingly granted immortality to a death cult
served on a silver platter by these automata well i too have a will and i will not prostrate myself
before something capable of such evil your ever skeptical haka exile alexi well well alexi what
a fascinating set of discoveries you've unearthed for us from this we can learn a little bit more
about the nature of ghosts some speculation about the questions of whether they need to be bonded to
their light bearers or whether they are malleable by their very nature we learned that an exiled
hakka engineer is working for the spider we know presumably that the spider is still alive and most
importantly for the big picture of it all we know a little bit more about what this discovery has
done to the morale of people within the city the people in the city likely know about the lucent
hive if they don't right now on a whole they all eventually will in time and when they find out
i cannot imagine that the vanguard will enjoy the same degree of trust that they once did when that
moment comes i simply have to hope that any of the guardians will have enough authority to lead but
that's all from me for now i hope you enjoyed the video and i hope it gives you a bit more insight
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