[GameSpot] - Destiny 2's Latest Quest Could Be The The Next Step To Changing Everything

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There's a new quest in Destiny 2's Season of the Worthy this week, and while it's only slowly unfolding, it could be very important to the overall story the game has been building over the last year and a half. "The Lie" concerns Rasputin, the artificially intelligent Warmind at the center of this season's tale. Given the backstory of Rasputin and some hints we've been seeing over the last few seasons, The Lie could have some major implications--and it could be the next step toward developing a new kind of conflict in the fourth year of Destiny 2.

Rasputin is a character who has existed since the start of the original Destiny, and yet one we know little about. During the Golden Age, the period of prosperity that started with the arrival of the Traveler in Destiny lore, Rasputin had control of defenses for the entire solar system. It is possibly the only character in Destiny who was present for the big apocalyptic event known as The Collapse. Rasputin's connections with all those defenses were cut over the centuries that followed the Collapse; most of the Season of the Worthy has been centered around restoring Rasputin's capabilities so it can shoot down a giant Cabal spaceship, the Almighty, before it crashes into the Last City and kills everybody.

Reconnecting Rasputin to its defenses has given the computer a whole bunch of power, something that a few Destiny characters have voiced concerns over. Since Rasputin was first rediscovered back in Destiny 1, Zavala has been concerned that the Warmind shouldn't be trusted. After all, despite having an army of Guardians on its side, humanity is on its last legs in the Destiny universe. A rogue computer with a bunch of orbital weapons satellites is not an enemy that the Guardians' leadership, the Vanguard, really wants to have to deal with. And while Rasputin's mandate is to protect humanity, who knows how exactly it might decide to go about that--or whether his internal circuitry is in prime condition hundreds of years after his construction.

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