It has been a week since the expansion launched, so I assume most people are caught up on the campaign and main story elements. My hat off to Alison Luhrs and the narrative team, because I loved the Edge of Fate story and its conclusion. While the Light and Dark Saga was a long, slow build-up until we finally learned what the Witness was and what its true goals were, the Fate Saga has hit the ground running. We know what the overarching story is. We know where we are going, and we know what the Nine's intentions and motives are, and we know what we have to do to save the people of Sol from extinction. The ending was also a great scene that cemented Maya Sundaresh's villainy and the threat she poses. She killed III by forcing them to enter our plane of existence through the Echo of Command, and she did it because III refused and couldn't bring forward the Golden Age Earth as she wanted. Which brings us to what Maya's motives will be going forward, as Desert Perpetual revealed: with an elevated level of power over timelines from combining the dark matter powers of the Nine with Vex technology, she wants to swap our Earth (perhaps the entirety of Sol System) with that of a Golden Age Earth from another timeline. If she did so, that Golden Age Earth would be "moved" out of the path of the Collapse. With the Witness unmade, she doesn't believe there will be any potential threats to the swapped Golden Age Earth, or at least none she couldn't handle with the Echo's power and the Vex under her command. On the other hand, that'd drop us right in the path of the Collapse, and she wouldn't care what happens to us as a result. If it were to happen...Well, it'd be a fascinating story to play out, needing to fight against the Witness and its force during that time while also finding a way to undo the swap, but how they'd pull it off within the current structure of expansions is another discussion. ------------------------------- I loved Lodi's character during the story campaign, and you cannot help but feel for him. He was ripped out of the 20th century (either the 60s or the 70s), and pulled across space and time to Kepler because he was seemingly the only person suitable within millennia to become the new Emissary after Orin quit, and he has to deal with the knowledge that he can't go back. Ikora's story was also a surprise, and I'm still not over it. I mean, the Nine were so dead-set on making sure Ikora Rey wound up on Kepler [i][b]that they threw a -blam!- temporally-displaced subway train at Nella Davis to ensure she died.[/b][/i] They probably also knocked her forward in time with that train so she'd wind up at the exact right place for Ophiuchus to resurrect her as Ikora. With that being the case, what does that say about all the other Dark Timelines that Elsie lived through, where Ikora still exists as a Guardian? I'm all but convinced the Nine have some influence over timelines as well, and that Elsie's timeloop might be tied up with their influence, but I might make that another post. Simply put, I am excited for what the future of the story holds.