Lee Harvey Oswald, you may be off the hook—in theDestinyuniverse, at least.
Yeah, it sure sounds likeDestiny 2’snew DLC,The Edge of Fate, launching today in a few hours, is going to get real weird with time travel shenanigans in the wake ofThe Final Shapeputting a bow on the whole Light and Darkness Saga with The Witness and such.
I’ve spent over a decade as aDestinynerd, but for the past year or so, I’ve been pretty checked out. I feel like defeating The Witness was a proper endpoint for the series, but Bungie is pressing on withThe Edge of Fateand more DLCs to come. I wasn’t all that hyped until just this morning.
It was brought to my attention by a co-worker that the DLC’s new character, a mysterious man named Lodi, who’s seemingly a time traveler of sorts, might have done something very bad. Basically, the expansion’s new character may have come from the past and somehow been manipulated by The Nine (powerful and mysterious entities made of dark matter that look to be the focal point of this new saga) to assassinate US President John F. Kennedy. What.
Highlighted a few days ago byForbes’ Paul TassiandYouTuber Aztecross, the new lore drop can be found in the Collector’s Edition ofThe Edge of Fate,which comes with a bunch of physical goodies and unique tidbits about the story, as Bungie is wont to do with expansions.
To put it as succinctly as possible, the physical items contain documentation from an entity known as The Department of External Observation that indicates JFK was killed by the exotic pulse rifle Graviton Lance (possibly by Lodi before or after he was pulled through time and space by The Nine).
The reports state that the president’s bullet wound pattern “is indicative of tissue being pulled towards the projectile as it passed through the skull, before it was pushed outward again,” which would be a signature of the gun that fires mini black holes through space and time. Whoa.
It wouldn’t be the first time JFK’s murky assassination was explained in a game, either.Call of Duty: Black Opsfamously put the player character behind the gun after being brainwashed, but this seems a whole lot odder and more sci-fi.
Trailer footage for the DLC shows Lodi in what looks like a 1960s time period before he ended up atThe Edge of Fate’snew destination, Kepler, so it seems as though this new era will lean heavily into The Nine and how they are able to manipulate such events, and why.
And now I’m suddenly excited for this expansion, because, what the hell? This type of utter ridiculousness is not what I would expect fromDestiny 2.So if we’re going to embrace the weird of traveling through space and time, time paradoxes, and complicated silliness of the ilk, then I’m all for this next chapter.
Destiny 2: The Edge of Fatekicks off year eight of Destiny 2 this afternoon at 12pm CT.
