Destiny: Lore

Chapter 2: The Golden Age

In our list of accomplishments upon finding the Traveler, was that human lifespans had tripled, where to us, being 90 or 100 is old. But in the time after the Traveler, 90 is still young. People were now living up to 300 years of age, and over. Any hatred and intolerance we had for one another, had vanished. Similarly, nations and their people began to merge, and nations meaning worn when all united under a common understanding, born from this simple idea that we were not bound by petty grievances and poorly-thought-out wars, but instead born to conquer the stars.

Our culture began to circulate around three philosphies: Science, intellectualism, and reasoning. We began to support core debate on all sides, and on all topics. Centers were developed for these principals, like the Ishtar Academy on Venus, and Freehold on Mars. There were other human marvels, as well. The Baikonaut Cosmodrome in Russia was the epicenter of colonization and exploration. The cityscapes and metropolis of Titan, rising above the waves. Truly some of Humanity's greatest miracles.

Technological advancement increased tenfold as well. The Ishtar Academy's Centers of Technology and Reasoning on Venus discovered a long forgotten alien species that existed millennia before us. These were called the Vex. Yet, there were more discoveries to be made by Clovis Bray.

The fourth known state of matter, data of which isn't confined and constrained to physical matter, that can be configurable to anything through simples means. This was called Glimmer, but there was still much more. For example, the Warminds, the pinnacle of Golden Age technology. From within underground bunkers, they can hold weapons of mass destruction against the sky, burning it dark with ash and fire. With vast Artificial Intelligence, they could calculate and defeat even the most ingenious of foes. And with a vast army of constructs and frames, they could shatter a regime with ease. They could take on and wipe out entire legions, at once or one at a time.

But more came from the horizon of our curiosity was the puzzling case of the Exos. The Exo were made by Clovis Bray as well, and are humans with their conscious downloaded to the Exo's body. Science had come so far, that the Exos were accepted into mainstream life, living amongst humanity as one. But, with this comes that their originally programmed function was violent, suggesting that they're intended to be a device of war. Some claimed to have seen themselves fighting their human counterparts. This is remembered by every Exo as they dream.

One other invention made by Clovis Bray was SIVA. A programmable technology that can bend itself to form whatever the user desires. This was a desirable technology, as it could create habitation, anything beyond human comprehension, within reason, of course. It was so desirable that it was beginning to be used by colonists that wanted to expand out into the stars.

At this point, Humanity began to shine like a beacon in the night, illuminating the stars and proving time and time again that our destiny wasn't to remain on earth alone, to be fallen prey to our petty squabbles, but to ascend to greater heights.