Destiny 2 Lore - Does this Coded Secret Message Reveal The Witness's Plan in Final Shape!

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The Guardian: so you’re saying we’re some kind of Final Shape? Ghost: No, this is our Destiny The Witness, witnessing all of this: I guess you could say this is my Destiny Too

I'm still calling it: the Witness is made of souls forced into it's current shape and not all of them went with consent. This is similar to lore found on neomuna where citizens did not go into the cloud ark willingly. The end of scatter signal lore can imply that: "Though not all agree on all,all agree on this". If my theory is correct then just like in Full Metal Alchemist, we will wear the Witness down by communing with the dissenting souls using our powers, pull them out of the Witness via standing on a plate, dunking a ball, getting a buff, getting rid of a debuff, matching symbols, and a DPS phase with rockets.

Hey Byf, Two-Way Radio Technician here. Your explanation of signals and radio wave propagation was actually a pretty good and accurate explanation. An interesting thing about NM-O though in radio, an NMO style connector is used to mount the antenna of a mobile radio to the exterior of a vehicle. Do with that what you will.

My first thought was the 9 talking about the final shape and themselves understanding and agreeing.

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One thing I really hope for in TFS is that we encounter that one lady from the earliest concept of Destiny, the one that's just seems like one big trip

Hey has anyone ever questioned why the Traveler was Buriwd on the Witnesses planet in the first place? Like what happened for it to be put in that position in the first place

15:20 I don't think the Witness needs the Black Heart to accomplish its goals when the Witness itself is the being of Darkness, & someone from Bungie said in the reveal "the Witness has the Darkness & has always had a connection to it, the Pale Heart is what it's trying to use to gain access to the Light so with both it can enact its Final Shape". I think the Veil was only required to open the portal

I read the line “turn parallel into entanglement” as a shift in the quantum superposition of The Traveler and The Veil, a different way that the Witness is figuring how to merge them. Anyway there is definitely some weird cosmic fate destined to the Sol System, hence the Sol Divisive faction name for such 4th dimensional entities as The Vex, and of course, The Witness catchphrase.

I feel the Witness is recreating the black heart inside the traveler. Thinking back to Destiny Vanilla when we defeated the black heart there was dialogue stating that our Traveler would now begin to heal. Recreating the black heart near the pale heart would in turn harm the traveler since prior evidence kind of points to that fact.

scatter signal is also really really really good

I'm not 100% on NM-O being Osiris. NM-O01 was, but that's a specific designation, and not even necessarily for Osiris himself. It could literally just be the terminal he was using at the time. NM-O could just be a general designation for NeoMuna-Outgoing or something.

Expecting a Witness manscape read for next video.

At first, I was skeptical of your take on the source of the signal being the Veil/Traveler. However, as you explained, further things began to click into place for me. The Traveler doesn't generally communicate in direct terminology. In vanilla D2, we received a vision after Gaul kicked us off of his flagship. That was the Traveler telling us what was coming and what we needed to do. It communicates through symbology and metaphor. The scatter signal is basic alphanumeric code, which any intelligent being able to receive it could decipher. Yet, it is a code within a code. A poem, metaphor. I doubt the Vex would use such a simple method of communication to talk to other Vex. However, Osiris has been setting up sensors around the Veil and monitors them constantly. This is a fact within the lore. There's a possibility that it is the Nine. After all, the last line seems to indicate that there is a group that is struggling to reach a consensus, which is also something we know about the Nine. Not all of them agree that they should support humanity and its allies, but they all agree that there is no them without us. They also love their damn mysterious riddles. Personally, I hope it's the Traveler. After 10 years, I want to finally meet this being that has been an enigma to us. Perhaps once the Witness is stopped, we'll get to meet this being at the Galaxy Pools.

One theory I think could use some thought, what if the message came from the "freed" vex mind that's the base of the cloud-ark? Realistically we fought the vex throughout the neomuna campaign/post-campaign who were trying to reach that mind, what if this is it communicating back to tell us how what the vex are doing, or talking about in relation to the traveler?

This is a rare piece of lore nowadays that ignites the mystery and "I want to discover more of that" feel that Destiny felt like it really hasn't displayed in a long time. There's bits there for speculation that add up, but nothing enough to be certain. But it does make you intrigued to find out more. I hopre Bungie takes this signal thread somewhere.

I like to imagine that Bungie devs watch Byf’s speculation videos and go “Holy shit he got it right”

What about Ashir Mir? Or M-Sund-12? Or the original Maya Sundaresh? With the Ishtar clue at the end of the Exotic quest, seems like there may be some alignment.

Asher Mir is like reverse Siri, he downloads himself onto my phone and then tries to make his “assistant” do things for him THIS IS REAL LIFE STOP ASKING FOR PRECISION KILLS