Reverse Engineering the Ship of Theseus in ‘Destiny 2’

[What you have seen will mark you forever.] It is early 2015, and I am getting my first clear of the Vault of Glass. After finding an LFG (Looking for Group) and defeating Atheon, I receive a Vision of Confluence and instantly replace my previous mainstay, the B-Line Trauma, a gun I would never see again forever…lost to the corridors of time.

It is late 2021, and I am on the 40th [of 58th depending on how you want to count it] clear of the Vault of Glass and the Vex Mythoclast has finally dropped for me after weeks and weeks of endless submission to the cruel god that is RNG. Given that it has been a long running trial of my entire team, they tell me to equip and fire the gun to know that it is real. I do so and stare at the text: …a causal loop within the weapon’s mechanism, suggesting that the firing process somehow binds space and time into…

Right now, we are waging wars against Valus Tau’rac, Zydron the Gatekeeper, and Crota (admittedly for a gameshow rather than as actual threats, but still) while evil stirs below in the Vault of Glass on Venus. The looming threat of a Hive God lingers over our heads like a guillotine ready to fall and somehow, Gjallerhorn and Sleeper Simulant are currently leading the way in the DPS meta. I constantly think about the fact that I have functionally been playing the same game for seven years and counting now. I will likely be playing it for many more years to come. It’s truly wild to think all the ways that the game has and has not cha…