[quote]Lore/Story: 1. The Traveler. What is it exactly? Why did it arrives and helped humanity? Do we know who or what is inside? Does it belong to any of the known races? Why did the Cabal destroyed part of it? (I am not even sure I remember correctly why it is broken). [/quote] Hoo boy, tough one right off the bat. We don’t know exactly, but it appears to be the physical conduit for the Light, one of the two cosmic deities in the Destiny universe. Pre Shadowkeep the answer would have been it was running from the Darkness. The Traveler advances races rapidly in order to attempt to defeat the Darkness. With Shadowkeep and a few pages of a particular lore book, it seems the Darkness and the Traveler are playing a cosmic game. The Traveler seeds and guides life, the Darkness eliminates it. We don’t know. Nope, it’s a big ball of mystery. Whether the Traveler was manifested by the Light or built for it by another race is unknown. The Cabal didn’t destroy part of it. If you’re talking about the Shard, that was left by the Traveler purposefully during the Collapse in order to allow us to get our Light back. The Traveler doesn’t seem time as a straight line. If you’re referring to it defeating Ghaul, that wasn’t any actual damage. The Traveler merely cracked it’s shell while bursting out of the cage. [Quote]2. Who is the leader of the Vex? Who created them and what is their purpose?[/quote] We don’t know, it’s highly likely they don’t have a singular overarching mind. The Vex are divided into subtypes, each with a different purpose or method of achieving their end goal. Presumably the Vex made themselves, given that they are organic. They liquified themselves and put the liquid into the robots. Their purpose is to become eternal by becoming a fundamental law of the universe, like Gravity. [quote]3. Are there other races existing in Destiny universe outside of humans, vex, cabal, hive and fallen? Any clues of something intelligent somewhere else?[/quote] If there are, not many. The Hive’s entire purpose is a crusade of universal genocide in the name of the Sword Logic, the Final Shape and the Deep. The Books of Sorrow detail several of these species slaughter by the Hive over billions of years. The Cabal are also not a single race, the empire is made up of several species. We also see a few more races through Calus’s Shadows. [quote]4. Why did humanity never met any of those races before now? Are the Hive supposed to be the ''Darkness'' that was chasing the Traveler? If I remember correctly, there was something about darkness and every races were running away from it?[/quote] The Vex presence in the solar system predates humanity’s. We just had to gain the ability to get to them. They were the first race encountered before the Collapse, Clovis Bray fighting a secret war against them with the Exos. The Hive are not the Darkness, but they are the enemy race most closely associated with it. Oryx, the former God-King of the Hive, had communed with the Darkness itself to learn the power to Take. The Fallen are running from it as they had their own Collapse called the Whirlwind. Only problem is the Traveler didn’t save their asses, the Fallen from that time period are also almost all extinct. The Cabal are at war with the Hive. It seems their presence in the Solar System was not to expand their Empire, but to learn what they could in order to defend it. If Oryx hadn’t shown up and decimated their forces, the Cabal would have launched a full scale invasion of the City from Phobos. [quote]5. Are there other world / planet outside of the solar system? At the beginning of Destiny 2, are we against the entire fleet of the Cabal? or just a part of it? and their leader, was it the ultimate Cabal leader or not? I've seen a golden ship with Cabal that were not agressive towards me, what is it?[/quote] Yes. No, that fleet was specifically the fleet belonging to the Red Legion, led by Dominus Ghaul. Even then it was not even the entire fleet, as Ghaul launched simultaneous assaults on key areas in the Solar System, most notably wiping out the Sunbreaker order of Titans completely in their conquest of Mercury. Dominus Ghaul for all intents and purposes, was the leader of the Cabal. He did not yet have the title of Emperor, as he wanted to claim the Traveler first. Calus, the guy in the golden ship, was the previous Emperor, overthrown by Ghaul. He may very well have his old position back, or he might no longer care for his broader empire. Calus met the Darkness during his exile after Ghaul’s betrayal, it’s turned him into the most cheerfully nonchalant pessimist ever. Calus has a keen interest in us Guardians. Calus’s end goal is to be the last living thing in existence before the Darkness finally kills him, we’ve impressed him to the point where he has become obsessed with our Guardian becoming the Queen on his chessboard, his right hand, his Shadow of Shadows. [quote]6. Is the tower the only humanity stronghold? Or are there a bunch of places on Earth with survivor and people as important as those main characters such as Zavala and Ikora?[/quote] No. On Earth, maybe. The main place you need to remember is the Reef. They’re central to the universe and the war that’s coming. [quote]What exactly destroyed humanity? Like why is everyone dead on every planet but not on Earth? How did some survived that cataclysm?[/quote] The Darkness. The big fleet of Pyramid ships. Simple. Not all of humanity was destroyed, any that survived would undoubtedly attempt to rally together, Earth was where the Traveler was and therefore the last place the Darkness got to. The Traveler crippled itself and out itself into a coma to repel the Darkness and leave us with Ghosts. [quote]What are the ghost? Did they come from the Traveler?[/quote] The Ghosts came from the Traveler. They seem to be part of a new method of combating the Darkness, as before the Traveler made an exception and held its ground with us, they did not exist. [quote]9. Who are the nine?[/quote] Complex question. To keep it short, they are dark matter entities linked to the planets in our solar system given consciousness by the life that sprung up around it.