So I was thinking back to destiny ps4 launch demo and also about recent talk of strikes and how they will operate and (you probably all drew this conclusion before I did) but I was thinking that strikes would be launched from the tower via our ships and fast travel.
In the ps4 reveal when Jason jones turned up it was a low level flyby of his ship and his character being transported down to the surface without the ship stopping. It has also be said that we will party up and launch our strikes as quick missions that start in a specific area.
I believe the tower and possibly other centers in the other worlds will allow us to party up then we will start the strike it will fast travel us to the site where we get the arrival cutscene of our character being teleported to the beginning site (possibly also see each other's ships arrive in the same dynamic cutscene so our ships are shown off) and then we begging the strike. Imagine we go to the ship graveyard from the concept art and see our character materialize thought the window of the starship looking in from the outside!
I also believe that for a kind of instant fast travel system out ships will swoop over and teleport us back up.
My reasons for this include multiple references from deej about transporting the matter of their sparrows down to the surface so we know that teleportation from ship to surface is a thing.
Not quite what I had hoped from the space side of things but liveable especially if the ships and customizations of us and our fire team are highly visible in the process!
Sorry for the rant! Let me know what you all think!
This makes sense. You may have the planet to explore, but there will only be certain areas of the planet available to explore. The whole concept of a central hub would make this process believable.