The upcoming second expansion “Warmind” for Destiny 2 will likely take place on Mars. While there are still some skeptical Guardians considering other possibilities, community members and an image from NASA now provide additional hints that may convince even the last doubters that it will soon be back to the red planet for the Guardians.
On May 8, 2018, the second DLC “Warmind” for Bungie’s current Destiny title will be released. While there is still no official information about the location of the next expansion, both previous leaks and official material all suggest that the continuation of the story will lead the Guardians to Mars.
Currently, there are still players who doubt this theory, but an official NASA image could convince even the last skeptics that the location of DLC II will indeed be Mars.
The U.S. space agency has already brought Destiny into the headlines before. Back then, NASA used an image of Earth’s orbit from Destiny 1 in their own tweet as a background for a montage. It seems Bungie is reviving this “cooperation” again.
However, some community members have apparently discovered crucial details that unmistakably point to the red planet.
The Mars is beautiful in the early morning light
Initially, on April 14, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted a NASA photo of Mars with the words “Mars is beautiful in the early morning light. Snow on the dunes.”
Shortly thereafter, Eric Osborne, the Marketing Director of Bungie, commented on this image with the words “Indeed.”
Recently, Osborne has not commented on planet images of any kind on social media. He has also not historically communicated with Chris Hadfield, other astronauts, or the U.S. space agency NASA publicly.
His reaction to the Mars image now embodies the ultimate hint for many fans that Mars will be the upcoming location of the Warmind expansion.
At the same time, this real image of snow on the sand dunes of Mars refutes the objections of some Guardians who have previously held the opinion that “snow, ice, and Mars – that doesn’t fit together.”
Official 4K-DLC image gives clues about the location
Other hints about the highly likely location of the upcoming expansion were provided by the recently released 4K image of the DLC by Bungie.
This image reveals more details than the original HD image and shows Reddit users that the two Mars moons Deimos and Phobos are now visible, with Phobos only becoming truly recognizable upon closer inspection.
This topic is currently being discussed in numerous threads on Reddit. Some Destiny hobby astronomers believe that Phobos is generally too close to Mars on this graphic and also in a wrong orbit.
However, entries in the Grimoire cards state that Cabal Psions have pulled this moon from its original orbit closer to Mars to use it as a weapon if necessary. Also, footage from the first Destiny title supports this statement. There, Phobos sometimes appears almost within reach of the Guardians – depending on location and its position in orbit.
Many Guardians see this constellation of the moons, combined with additional indicators like the background image of the DLC graphic or the footage from Destiny 1, as proof that the story of DLC II will take place on Mars.
What do you think? Do you believe that the story could take place somewhere else than on the red planet?
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