Daily Thread - Lore Thursday [SPOILERS AHEAD]

I remember seeing that theory too - it's one I find quite plausible. Some grimoire entries to back it up:

First off, Ghost Fragment: Old Russia covers the launch of an orbital weapon.

Yes, it is, uh, it is an antimatter payload, a strategic asset. Specifically? Ah, I believe it's an annihilation-pumped caedometric weapon.

Caedo is the Latin to cut out/down/to pieces, so this weapon is presumably designed to tear into its target, and rip it apart from the inside.

The entire card has a tone of secrecy to it, mentioning things being done so nobody would notice. It ends with:

We both know where the order came from.

In Ghost Fragment: Rasputin we hear Cayde-6 talking about Rasputin's armaments:

Rasputin pretty much ran the Golden Age, especially all the secret military business. Rasputin had antimatter-powered death rays and a hundred thousand satellites and nearly as much brainpower as me. Rasputin fought the Collapse. It knows things we need.

This pretty much confirms that the weapon launched was under Rasputin's control, and probably ordered by Rasputin himself.

Next, we have Ghost Fragment: Mysteries, which (while it isn't immediately obvious) is Rasputin discussing his fight against the Darkness. I bear an old name. It cannot be killed - Rasputin's namesake was known for surviving dozens of assassination attempts, against all odds.

I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp

Knowing Rasputin's weaponry from the previous cards, this starts to tie in the idea of the weapons being blades; knives that cut from the sky with immense power.

Finally, we get to the Ghost Fragment: The Traveller 3 card. The first two lines:

The knife had a million blades.

And you were giant, powerful and swift. But the knife pinned you. Cut your godly flesh away.

Sounds a lot like Rasputin's weapons, doesn't it?

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