Destiny 2's Season of Dawn is winding down, with only about three weeks left before the next season kicks off. As is now typical of Bungie's approach to the story it dishes out in its seasons, we're starting to get hints of where things will go next. A new cutscene suggests that the next season will again involve Rasputin, the giant AI "warmind" players have been interacting with in short bursts since the vanilla campaign of the original Destiny.
The new cutscene starts up as soon as you load the game with the weekly reset for February 18. In it, Osiris, the time-traveling former Guardian who's been hanging out on Mercury throughout the Season of Dawn, visits the uncovered Rasputin bunker we last visited in the Warmind expansion in Destiny 2's first year. The scene is short, but it's very confrontational; speaking to Rasputin, Osiris accuses the super-smart computer of being a betrayer, and asks where it stands in the continuing battle of Light versus Dark.
There's a lot of lore surrounding Rasputin, but we're lacking a lot of information about the computer's loyalties or agenda. Back before The Collapse, the apocalyptic event in Destiny 2's past that ruined the solar system and created the world we've been playing in since the first game launched, Rasputin was created to run the entire system's global defenses. We know that, eventually, some kind of evil alien threat known as The Darkness showed up, and it seems that Rasputin fought it. Then the computer mostly went silent. The Warmind expansion revealed that, rather than allow itself to be captured or destroyed by the Hive, Rasputin froze the whole area of Mars where its main bunker was located. But we've interacted with it a few times since then, and we're still not sure what it ultimately might be up to.
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