Destiny 2’s New Villains May Have Killed JFK With Graviton Lance

Well, that’s not a headline I expected to write today. With a week to go until the launch of Destiny 2’s Edge of Fate expansion, Collector’s Editions for the game are starting to go out. As is tradition, Bungie threw in a bunch of weird lore stuff that has puzzles that need solving, but often some fun stories as well.

This one is…something.

As pointed out to me by Destiny conspiracy theorist/Nine truther Skarrow, there are some indications in here that it’s possible that The Nine killed JFK. Or at least shaped events that led to the killing of JFK. Yeah, it’s weird, but after looking into this, I am a believer.

This is based on two pages from the Collector’s Edition specifically, logs from The Department of External Observation in Chicago where new character Lodi appears to have worked before being pulled through time and space, presumably by The Nine. (I’m calling The Nine villains here because some members almost certainly will be, but others may not, as Bungie said all have unique goals and personalities).

Here are the relevant sections:

“It is my personal assessment that, at this time, ████████████████████████ stability required ████████████████████████ without causing enough disturbance to have been noted as part of the event. At the very least we would expect to see █████████████████████████, which remains at detectable levels for at least three years post-failure, but our readings at Dealey Plaza indicate nothing out of the ordinary.”

“After extensive review of the materials recovered from the ████████ Incident, I can find no conclusive link between the weaponry and energy sources present at the Incident, and the evidence from the scene of President Kennedy’s assassination.”

So, it was investigated, but they didn’t do it, right? Well…

“As █████████ testifies, both imaging and physical examination of the brain revealed extensive disruption of the tissue. While this is expected of a gunshot wound, closer examination by our Department revealed subtle patterns in the disruption. █████████ and █████████ concur that the pattern is indicative of tissue being pulled towards the projectile as it passed through the skull, before it was pushed outward again. This is unusual behavior.”

The other thing to catch in here is that the “weaponry” appears to have a “pattern [that is] indicative of tissue being pulled toward the projectile as it passed through the skull before it was pushed outward again.”

Does that remind you of any specific Destiny weapon? Perhaps a gun that people know almost nothing about that was randomly found in Old Chicago, the location of this agency? Here’s some Graviton Lance lore:

“So wait, that thing you found does… what?”

“It fires black holes.”

“No it doesn’t.”

“Oh yeah. It does. Actual, tiny, bullet-sized black holes.”

“Did you tell the others?”

“Only that I found some weird gun in some overgrown tunnel back on Old Chicago.”

Skarrow muses that perhaps it was Lodi, influenced by The Nine, who killed JFK, but I’m not sure there’s evidence of that. But I mean this entire section seems to indicate that some sort of outside force, possibly one time traveling, either influenced or actually carried out the assassination.

What.

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