So a little history with me and Destiny.
I played the Alpha way back in 2014 with a few RT folks, we got some early access and it was pretty fun to get a chance to play it before most folks.
Most folks picked to play Awoken, a few humans, and only a couple Exo. I was one of the few that picked Exo. I dig the robot-person thing, always have, so it was an easy choice.
A few months go by, Destiny properly comes out, everyone jumps into playing it HEAVILY, focusing on gameplay, the raids, etc.
Meanwhile I just play casually, mostly solo, never doing raids, just kinda “doin my own thing” sorta stuff.
Most of the lore of the game was locked away in grimoire cards that were readable only on the WEBSITE at the time. So it was just… “lore over there, gameplay over here” to an extent.
I lost interest in the game for a while because it inevitably focused on the raids as the real funneling point for gameplay, which as a solo player I could not do. So I just kind of “enjoyed it from a distance.” Played the DLC when it came out, yadda yadda yadda. Didn’t really even pay attention to the story, it was just “fun game to play sometimes.”
Zip ahead to 2016. A lot was about to change for me, more so a lot of things had already changed but I just didn’t say anything yet.
Bungie announced Destiny 2 early that year, so I was like “OKAY COOL!” and decided to go back and read the lore that I just kinda … skipped out on.
That’s when my brain went “oh” …
So the Exo, the race I play, are actually the consciousness of a human put into a synthetic body… which is pretty cool but the history behind how they got to be able to do THAT is… sad and complex.
The TLDR is:
Humans wanted to live forever, turned their consciousness into data (an Exomind), and uploaded it into a body that can be repaired/replaced/reborn easier.
However, early tests proved to be destructive to the Exominds, they would reject the synthetic body because it was not how they viewed themselves, causing critical failure. Literally called “Dissociative Exomind Rejection”
After more experimenting, the Exo Body was made to look more “human” in form, complete with routines that were inefficient (called “humanisms”) so that the Exomind would feel more comfortable in the new form.
The thing is, it wasn’t perfect, and every so often an Exo may (possibly) be needed to be “rebooted” or “reset”, which is where the numbers at the end of the name come from.
Example: Exo-1 has only been transferred from human to Exo. Exo-37 has been reset 36 additional times since the original Exomind transfer.
BACK ON TRACK!
NOW! I tell you all that, and again there’s so much lore to this and it’s all very interesting and this is a VERY rough summary, to tell you this next thing.
I learned this in 2016. Do you know what I was preparing to DO in 2016?
Spoilers. It’s exactly what you think I was preparing to do.
So… my original Exo from Destiny 1 with a very different body type became my Exo from Destiny 2 with a body type that was way more in line with how I saw myself.
Anyway… my character in Destiny 2 is a trans robot girl with a shotgun and a giant sword who shoots lasers out of her hands.
