#light-from-the-void

The “there was only one Warmind” retcon in the Warmind DLC has been a sticking point in the lore community, and for good reason - it just doesn’t make sense. Personally I suspect it was a miscommunication rather than an intentional retcon since much of Warmind was done by Vicarious Visions and not Bungie itself. The book Last Days of Kraken Mare released two years later clearly refers to “Warminds” plural and I would not be surprised if Season of the Worthy includes a clear-cut statement confirming the original lore of multiple Warminds (in fact I suspect that’s the bunkers we’ll be reactivating).

My working theory is that there were seven Warminds, one for each area of settled space (Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, the Belt, then Jupiter & beyond), but since the decision to locate one Warmind on each planet was made after Rasputin had become, well, Rasputin, he had major facilities located on Mars where he was originally designed and built instead of on Earth where he was supposed to be. The Cosmodrome facility was therefore built to replace Rasputin’s Hellas Basin complex, but the hardware transfer wasn’t completed before the Darkness hit, resulting in the oddly-split “Rasputin” fragment that lives there. Then when said Darkness carved its path of destruction through our solar system it killed the six other Warminds along the way, with Rasputin picking up their remaining resources after each was destroyed (hence his reference to “reclaimed CHLM assets.”) Rasputin has often mentioned “brothers and sisters” pre-Collapse that were killed during said Collapse, so it’s not a stretch to imagine other Warminds among the dead.

*cough* I, uh.... sorry... XD