halcyon days

even though it's been over ten years, i'm still a bit sad that we didn't get to blow up helios in bl2, as kinda promised at the end of assault on dragon keep. like, nothing against tales or the fight for sanctuary, but "let's blow up the space station" as the final, surprise dlc that leads to bl3 would have been a neat way to tie up the hyperion era of borderlands. especially since it would have have to take place after the present day scenes of tps, so it could have been a direct follow up of that with athena and aurelia around, too.

according to the character selection screen vex is a street rat from cretia where she grew up alone, but in game she talks about eavesdropping on her mom's echo calls and possibly calling her dad (mercenary day dlc) so like