Toland on History

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There is much history in the dust here. Grasp a handful and you will hold Light now extinguished. You will hold power misguided.

These grounds are covered in the madness of days gone by. Of Guardians and Hive alike. History haunts this place.
Exploration and discovery are pleasant but thin euphemisms for conquest. This was as true in our history as in any you’ll find.

Our first steps into the inky dark were no different. Lest we forget: The Hive’s lunar settlements predate our own.
They told others their mission was exobotany, but this fig leaf could not hide their desire. They wanted knowledge the Traveler would not give them. Nothing is sweeter than forbidden fruit.
The study of alien flora concealed stranger sciences, but it was not without its own merit. They learned much here that has since been lost.
So many wonders of the age, so many sciences still used, conceived of here, in silence and secrecy. What inspired them? What did they find in this desolation?
In our own time of need, we failed ourselves. Crota struck us down en masse and destroyed much of what was built here, Moonbase included.

The Traveler had come, it had brought us into a Golden Age. And yet little from that era mattered in the shadow of Crota.
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