#and then we just witness mara's hungry grabby-hands for power in real time

[bittersweetbiscotti]

I actually really like the old Awoken lore better. The one where it was basically a large number of humans fled during the Collapse to the edge of the solar system, mutated into Awoken. Sort of the same, except the Distributary never happened. The Darkness just kinda mutated them because of their proximity to it. Maybe they even thought the Darkness could save them. And then they all waffled around the Reef for centuries ever since, living in abandoned ships and pirating the Fallen... and maybe sometimes Guardians. 

At least this was the impression I got when playing vanilla D1.

The Dreaming City... but it’s all made up of shells of great spaceships and broken fleets meticulously constructed into functioning buildings and homes. Like the Awoken are still space trash pandas but at least they acknowledge it. This is their pile of space junk and cosmic clack-clack rocks, stay out.

And then the Spider comes along to the Tangled Shore and that becomes a whole ass thing. Maybe an uneasy alliance because Mara sees some benefit in working with House Spider, but it’s an alliance that can turn deadly at any moment.