Destiny 2 Lore - What happened aboard the Glykon? The story of Katabasis, Calus, Presage & Darkness!

Destiny 2's Lore in the Season of the Chosen features the Presage mission, which sees us boarding a lost Cabal ship known as the Glykon. Onboard we discovered proof of Calus' experiments, the remains of a guardian called Katabasis and the remnants of an attempt to communicate with the Darkness!

[ironic]

"An observer"

in other words, a witness.


Such good forshadowing

[AymenDZA]

It just hit me that Ghaul's fascination with the Traveler and wanting to be "elevated and chosen" is mirrored in Calus's attempts to do the same with the Darkness.

[jakepollard]

Seriously, anytime in any lore tab that someone mentions salvation it immediately triggers my fight or flight at this point.

[jeffsmith]

I really thought at 1:30 he was gonna say, “...and Titans are led astray by delicious crayons”

[BlackKaioshin]

There's nothing creepier than a Ghost that embraces Darkness. I don't know why, but it always unsettles me. I got the same reaction from Toland's Ghost.

[alielwerfalli]

I just feel bad for Katabasis, everyone he knew either left him or died

[GrnOfGrundleburg]

Katabasis's last real friend on the Glykon was Bahto. Shame he died, seemed like a really cool character.

[surprizeforyou]

I can't imagine the crown doing anything good for us. If Eris was concerned about the skull above Shaxx, I wonder what people think about the Vanguard bringing a horrific Hive artifact in.

[dregdendawn]

That last lore card was nuts...when I read it myself I just sat in shock for like ten minutes. This has been by far one of my favorite missions and bits of lore

[jeffro]

Glykon = Bungie's take on space horror murder mystery. Bloody brilliant!

[Sheadog]

Welp boys. Make sure you say goodbye to the sun. Who knows when we'll see it again

[misterasa]

One question still remains: Where is Emperor Calus?
Perhaps he did get his audience with the darkness after all. He may be in their realm getting his answers, and perhaps we may go that realm and reunite with him in Lightfall. We may never know.

[elijah]

The moments where the Cabal and Katabasis fought hordes of Scorns made me pretty sad and scared. Them teaming up for one last stand against enemies they fear and facing their final demise. These cabal and Katabasis needs to be recognized by either Zavala or Caiatl.

[isafenrir]

We just not going to talk about how Drifty has the same 'plants' (the ones leeching off of Katabasis) on his ship...?

[therewillbefire]

I used to hate Katabasis, he seemed like a traitor, but after seeing the full story he was better than that. His ghost was the real traitor.

[JMPMAOF]

Just as Warlocks can be led astray by knowledge and Titans can be led astray by crayons.

[NoahDeep]

D2 just keeps getting darker and I LOVE IT.

[vertigo]

I wish this mission had low gravity outside the ship, and the jumping puzzle in DSC

[linearcurve]

Bungie were being overzealous when they sunset sunsetting and they accidentally sunset the sunrise too.

[daniellejarvis]

A full "what the f*ck happened here" video good job byf