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|notable= Source of [[Light]] <br> Terraformed multiple celestial bodies <br> Uplifted numerous ancient civilizations <br> Awoke and broke free of the Traveler Cage, killing [[Ghaul]] | |notable= Source of [[Light]] <br> Terraformed multiple celestial bodies <br> Uplifted numerous ancient civilizations <br> Awoke and broke free of the Traveler Cage, killing [[Ghaul]] | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*The Traveler first appeared in another Bungie game, ''[[halopedia:Halo 3: ODST|Halo 3: ODST]]'', where a hidden poster made it appear innocuously like the Moon.<ref>[https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/01/09/how-bungie-teased-destiny-in-halo-3-odst.aspx Ben Hanson, How Bungie Teased Destiny In Halo 3: ODST (GameInformer, Jan. 9, 2014)]</ref> | *The Traveler first appeared in another Bungie game, ''[[halopedia:Halo 3: ODST|Halo 3: ODST]]'', where a hidden poster made it appear innocuously like the Moon.<ref>[https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/01/09/how-bungie-teased-destiny-in-halo-3-odst.aspx Ben Hanson, How Bungie Teased Destiny In Halo 3: ODST (GameInformer, Jan. 9, 2014)]</ref> | ||
*The Traveler's size has changed over the course of development. Early concept art depicts a Traveler the size of a small moon orbiting Earth, while its finalized appearance in the game shows it hovering much closer to Earth's surface, within the atmosphere, and roughly the size of the Last City. According to a Reddit post made on ''/r/DestinytheGame'', players were able to determine the Traveler's in-game size (as seen from the Tower and Bannerfall) as 1.2 kilometres in radius.<ref>'''reddit''': ''[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/56xvkf/we_found_the_travelers_size_using_parallax_on/ We found the traveler's size! (using parallax on bannerfall)]'' (''"Used parallax and private matches to try to figure out the size of the traveler."'')</ref> ''[[Destiny 2]]'' concept art (see gallery) revealed that the Traveler's diameter is seemingly fourteen kilometers. | *The Traveler's size has changed over the course of development. Early concept art depicts a Traveler the size of a small moon orbiting Earth, while its finalized appearance in the game shows it hovering much closer to Earth's surface, within the atmosphere, and roughly the size of the Last City. According to a Reddit post made on ''/r/DestinytheGame'', players were able to determine the Traveler's in-game size (as seen from the Tower and Bannerfall) as 1.2 kilometres in radius.<ref>'''reddit''': ''[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/56xvkf/we_found_the_travelers_size_using_parallax_on/ We found the traveler's size! (using parallax on bannerfall)]'' (''"Used parallax and private matches to try to figure out the size of the traveler."'')</ref> ''[[Destiny 2]]'' concept art (see gallery) revealed that the Traveler's diameter is seemingly fourteen kilometers. | ||
*The terms ''"Retrograde"'', ''"Zenith"'', ''"Epicycle"'' ''"Theta State"'' and ''"Valence"'' are used in tracking the Traveler's Light output.{{citation needed}} | *The terms ''"Retrograde"'', ''"Zenith"'', ''"Epicycle"'' ''"Theta State"'' and ''"Valence"'' are used in tracking the Traveler's Light output.{{citation needed}} | ||
**''"Retrograde"'', ''"Zenith"'', ''"Epicycle"'' are astronomical terms. In astronomy, the ''zenith'' is the point at which something appears directly overhead relative to an object or observer. ''Epicycle'' is a former astronomical term which was once used to describe the motions of other planets, relative to Earth, but has since been disproven; however, it still finds use in astrology. It was based on the old "geocentric" belief that the heavens and all objects within it travelled around the Earth. Observers would often note that the planets seemed to slow and change their trajectories in the course of their passage across the night sky, appearing to trace loops in their orbits relative to the stars behind them. This led to the concept of an ''epicycle'': or a smaller rotation of a planet around a barycenter in the course of its larger rotation around the Earth itself. The period in which a planet appeared to slow and descend into a loop, just prior to appearing to move backwards, was known as the declining or descending phase. The period during which the planet traced the bottom half of the loop, appearing to move in the opposite direction from its orbital path is known as the ''retrograde'' phase. "Equilibrium" denotes the point at which the planet ceases to move backwards and begins to ascend out of the loop and into its normal orbital path once again, denoting the end of that particular epicycle. This particular astronomical theory was eventually proven to be an optical illusion after Copernicus introduced the then-radical notion that the Earth was '''''not''''' the center of existence & that all planetary bodies within the solar system, including Earth, revolved around the Sun. Johannes Kepler later proved that the so-called "epicycles" were the result of the Earth's orbital position relative to that of the planet being observed. | **''"Retrograde"'', ''"Zenith"'', ''"Epicycle"'' are astronomical terms. In astronomy, the ''zenith'' is the point at which something appears directly overhead relative to an object or observer. ''Epicycle'' is a former astronomical term which was once used to describe the motions of other planets, relative to Earth, but has since been disproven; however, it still finds use in astrology. It was based on the old "geocentric" belief that the heavens and all objects within it travelled around the Earth. Observers would often note that the planets seemed to slow and change their trajectories in the course of their passage across the night sky, appearing to trace loops in their orbits relative to the stars behind them. This led to the concept of an ''epicycle'': or a smaller rotation of a planet around a barycenter in the course of its larger rotation around the Earth itself. The period in which a planet appeared to slow and descend into a loop, just prior to appearing to move backwards, was known as the declining or descending phase. The period during which the planet traced the bottom half of the loop, appearing to move in the opposite direction from its orbital path is known as the ''retrograde'' phase. "Equilibrium" denotes the point at which the planet ceases to move backwards and begins to ascend out of the loop and into its normal orbital path once again, denoting the end of that particular epicycle. This particular astronomical theory was eventually proven to be an optical illusion after Copernicus introduced the then-radical notion that the Earth was '''''not''''' the center of existence & that all planetary bodies within the solar system, including Earth, revolved around the Sun. Johannes Kepler later proved that the so-called "epicycles" were the result of the Earth's orbital position relative to that of the planet being observed. | ||