Bits appear to either be falling off the Traveler, or perhaps have been removed by humanity for expansion and construction of the Last City. Either that, or what we are seeing here is battle damage from the ancient conflict. Some pieces appear suspended above the earth without visible means of support.

"My body is ready"

... to reach players in ways that we really haven't before, we're really going to make a conscious effort to build an experience which is going to be meaningful for people. How do you keep a player going for 50 or 100 hours over some number of months and to not just want to play the game, but want to play it with their friends.

-- Jason Jones

...knocked us down, and tried to stamp us out.

This structure appears to have been a communications array. Something apparently of alien manufacture has destroyed the building and the satellite dish as well.

Something hit us...

If video games set in the future have taught me anything, it's that not only do we never get flying cars, but all the cars we do have either end up burnt to a crisp, converted into a flowerbed, or both.

I've often thought that the space combat gameplay that Bungie put into Reach would be used again somewhere down the road.

Apparently, players in Destiny will have access to personal spaceships that they will use to explore the solar system.

The title of the ViDoc has at least two potential meanings.

The first is a reference to Bungie's first 3D shooter title, Pathways Into Darkness, in which the protagonist descends into an ancient pyramid to attempt to neutralize a sleeping god with a nuclear weapon-- hence, a pathway into darkness.

Bungie's Technical Director, Chris Butcher, opens the first Destiny ViDoc.

"That moment, where we decided that the right thing for us was to do something big and commit the entire company to it... it's a big deal."