Destiny 2 Story Recap: From Beyond Light To Lightfall

gamespot.com:

A major Destiny 2 expansion, Lightfall, is on the horizon. It marks a significant development in the story that Bungie has been telling for almost a decade, as things are finally coming to a head and the power behind the Darkness--the Witness--has emerged. But just how did we get here?

Destiny's story is long and complicated. To truly understand everything that's happened, you need to have engaged with all of its expansions and seasonal content (much of which is no longer available), dug into lore entries, and pieced together a tremendous amount of information. The last two and a half years have been particularly notable in terms of sharing new information, as we learned more about the Darkness, the Traveler, and our role as Guardians in this long-running war--and even began to question whether long-held assumptions about who the good guys are have been correct.

To ensure you're fully up to speed when Lightfall and Season of Defiance launch on February 28, we've assembled a comprehensive recap of the story events of Beyond Light, The Witch Queen, and all of the accompanying seasons.

After the disappearance of the four planets, the Black Fleet stops its incursion, remaining on the outskirts of the Solar System. One of the pyramid ships lands on Europa, the frozen moon of Jupiter. A distress signal summons you to the moon's surface, quickly revealing that more has been going on with the Darkness than we previously knew. It turns out, the message comes from an unexpected source: Variks of House Judgment.

Variks is a character who hasn't been around for quite a while, but he was a major part of the original Destiny. Variks was loyal to Mara Sov and the Awoken, but when Mara was seemingly killed during the Battle of Saturn