The new expansion of Destiny 2, Beyond Light, brings a big step forward in the story developer Bungie has been slowly telling over the last six years. The next chapter sends players to Europa, where we're going to not just meet the Darkness--the evil force Destiny characters have feared since the game first launched--but embrace its power.

But why Europa? We've seen a few hints at what's hidden beneath the ice on the planet. Messages from the Darkness are drawing us there, and trailers for the new expansion have shown that the Exo Stranger, a character not seen since the vanilla campaign of Destiny 1, is involved as well. Europa hides secrets from the Golden Age of humanity, before the arrival of the Darkness and the Collapse, that we'll be uncovering--particularly in the Deep Stone Crypt raid.

While it's unclear what we'll find exactly, there's actually a lot of information that Bungie has already released, thanks to a journal included in the Beyond Light Collector's Edition. It's written from the perspective of Clovis Bray, a Golden Age industrialist responsible for creating some of humanity's most powerful technologies. It was Clovis and his company that built Rasputin and all those facilities on Mars, for instance. In the journal, we uncover what he thought would be the most important discovery for humanity: the Exo program.

The new expansion of Destiny 2, Beyond Light, brings a big step forward in the story developer Bungie has been slowly telling over the last six years. The next chapter sends players to Europa, where we're going to not just meet the Darkness--the evil force Destiny characters have feared since the game first launched--but embrace its power.

But why Europa? We've seen a few hints at what's hidden beneath the ice on the planet. Messages from the Darkness are drawing us there, and trailers for the new expansion have shown that the Exo Stranger, a character not seen since the vanilla campaign of Destiny 1, is involved as well. Europa hides secrets from the Golden Age of humanity, before the arrival of the Darkness and the Collapse, that we'll be uncovering--particularly in the Deep Stone Crypt raid.

While it's unclear what we'll find exactly, there's actually a lot of information that Bungie has already released, thanks to a journal included in the Beyond Light Collector's Edition. It's written from the perspective of Clovis Bray, a Golden Age industrialist responsible for creating some of humanity's most powerful technologies. It was Clovis and his company that built Rasputin and all those facilities on Mars, for instance. In the journal, we uncover what he thought would be the most important discovery for humanity: the Exo program.