The Techeuns have been gathered and the Festival of the Lost is over, and so we've entered a period of Destiny 2 in which, uh... not a lot is happening. Bungie is still keeping busy with its weekly adjustments and tweaks to the Trials of Osiris, and it's been really fascinating to watch the process as the developer works to enhance that mode. But November is something of a catch-up month for Destiny 2 players. We've got some time to kill.

I missed last week's Iron Banter, so this is a good catch-up opportunity for me as well. Rather than talk about the ongoing Trials experiments once again--we'll probably do that next week--this feels like a good chance to look around the world of Destiny 2 and think on all the things that haven't been a part of the Season of the Lost. A lot of story ideas are in motion in various corners of the solar system, and it's not clear where they're headed or how they'll converge. So let's talk about the threads that remain dangling.

The Missing Emperor And The Struggling Empress