The red legion is dead
Reduced to atoms!
All that remains are Val's and Bracuses desperately clawing for soldiers and territory. The red legion has failed for the first and last time in their GLORIOUS history, not even Caiatl the Princess imperial could reforge such lowly brutes (despite that fact that's probably EXACTLY what's gonna happen somehow smh)
What the Cabal need now are new legions, each specializing in different tasks. WE HAD THIS BACK IN D1! All we need is different coloured red Legion soldiers and we'll be happy (for the most part)
In all seriousness, enemy sub factions did wonders for the lore. Creating great amounts of depth within enemy races, all stemming off of a different colour pallet
It's probably too late though... Hopefully we'll get sub factions back someday
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You think the Cabal got it bad? Look at the Fallen. This huge build up in the lore for the Kell of House Kings. This mysterious Kell who had never been even seen by a Guardian, who commanded the most powerful Fallen House, who had the Devils at their beck and call. The Kell of the oldest surviving house, the house that ruled before the great whirlwind. Aaaannd.... He gets killed off. In the lore. Never mentioned again. All because Bungie was too lazy to make a seperate colour pallet for the Fallen. Why waste such a massive amount of potential? Because that's what feckless untcay of a Kotaku writer does.