Destiny 2‘s new expansion, Renegades, is juking where most brand crossovers jive by having a Star Wars collaboration where, instead of simply just jamming Star Wars stuff into Destiny and calling it a day (well, aside from a few notable weapons), Bungie’s sci-fi shooter is telling its own story inspired by Star Wars, with plenty of themes, locales, and design language given a sideways look to make it look like a merging of the two worlds, rather than a direct transposition.
But just like George Lucas once said, the thing about poetry is that it rhymes. So when Destiny 2 needs a Jedi Order equivalent in a world that already has space wizards, it needs something else to make the parallel clear and feel like the Order—and you can’t just give them a laser sword and call it a day, even if they are also kind of doing that.
Enter the Praxic Order. A faction that’s been touched upon in Destiny‘s worldbuilding since the very first game, they’re stepping into the spotlight for Renegades with actual characters playing a role in the story, as players go up against a fallen guardian, Dredgen Bael (voiced by Marvel Rivals and Dan Da Dan‘s Aleks Le, doing his very best Kylo Ren impression). The Praxic Order will be represented in Renegades by a character named Aunor, who is… essentially a space magic cop.
So far, so Jedi! In a new behind-the-scenes featurette released today, the Destiny 2 team describes the Praxic Order as an “internal affairs” group for the Vanguard, the entity that manages guardians in Destiny‘s world, with their job specifically being to police any guardians who utilize the power of darkness, rather than the power of light that usually gives them their abilities.
That in and of itself is interesting, as Destiny 2‘s broader narrative has spent a good long while at this point tasking players with exploring the darkness and finding strength in the balance of these two diametrically opposed entities—so to suddenly have a main character in Renegades who is the member of an ancient order that has to grapple with the realities of a changed world where their specific, dogmatic view of the way things work no longer wholly applies? That’s Star Wars as hell.
And as funny as it is that a key kind of quasi-multiversal trait of the Jedi Order is that regardless of whatever universe they show up in, they’re kind of just jerks, that’s also a really clever way to bring in elements of Destiny that already feel like Star Wars and push them into an even more direct parallel for this new expansion. If the rest of Renegades can deliver that kind of fun interrogation of Destiny and Star Wars‘ shared similarities in this way, fans of both will be in for a treat.
Destiny 2: Renegades will launch next week on December 2.
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