Bungie has launched a ship in Destiny 2 that has everyone talking- mostly because it looks as if it has just been pulled off the silver screen of Star Wars. The Silent Vendetta is said to be “nimble yet aggressive,” a brand-new ship for usage. Some players enjoy it, while others, if mildly, do not.
First things first about the ship: sleek and mean, essentially Kylo Ren’s TIE Silencer with a Destiny paint job. According to Bungie, the ship is “inspired by” Star Wars, but let me be honest—it’s outright plagiarism. To say it other ways, in the words of the players, “Inspired is putting it lightly.”
That said, anyway, Destiny 2 ships are mostly just eyeball candy seen in loading screens while you never really fly them in the actual game, and some disdain was offered from the community about it. “Ships are a loading screen so who gives a fuck,” one blunt player tweeted. Another joined, “It’s only used in loading screens. Its nimbleness and aggression are of no importance.” Yikes.
For a few, the cross-over appeal is wonderful. Someone asked if indeed it made TIE fighter sounds (because another Star Wars-themed ship does, apparently, so let’s finger-cross). Others want more Star Wars-related items—slowly morphing into an X-Wing or, as another player demanded, a Mandalorian helmet. Because, why not?
But there are other players who don’t approve. Such opponents described it as a “shameless cash grab,” especially since Destiny 2 ships really don’t do much in gameplay to begin with. “That’s cool and all, but why bring Star Wars into Destiny?” one player expressed in a tweet. “It kinda breaks the design of the game for me.” Comments were made about Warframe having interactive ships for years, thus casting Destiny’s floating menu screens in a not-so-good light.
There were also discussions stirred by license. Some joked about Disney’s lawyers lurking around, while others pointed out that this collab couldn’t get any more official, with Lucasfilm Games sitting on the team. The “inspired by” rebrand still generated some laughs.
And now, inquires for actual ship functionality began! “Let me walk around my ship,” begged one player. “And add a weapons bench to craft weapons in there too. And for the love of god please let me have a tiny ahamkara as a pet.” Another joked, “Imagine if we had that cutscene every time we landed at the Tower.”
In the end, the Silent Vendetta serves as yet another purely cosmetic option in an ocean of cosmetic drops. Some will definitely pick it up because of its looks (or because they’re Star Wars nerds). Then you have those that will just shrug and keep waiting for Bungie to do something where ships truly matter.
Yet the one good thing that has emerged from all this drama is that people are talking about it. In Destiny 2, that is half the battle. Now, about those Anarchy catalysts…
