Been a while since I watched the intro video, but it starts with a screenshot of an...

Experimental Transport Lab

Which to me would suggest they were experimenting with manipulating phase space.

The third scene shows a lot of energy being released and striking what looks like asteroids

Is it possible that it isn't an enemy per se', but they've somehow destabilized the galaxy itself? or perhaps space/phase space is collapsing because of what they did?

Maybe that's their sin, breaking "space", heh.

Seems like they'v ebeen on the run for 10,000 years, which seems odd, in that time, they should've advanced a heck of a lot more than they have (I would've thought)

But, If the Vasari "broke" space, wouldn't we have noticed it in game?

But, I agree with TEC_Commander about his view on the subject.  The Darkness might just be a really pissed off, yet still merciful god.

 

The god is still merciful, in that It lets the Vasari survive.  If It hadn't been merciful, then no Sins universe, so we can throw that possibility away.  I think TEC commander is trying to say they aren't a race, maybe just some uber thing with very good culture.  In-game, I think this "god" would show up as a Titan if Rebellion's Titans were frigates.

This ship would be huge, as an example of the scale I'm talking about, maybe a cruiser would be a planet-sized object.

 

But this huge mesh would probably fry your graphics card because it was so damn huge.

True, I was thinking more along the lines of that scene from Startrek Insurrection, where the enemy ship fires a subspace weapon which creates a subspace tear which grows in size until it's closed.

Granted, that's Star trek, but the Vasari are experts (or so they thought) at manipulating gravity and space travel.

But I'm still convinced they created something like the replicators from Stargate and they've run amok and slain all the Vasari.

A sort of "Grey Goo" concept?

HAhahaha lol that was a good one the reapers!!   made my day!

I'm trying to make up good catch phrases for the Darkness, like stuff for them to say, and I need help.  I currently only have one:

"We are the Darkness, lower your shields, surrender your ships."

If anyone can provide any input, feel free.

I think the Vasari fell apart like any other great power, from within.

 

Experiments on god knows what could of resulted in some ugly weapons, even if they were turned on fellow Vasari. Maybe the Vasari werent the only ones from their homeworld, maybe the first slaves the Vasari had were a species much like the Vasari. But werent considered "High-Borne".

These "low-born" Vasari eventually rise up taking control of some nasty technology and use it against their Overlords. This would explain why planets at the core went silent first and why any attempts to send Fleets back to fix what was going on never succeeded. Why what little did come back from the Core worlds were out of their minds. The Vasari fearing the worst pick up and take off.

Their persuers are descendants of slaves who feel the Vasari, even their descendants deserve to be punished for their ancestors sins.

The Vasari are all just pretending; nothing happened, they just want to garner sympathy...

so humans do pick up the pieces!!! does this mean in SOASE 2 we're gonna have the SR2 normandy?

but yea, could it maybe be some kind of implosion? which would explain the damaged ship as it could of been the first in thus being further away from it then when the others enterd or something and while escaping it caught the ship? phase space destabalizing behind them as they exploit their technology about it? Idk, i think they probly left it to speculation for a reason as it can make their backstory more intresting then saying something that is commonly used