Dredgen Yor's history is the season's context, and the stars that shine in the Darkness are the Guardians who picked up his weapon and did not become him — who understood that the Thorn was a tool rather than a corruption, that proximity to the Darkness is not contamination. The Season of Plunder is piracy filtered through Destiny's moral framework, which means it is about what you take and what you keep, what the acquisition of power produces in the person acquiring it. Some stars shine. Not all of them.