The expansion follows the player's Guardian along with the Drifter, Eris Morn, Eido, and new Praxic Order member Aunor as they form an unlikely crew to fight the rising Barant Imperium, a new Cabal force led by the fallen Guardian-turned-villain Dredgen Bael, all while dealing with the fallout from The Edge of Fate prophecy and the mysterious plans of the Nine. The story sees the protagonists operating outside the Vanguard's direct support, establishing a base in a Martian Cantina, and tackling bounties and major threats across Mars, Venus, and Europa, culminating in a battle against Bael's attempt to use a superweapon to reshape the galaxy.
The expansion is heavily inspired by Star Wars, with Bungie collaborating with Lucasfilm on the narrative and gear featured in the expansion, such as the Praxic Blade, Destiny 2's version of the lightsaber. It also added new content across the game, including new missions, Player versus Environment (PvE) locations, Player versus Player (PvP) maps, player gear, weaponry, and a new dungeon. Additionally, the expansion sees the return of missions on the planet Venus, not including the Vault of Glass raid that was ported from the original Destiny (2014) as an extra playable activity during Year 4's Season of the Splicer. Renegades began Season: Lawless for Year 8, with the season's major update, Shadow & Order, planned for March 2026.
Development
After finishing development of The Final Shape campaign, Bungie opted by September 2024 to move away from annual expansions to shorter expansions. Game director Tyson Green said that "Expansions have started to feel too formulaic and are over too quickly with little replay value", and that "Seasons and Episodes keep getting bigger but can still feel like you are just going through the motions."[1] Instead, Bungie wanted to be able to offer more exploration experiences and try different approaches to gameplay, such as non-linear campaigns, and opted to make future expansions shorter to allow them to try these experiments. At that time, the first planned expansion after The Final Shape was given the codename "Apollo" with the second referred to as "Behemoth".[1]
While Bungie took influence from Star Wars when developing the original Destiny (2014),[2] both the narrative and design elements for Renegades were directly inspired by the space opera. In making Renegades, Bungie partnered with Lucasfilm, including licensing content; they previously collaborated on bringing Star Wars inspired cosmetic items to the game, such as armor ornaments. For Renegades, much of the gear is based on items from Star Wars, including weapons used by Han Solo, Boba Fett, Cassian Andor, Din Djarin, Clone Commandos, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca. There is also the Praxic Blade exotic sword, Destiny 2's version of the lightsaber. Europa features an icy battlefield reminiscent of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back, while there is also a new enemy mecha weapon inspired by walkers. Additionally, the Barant Imperium is based on the Galactic Empire and its Stormtroopers while the main villain, Dredgen Bael, takes inspiration from Kylo Ren. The main hub for Renegades is the Martian Cantina, based on the Mos Eisley Cantina from A New Hope.[3]
Release
Renegades was released on December 2, 2025, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. It is available as paid downloadable content (DLC). In addition to the standard version, the expansion is also included in the "Year of Prophecy" pack, as well as the "Year of Prophecy – Ultimate Edition" pack. Pre-orders for any edition included immediate access to an exotic ghost shell and a legendary emblem (as early as the Rite of the Nine event in May 2025 during Episode: Heresy, or Season 26). The "Year of Prophecy" pack includes both Year 8 expansions, The Edge of Fate and Renegades; pre-orders for this version also included an exotic ship and another legendary emblem for the latter which was added to players' inventories with the Ash & Iron major update in September 2025. The "Year of Prophecy – Ultimate Edition" additionally includes an exotic emote, an exotic sparrow, the Dark Side Legends Bundle, which features Star Wars-based armor ornaments for the three character classes (General Grievous for Hunters, Darth Vader for Titans, and Kylo Ren for Warlocks), as well as the No Land Beyond exotic sniper rifle (including its exotic catalyst which became available with the launch of The Edge of Fate).[4]
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