[mikeash]

I’m pretty sure the developers read Cook and that was the direct inspiration for Myth’s story.

[abakker]

Its definitely a thing there.

http://myth.bungie.org/legends/delusions/blackcompany.html

Thats a pretty great and detailed page about the parallels. Reading into TBC gave a lot of us a lot of fun when playing Myth and endlessly debating the story canon back in the day.