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'''Maya Sundaresh''' was a [[Venus]]ian researcher and member of the [[Ishtar Collective]].  
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'''Maya Sundaresh''' was a [[Venus]]ian researcher and member of the [[Ishtar Collective]] and a founder of the [[Future War Cult]].  


==Biography==
==Biography==
During the [[Golden Age]], she, along with Dr. [[Shim]], [[Chioma Esi]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]], extensively studied the [[Vex]] after capturing an operation platform they designated as "]]Subject 12]]." In the process, Esi discovered that the Vex was running a simulation of their research team that was completely accurate.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex|Ghost Fragment: Vex]]''</ref> After much debate, they concluded that the only way to save themselves from the simulation was to bring in something the Vex could not simulate, proposing that a [[Warmind]] was far too complex to simulate. <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 3|Ghost Fragment: Vex 3]]''</ref> They were able to rescue 227 undamaged copies of themselves from inside the Vex, and all copies voted to become explorers in the Vex information network.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref> Nearly forty years later, Maya had built a form of mind-forking device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar and used it on herself. After experiencing an unknown event, she became determined to reunite with her partner Chioma.
During the [[Golden Age]], Maya Sundaresh was part of the Ishtar Academy, studying various phenomeon on Venus, such as the Vex and [[Ahamkara]].<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref> She, along with Dr. [[Shim]], [[Chioma Esi]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]], extensively studied the [[Vex]] after capturing an operation platform they designated as "Subject 12." In the process, Esi discovered that the Vex was running a simulation of their research team that was completely accurate.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex|Ghost Fragment: Vex]]''</ref> After much debate, they concluded that the only way to save themselves from the simulation was to bring in something the Vex could not simulate, proposing that a [[Warmind]] was far too complex to simulate. <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 3|Ghost Fragment: Vex 3]]''</ref> They were able to rescue 227 undamaged copies of themselves from inside the Vex, and all copies voted to become explorers in the Vex information network.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstaion 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref>  
 
Nearly forty years later, Maya was part of new research team on Earth in Lhasa. They had built a form of mind-forking device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. The experiments were overseen by a Warmind, and they were locked in complete isolation. The experiments proved emotionally taxing, and potentially fatal, and the team resulted in ritual and worship in an attempt to appease the device. After experiencing an unknown event while using the device on herself, she became determined to reunite with her partner Chioma and quit the program. She advised her team to continue the log she started at the beginning of the experiments.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[The Taken King]], Playstaion 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 5|Ghost Fragment: Vex 5]]''</ref> Years later by the time of [[The City]] the same log was still being used by the Future War Cult, who continued to experiment with her device.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstaion 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/City_Factions#Ghost Fragment: Future War Cult|Ghost Fragment: Future War Cult]]''</ref>


==Journal Excerpts==
==Journal Excerpts==
*RECORD 343-CHASM-7887
Subject twenty-two. Admitted to the Inner Circle at 24:00. A promising postulant - I regret to say he performed poorly. He was administered the standard medication but refused to enter the Device.
Aren't people unpredictable? I suppose there'd be no point if they weren't, would there?
He knows to keep silent.
END RECORD
RECORD 343-CHASM-7888
Subject twenty-three entered the Device at 11:00. A clever girl from the Core District; an artist, before she joined the War Cult.
At 11:03 she reported a sensation of floating. At 11:06, a sensation of lights within the darkness of the Device. Between 11:06 and 11:32 she reported these lights variously as white, golden, and blood-red. At 11:32 she reported a sensation of someone taking her hand; a stranger, but also herself. Twelve subjects have reported similar experiences. At 11:33 she reported the sensation we have called "The Opening Of The Veil." The Device recorded temporal displacement of her consciousness to the order of six degrees. At seven she began screaming. Brainscans near-death. Removed from the Device at 11:34.
She believes without question that the Device granted her a vision of the future, and that it was one of utter Darkness. She thanked me for this enlightenment. She says it will make her stronger.
Little Ghost, there in the corner of the Sanctum - I see you blinking. Are you listening? Are y -
END RECORD
RECORD 343-CHASM-7889
the Device at 12:22 and immediately the Device reported displacement of his consciousness. Visions of war and the City in flames. Subject twenty-nine worked the supply channels on the Slip before he joined the War Cult. By 12:27 he was babbling and by
END RECORD
RECORD 343-CHASM-7890
We have applied certain refinements to the Device. Novarro found records of a prototype of the Device at a Golden Age laboratory in Tibet, and Hari's team retrieved what was left of it. We are the first to see it operational in who knows how long.
Too many subjects come back damaged. Mad. We are grasping at straws.
What do you think, little Ghost?
END RECORD
RECORD 343-CHASM-7891
Forty-seven human subjects; eleven report timelines in which the Darkness has already prevailed, thirteen report timelines in which the City has fallen. Twenty-three babbled madness. Hopeless. Trapped.
No wonder the Device was abandoned. The human mind is too weak for it. Too weak to look into the Future, or to understand what it sees.
What the situation calls for, little Ghost, is a better sort of witness.
We found you in pieces in Siberia, and repaired you as well as we could.
What do you say? Are you well enough to travel?
END RECORD
*RECORD 0-CHASM-0
*RECORD 0-CHASM-0


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I’m resigning, my love. I’m done with this work and I’m done with being apart from you. I’ll see you again soon. I can’t take this journal out with me, so I’ve left it for the others, and asked them to continue the log.
I’m resigning, my love. I’m done with this work and I’m done with being apart from you. I’ll see you again soon. I can’t take this journal out with me, so I’ve left it for the others, and asked them to continue the log.


Maybe it’ll become a tradition. The gospel of our little cult.  
Maybe it’ll become a tradition. The gospel of our little [[Future War Cult|cult]].  
 
*"I feel like every time I find the thread it slips through my fingers." —RECORD-448-CHASM-6565
 
*"I can never find the beginning, the place where the path forks." —RECORD 448-CHASM-6808
 
*"I can never find the beginning, the place where the path forks." —RECORD 448-CHASM-6808
 
*"I feel like every time I find the thread it slips through my fingers." —RECORD-448-CHASM-6565
 
*"It's too much… turn it off… let me out!" —RECORD-449-CHASM-6263
 
*"Eternities streamed past me like shooting stars…" —RECORD-449-CHASM-6887
 
*...pulled the subject from the Device he appeared frozen. No vitals, but the body hasn't rotted either. —RECORD 340-CHASM-NULL
 
*"Every time I look, the Darkness just grows larger." —RECORD 345-CHASM-6736
 
*"I saw three queens. No, two. No...just one." —RECORD 351-CHASM-6915
 
*"I saw Darkness. No Light, no Earth, no air. Only Darkness. I...I can't breathe..." —RECORD 342-CHASM-6827
 
*"I saw myself! Slaying the Darkness! That's what I saw!" —RECORD 344-CHASM-6872


*"First test of the mechanism codenamed Yzoz's Pendulum was...not ideal." —RECORD 360-CHASM-2334


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
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*Cayde-6 served as her bodyguard during the Golden Age. He was in love with her, but she paid him little mind.<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref>
==Gallery==
*She is one of two confirmed LGBT characters in Destiny. The other being her wife Chioma Esi.


==List of Appearances==
==List of Appearances==
*''[[Destiny]]'' {{Fm}}
**''[[House of Wolves]]'' {{mo}}
**''[[The Taken King]]'' {{mo}}
*''[[Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]'' {{mo}}


==References==
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