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The Aionians, originally known as the AION Initiative or Apollo Intertemporal Observation Network, are a group of Humans living on the planetoid Kepler in the Oort Cloud.
History[edit]
Origins[edit]
The AION Initiative was founded during the Golden Age to further humanity's understanding of the universe by studying time dilation and other anomalies.[1] When they found a planetary body in the Oort Cloud that couldn't be explained by any of their tools, the AION Initiative sought to understand it, passing the task down to each subsequent generation. Eventually, when they had the capability, members of the Initiative would journey to Kepler.[2] Once there, they established a settlement in the Caldera area, where they would study Kepler, sending encoded messages to mission control on Earth using chess pieces,[3] something that the founder of the Initiative was particularly fond of as a means of testing a person's mettle that had survived many years and cultures.[1] However, when the Collapse occurred, the AION Initiative settlement on Kepler would be cut off from Earth, and would only learn of what had happened 1.7 years after it had happened due to the light-speed delay.[4]
In the years following, the Initiative's settlement would become a small civilization, with the people dubbing themselves the 'Aionians'. They would continue studying Kepler and the local fauna, holding the process of study through observation, hypothesis, testing and analysis and iteration to a religious extent,[5] and using them to mark the passage of the seasons.[6][7][8][9]
Death of III[edit]
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Known Aionians[edit]
- Dean Rebecca (Leader)
- Aria
- Cadogan
- Dafydd
- Dr. Carnahan, Scientist
- Fjola
- Idris
- Malthas
- Naismith
- Rashida ab Owain
- Rhys
- Rojin
- The Emeritus
Trivia[edit]
- The namesake of the AION Initiative, Apollo, was the Ancient Greek and Roman god of the Sun, truth, and prophecy, among many other things.
- Astraea names the AION Initiative alongside various other programs in Clovis Bray I's staff memos aboard Vesper Station.[10] This may suggest a connection between the two.
Gallery[edit]
- Concept Art
List of appearances[edit]
- Destiny 2: Episode: Revenant (First mentioned)
- Episode: Heresy (Mentioned only)
- The Edge of Fate (First appearance)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Aion Archives
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, Notes on Observation
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Correspondence
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Item Description: Ulterior Observation
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - The Edge of Fate: Step 10
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, Tenets of Observation
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, Tenets of Hypothesis
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, Tenets of Testing and Analysis
- ^ Bungie (2025/7/15), Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, Tenets of Iteration
- ^ Bungie (2024/10/8), Destiny 2: Episode: Revenant - Astraea: "I've got the archive of Dr. Bray's published staff memos. Petabytes of data in the raw files. Rasputin. The Stoneworm protocols. The Aion Initiative. Soteria. I had siblings this whole time. And you never let me know."
