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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
The AION Initiative was founded during the [[Golden Age]] to further humanity's understanding of the universe by studying time dilation and other anomalies.<ref name="Archive">'''[[Aion Archives]]'''</ref> When they found a [[Kepler|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.<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Tenets of AION|Tenets of AION]], [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Notes on Observation|Notes on Observation]]''</ref> 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,<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - [[Correspondence]]''</ref> 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.<ref name="Archive"/> 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.<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Item Description: [[Ulterior Observation#Lore|Ulterior Observation]]''</ref> | The AION Initiative was founded during the [[Golden Age]] to further humanity's understanding of the universe by studying time dilation and other anomalies.<ref name="Archive">'''[[Aion Archives]]'''</ref> When they found a [[Kepler|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.<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Tenets of AION|Tenets of AION]], [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Notes on Observation|Notes on Observation]]''</ref> 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,<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Correspondence]]''</ref> 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.<ref name="Archive"/> 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.<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - Item Description: [[Ulterior Observation#Lore|Ulterior Observation]]''</ref> | ||
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,<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - [[The Edge of Fate (quest)#Step 10|The Edge of Fate: Step 10]]''</ref> and using them to mark the passage of the seasons.<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Observation|Tenets of Observation]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Hypothesis|Tenets of Hypothesis]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Testing and Analysis|Tenets of Testing and Analysis]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate - Lore:Tenets of AION, [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Iteration|Tenets of Iteration]]''</ref> | 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,<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[The Edge of Fate (quest)#Step 10|The Edge of Fate: Step 10]]''</ref> and using them to mark the passage of the seasons.<ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Tenets of AION|Tenets of AION]], [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Observation|Tenets of Observation]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Tenets of AION|Tenets of AION]], [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Hypothesis|Tenets of Hypothesis]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Tenets of AION|Tenets of AION]], [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Testing and Analysis|Tenets of Testing and Analysis]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2025/7/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Edge of Fate]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Tenets of AION|Tenets of AION]], [[Lore:Tenets of AION#Tenets of Iteration|Tenets of Iteration]]''</ref> | ||
===Death of III=== | ===Death of III=== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*The namesake of the AION Initiative, [[Wikipedia:Apollo|Apollo]], was the Ancient Greek and Roman god of the Sun, truth, and prophecy, among many other things. | *The namesake of the AION Initiative, [[Wikipedia:Apollo|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]].<ref>'''Bungie (2024/10/8)''', ''Destiny 2: [[Episode: Revenant]] - [[Astraea]]: [[Vesper's Host#tabsection-1-7|"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."]]''</ref> This may suggest a connection between the two. | *[[Astraea]] names the AION Initiative alongside various other programs in [[Clovis Bray I]]'s staff memos aboard [[Vesper Station]].<ref>'''Bungie (2024/10/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Revenant]] - [[Astraea]]: [[Vesper's Host#tabsection-1-7|"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."]]''</ref> This may suggest a connection between the two. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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**''[[Episode: Heresy]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Episode: Heresy]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[The Edge of Fate]]'' {{1st}} | **''[[The Edge of Fate]]'' {{1st}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
