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*'''Cobweb''': a tiny world of barely 2,000 km, it is locked in a Trojan orbit with Moth. It has little significance apart from a subglacial ocean system and groups of methane lakes on the surface. It is approximately fifty million kilometers from Titania.
*'''Cobweb''': a tiny world of barely 2,000 km, it is locked in a Trojan orbit with Moth. It has little significance apart from a subglacial ocean system and groups of methane lakes on the surface. It is approximately fifty million kilometers from Titania.
*'''Moth''': the smallest of the five moons, it is in a Trojan orbit with Cobweb. It is rich in minerals and useful material for orbital construction. It possesses no atmosphere and is approximately fifty million kilometers from Titania.
*'''Moth''': the smallest of the five moons, it is in a Trojan orbit with Cobweb. It is rich in minerals and useful material for orbital construction. It possesses no atmosphere and is approximately fifty million kilometers from Titania.
*'''Ariel''': a minor world measuring at 4000 kilometers, it it tectonically active, possesses water ice on its poles, and is otherwise barren. It was chosen for its proximity to The Obelisk to be settled.
*'''Mustardseed''': originally misclassed as a rocky world due to its great distance, further expeditions showed that it is in fact a MicroJovian (or a Gas dwarf) of almost 14000 kilometers in diameter, or a third of Titania's observed size, and has cleared a gap of nearly two hundred thousand kilometers in the rings, the largest yet, and is approximately seventy five million kilometers from Titania. There are no signs of life recorded anywhere on the planet. It possesses two moons.
*'''Mustardseed''': originally misclassed as a rocky world due to its great distance, further expeditions showed that it is in fact a MicroJovian (or a Gas dwarf) of almost 14000 kilometers in diameter, or a third of Titania's observed size, and has cleared a gap of nearly two hundred thousand kilometers in the rings, the largest yet, and is approximately seventy five million kilometers from Titania. There are no signs of life recorded anywhere on the planet. It possesses two moons.
**'''Puck''': a tiny orbital, measuring twenty-odd kilometers in size, and has the appearance of 67P/C-G.
**'''Puck''': a tiny orbital, measuring twenty-odd kilometers in size, and has the appearance of 67P/C-G.
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Titania's atmosphere is predominantly hydrogen with trace elements of nitrogen, oxygen, methane, ammonia and argon making up less than five percent of the total. It has a relative  Jovian mass averaging 12.5, suggesting that it is close to that of a Y-type, or ultra-cool, brown dwarf; its physical size is actually five times [[Earth]]'s radii.
Titania's atmosphere is predominantly hydrogen with trace elements of nitrogen, oxygen, methane, ammonia and argon making up less than five percent of the total. It has a relative  Jovian mass averaging 12.5, suggesting that it is close to that of a Y-type, or ultra-cool, brown dwarf; its physical size is actually five times [[Earth]]'s radii.


It has an average surface temperature of 300 Kelvin, or a warm summer's day of approximately 80° Fahrenheit. It is colder towards the poles and warmer towards the equator, made possible by immense and violent windstorms that consume the planet. The planet's physical coloration is a brilliant sky-blue from Rayleigh scattering and has an albedo of 0.12.
It has an average surface temperature of 300 Kelvin, or a warm summer’s day of approximately 80° Fahrenheit. It is colder towards the poles and warmer towards the equator, made possible by immense and violent windstorms that consume the planet. The planet’s physical coloration is a brilliant sky-blue from Rayleigh scattering and has an albedo of 0.12.


===Internal characteristics===
===Internal characteristics===
Titania can be divided, roughly, into three layers: the atmosphere, extensively hydrogen with pockets of trace gasses; the oceans, liquid water, ammonia, and methane; and the crust, rock in varying states and metallic hydrogen.
Titania can be divided, roughly, into three layers: the atmosphere, extensively hydrogen with pockets of trace gasses; the oceans, liquid water, ammonia, and methane; and the crust, rock in varying states and metallic hydrogen.


The atmosphere, when measured from the surface to the point where true space begins, is approximately 24000 kilometers thick. This keeps the surface, and the oceans below, warm, heated by the dual processes of the greenhouse effect and the immense pressures on the planetary core from its gravity. Despite violent storms wracking the planet on the super-continental scale there exists life aplenty drifting along the turbulent currents. Many of these are collective organisms, resembling enormous floating jellyfish. They feed on aerial colonies of plankton and algae. Others follow the lightning storms, feasting on the energy discharges. Others are massive winged entities, some of these reaching wingspans of ten kilometers or more, hunting the floaters. The most notable of these are a species of enormous bird-like creatures, tentatively termed "rocs", apparently at the top of the food chain. Incredibly there exist floating continents, solidifed hydrogen and other gasses that have formed on the canopies of some of the most massive of the floaters, which can measure up to twenty kilometers around. Upon these alien continents live entirely unique ecosystems of wholly unique organisms similar to Terran species, not unlike the Galapagos Islands.
The atmosphere, when measured from the surface to the point where true space begins, is approximately 24000 kilometers thick. This keeps the surface, and the oceans below, warm, heated by the dual processes of the greenhouse effect and the immense pressures on the planetary core from its gravity. Despite violent storms wracking the planet on the super-continental scale there exists life aplenty drifting along the turbulent currents. Many of these are collective organisms, resembling enormous floating jellyfish. They feed on aerial colonies of plankton and algae. Others follow the lightning storms, feasting on the energy discharges. Others are massive winged entities, some of these reaching wingspans of ten kilometers or more, hunting the floaters. The most notable of these are a species of enormous bird-like creatures, tentatively termed “rocs”, apparently at the top of the food chain. Incredibly there exist floating continents, solidifed hydrogen and other gasses that have formed on the canopies of some of the most massive of the floaters, which can measure up to twenty kilometers around. Upon these alien continents live entirely unique ecosystems of wholly unique organisms similar to Terran species, not unlike the Galapagos Islands.


The surface, meanwhile, is hostile to all forms of known life in spite of the relatively balmy temperatures of 300 K prevalent upon it. Lighting storms frequently cover large swathes of the surface, pouring hydrogen and methane rain upon the scarred and pitted ground. Mountains are blasted into rounded mounds with no discernable features; caves exists on the leeward side, but are seldom protected for long. Cryovolcanoes and hydrothermal vents are common, adding their erupting plumes to join the stormy fray. Great canyons and vents honeycomb the "land", cutting across the shallow seas and join with vast underground cave systems which penetrate deep into the subglacial oceans below. The largest, and most stable, of these is called Cronus, providing a direct link between the blasted overworld and the peaceful underworld.
The surface, meanwhile, is hostile to all forms of known life in spite of the relatively balmy temperatures of 300 K prevalent upon it. Lighting storms frequently cover large swathes of the surface, pouring hydrogen and methane rain upon the scarred and pitted ground. Mountains are blasted into rounded mounds with no discernable features; caves exists on the leeward side, but are seldom protected for long. Cryovolcanoes and hydrothermal vents are common, adding their erupting plumes to join the stormy fray. Great canyons and vents honeycomb the "land", cutting across the shallow seas and join with vast underground cave systems which penetrate deep into the subglacial oceans below. The largest, and most stable, of these is called Cronus, providing a direct link between the blasted overworld and the peaceful underworld.
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Turning to one of the Jovians of the outer system, the outermost by an order of many thousands of AU, the Hierarchy laid the foundations for the construction of a Jupiter brain, a mainframe designed to hold the greatest intelligence ever birthed by a psionic species. After centuries of construction the Jupiter brain was finished, and Lyt Ahn awoke.
Turning to one of the Jovians of the outer system, the outermost by an order of many thousands of AU, the Hierarchy laid the foundations for the construction of a Jupiter brain, a mainframe designed to hold the greatest intelligence ever birthed by a psionic species. After centuries of construction the Jupiter brain was finished, and Lyt Ahn awoke.


Lyt Ahn was an archailect, an intelligence so great it collectively surpassed the entire species by orders of magnitude. It was designed for one thing—to substitute the Traveler. The J-brain hummed with an invisible symphony, its moon-nodes alight with synaptic fire and electric thought, and the Hierarchy rejoiced. At last their god(dess) was with them. But its birth was a cataclysmic affair. The conservatives viewed Lyt Ahn as blasphemous, and continually warned it would bring damnation to the Crystaliens. The societal rifts were riven deep but only just. For a collective consciousness defined by willing separation the seeds of doubt were more pernicious than in any non-psionic species. Every objection, every uncertainty, left a scar—and these all went unaddressed. Within a few centuries of Lyt Ahn's creation the Taishibethi system was embroiled in civil war, the Jovian civilizations warring amongst themselves over matters of theology and blasphemy. Lyt Ahn had fortuitously declared itself neutral in these internecine conflicts, only acting when it was under threat, and those disaffected or loyal to the archailect fled toward its shelter.
Lyt Ahn was an archailect, an intelligence so great it collectively surpassed the entire species by orders of magnitude. It was designed for one thing—to substitute the Traveler. The J-brain hummed with an invisible symphony, its moon-nodes alight with synaptic fire and electric thought, and the Hierarchy rejoiced. At last their god(dess) was with them. But its birth was a cataclysmic affair. The conservatives viewed Lyt Ahn as blasphemous, and continually warned it would bring damnation to the Crystaliens. The societal rifts were riven deep but only just. For a collective consciousness defined by willing separation the seeds of doubt were more pernicious than any non-psionic species. Every objection, every uncertainty, left a scar—and these all went unaddressed. Within a few centuries of Lyt Ahn's creation the Taishibethi system was embroiled in civil war, the Jovian civilizations warring amongst themselves over matters of theology and blasphemy. Lyt Ahn had fortuitously declared itself neutral in these internecine conflicts, only acting when it was under threat, and those disaffected or loyal to the archailect fled toward its shelter.


In the depths of interstellar space the birth of the archailect summoned the Black Fleet. They turned their sleepless eyes towards Taishibeth. They could sense the seething turmoil of the Hierarchical divisions, and could subtly influence it from afar as they made their approach. In their wake came the [[Hive]], already an ancient race, and the [[Vex]], following the lingering influences of Darkness.
In the depths of interstellar space the birth of the archailect summoned the Black Fleet. They turned their sleepless eyes towards Taishibeth. They could sense the seething turmoil of the Hierarchical divisions, and could subtly influence it from afar as they made their approach. In their wake came the [[Hive]], already an ancient race, and the [[Vex]], following the lingering influences of Darkness.
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The next contact occurred two years later—this time in the depths of Titania. An Allied scoopship, piloted by Eliksni and Exo engineers, plumbed the atmosphere of the Jovian to harvest the hydrogen there. A psionic burst rendered the Eliksni unconscious and the Exo struggled to maintain control of the craft as a noopathic assault attempted to overwhelm their minds. Before the last one blacked out they sent out a distress signal, prompting the dispatch of a Ketch, four Proas, and a Guardian jumpship. The scoopship was found drifting deeper into the atmosphere, dangerously close to a major stormsystem. The craft was undamaged, which puzzled the first responders, but was able to be towed out. When revived aboard the Ketch, the engineers explained that a mental transmission had warned them to depart. This time the Alliance was ready, and a team of Warlocks attempted to contact the alien intelligence within Titania. After receiving no response they contacted instead the Hivers, inquiring about any other alien species that lived in their system. The Hivers were reluctant to talk and gradually said it was something greater than they, and refused any further information. Undaunted the Warlocks tried a second time—and got an answer.
The next contact occurred two years later—this time in the depths of Titania. An Allied scoopship, piloted by Eliksni and Exo engineers, plumbed the atmosphere of the Jovian to harvest the hydrogen there. A psionic burst rendered the Eliksni unconscious and the Exo struggled to maintain control of the craft as a noopathic assault attempted to overwhelm their minds. Before the last one blacked out they sent out a distress signal, prompting the dispatch of a Ketch, four Proas, and a Guardian jumpship. The scoopship was found drifting deeper into the atmosphere, dangerously close to a major stormsystem. The craft was undamaged, which puzzled the first responders, but was able to be towed out. When revived aboard the Ketch, the engineers explained that a mental transmission had warned them to depart. This time the Alliance was ready, and a team of Warlocks attempted to contact the alien intelligence within Titania. After receiving no response they contacted instead the Hivers, inquiring about any other alien species that lived in their system. The Hivers were reluctant to talk and gradually said it was something greater than they, and refused any further information. Undaunted the Warlocks tried a second time—and got an answer.


A single ship boosted itself out of Titania's atmosphere and came within knife-fighting distance of Sanctuary. In appearance it resembled an ice comet, which made up most of its body, with angled motors clustered behind it. Halfway down a tether was a block filled with radiation shielding, and at the extreme end was a small habitat, containing a single organism. This was not a Crystalien but one of their engineered hyperturing AI. It formally initiated First Contact by apologizing for the defensive measures its people had taken upon the scoopship operators, then offered to give a brief overview of their history if the Alliance would respond in kind. The city leaders gave an annotated history of the Traveler's arrival, the Golden Age, Collapse, subsequent Dark Age, and finally the City Age, ending with the Second Collapse and the reason they were here. The hyperturing offered sympathy for their plight and assured them that the Crystaliens would not force the refugees to leave. It then explained the Hierarchy's history and experience with the Traveler, telling them of their mortal sin to emulate a god(dess), and the punishment which resulted from it. Contact ended after the Alliance offered a formal embassy with the Hierarchy. The hyperturing accepted, but warned them to not approach Titania for their protection, as it was the Crystaliens' home and would not appreciate atmospheric mining. In exchange the Hierarchy would provide them with resources to settle one of their many moons in an approximation of their homeworlds, Earth, Torobatl, and Riis. Its mission finished, the hyperturing departed.
A single ship boosted itself out of Titania's atmosphere and came within knife-fighting distance of Sanctuary. In appearance it resembled an ice comet, which made up most of its body, with angled motors clustered behind it. Halfway down a tether was a block filled with radiation shielding, and at the extreme end was a small habitat, containing a single organism. This was not a Crystalien but one of their engineered hyperturing AI. It formally initiated First Contact by apologizing for the defensive measures its people had taken upon the scoopship operators, then offered to give a brief overview of their history if the Alliance would respond in kind. The city leaders gave an annotated history of the Traveler's arrival, the Golden Age, Collapse, subsequent Dark Age, and finally the City Age, ending with the Second Collapse and the reason they were here. The hyperturing offered sympathy for their plight and assured them that the Crystaliens would not force the refugees to leave. It then explained the Hierarchy's history and experience with the Traveler, telling them of their mortal sin to emulate a god(dess), and the punishment which resulted from it. Contact ended after the Alliance offered a formal embassy with the Hierarchy. The hyperturing accepted, but warned them to not approach Titania for their protection, as it was the Crystaliens' home and would not appreciate atmospheric mining. In exchange the Hierarchy would provide them with resources to settle one of their many moons in an approximation of their homeworlds, Earth, Torobalt, and Riis. Its mission finished, the hyperturing departed.


===Settling a New World===
===Settling a New World===
Despite the misgivings of the council, a suitable satellite was chosen, named Ariel by the Hierarchy, and a colony was set up. It was primitive, constructed out of some of their few surviving Cabal carriers too heavily damaged for resource gathering, meaning the colony became mostly populated with Cabal. Additional settlements were created for the Eliksni. Magnetic accelerators were built on the planet's surface to launch material and other useful resources into space. Slowly, the new multispecies civilization grew larger.


===Arrival of the Black Fleet===
===Arrival of the Black Fleet===
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==References==
==References==
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==List of appearances==
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*''[[Destiny 2]]''
**''[[Beyond Light]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[The Witch Queen]]
**''[[Lightfall]]''
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*''Destiny 4''
**''Convergence''
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