Editing Operation Ahamkara

Within the Pale Heart, the Guardian would be contacted by Micah-10, a member of the [[Six Coyotes]] and an old friend of Cayde-6. Speaking with the legendary Guardian at the Arbor of Light in the old tower, Micah would introduce herself before revealing her mission to find and save unpartnered Ghosts who had arrived within the Pale Heart to assist the Traveler in healing. Finding the Lost Ghost within the Forgotten Deep, the Guardian brings it to the Arbor, slowly healing the Traveler.{{Citation needed}}

They would later retrieve blessings of the Traveler at the Landing after defeating Lucent Hive and return to the Arbor to speak with Micah, where she would tell them of the Warlock, [[Ulan-Tan]] and how he believed that the Ghosts, Guardians, and the Traveler were all linked. Considering the hypothesis, Micah wondered if the damaged Ghosts were forced to rely on their own Light after being disconnected from the Light of the Traveler.{{Citation needed}}

Sending them to follow the Traveler's avatar, the Guardian delved into the depths of the Pale Heart, where they fought through hordes of Lucent Hive. They would retrieve a sword from a Hive statue, using it to slay the enemies standing in their way and destroy the corruption within. Eventually, the Guardian confronts the Hive Lightbearers, [[Nargul]], [[Urtokk]], and [[Ir Haza]] to uncover a cyst of Light and utilize it to reconnect the damaged Ghost to the Traveler.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Sword Dance]] [[Cyst]]''</ref> With their mission complete, the Guardian spoke with Micah at the Tower, who realized that the Ghosts were entering the Pale Heart due to the Traveler's injuries.{{Citation needed}}

At the Arbor of Light, the Guardian spoke with Micah-10, who asked them for assistance in tracking unpartnered Ghosts so they can help heal the Traveler's wounds. She would task them with locating the Ghost, [[Peach]] at the [[Cosmodrome]] in [[Old Russia]]. As the Guardian arrived in the Cosmodrome to begin their search, Micah states that Shaw Han told her that Peach asked him for directions to the Hive nest previously inhabited by [[Omnigul, Will of Crota]], and later [[Navôta, Eir Spawn]]. Furthermore, Shaw shared that he spotted Lucent Hive scouts a few weeks back. Traveling towards the nest, the Guardian fought through swarms of Hive and scanned a calcified statue before defeating the returned Navôta. Due to Navôta's resurgence, Micah would hypothesize that this was either an imposter masked by Savathûn to infiltrate Xivu Arath's ranks or that she was resurrected through [[Necromancy]]. With Ghost picking up Peach's signal, the Guardian found the Ghost within a bunker where calcified Hive were situated. Returning to the Arbor with Peach, the Guardian briefly spoke with Micah at the holoprojector about the world outside of the Pale Heart being calcified. Micah would state that she would set up the cleansing team in the Pale Heart and call upon the Guardian again when she had another telemetry.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Return]]''</ref>

The Guardian spoke with Micah at the holoprojector to locate the next unpartnered Ghost, who ordered them to find [[Link]], a member of the [[Spectral Network|Watchful Eye]] whose last known location was in the [[Ocean of Storms]] on the [[Moon]]. Beginning their search, the Guardian arrived on the Moon and delved into the [[Hellmouth]]. Meanwhile, Micah and Cayde would speak over the comms, with Cayde stating he was unsure if he would come out of the fight alive. Oblivious to how he truly returned, Micah declared she would thank the Traveler for resurrecting him in her next letter. Fighting through Hive forces of the [[Hidden Swarm]], the Guardian returned to the [[The Summoning Pits (location)|Summoning Pits]], where they scanned a calcified statue upon arrival and then defeated the [[Nightmare of Phogoth, the Untamed]]. Picking up signs that Link was previously here, Ghost would also reveal that he appeared to be scanning the [[Nightmare]]s. Exploring beneath the Moon's surface, the Guardian discovered calcified Hive statues and retrieved Link, bringing him to the Arbor. The Guardian then briefly spoke with Micah about the final shape reaching the Moon and how the Hive still work towards it, being victims of its calcification.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Hellmouth]]''</ref>

Micah would discover the telemetry of [[Dejana]], one of the oldest known unpartnered Ghosts investigating Taken activity in the [[European Dead Zone]]. Sending them to find her at the Trostland, the Guardian defeated Shadow Legion and Taken forces attempting to spread their corruption. Scanning a calcified statue and vanquishing [[Gor'ath Gath]], Ghost picked up multiple anomalies due to the Final Shape reaching Earth. Picking up Dejana's trail into the [[The Dark Forest|Dark Forest]], the Guardian found her near a Shard of the Traveler before taking her to the Pale Heart. Despite their lack of time, Micah still recognized that the Traveler was not yet ready and that they only had one opportunity to defeat the Witness.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Shadows]]''</ref>

Tracking [[Bean]]'s location to the [[Insight Terminus]] on [[Nessus]], the Guardian would be sent to find him while Cayde and Micah spoke over the comms. Due to picking up a [[Red Legion]] detachment, Micah and Ghost would conclude that this was either a Red Legion warlord serving its own interest, or they answered to the Shadow Legion. Navigating towards Bean's location, the Guardian encountered a clone of [[Kargen, the Technocrat]] attempting to interface with a Vex Conflux being teleporting away. With the revelation that Cabal cloning technology could clone Psions, the Guardian pursued the clone to the [[Quiet Epiphany]]. After scanning a calcified statue, they defeat Kargen and bring an end to his attempts at accessing Vex data once more.<ref name="Oracle"/>

As Ghost would reveal that he had obtained Bean's signal, he would discover that Kargen was attempting to access Vex data on the [[OXA Machine]] once again. When Micah remarked on the OXA's similarities to the [[Future War Cult]]'s [[The Device|Device]], Ghost would state that both machines appeared to either be the same thing or share the same design. Furthermore, Ghost would also discover that Kargen was attempting to access the Sol Divisive's research on the Veil and that this Cabal detachment was sent by [[Otzot]], a leader of the [[Psion Conclave]] and co-conspirator of the [[Midnight Coup (event)|Midnight Coup]]. This revelation would lead to speculation that branches within the Shadow Legion were not loyal to the Witness. When Micah asked Ghost who had stopped Kargen from accessing the data, he revealed it was [[Maya Sundaresh]], according to this log. Finding Bean at the [[Pools of Luminance]], the Guardian would return to the Pale Heart to discuss these new findings with Micah. Ultimately, the Hunter would conclude that the Conclave's loyalty to the Witness was dubious as a means to cover their own operations.<ref name="Oracle">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Oracle]]''</ref>

As the Guardian would speak with Micah at the holoprojector, she would welcome them back before revealing she had obtained the telemetry of the Ghost, [[Akasha]], who had been scanning Awoken territory for years. Upon arriving in the Dreaming City, Ghost revealed that although he had obtained Akasha's location, her signature was cutting in and out. Realizing she was likely in the Ascendant Plane, Glint would send them sensor modulations he and Crow had created to track beings between planes. Heading to the [[Harbinger's Seclude]], the Guardian defeats Taken and Scorn forces and enters the Ascendant Plane. After scanning a calcified statue, Ghost realized that Akasha appeared to be analyzing the [[Ley Lines]]. Due to the mass movement in the Ley Lines, they realized that Xivu Arath had abandoned the Witness and was moving her Hive forces across the Ascendant Plane with Mara preoccupied in the Pale Heart.  Tracking Akasha to the [[The Confluence|Confluence]], the Guardian accompanied her to the Pale Heart. At the holoprojector, Micah would tell the Guardian that they would likely find themselves in a conflict with the God of War if they succeeded in vanquishing the Witness.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Ascendant]]''</ref>

Returning to the holoprojector to speak with Micah, she reveals that she had located [[Citrine]], a Ghost obsessed with Warmind technology on the planet of [[Mars]]. The Guardian arrives in the [[Hellas Basin]], which had been caught in a time rift. Engaging with the forces of Xivu Arath, which had arrived to investigate the time rifts, the Guardian arrived at the Submind Vault to scan a calcified statue. Shortly after defeating a manifestation of [[Kelgorath, Risen from Bones]] brought forth from the rift, Ghost located Citrine's beacon as she had made her way to the [[The Enclave|Enclave]] and the Hidden had ordered her to wait for them. Due to the time wound bleeding out, Mara declared that she and her [[Techeun]]s would seal the rift away, even if temporarily. Arriving at the Enclave, the Guardian found Citrine, bringing her into the Pale Heart to assist the Traveler in healing. Micah revealed to the Guardian that Citrine had apologized for her late arrival, although she would attempt to hide that she had attempted to harvest the Warmind bunker for its parts.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Past]]''</ref>

Arriving at the holoprojector to speak with Micah, she would reveal that she had telemetry of the Ghost, [[Anwar]], a former confidant of the [[Speaker]] who had begun to seek out the true nature of the Darkness following his death. Micah stated that Anwar would come to believe that the Darkness was a force of the universe that must be tended to like a garden. Furthermore, her telemetry led her to believe he was within the [[The Europan Pyramid|Europan Pyramid]]. As the Guardian traveled to Europa to begin their search for Anwar, Micah would ask Cayde if he remembered his time on Europa, to which the former Hunter Vanguard revealed he only maintained vague memories.<ref name="Veiled"/>

Following Anwar's previous signal, the Guardian traveled into the Pyramid, engaging with Cabal forces sent by Oztot. While the Guardian progressed through the Pyramid, Micah would ask Cayde questions about the child he remembered from his first Exo incarnation. Eventually, the Guardian entered a room containing a Veiled Statue, with a Dissenter calling out and warning them of their limited time. After scanning a calcified statue and defeating the Cabal force within, Micah discovered that Anwar had been killed at the [[Ziggurat]]. While the Guardian would go to receive Anwar's remains, Cayde would offer to speak with Micah about anything she wanted. After retrieving her remains and bringing them into the Pale Heart, the Guardian would converse with Micah, who would reveal that she and Cayde knew each other in their past lives on Europa, where they developed a friendship over cards that assisted her in processing her emotions and transgender identity.<ref name="Veiled">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Veiled]]''</ref>

Micah would discover the general location of [[Heilung]], another member of the Watchful Eye who had been sent on a long-term recon mission into the [[Court of Savathûn]], but had been unresponsive for a year. Returning to the Witch Queen's bewildering realm, the Guardian returned to the [[Temple of the Cunning]] and defeated hordes of Scorn to make their way to the main part of the temple. Defeating the [[Ahamkara Illusion]], which served as an alarm for the Lucent Hive, Ghost realized that Heilung had been watching them. The Guardian would manage to escape the Lucent Hive, briefly scanning another calcified statue on the way. Finding Heilung at the [[Sanctum of the Brood Queen]], the Guardian accompanied her to the Pale Heart. With the intel that Heilung had collected, Micah would learn that, although Savathûn had aligned her brood against the Witness, the Witch Queen intended to pursue something after it was defeated.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Illusion]]''</ref>

As the Guardian spoke with Micah again at the holoprojector, she revealed that she had uncovered the telemetric data for [[Balthazar]], who had made his way to the Moon. Making their way to the [[Scarlet Keep]], Micah and Ghost realized that Balthazar was within the [[The Lunar Pyramid|Lunar Pyramid]] due to his location being smothered in Darkness. Upon spotting the Nightmares, Ghost expressed his astonishment that they remained even after the death of [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain]]. Micah divulged that Eris's documentation on the Nightmares led them both to believe that they are an untapped power of the Darkness that Nezarec had woven into the fabric of his Pyramid. Because the Nightmare's presence remained, Micah pondered whether the notorious Final God of Pain was truly dead.<ref name="Visitation"/>

Upon entering the Pyramid, Ghost would divulge that it appeared to be yearning for a master. Upon defeating the Nightmares of Ghaul, Fikrul, and Crota, the Guardian sent out their Ghost to scan a calcified statue. From the Veiled Statue at the top of the stairs, an [[Unknown Artifact|Archival Sphere]] would appear and play a recording of the Witness speaking to Nezarec. In it, the Witness would order Nezarec to show the Psions the power of the Veil. Micah realized that Balthazar was searching for this sphere to retrieve the information it possessed. With Ghost sensing Balthazar's location, the Guardian would find Balthazar and escort him to the Pale Heart.<ref name="Visitation">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Visitation]]''</ref>

As Micah succeeded in receiving the telemetry for the final Ghost, the Guardian would speak with her at the holoprojector. She would warn them that while they had been striving to heal the Traveler, the Witness was getting closer to enacting the final shape. Due to their limited time, Micah would then order them to find the final Ghost, [[Hecate]], a scholar of Hive lore who formerly studied under [[Toland, the Shattered]] and [[Eris Morn]]. Micah would divulge that Hecate was investigating a rumour of the [[House of Dusk]] moving into the old territory of the [[House of Devils]] within the Cosmodrome. With the Guardian returning to the [[The Devils' Lair (location)|Devils' Lair]] where they destroyed [[Sepiks Prime]] years ago, Micah would reveal that Eliksni communications spoke of the creation of a new [[Prime Servitor]].<ref name="Desperation"/>

Fighting their way through House Dusk forces, the Guardian encountered Brigs from the House of Salvation not in their ordinary colours. Shortly after destroying a [[Walker]], Ghost spotted a House of Salvation [[Ketch]] that had not rallied in the Pale Heart to assist the Witness. After briefly scanning a calcified statue, the Guardian confronted and destroyed a copy of Sepiks Prime. Recognizing some of these Fallen as renegades from the [[House of Wolves]], Cayde realized that they interrupted an arms deal and that the House of Dusk offered Eramis a Prime Servitor in exchange for weapons. Furthermore, Micah would conclude that Eramis was more [[Ether]]-starved than the House of Dusk refugees and pirates.  Due to this revaluation, Micah hypothesized that House Dusk either had another Prime Servitor or an alternative supply of Ether. After the Guardian retrieved Hecate from where they were resurrected and brought them to the Pale Heart, Micah would reveal that the Vanguard forces were preparing for their final assault against the Witness.<ref name="Desperation">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Desperation]]''</ref>