Editing Reef

{{Title|The Reef}}

 

The '''Reef''' is a debris field in orbit within the [[wikipedia:Asteroid_Belt|Asteroid belt]] in the [[Sol System]]<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJkiwDeWqQ '''Destiny''' - ''PlayStation 4 Official Announcement'']</ref><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness">[http://www.bungie.net/7_Pathways-Out-Of-Darkness/en-us/News/News?aid=10241 '''Bungie.net''' ''Pathways out of Darkness'']</ref> and the domain of an expansive [[Awoken]] nation under [[Queen]] [[Mara Sov]]. It is considered by the [[City]] to straddle the boundary between the far edge of the [[Traveler]]'s influence and the unabated darkness beyond the Inner System.<ref name="Destiny">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard''</ref>

The massive hulks of dead [[Golden Age]] ships that make up the Reef mark the furthest point that people fleeing [[Earth]] and the Inner System during the [[Collapse]] were able to reach; the [[Darkness]] ensured they made it no further.<ref name="Destiny"/>  

A group of Awoken colonized the Reef at some point in the [[Dark Age]] after emigrating from the [[Distributary]] under the leadership of [[Mara Sov]], and established a society completely independent from the [[City]].<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement"/><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness"/><ref>[http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/17/bungies-destiny-revealed/ ''''Bungie's Destiny Revealed''</ref> Outsiders, including Earth-born Awoken, were long considered trespassers and if necessary met with lethal force.<ref name="Destiny"/> This changed after the rebellion of the [[House of Wolves]], as Guardians were welcomed into the Reef to combat the Fallen menace.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: House of Wolves Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref>

The Awoken of the Reef have long preferred to remain distant and aloof from the affairs of the [[City]], but are known to be associated with the [[Nine]], who are said to control the planets beyond the asteroid belt.<ref name="The Queen">'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#The Queen|The Queen]]''</ref> The current Queen allied with the Nine in a successful [[Reef Wars|war]] against the [[Fallen]] House of Wolves.<ref name="GFTQ">'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: The Queen|Ghost Fragment: The Queen]]''</ref> With half their House destroyed, their [[Kaliks Prime|Prime Servitor]] missing, and their [[Skolas, Wolf Kell|Kell]] and [[Aksor, Archon Priest|Archon]] sealed within the [[Prison of Elders]], the House of Wolves became vassals of the Queen and lived alongside the Awoken until their rebellion.<ref name="The Queen"/><ref name="GFTQ"/> In the aftermath of the uprising, and various thefts by Fallen, the Queen opened the Reef up to the [[Guardian]]s to fight alongside the Awoken.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 '''YouTube''' - ''Official Destiny Expansion II: House of Wolves Prologue'']</ref>

When [[Oryx]] invaded the Sol System, the Reef was at the forefront of repelling the [[Hive]] fleet. Their vast armada, led personally by the Queen, met Oryx's fleet in combat in the rings of [[Saturn]], but were overwhelmed by Oryx's [[Dreadnaught]]'s superweapon and virtually the entire armada was obliterated with very few survivors. With the Queen missing in action, her Emissary, [[Petra Venj]], became acting regent-commander.

 

Years after [[Mara Sov]] disappeared from the [[Sol System]], the Reef collapsed from the loss of their armada and security; capping at it were the Scorned Barons, a gang of renegade [[Barons]] terrorizing both Fallen and Awoken alike, and the betrayal of the former Reef prince [[Uldren Sov]], having allied with the [[House of Kings]] and united the disjointed Fallen into the [[House of Dusk]]. The Scorned Barons were caught and imprisoned by a [[Guardian]] posse led by Hunter Vanguard [[Cayde-6]] and Petra Venj, leaving only their Archon [[Fikrul]] to escape and met with Uldren at the brink of death; becoming the first of the [[Scorn]].

 

A year after the [[Red War]], Petra Venj and Cayde-6 were able to bring Uldren and Fikrul into the Prison. Taking advantage of this, the imprisoned Uldren orchestrated the warden [[Variks]] into unleashing a massive breakout from the [[Prison of Elders]], releasing the Scorned Barons from their cages and murdering Cayde-6 in the process. The Scorn forces fled into the [[Tangled Shore]] under Uldren and their eight commanding [[Baron]]s. The situation became so dire that the [[Guardian]] were called upon to contain the chaos.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u4oyarcc4I</ref>

Reef society is matriarchal and ruled by a single Queen with near-absolute power, essentially an authoritarian monarchy. The current and only known Queen of the Reef is [[Mara Sov]]. Second to the Queen in power was her brother Prince [[Uldren Sov]], Master of Crows, who managed the Reef's intelligence network of "Crows" and served as the Queen's chief adviser.

The Queen commands the military forces of the Reef through seven [[Paladin]]s. The Royal Armada, consisting of the Reef's space fleet in addition to the [[Corsair]]s, who serve as field scouts, and the [[Vestian Guard]], which patrols the Reef's borders, is led by four Paladins. The Royal Army, which encompasses the Reef's soldiers, battle stations, and military installations, is in the charge of two. The seventh Paladin directs the [[Royal Awoken Guard]], which is dedicated to protecting the Queen from both direct threats to her person and indirect threats that endanger the Reef as a whole and therefore the Queen by extension and/or association.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#The Royal Awoken Guard|The Royal Awoken Guard]]''</ref>

Other significant institutions include the [[Techeun]]s and the Reef [[Cryptarch|Cryptarchy]]. The Techeuns, also known as "tech witches", serve as advisors to the Queen, but following the rebellion of the [[House of Wolves]], two Techeuns now attend her in lieu of Fallen bodyguards.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: The Reef 2|Ghost Fragment: The Reef 2]]''</ref> The Reef Cryptarchy's function is similar to the Cryptarchy of the [[Last City]], but it follows a different philosophy: where the City's Cryptarchs seek to decrypt [[Engram]]s to uncover secrets of the Golden Age and aid the [[Guardian]]s in the process, the Reef's Cryptarchs believe their purpose is to encrypt and safeguard civilization's informational infrastructure.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Master Ives, Cryptarch|Master Ives, Cryptarch]]''</ref>

*[[Ceres|1 Ceres]]

*[[2 Pallas]]

*[[Vestian Web|4 Vesta]]

*[[7 Iris]]

*[[10 Hygiea]]

*[[704 Interamnia]]

*[[687 Tinette]]

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*[[Pallas Falls]]

*[[RSS Amestris]]

*[[Hildian Asteroids]]

*[[Accretion Fields]]

*[[The Origin Libraries]]

**[[Prison of Elders]]

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*[[Last Wish]]

File:Crow and queen of the Reef.jpg|The Queen, her brother, and Eliksni guards in the throne room

File:Reef fallen e3.jpg|An Eliksni bodyguard on the Reef

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