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{{Quote|This time, I know what to do. The Vanguard has been keeping secrets. I was foolish to take them at face value. Clandestine missions to Mars… and beyond. Realms outside the boundaries of time. The Black Garden they call it. Darkness lives inside, beating, and pulsing. I believe it is the source of our misery. I'll see to its destruction… and I won't have to kill my sister ever again.|Elsie, hatching her plan for the current time loop}} | {{Quote|This time, I know what to do. The Vanguard has been keeping secrets. I was foolish to take them at face value. Clandestine missions to Mars… and beyond. Realms outside the boundaries of time. The Black Garden they call it. Darkness lives inside, beating, and pulsing. I believe it is the source of our misery. I'll see to its destruction… and I won't have to kill my sister ever again.|Elsie, hatching her plan for the current time loop}} | ||
Elsie eventually hatched a plan based on all that she had learned and the technology she had gathered. Thanks to her [[No Time To Explain|rifle]], which was unstuck in time and could thus be used as an anchor, she was able to travel briefly in time between certain points.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/exo-stranger-timewarped-relics Timewarped Relics]''</ref> With the knowledge that the [[Black Garden]] was responsible for corrupting Guardians, she resolved to find a way to destroy it before that occurred, depriving the dark future of one of its primary sources of [[Darkness]]. She believed that by doing so it would fundamentally alter the timeline and prevent her from having to kill Ana.<ref name="NLL"/> At an unknown point in this timeline Elsie encountered [[Rasputin]], who recognized her but did not understand her purpose. He thus asked her how he could imitate her ability to step between timelines so he could achieve his own goals.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Activision Blizzard - [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref> | Elsie eventually hatched a plan based on all that she had learned and the technology she had gathered. Thanks to her [[No Time To Explain|rifle]], which was unstuck in time and could thus be used as an anchor, she was able to travel briefly in time between certain points.<ref name="TR">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/exo-stranger-timewarped-relics Timewarped Relics]''</ref> With the knowledge that the [[Black Garden]] was responsible for corrupting Guardians, she resolved to find a way to destroy it before that occurred, depriving the dark future of one of its primary sources of [[Darkness]]. She believed that by doing so it would fundamentally alter the timeline and prevent her from having to kill Ana.<ref name="NLL"/> At an unknown point in this timeline Elsie encountered [[Rasputin]], who recognized her but did not understand her purpose. He thus asked her how he could imitate her ability to step between timelines so he could achieve his own goals.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Activision Blizzard - [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref> | ||
Although the Elsie's primary concern was the Black Garden and the Vex, the [[Hive]] infesting [[Earth]]'s moon [[Moon|Luna]] caught her attention after she accidently transmatted herself to the moon and noticed their presence. She risked several more visits to Luna to observe them, once inadvertently arriving within their tunnels and being forced to fight to the surface, and deduced that although they seemed feral in many aspects they had a keen intelligence and complex intentions. Elsie speculated that the Hive and Vex had common enemies and a connection to the Darkness. This belief was reinforced when a [[Fireteam]] of [[Guardian]]s halted a Hive ritual she had planned to observe, which she learned was in fact ripping the Light away from the Traveler, similar to the Black Garden. After confirming this by traveling back to before the ritual was halted, a new figure caught her interest: a newly risen [[The Guardian|Guardian]] and their [[The Ghost|Ghost]] who helped halt the ritual and mentioned [[Venus]]. Elsie traveled back once more to watch as they discovered the reemergence of the Hive on the Moon outside the [[Temple of Crota]], but noted no indication of Vex presence or activity to warrant the mention of Venus.<ref name="Exo 2">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Activision Blizzard - [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Exo_Stranger#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Exo_Stranger_2|Ghost Fragment: The Exo Stranger 2]]''</ref> | Although the Elsie's primary concern was the Black Garden and the Vex, the [[Hive]] infesting [[Earth]]'s moon [[Moon|Luna]] caught her attention after she accidently transmatted herself to the moon and noticed their presence. She risked several more visits to Luna to observe them, once inadvertently arriving within their tunnels and being forced to fight to the surface, and deduced that although they seemed feral in many aspects they had a keen intelligence and complex intentions. Elsie speculated that the Hive and Vex had common enemies and a connection to the Darkness. This belief was reinforced when a [[Fireteam]] of [[Guardian]]s halted a Hive ritual she had planned to observe, which she learned was in fact ripping the Light away from the Traveler, similar to the Black Garden. After confirming this by traveling back to before the ritual was halted, a new figure caught her interest: a newly risen [[The Guardian|Guardian]] and their [[The Ghost|Ghost]] who helped halt the ritual and mentioned [[Venus]]. Elsie traveled back once more to watch as they discovered the reemergence of the Hive on the Moon outside the [[Temple of Crota]], but noted no indication of Vex presence or activity to warrant the mention of Venus.<ref name="Exo 2">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Activision Blizzard - [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Exo_Stranger#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Exo_Stranger_2|Ghost Fragment: The Exo Stranger 2]]''</ref> | ||