Endless Night: Difference between revisions

Though the Guardians succeeded in destroying the architect of the Endless Night and their alliance with the House of Light brought back daylight to the Last City, Lakshmi-2 remained paranoid and wary of the eliksni, desiring to see them expelled from the Last City. Further, the War Cult leader becomes dissatisfied with the Vanguard's recent decisions and effectiveness, from allowing Guardians to wield [[Stasis]], their management of the conflict with the Cabal, their inability to stop the Black Fleet and now allowing the eliksni to stay within the Last City. Gathering her counterparts in [[New Monarchy]] and [[Dead Orbit]], Lakshmi convinces [[Hideo]] and [[Jalaal]] that new leadership is required for the Guardians, one more inclined to their point of view. However, their efforts to convince either [[Saladin Forge]] or Saint-14 to assume the role as leader of the Vanguard were rebuffed. Frustrated that a peaceful transition of power is no longer possible, Lakshmi instead attempts to forcefully expel the eliksni from the Last City and overthrow the Vanguard leadership with the combined efforts of Future War Cult, Dead Orbit and New Monarchy, thereby assuming full control over the Consensus. Galvanized with the supposed support of Osiris himself, Lakshmi instigates her coup, rounding up eliksni in the Botza District and activating a Vex portal to forcefully expel the House of Light. However, during a broadcast, her coup ends horribly as Vex enter through the portal, attacking indiscriminately, human and eliksni alike. Lakshmi-2 ultimately gets killed by the Vex during the slaughter.

Scrambling to defend the Last City and the Eliksni, the Guardians manage to breach into the Outer Nexus once more and destroy the Subjective Mind in command of the attacking Vex, closing the portal. However, the remaining Vex within the City still posed a serious threat, as they closed in on the House of Light. Fortunately, the combined efforts of Ikora, Mithrax, Saint-14, [[Zavala]] and even [[Amanda Holliday]] were able to defend the eliksni and destroy the remaining Vex.

With Lakshmi's coup a failure, New Monarchy and Dead Orbit gathered all their members, supplies and anyone else affiliated with them and fled the Last City on Dead Orbit's fleet rather than face the Vanguard's wrath, thereby bringing an end to the Factions. However, in Lakshmi's final broadcast before her death, she stated that she was aided by Osiris, leading Ikora to wonder if her old mentor was part of Lakshmi's coup attempt but his disappearance following the Vex attack only increased the suspicion towards Osiris.