Timeline

Destinypedia: Timeline is a Destinypedia page which lays out the timeline of the Destiny franchise. This page is simply a reference for general events. For detailed information, please refer to the timeline template provided on the right. Note that nearly all events are not attached to specific dates; they may not be in exact chronological order, and adjacent events in the list may be separated by spans of only a few days or several centuries.

21st Century

 * The present day - Humanity detects and tracks the Traveler as it enters the Solar System and terraforms Mercury, Venus, and the moons of Jupiter. When it reaches Mars, the multinational Ares One mission is launched to make contact with it. The Traveler imparts its vast knowledge to humanity, spurring the colonization of the Solar System. The Golden Age, a centuries-long era of widespread prosperity and technological miracles, begins.

Early Golden Age

 * Fifty years after the Traveler's discovery, Commander Jacob Hardy records his experiences from the Ares One mission in his diary.


 * During the initial exploration of Venus, ancient Vex ruins are discovered. Early Vex research outposts like Campus 9 attract Earth's brightest minds, leading to a colonization rush on the planet. The researchers found the Ishtar Collective and the Ishtar Academy.


 * The city of Freehold is founded on Mars with the support of Clovis Bray. It becomes known as one of humanity's greatest achievements.

Late Golden Age

 * The first Exo are built to aid and protect humans.


 * The Future War Cult is believed to have been founded around this time.

The Collapse

 * The Warmind Rasputin detects the sudden arrival and rapid approach of an unidentified entity outside the Solar System. Recognizing the entity as a threat, Rasputin assumes control of humanity's defense network. As all countermeasures fail to affect the entity and defeat becomes a certainty, Rasputin decides to shut down to protect itself, leaving billions of people to perish.


 * The Collapse - The Darkness, the ancient enemy of the Traveler, arrives in the Solar System, precipitating the Collapse and the abrupt end of the Golden Age. Earth's defenders are steadily beaten back until humanity is threatened with extinction. Humanity is saved only through the intervention of the Traveler, which sacrifices itself to stop the Darkness. With its last breath, the Traveler creates the Ghosts, to seek out those who can wield its Light as a weapon.


 * At some point during the Collapse, some humans seeking refuge from the Darkness flee into deep space.


 * The Cabal arrive on Mars and seize the city of Freehold, and slowing begin expanding their beachhead as more Cabal armies arrive.


 * On Mercury, Venus and Mars, dormant Vex units, reacting to the Collapse reactivate and begin terraforming several worlds. While Mercury is turned into a machine in days the Vex terraforming is halted on other worlds, by the invading Cabal on Mars, and the Fallen House of Winter on Venus

The Dark Age

 * In the aftermath of the Collapse comes the Dark Age. It is a time of vast suffering and terrible evil.


 * Those humans who fled into space during the Collapse return, transformed into the Awoken. Many take up residence in the Reef.


 * The Exo reappear, but their memories have been irreparably damaged.


 * Ghosts travel among the refugee columns, seeking the first Guardians.


 * Rumors circulate of a haven beneath the Traveler.


 * The first Titans pledge to defend the refugees gathering to the Traveler, forming the Pilgrim Guard.


 * On Mars the Cabal wage a massive war of attrition with the native Vex programming the Virgo Prohibition, who desperately attempt to protect the entrance to the Black Garden from the ever expanding Cabal Exclusion Zone. The war will continue throughout the Dark Age and the City Age with relatively little outside interference.

Founding the Last City

 * The Last City is founded - Survivors of the Collapse, human, Awoken, and Exo, travel from far and wide to the site of the inactive Traveler, and build the Last City beneath its protective aura. The Titans construct and defend the City's walls. The City Age begins.

Early City Age

 * The Battle of the Six Fronts - The first major attack weathered by the City. Four orders of Titans defended six different approaches against an overwhelming enemy force. None of the orders faltered, and what could have been a disastrous defeat became instead a decisive victory.


 * The Crusade of Saint-14 - The legendary Titan and Exo Saint-14 leads a massive attack to drive off the Fallen surrounding the city. He is successful and the city is temporarily freed of Fallen attacks.


 * The Faction Wars - Power struggles between various political factions for the support of the City's refugee masses escalate into a series of violent conflicts. The Guardians step in and end the bloodshed before the City is torn apart. The Consensus, a representative body through which the factions could pursue their agendas peacefully, is subsequently formed to jointly govern the City with the Speaker.


 * New Monarchy coalesces in the wake of the Faction Wars.


 * The Great Ahamkara Hunt - The Vanguard deems the Ahamkara to be too dangerous and orders their extermination in the Great Ahamkara Hunt. The Warlocks preserve some Ahamkara bones and fossils for study.


 * The Six Coyotes, a legendary fireteam of Hunters, make the first survey of the interior of the Cosmodrome in Old Russia.


 * The Hive begin landing Seeder Ships on Earth in a centuries-long process intended to precede an invasion. Guardians eventually first learn of the Hive's presence at the Rusted Lands, the future site of a Crucible arena.


 * A fire team led by the famed Titan, Kabr, lands on Venus and breaches the Vault of Glass, hoping to destroy Atheon, along with whatever secrets the Vex have hidden there, and return to the City in glory. The assault is a disaster, as Kabr's team encounter the Templar, whose impregnable shields and powerful weapons force the team deeper into the Vault of Glass. Here they encounter the Vex Gorgons which obliterate much of the remaining Guardians. Kabr himself is not killed but instead goes mad, becoming obsessed with the Vex that he slew, fashioning armor and weapons from their corpses. In the end Kabr does not die but is assimilated by the Vault. In his last act Kabr creates the Aegis, a weapon capable of piercing the Templar's shields, so that future fire teams will not meet his fate.

Recent City Age

 * The Battle of the Twilight Gap - The Kell of Kings, the ruler of the House of Kings, manipulates the combined might of the Fallen Houses into an assault against the City. The battle is joined in Twilight Gap, just outside the City's walls. Vanguard Commander Saladin Forge coordinates the City's defenses with his students Zavala and Shaxx. Though many Guardians fall in the ensuing battle, the united Fallen houses are driven off with heavy casualties. In the aftermath of the Guardians' hard-won victory, the outermost sections of the City are evacuated and converted into fortifications, and the Vanguard decides to take a more proactive stance in fighting the forces of the Darkness by deploying strike teams against high value enemy targets.


 * The Reef Wars - As Twilight Gap rages on Earth, the Awoken of the Reef ally with the Nine to subdue the powerful House of Wolves. Battles include the Hildian Campaign and the Raze of Amethyst. After their Kell Virixas is killed, a brutal civil war among the Wolves ensues which sees Skolas emerge as the new Kell. Following Skolas's capture at the Cybele Uprising, the Wolves surrender and swear fealty to the Queen of the Reef rather than be totally destroyed. The Queen seals their nobility in the Prison of Elders and allows the rest to serve as her personal guards and servants.


 * Holborn's Host investigates the Dust Palace on Mars, seeking a Warmind.


 * The Great Disaster - Sometime after Twilight Gap, the Guardians launch an audacious offensive to reclaim the Moon from the Hive. The Hive Prince Crota, the son of their God-King Oryx, brutally repels the attack, personally leading the Hive's forces and killing scores of Guardians with his fabled sword. Humbled, the Vanguard orders a full retreat and declares the Moon off-limits, hoping that the Hive will lose interest and refrain from invading Earth.


 * Seeking to avenge their lost allies, Eriana-3 leads a fireteam of Guardians consisting of Eris Morn, Vell Tarlowe, Omar Agah, Sai Mota, and Toland, the Shattered return to the Moon to hunt down Crota. Though they succeed in destroying Crota's physical form, the Hive catch and preserve his soul. As the Guardians try to flee, they are killed one by one until only Eris remains. Eris survives in the Hive's tunnels for years before escaping and later becoming one of Ikora Rey's Hidden.


 * Andal Brask, the Hunter Vanguard, falls in battle with th vicious Fallen mercenary Taniks. Cayde-6 reluctantly assumes Brask's post in memory of his deceased friend.


 * The Concordat faction falls out of favor with the Consensus and is ejected from the Tower. The Vanguard and the Speaker approve the ascension of the Future War Cult to replace the Concordat.


 * The once noble hero Dredgen Yor begins his campaign of destruction, murdering fellow Guardians and civilians alike. His victims include the Crucible champion Thalor and the Hunters Jaren Ward and Pahanin Errata.  Yor is finally killed by the hunter Shin Malpur and his hand gun The Last Word after a fateful duel.

28th Century

 * The events of Destiny - Seven centuries from the present day, a Ghost revives a long-dead Guardian outside the Cosmodrome in Old Russia. The Speaker tasks this Guardian with finding the means to restore the Traveler before the Darkness returns and destroys the City once and for all.


 * The Cabal high command is decimated after scores of its leaders are killed in battle with Guardians. Among them are Primus Sha'aul, leader of the Blind Legion and the veteran general Valus Ta'aurc, leader of the Siege Dancers. The Cabal suffer an even greater loss after an elite unit of Psion Flayers are wiped out in the Dust Palace by a fireteam from Earth.


 * The Guardian enters the Black Garden and destroys the Black Heart at its core. Freed from the Heart's parasitic influence, the Traveler regains its Light and begins to heal.


 * A group of Guardians ventures into the Vault of Glass and defeats Atheon, Time's Conflux, disrupting the Vex's plan to permanently incorporate themselves into reality itself.


 * The events of The Dark Below - Eris Morn returns to the Tower, warnin g of an impending Hive invasion led by a resurrected Crota. A group of Guardians foil the invasion and Crota's resurrection before journeying into Crota's netherworld to destroy him for good.


 * The events of House of Wolves - Skolas leads the House of Wolves in a rebellion against the Queen of the Reef. The Queen responds by opening the Reef to the Guardians and sending them against Skolas as he attempts to unite all of the Fallen Houses under his rule.