Eliksni siege

The Eliksni siege is a conflict that has spanned nearly a hundred years between The Last City and the Fallen Houses. It seemingly ended roughly one year after the SIVA Crisis, but resumed with the resurgence of the Fallen during the Red War.

Prelude
Long ago, before the Traveler arrived in the Solar System, an insectoid species called Eliksni encountered the Traveler, calling it the Great Machine and ushered in a Golden Age of their own, turning their homeworld into a paradise. However, once the Traveler left, a great cataclysmic event, called the Whirlwind occurred, scattering the Eliksni and ravaging their home. In the aftermath, the Eliksni dubbed themselves the Fallen and fought amongst themselves for the remnants of their civilization, until a tense cease-fire was called. The Fallen then declared they would go their separate ways and search the stars for the Traveler hoping to bring their people back to glory. For years, the Fallen have searched the galaxy and after arriving in the Solar System, they found it on Earth but defended by those with its power, the Guardians.

The Guardians have defended the Last City, where the Traveler hovers above, for years and the Fallen became their most common foe, as they have faced numerous houses but none could break the Last City's defenses. Each of the Fallen houses sought to claim the Traveler for themselves and therefore fought each other as well as the Guardians.

Battle of Six Fronts
The first major battle with the Fallen occurred in the outskirts of the Last City's territories between the Fallen House of Devils and squads of Titans led by the Iron Lords. Despite attacking on multiple fronts, the Titan defense held and the Devils were forced to retreat.

Battle of the Twilight Gap
Under the manipulation of the House of Kings, the Fallen decided to begrudging put aside their differences and fight together to storm the Last City and claim the Traveler. Three houses: House of Devils, Kings and House of Winter joined their forces in an all-out assault of the Last City, culminating the Twilight Gap. While City artillery battled with Fallen Tanks, the Guardians led by Lord Saladin, fought against the siege. Despite the Fallen's efforts, the Guardians held the line and forced the Fallen into a retreat. Only Solkis, Devil Kell refused to retreat and continued to fight, only to be killed by Saint-14. The Fallen were then completely routed from the city, thanks to a counterattack led by Lord Shaxx.

The Fallen then ceased to work together again and retreated to different parts of the Solar System to their own devices. The Devils retreated to the Cosmodrome, the Winters retreated to Venus and the Kings continue to hide in the shadows of Old Russia. In addition, a new smaller house was formed from the malcontents and outcasts from the others after the failure at the Twilight Gap, the House of Exile which has taken residence on the Moon.

Reef Wars
Unknown to the Last City, another Fallen House sought to join their brethren in the battle, the House of Wolves, and with their support they might have turned the tide to their favor. However, for reasons known only to her, the Reef Queen Mara Sov launched a surprise attack on the Wovles, claiming halve their numbers and their Kell. Then began the bloody Reef Wars which ended with the Reefborn Awoken the victors as the Wolves nobility and new Kell, Skolas, was imprisoned. Mara Sov gave them the choice of either accepting her as their new leader and live in the Reef or perish. The majority chose the former while others went off into hiding. Without the Wolves support, the Fallen failed to claim the Traveler.

Vanguard Offenses
Years after the Battle of the Twilight Gap, the Vanguard have maintained their defenses but only recently have they decided to launch new offenses on their enemies, the Fallen especially. The first offense came with the death of the Devil Archon Riksis at the hands of newly risen Guardian. On the planet Venus, the Guardians finally tracked down the Winter Kell, Draksis whom has attacked scouting and supply ships for years. Fighting to his Ketch and through his guard, the Guardians cornered the Kell in his throne room, killing him leaving the House of Winter leaderless and its members under the threat of infighting.

With the loss of their Kell, the Winters decided to find a new leader. Enlisting the aid of the mercenary, Taniks, the Scarred, the Fallen broke into the Reef Prison of Elders and gained the prison cell of Aksor, Archon Priest. However, the Vanguard heard of their efforts and sent in a team of Guardians to kill the Priest. Tracking the prisoner, the Guardians faced off against Aksor just as was released from his prison and succeeded in killing him, leaving the Winters leaderless once more.

Wolf Rebellion
A Fallen resurgence occurred in the form of the House of Wolves who's Kell had returned, possibly aided by the Nine, which led the Wolf Fallen in a rebellion against the Awoken. In retaliation, Mara Sov placed bounties on the Wolves' nobility while enlisting Guardians to hunt down Skolas. While investigating, the Guardians tracked the Wolf Kell to Venus who sought to gain the allegiance of the leaderless House of Winter. The Guardians found Skolas rallying the Winter after calling himself the "Kell of Kells", a prophesied warrior who would unite the Fallen and reclaim the Traveler. While the Guardians failed in their chance to capture Skolas, they began to disrupt his operations in preventing him gaining the allegiance of the other Houses, hunting down his followers and thwarting his attempts to gain dangerous weapons from the Vex Vault of Glass.

Cornered and deprived of allies, Skolas sets up a last stand at the top of the Vex Citadel with the Queen's Crows awaiting to capture the Kell. Challenging the mad Kell, the Guardians faced off against Skolas who began to use Vex Warp Gates into bringing his House from across time. Despite his efforts, Skolas was defeated into submission and sent back to the Prison of Elders. There Skolas' sentence was carried out by the Guardians, leaving the House of Wolves were left leaderless, homeless and humiliated while most of the other Houses were also weakened.

Taken War
Both the Guardians and the Fallen were heavily affected by Oryx's arrival and his Taken. The Fallen were Taken in huge numbers, forcing most of the Houses to abandon their holdouts. Those Fallen that became Fallen were eventually defeated by the Guardians.

Hoping to take advantage of the Guardian's distraction Oryx and his forces have placed, two houses in particular sought to use the war to give themselves an advantage. The House of Devils used a upgraded Shank, S.A.B.E.R, to breach the Warmind Rasputin's firewalls and gain access to his weapons. However, Rasputin sent a distress signal to the Guardians which they answered. Fighting into one of Rasputin's bunkers and destroyed the S.A.B.E.R, securing Rasputin's defenses.

The House of Wolves, under the leadership of a renegade Archon, Keldar and the reconstructed Prime Servitor, Orbiks Prime, the Wolves were able to seize control of some of the underground bunkers of the Cabal on Mars, taking advantage of their losses from the War. Seeking to prevent the Wolves from becoming a threat again, Variks, the Loyal enlisted the aid of the Guardians to find the Archon and Prime Servitor and destroy them. The Guardians were successful in driving Keldar out his hideout and locating Orbiks Prime, killing them both. The death of the Prime Servitor and the Archon left the Wolves completely leaderless and broken.

SIVA Crisis
One year after the Taken War, a new Fallen resurgence occurred greater than ever before in the form of the House of Devils. Under the command of a new Archon and his followers, the Devils pillaged every Golden Age vault and lab within the Cosmodrome they could find and in their efforts, they unearthed SIVA, a dangerous self-replicating nano-technology from the Golden Age. The technology was then studied by the Devil Splicers who utilized the technology to augment their weapons and themselves to become more powerful than ever. Aksis was among those who infused themselves with SIVA but at much greater level, almost becoming completely machine, and named himself Aksis, Archon Prime. In addition, the Devil Splicers resurrected their Prime Servitor using SIVA, which became Sepiks Perfected, as a means to prove the technology's worth to the rest of their House.

Hoping to learn more about the ancient technology, the Devils under the command of Sepiks Perfected attacked the Iron Temple, the former stronghold of the old Iron Lords that sealed SIVA away. However, Lord Saladin, enlisting the aid of the Guardians, prevented the Devils from breaching the Temple and drove Sepiks into hiding. The Guardians were then sent to the Cosmodrome where most of it laid in ruins and the Hive driven out of their holds, thanks to the Devil Splicers. In addition, the Devil Splicers breached the wall blocking off the Plaguelands where the SIVA replication chamber, Site 6, was located. After destroying the Devils defenses and gaining vital information from a Clovis Bray database from Mars, the Guardians launched the mission to destroy the replication chamber and finish want the Iron Lords started. After fighting through the Fallen into the chamber, the Guardians initiated the self-destruct sequence but face off against the SIVA-corrupted remnants of the Iron Lords. After a grueling battle with the corrupted remnants, putting the Iron Lords to rest, the self-destruct began and the Guardians escaped in time. With Site 6 destroyed, the Devils lost the means to produce more SIVA but their leadership remained a significant threat.

Lord Saladin and Shiro-4, then tasked the newly named Iron Lords to dismantle the Devils leadership. First target was the resurrected Prime Servitor, Sepiks Perfected who remained in hiding in its former lair. Gathering a team, the Guardians breached Sepiks' defenses and battled with the Prime once more. Despite its shielding and SIVA upgrades, the Guardians destroyed the Prime as they did two years ago, this time for good.

While patrolling the Plaguelands, the Guardians took notice of increased activity in hostility between the Devil Splicers and the Hive. Investigations revealed that the Splicers have been experimenting on the Hive using SIVA, whether to enslave them or to make weapons out of them. Regardless, Shiro understood that such experiments could mean the end of the Last City. Knowing the Splicers are following orders high in command, Shiro sends the Guardians entered an old missile silo contested over by the Splicers and the Hive. Reaching the center of the Hive nest, the Guardians found a Ogre dissected but still alive and the Splicer in charge of the Hive experiments, Kovik, Splicer Priest with a weapon powered by the Ogre's Void eye. Battling the priest and the Ogre, the Guardians succeeded in killing both which Shiro hopes would end the experiments. In addition, the Guardians launched missions to the Moon to prevent the Splicers from obtaining more Ogre test subjects.

With most of the leadership gone, the Guardians turn their sights on the main Splicer leader, Aksis and his remaining followers. Gathering a force strong enough, the Guardians face-off with Aksis' second-in-command, Vosik, the Archpriest and used the Fallen's own Siege Engine to travel further into the Splicers lair. After defeating Vosik, the Guardians travel into the SIVA server farm and into Aksis' lair the Perfection Complex. There they battled with the Fallen Archon but despite Aksis' terrible SIVA powers, the Guardians used SIVA against him and successfully destroyed him, leaving the Devils leaderless.

Months after the loss of Aksis, the Splicers hoped to regain their advantage with a new leader and in an desperate alliance with the crew of the infamous mercenary, Taniks, the Scarred. Using SIVA to bring back the mercenary, Taniks become Taniks Perfected. Though SIVA overtook his mind, his leadership and ruthlessness remained, giving the Splicers a new leader. However, Variks, the Loyal heard chatter of their efforts and informed the Vanguard. Thus they sent in the Guardians to the Moon where they battled with Taniks once more. Fighting through Splicer and Hive to Taniks' ship, the Guardians battled with the resurrected mercenary. Despite his SIVA abilities and varied weapon, Taniks Perfected was defeated, leaving the Devil leadership completely dismantled and their forces scattered.

Central powers of the war

 * Cabal
 * Red Legion
 * The Last City
 * Guardians
 * Vex
 * Hive
 * Fallen
 * SIVA
 * Taken

Fronts of the war

 * Earth
 * Titan
 * Io
 * Nessus
 * Earth
 * The Moon
 * Venus
 * Mars
 * Nessus

List of appearances

 * Destiny
 * The Dark Below
 * House of Wolves
 * Rise of Iron
 * The Dawning
 * Age of Triumph
 * Destiny 2