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 ==Timeline==
+===The Ancient Past===
+*The [[Worm]]s, an intelligent species able to wield the power of the [[Darkness]] directly, are imprisoned by the [[Traveler]] in the lowest depths of the global ocean that exists in one of the atmospheric layers of the gas giant [[Fundament]]. The Traveler tasks its disciple, a creature called [[Leviathan]], with guarding the Worms and dissuading anyone who seeks them out. The Worms in turn begin calling across the stars to other intelligent species, seeking to lure one that can free them. As a result, hundreds of species make their way to Fundament and become stranded there, eking out a living on floating continents. One such species was the proto-[[Hive]], whose homeworld collided with Fundament and shattered. The proto-Hive survive and build a new civilization for themselves on the floating shards of their former homeworld, gradually forgetting their original history.
+*Meanwhile, the Traveler shares its bounty of knowledge with the [[Ammonite]] species native to an icy moon of Fundament. The Ammonite eventually build an advanced starfaring civilization that spans all of Fundament's 52 moons, and comes into contact with the distant [[Ecumene]].
+*At eight years of age, the proto-Hive [[Osmium King]] of the Osmium Court on Fundament sires his final brood of offspring, which include his three daughters [[Xivu Arath|Xi Ro]], [[Savathûn|Sathona]], and [[Oryx, the Taken King|Aurash]]. The royal daughters are tutored by [[Taox]].
+*At ten years of age, the Osmium King begins to succumb to senility and madness, obsessing over the movements of Fundament's moons and the possibility of a catastrophic alignment called the Syzygy. Fearing for the Osmium Court's future and believing the royal daughters were unsuited to rule, Taox secretly contacts the rival Helium Drinkers of the Helium Court, inviting them to invade, assassinate the royal family, and install her as a subservient regent of the Osmium Court. The Helium Drinkers agree, resulting in the Osmium Court's fall and the death of the Osmium King, but the royal daughters escape and vow to take revenge.
+*Three years after losing their kingdom, Xi Ro, Sathona, and Aurash use a salvaged high-tech ship to dive into Fundament's depths, hoping to discover a secret to stave off the Syzgy, which Aurash had come to believe was imminent. They encounter the Leviathan, but reject his pleas to turn back and continue on to the Worms. The Worms offer the sisters immortality and power in exchange for accepting their larvae as parasites and carrying out the will of the Darkness. The sisters agree to the pact and are transformed into the first Hive: Xi Ro becomes Xivu Arath, Sathona becomes Savathûn, and Aurash becomes Auryx.
+*Xivu Arath, Savathûn, and Auryx return to the surface and share the Worm parasites among the other proto-Hive, creating an army that quickly overwhelms Fundament's other species. Taox flees, at first to other continents and then to the Ammonite capital moon where she is granted asylum. The Hive follow and war against the Ammonites, eventually exterminating them, killing Leviathan, and forcing the Traveler to abandon Fundament. The Hive colonize and transform Fundament's moons into mobile war-moons, and embark on their purge of the universe in the name of the Darkness.
+*The Hive eradicate hundreds of intelligent species, including the [[Qugu]].
+*Approximately 24,000 years after the fall of the Ammonites, the Hive reach the frontier of the [[Ecumene]] and invade 17 worlds over the course of a century. The [[Dakaua]], a client species of the Ecumene, discover Taox in cryo-stasis aboard an ancient ship. Taox shares her knowledge of the Hive's leaders and motivations with the Dakaua, and the Ecumene unleashes its most powerful weapons against the Hive, who immediately suffer setbacks.
+*Seeking the power necessary to allow the Hive to continue their crusade, Auryx slays the Worm God [[Akka]], harnessing the ability to [[Taken|Take]]. Auryx becomes Oryx, the Taken King.
+*Over a period of 1,140 years, the resurgent Hive annihilate the species of the Ecumene so utterly that no trace of them remains. Taox escapes yet again, however, and the Hive resume their pursuit, ravaging the galaxy along the way.
+*After destroying the [[Taishibethi]], Oryx reaches the Darkness itself and communes with it. He decides to produce children, and sires a son a twin daughters: [[Crota, Son of Oryx|Crota]], [[Ir Anûk, Deathsinger|Ir Anûk]], and [[Ir Halak, Deathsinger|Ir Halak]].
+*While Oryx is absent from his court to observe the Darkness destroy an ancient fortress world, Crota inadvertently opens a portal to a place containing [[Vex]]. The Vex plague Oryx's ascendant realm for a hundred years before the Worm God [[Eir]] calls Oryx home to deal with the problem. Oryx comes to consider the Vex a worthy rival, and resolves to follow the Darkness and document the destruction it wreaks in a "[[The World's Grave|grave of worlds]]", so that he may learn from it and use this knowledge to succeed in his crusade against the universe.
+*With his ascendant realm having been compromised by the Vex incursion, Oryx builds the [[Dreadnaught]] and houses his realm within it. Soon after, Oryx defeats [[Quria, Blade Transform]] and the remaining Vex who were attacking him. Quria's last act is to share what it has learned about Oryx's origins as Aurash with the rest of the Vex in the universe.
+*The Hive destroy the [[Harmony]], another species that had built a peaceful and advanced civilization with the aid of the Traveler. Afterwards, Oryx's sisters part ways with him; Savathûn takes her war-moons into the black hole the Harmony's worlds orbited, while Xivu Arath ventures into unknown space. Oryx journeys on in the footsteps of the Darkness, continuing the Hive's crusade and still seeking the elusive Taox.
 ===Pre-Golden Age===
-*The [[Traveler]] visits the Eliksni (known today as the [[Fallen]]) and provides them with limitless ether. The Eliksni revere the Traveler as "The Great Machine." The Fallen maintain peace by the lawful rule of the [[House of Judgment]].
+*The [[Traveler]] visits the [[Fallen|Eliksni]] (later known the "Fallen") and provides them with limitless ether. The Eliksni revere the Traveler as "The Great Machine", and the [[House of Judgment]] enforces law and peace.
-*The Eliksni Civilization is destroyed by an event known as the Whirlwind. The Traveler has left the Eliksni at this point, and the Fallen engage in a bloody civil war as the Houses fight each other over pride and rage. The House of Judgement is decimated by this conflict and is forced into servitude by the remaining Kells.
-*The Fallen take to the stars in search of the Traveler.
+*The Eliksni civilization is destroyed by an event known as the Whirlwind. The Traveler abandons the Eliksni around this time. In the aftermath, the House of Judgement attempts to maintain order among the survivors, but is unable to prevent the outbreak of a bloody civil war and is itself nearly eradicated. The remnants of the House of Judgment are forced into servitude by the remaining Kells.
-*The [[Cabal]] encounter [[Oryx]] and the [[Taken]] and begin a centuries long conflict that slowly grinds down the Cabal military, forcing them towards our solar system{{citation needed}}
+*The Eliksni take to the stars in search of the Traveler.
+*At some point, the [[Cabal]] begin forging a vast interstellar Empire. They conquer the telekinetic [[Psion]]s and incorporate them into the Empire as a client race. Eventually, an unknown calamity, possibly the Darkness, is believed to have struck the Cabal homeworld, forcing the Empire to flee.
 ===The Golden Age===