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|name=Clipse | |||
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|homeworld=Unidentified homeworld | |||
|focalworld(s)=[[Kaga-Clipse]] | |||
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|notable-person=[[Rull]] | |||
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The '''Clipse''' are a warlike member species of [[Emperor Calus]]'s [[Loyalists|Loyalist forces]]. | The '''Clipse''' are a warlike member species of [[Emperor Calus]]'s [[Loyalists|Loyalist forces]]. | ||
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Under the reign of [[Emperor Calus]], the Clipse were absorbed into the [[Cabal]] empire. They grew to be one of Calus's favorite member species. Believing their condition of eternal war to be an unalterable fact, Calus provided aid in the form of high culture and luxuries in an attempt to enrich their brutal society. The Clipse did not appreciate his gifts.<ref name = "VI"/> | Under the reign of [[Emperor Calus]], the Clipse were absorbed into the [[Cabal]] empire. They grew to be one of Calus's favorite member species. Believing their condition of eternal war to be an unalterable fact, Calus provided aid in the form of high culture and luxuries in an attempt to enrich their brutal society. The Clipse did not appreciate his gifts.<ref name = "VI"/> | ||
After [[Dominus Ghaul]]'s [[ | After [[Dominus Ghaul]]'s [[Midnight Coup (event)|coup]], he attempted to earn the Clipse's loyalty by sending military aid to their embattled planet. His efforts only succeeded in poisoning it and its people, its hostile ecosystem proving too resilient to destroy without also destroying the planet. After a century of failure, Ghaul decided he was wasting his resources and abandoned the Clipse and their world.<ref name = 'VI'/> | ||
In exile aboard his [[Leviathan]], Calus discovered them again. He invited the Clipse to join his Loyalists, and they attempted to shoot him down with missiles. Rebuked, Calus turned to conquest. Kaga-Clipse's guns and interceptors proved no match for his gigantic starship, and he landed 6,000 troops on Kaga-Clipse itself, led by a [[Shadows|Shadow]], [[Valus]] [[Valus Nohr|Nohr]].<ref name = "Mask of Rull"/><ref name = "Chassis of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Chassis_of_Rull|Chassis of Rull]]''</ref> The campaign to capture the Clipse moon lasted for eight weeks. Towards the end, the Clipse had trapped Nohr in her own bastion, only for her to break out and destroy their forces on her famous "thunder run," calling down missile strikes from the Leviathan against vital command posts. <ref name = "Greaves of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Greaves_of_Rull|Greaves of Rull]]''</ref><ref name = 'VI'/> | In exile aboard his [[Leviathan]], Calus discovered them again. He invited the Clipse to join his Loyalists, and they attempted to shoot him down with missiles, believing they would get back in Ghaul's good graces by defeating the former Emperor. Rebuked, Calus turned to conquest. Kaga-Clipse's guns and interceptors proved no match for his gigantic starship, and he landed 6,000 troops on Kaga-Clipse itself, led by a [[Shadows|Shadow]], [[Valus]] [[Valus Nohr|Nohr]].<ref name = "Mask of Rull"/><ref name = "Chassis of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Chassis_of_Rull|Chassis of Rull]]''</ref> The campaign to capture the Clipse moon lasted for eight weeks. Towards the end, the Clipse had trapped Nohr in her own bastion, only for her to break out and destroy their forces on her famous "thunder run," calling down missile strikes from the Leviathan against vital command posts. <ref name = "Greaves of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Greaves_of_Rull|Greaves of Rull]]''</ref><ref name = 'VI'/> | ||
Desperate, the Clipse gathered their greatest warriors and launched a commando boarding action against the Leviathan. Only [[Rull]] survived to reach Calus's throne room, bloody and exhausted, where the Emperor casually offered him refreshment and alliance. Bemused, Rull accepted.<ref name = "Gauntlets of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Gauntlets_of_Rull|Gauntlets of Rull]]''</ref> | Desperate, the Clipse gathered their greatest warriors and launched a commando boarding action against the Leviathan. Only [[Rull]] survived to reach Calus's throne room, bloody and exhausted, where the Emperor casually offered him refreshment and alliance. Bemused, Rull accepted.<ref name = "Gauntlets of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Gauntlets_of_Rull|Gauntlets of Rull]]''</ref> | ||
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His victory secured, Calus rewarded the Clipse surrender, first by bringing thousands into arcologies aboard the Leviathan to live the rest of their lives in his trademark opulence, and second by winning their perpetual war: incinerating their planet and all life on it with Kaga-Clipse's own guns. <ref name = 'VI'/> | His victory secured, Calus rewarded the Clipse surrender, first by bringing thousands into arcologies aboard the Leviathan to live the rest of their lives in his trademark opulence, and second by winning their perpetual war: incinerating their planet and all life on it with Kaga-Clipse's own guns. <ref name = 'VI'/> | ||
==Notable | ==Notable members== | ||
*[[Rull]] | *[[Rull]] | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
{{Races}} | |||
[[Category:Races]] | [[Category:Races]] | ||
[[Category:Cabal]] | [[Category:Cabal]] | ||