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-After almost three years of being considered dead or MIA, Sloane continued on surviving on Titan, avoiding the Hive and Fallen that were also taken when the moon was vanished from the Sol System. However, to Sloane, the amount of time passed was much shorter, feeling like only a day had passed but nonetheless she became partially afflicted by Taken energies. During that time, she somehow reached within the depths of Titan's methane waters and encountered a massive sea creature named [[Ahsa]]. With her condition, Sloane was able to partially communicate with Ahsa but was able to identify her as an old enemy of [[The Witness]], the true enemy of the Traveler and cause of the Collapse, and she and important intelligence to share regarding The Witness.
+When Titan was Taken by the Witness, Sloane fell into the methane ocean, but survived thanks to her scavenged suit of Golden Age power armor. As she sank into the depths, she experienced visions of the past and future, seemingly originating from an entity that wished to make contact. She subsequently awoke on the seabed, and began pursuing the Titan Pyramid as it moved around the moon, making her way through the ruins of the Arcology as she did so. In her travels, she and her Ghost discovered temporal rifts similar to those left by the Witness on Mars, which provided glimpses into the past of Titan. In one of these rifts, Sloane saw a Golden Age marine biologist, [[Gideon Tepin]], who was pacing around while talking about telepathic messages he had received from a creature out in the ocean. Síocháin accessed archival data from the Arcology and determined that the creature was a "psychic space whale" the researchers had termed "TLev-01," and which was not native to Titan.
+Sloane continued pursuing the Pyramid, but was always too late to catch it during its stops, only being able to find traces of its activities at each of the places it came to rest. At one of these sites, she found a cave contaminated with Taken residue which contained a Hive sigil. After fighting off a group of Taken, she noticed that she could perceive the thoughts of the Taken through the sigil, and also began to hear a voice in her head prodding her to interact with it. She reached out and touched the sigil, causing her to become enveloped in Taken corruption, and heard the voice of Xivu Arath in her mind, saying that the War God had accepted her challenge.
+Sloane's Light held back the Taken corruption, but over the course of the following year her condition steadily worsened. Nonetheless, she continued her mission, pursuing the Pyramid and fighting any Hive and Taken that got in her way. Eventually, however, she ran afoul of Xivu Arath's forces, who surrounded her as Sloane was overcome with a psychic assault from the God of War. Acting through a Taken Knight whose sword anchored the Black Terrace to the physical world, Xivu Arath peeled Sloane's power armor from her flesh and bones, trying to get Síocháin to appear so that she could destroy the Ghost and sever Sloane's connection to the Light. At the last moment, however, she was rescued by a massive serpentine creature, the same one that had been telepathically communicating with her since she had fallen into the ocean.
+Sloane let the creature lead her to safety, and learned that her name was [[Ahsa]]. With her condition, Sloane was able to partially communicate with Ahsa but was able to identify her as an old enemy of [[The Witness]], the true enemy of the Traveler and cause of the Collapse, and she and important intelligence to share regarding The Witness.
 [[File:Destiny2seasonofthedeepaquanaut.jpg|thumb|right|340px|Sloane introducing Ahsa.]]
 Realizing she didn't have the means or the manpower to strengthen her connection to Ahsa, Sloane rigs together a distress signal aimed towards the Vanguard on Earth to get the aid she and Ahsa need. The Vanguard Coalition managed to receive her signal following the Guardians combating the Cabal [[Shadow Legion]] on [[Neptune]] and Earth. Zavala, exhilarated at the thought of his friend possibly still alive, assembles a team involving himself, the Guardian, Saint-14 and Lord Saladin to find her. After arriving and combating Hive and Taken serving [[Xivu Arath]], the Hive's God of War, the Guardian and Zavala found her one kilometer down in the methane seas. The Drifter was also present after hearing of Titan's return and provided aid in helping the Guardian reach Sloane's position. The group are shocked to see her condition but more so on first meeting Ahsa. Sloane brought them all up to speed that Ahsa could provide invaluable information regarding The Witness which convinced Zavala to approve of the operation, with Drifter providing his Gambit tech that can utilize the egregore coral to strengthen her physic connection to Ahsa, thereby allowing her to interpret her messages.