3,326
edits
Maya Sundaresh: Difference between revisions
m
→List of appearances
WizardWolf (talk | contribs) Tag: Mobile edit |
|||
| (4 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
===Ishtar Academy=== | ===Ishtar Academy=== | ||
{{Quote|We have to act as if we're in the real universe, not one simulated by the specimen. Otherwise we might as well give up."<br>"Your sim self is saying the same thing.|Maya Sundaresh and Chioma Esi}} | {{Quote|We have to act as if we're in the real universe, not one simulated by the specimen. Otherwise we might as well give up."<br>"Your sim self is saying the same thing.|Maya Sundaresh and Chioma Esi}} | ||
During the [[Golden Age]], Maya was part of the Ishtar Academy, where she studied various local phenomena such as the Vex and [[Ahamkara]].<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref> | During the [[Golden Age]], Maya was part of the Ishtar Academy, where she studied various local phenomena such as the Vex and [[Ahamkara]]. During this time, she employed an Exo bodyguard named [[Cayde-6|Cayde]] to protect her during field studies of the Ahamkara.<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref> | ||
Along with Chioma and her colleagues Dr. [[Shim]] and [[Duane-McNiadh]], Maya was involved in studying a captured Vex platform designated "Subject 12." During their examinations, Chioma discovered that the Vex was running a simulation of their research team that was completely accurate.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex|Ghost Fragment: Vex]]''</ref> After much debate about the ethical and philosophical ramifications of this finding, the team concluded that the only way to determine that they themselves were not also simulations was to bring in something the Vex could not simulate, proposing that a [[Warmind]] was suitably complex for this purpose.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 3|Ghost Fragment: Vex 3]]''</ref> Using this approach, they were able to rescue 227 undamaged copies of themselves from inside the Vex unit. All copies voted to become explorers in the [[Vex Network|Vex information network]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref> | |||
===Founding the Future War Cult=== | ===Founding the Future War Cult=== | ||
| Line 54: | Line 56: | ||
Undeterred, and against Chioma's wishes, Maya repeated the test with brain-dead Exos whose minds had been wiped during initial contact with the Veil, placing them in the Veil interface in lieu of biological human participants. In doing so, she reversed the machine's function: whereas previously the system was designed to have a single "conductor" guiding an "orchestra" of participants as they communed with the Veil, this new approach directed data from the assembled Exos into a central recipient. For unknown reasons, Maya had also provided her own mental imprint during the test, to be overlaid on that of the central Exo recipient. | Undeterred, and against Chioma's wishes, Maya repeated the test with brain-dead Exos whose minds had been wiped during initial contact with the Veil, placing them in the Veil interface in lieu of biological human participants. In doing so, she reversed the machine's function: whereas previously the system was designed to have a single "conductor" guiding an "orchestra" of participants as they communed with the Veil, this new approach directed data from the assembled Exos into a central recipient. For unknown reasons, Maya had also provided her own mental imprint during the test, to be overlaid on that of the central Exo recipient. | ||
The receiving test subject in this experiment was [[Lakshmi-2]], an Exo Maya had known prior to arriving on Neptune, but who had undergone brain death like all the others brought on the mission. The experiment resulted in Lakshmi awakening, but with her mind having become either a total or partial copy of Maya's, speaking with Maya's voice and possessing some of her memories. | The receiving test subject in this experiment was [[Lakshmi-2]], an Exo Maya had known prior to arriving on Neptune, but who had undergone brain death like all the others brought on the mission. The experiment resulted in Lakshmi awakening, but with her mind having become either a total or partial copy of Maya's, speaking with Maya's voice and possessing some of her memories.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woNYh2TPILA</ref> | ||
Some time later, Maya was found dead in the "conductor's chair" of the Veil interface. Neither Chioma nor any of the other Ishtar Collective researchers knew what she had been attempting to do.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Xf8uL2oco</ref> | |||
===Legacy=== | |||
Upon the discovery of [[Neomuna]] by the Vanguard, it became apparent through interactions with the populace that Maya was regarded as a founder of the city, commemorated in locations such as Maya's Retreat, and mentioned as a figure celebrated in Colony Day, a national day of remembrance for the founders of Neomuna.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAb0-aZyows</ref> | |||
Upon the discovery of Neomuna by the Vanguard, it became apparent through interactions with the populace that Maya | |||
Although Maya herself apparently died some time after the Collapse, her virtual copies in the Vex Network remained active well into the time of the Last City, and possibly to the present day. Some of the Vex-simulated copies of Maya and her fellow Ishtar Collective researchers eventually made contact with [[Praedyth]], a [[Guardian]] trapped within the Vault of Glass after [[Kabr's Fireteam|his fireteam]]'s failed raid on the Vex stronghold. Surprised at first, as establishing any radio connection had been impossible before for either party, they resolved this could be a rare chance for escape; if the signal had been allowed to pass through, maybe so could they. As the door of the [[Black Garden]] opened before the reawakened [[The Undying Mind|Undying Mind]] and its Vex, Praedyth and the simulated scientists made their attempt at leaping out of the network. | |||
Some of the Vex-simulated copies of Maya and her fellow Ishtar Collective researchers eventually made contact with [[Praedyth]], a [[Guardian]] trapped within the Vault of Glass after [[Kabr's Fireteam|his fireteam]]'s failed raid on the Vex stronghold. Surprised at first, as establishing any radio connection had been impossible before for either party, they resolved this could be a rare chance for escape; if the signal had been allowed to pass through, maybe so could they. As the door of the [[Black Garden]] opened before the reawakened [[The Undying Mind|Undying Mind]] and its Vex, Praedyth and the simulated scientists made their attempt at leaping out of the network. | |||
At the end of [[The Insight Terminus]] [[Strike]], Ghost may mention someone in the access log for the Insight Terminus named "MSund12", seemingly a reference to Maya Sundaresh or one of her simulated copies (likely the twelfth one). | At the end of [[The Insight Terminus]] [[Strike]], Ghost may mention someone in the access log for the Insight Terminus named "MSund12", seemingly a reference to Maya Sundaresh or one of her simulated copies (likely the twelfth one). | ||
As revealed in Chioma's personal log, the version of Lakshmi-2 known to the people of the Last City is in fact a partial or total copy of Maya's personality. Little is known of Lakshmi's activities after her revival; at some point she would leave Neptune and return to Earth during the Dark Age, but the circumstances of this are unknown. If she retained memories of her origins on Neptune, she never shared them with anyone, at least outside the Future War Cult.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woNYh2TPILA</ref> | |||
The work that Maya carried out in Lhasa would become the foundation of the Future War Cult centuries later, which continued to use the device she helped develop and kept records in the same journal she used in the project. | |||
==Journal Excerpts== | ==Journal Excerpts== | ||
| Line 162: | Line 168: | ||
**''[[Lightfall]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Lightfall]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
***''[[Season of the Deep]]'' {{Mo}} | ***''[[Season of the Deep]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Mysterious Logbook]]'' {{Mo}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||