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==History==
==History==
===The Ancient Past===
Long before the evolution of humanity, Mercury and the other planets of the Sol System served as gravitational foci for interstellar streams of dark matter particles. When life evolved elsewhere in the System, the movements of lifeforms created perturbations in these looping streams, which caused the dark matter loops to "awaken" into consciousness. These nascent consciousnesses would one day become known to Humanity as the [[Nine]].
===Golden Age===
===Golden Age===
Following its transformation into a garden world by the [[Traveler]], the planet was inhabited by [[human|humanity]] during the [[Golden Age]]. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRpcIHpmoY '''Youtube''': ''Official Destiny E3 Trailer -- New Beginnings'']</ref> At this time, the planet was covered in grasslands and trees with pink leaves.  
Following its transformation into a garden world by the [[Traveler]], Mercury was inhabited by [[human|humanity]] during the [[Golden Age]]. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRpcIHpmoY '''Youtube''': ''Official Destiny E3 Trailer -- New Beginnings'']</ref> At this time, the planet was covered in grasslands and trees with pink leaves.  
===Collapse===
===Collapse===
During [[the Collapse]], the [[Vex]] undid the Traveler's work <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Mercury#The_Lighthouse|The Lighthouse]]''</ref> and completely changed Mercury into a [[Machine World]] within days of their arrival,<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Eye of a Gate Lord]]''</ref> using "Lighthouses" to flood the planet with Radiolaria to facilitate its transformation.<ref>[https://youtu.be/qZOyUk0iQAU?t=267] '''YouTube''' - ''Destiny 2 - "A Garden World" New Heroic Strike - Curse Of Osiris''</ref> [[Dendron, Root Mind]] arrived in a massive Vex construct to begin seeding the planet with Vex architecture and poisoning all life with Radiolarian fluid. Eventually the [[Infinite Forest]] was created to serve as the Vex’ simulation farm, with [[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]] at its heart.  
During [[the Collapse]], the [[Vex]] undid the Traveler's work <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Mercury#The_Lighthouse|The Lighthouse]]''</ref> and completely changed Mercury into a [[Machine World]] within days of their arrival,<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Eye of a Gate Lord]]''</ref> using "Lighthouses" to flood the planet with Radiolaria to facilitate its transformation.<ref>[https://youtu.be/qZOyUk0iQAU?t=267] '''YouTube''' - ''Destiny 2 - "A Garden World" New Heroic Strike - Curse Of Osiris''</ref> [[Dendron, Root Mind]] arrived in a massive Vex construct to begin seeding the planet with Vex architecture and poisoning all life with Radiolarian fluid. Eventually the [[Infinite Forest]] was created to serve as the Vex’ simulation farm, with [[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]] at its heart.