Reef Wars: Difference between revisions

[[Virixas, Kell of Wolves]], heard this call and amassed his fleet from the [[Jovians]] with the intention of combining his house's strength, which ranged between the hundreds of thousands to millions, with the Fallen coalition gathering for the assault. Pushing through the asteroid belt toward Earth, the Wolves' presence stirred the [[Awoken]] who knew of the coming attack through their [[Techeun]]s and [[Crow]]s but lacked any means of warning the City. Whether [[Mara Sov]], the Queen of the Reef, sought to save potential allies from the coming onslaught, or simply desired to bring the Wolves under her rule, is unclear, as the Fallen and Awoken share different views on this; but regardless of the queen's motives, she acted.

Massive superweapons of unclear origin, the harbingers disrupted Fallen ships and servitors so severely that they were left barely operable then unleashed such destructive force that Ceres and over half of the House of Wolves were wiped out; among those killed in the massacre was Virixas, the Kell of Wolves himself. Before they could be completely annihilated, the remaining Wolves scattered into the asteroid belt, never to see battle at the [[Twilight Gap]]. although she managed to save the City from their attack, three new claimants to the Kellship rose to threaten her people: Irxis, Wolf Baroness; Parixas, the Howling; and [[Skolas, Kell of Kells|Skolas, the Rabid]].

The three claimants to the throne instigated a civil war within the House of Wolves. In the early part of the war, Irxis had the upper hand; while the other claimants tried to gather as many Kaliks [[servitor]]s for themselves, Irxis controlled the Orbiks servitors, who had permissions on the Kaliks servitors, giving her a tactical advantage over her enemies.

In the meantime, Skolas decided to use the Awoken to his advantage, by pitting them against his remaining enemies.

The [[Silent Fang]], Skolas' elite assassin unit lead by [[Drevis, Wolf Baronness]], attacked an Awoken space station called Amethyst. Paladin Abra Zire gave chase to the Silent Fang to Iris, where they engaged a Wolf [[ketch]]. To their surprise, however, it was not Drevis' ship, but Paraxis'. [[Grayor, Wolf Assassin]] and The Silent Fang had tricked the Awoken into defeating Skolas' last rival. With Skolas as sole claimant to the throne, he declared himself the Kell of Wolves.

[[Prince Uldren]] had successfully broken the Wolves' encryption and discovered that they had miscalculated the eccentricity of the asteroid Bamberga. Using this knowledge, Paladin Imogen Rife tricked Drevis into flying into Bamerga's path, destroying her ketch and leading to her capture. Rife took the prisoners to Pallas.

In an effort to rescue Drevis, [[Pirsis, Pallas-Bane|Pirsis]] attacked Pallas. The battle grew into a stalemate, as neither side could use their full strength without risking collateral damage. The siege was eventually broken by an unsanctioned attack lead by [[Weskis, the Meek]]. They managed to breach the Athens hull but were captured by Commander Hallam Fen, Rife's protege. Pirsis decided to attack the already weakened hull and reached Kaliks-4's cell. However, he was cut off by Imogen Rife, who was killed by Pirsis before escaping.

Hallam Fen was able to link up with the Reef and orchestrated a plan with the Crows and Techeuns to devise a mass illusion of the Queen's Harbingers. The Wolves broke ranks immediately, allowing Fen and Paladins Leona Bryl and Kamala Rior to finish them off. Bringing Drevis alive to Vesta, Fen was promoted to one of the Queen's Paladins.

After the battle, the [[Crow (title)|Crows]] made contact with [[Variks]], a former scribe of [[House Judgment]]. Variks was displeased with Skolas, as he was too vicious and hateful for him to withstand (it is also rumored that it was Skolas who docked Variks' arms), so he was willing to side with the Reef to stop him.

Having lost many of his most important lieutenants, Skolas planned an attack on the Awoken military fortress of Cybele. However, thanks to Variks' betrayal, the Reef knew of Skolas' attack, and all four of the Reef's armada Paladins were waiting for him. Defeated in a decisive battle, Skolas was captured and locked away in the [[Prison of Elders]].

With most of the Wolf nobility incarcerated in the [[Prison of Elders]], Variks declared Mara Sov the new Kell of Wolves, and advised other captives to swear their fealty to her. The first amongst them to do so was [[Saviks, Queenbreaker|Saviks]], who served closely with the Queen as one of [[Royal Awoken Guard|her guards]]. A small few attempted to continue their fight against the Awoken however, such as [[Veliniks, the Ravenous]]. This would-be Kell rallied a group of Wolves to fight with him, but before he could strike, he was captured by [[Petra Venj]].

During other operations to neutralize entrenched hostiles, Petra ordered an airstrike that resulted in [[Guardian]] casualties; this led to increased tensions between the Reef and the City, and Petra was demoted and sent away from the Reef, only to be recalled during the Wolf Crisis.

Some time after the wars end, Queen Mara gifted an imprisoned Skolas to [[Nine|the Nine]] to commemorate their victory against the Fallen, but in an act of apparent subterfuge against the Reef, Skolas was freed by one of [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|their agents]] and given a ship. Declaring himself Kell of Kells, Skolas found renewed purpose and would lead a new uprising to unite the Fallen and claim the Great Machine. Saviks and his Fallen heard of Skolas' return, and were the first to rise against the Queen, attempting to assassinate her. Though many so-called of these [[Queenbreakers]] fell and Saviks was sent to the Prison of Elders, he and many other noble Wolves would escape soon after. In response, the Queen placed bounties on these enemies and called to the [[Guardian]]s of the City to quell the rebellion.