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The '''Nine''' (often represented as the '''IX''') are the enigmatic rulers of the [[Jovians]], the worlds beyond the Solar System's asteroid belt. They maintain contact with the [[City]] via their agent [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|Xûr]],<ref> '''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> and have formed an alliance with the [[Reef]]. <ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Queen|Ghost Fragment: The Queen]]''</ref>
The '''Nine''' (often represented as the '''IX''') are the enigmatic rulers of the [[Jovians]], the worlds beyond the Solar System's asteroid belt. They maintain contact with the [[City]] via their agent [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|Xûr]],<ref> '''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> and have formed an alliance with the [[Reef]]. <ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Queen|Ghost Fragment: The Queen]]''</ref>


Very little about the Nine or the Jovians is known due to the isolation of the outer Solar System. One legend describes the Nine but offers seemingly contradictory clues to their nature:
Very little about the Nine or the Jovians is known due to the isolation of the outer Solar System. One legend describes the Nine but offers seemingly contradictory clues to their nature:but the is this he worlds inside The Reef. An emissary of The Nine, Xûr, periodically appears in the Tower selling exotic equipment to Guardians. Based on Xûr's statements, it appears the Nine wish to make contact and aid the Guardians.


*The Nine are survivors of the cis-Jovian colonies who made a compact with an alien force to ensure their own survival.
*The Nine are deep-orbit [[warmind]]s who weathered the [[Collapse]] in hardened stealth platforms.
*The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of [[Europa]] or the hydrocarbon pits of [[Titan]].
*The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the [[wikipedia:Corona_Borealis|Corona-Borealis]] supercluster.
*The Nine are the firstborn [[Awoken]] and their minds now race down the field lines of the [[Jupiter]]-Io [[wikipedia:flux_tube|flux tube]].
*The Nine are [[Ghost]]s who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the [[wikipedia:Heliosphere#Heliopause|heliopause]].
*The Nine are the aspects of the [[Darkness]], broken by the [[Traveler]]'s rebuke, working to destroy us from within.
*The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning.
*The Nine are the shadows left by the annihilation of a transcendent shape, burned into the weft of what is.<ref> '''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'',[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Legends_2| Ghost Fragment: Legends 2]]</ref>


==Trivia==
==Trivia==