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{{Quote|Huh, Cabal Cruisers keep returning to Neptune's orbital path. I wonder if they are hiding something in its gravity well.|[[Crow]]}}
{{Quote|Huh, Cabal Cruisers keep returning to Neptune's orbital path. I wonder if they are hiding something in its gravity well.|[[Crow]]}}
'''Neptune''' is the eighth planet of the [[Sol System]]. The ice giant has fourteen moons, including the [[Hive]]-occupied moon of [[Nereid]] <ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[The Fourth Mark]]''</ref>, [[Triton]], where the [[Neomuni]] established a small radio telescope array and turned it into a listening post, and [[Thalassa]], an asteroid-like moon filled with caves and hills rich in phosphates and silicates.
'''Neptune''' is the eighth planet of the [[Sol System]]. An ice giant, it has fourteen moons, including the [[Hive]]-occupied moon of [[Nereid]] <ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[The Fourth Mark]]''</ref>, [[Triton]], where the [[Neomuni]] established a small radio telescope array and turned it into a listening post, and [[Thalassa]], an asteroid-like moon filled with caves and hills rich in phosphates and silicates. The hidden city of [[Neomuna]] is located on an ocean below its outer cloud layer.
 
==History==
During the Collapse, Humanity established a city on Neptune that was codenamed [[Nefele Stronghold]] by [[Rasputin]]. There, the Humans aboard the ECHO colony pods that were launched by [[Soteria]] survived the Collapse and managed to hide on the planet, eventually developing technology that surpassed that developed during the Golden Age before it, including nanotechnology enhancements that enabled the creation of [[Cloud Strider]]s.
 
After [[Empress Caiatl]] and the [[Imperial Cabal]] arrived in the system, increased Cabal traffic around Neptune's gravity well was detected with an unknown purpose.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Crow]]: [[Uldren Sov#Quote|"Huh, Cabal Cruisers keep returning to Neptune's orbital path. I wonder if they are hiding something in its gravity well."]]''</ref>
 
Neptune would become a focus of Vanguard attention thanks to the conclusion of [[Season of Plunder]], as Osiris had gained visions of a city hidden upon its surface, gleaned from his time as the puppet of Savathûn. Despite all the searching performed during [[Season of the Seraph]], nothing was detected upon Neptune, until Rasputin divulged the existence of a city, the information kept hidden in a vault in the Cosmodrome.
 
This city would come to be known as Neomuna. The AI creation of the [[Ishtar Collective]], [[Soteria]], chose an extra-solar site known as M31 to as one of the only safe spaces to send colony ships to prevent the extinction of humanity.<ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/long-arm</ref> As the AI was in the process of being digitally imprisoned by Clovis Bray for disobeying orders, Soteria split off a submind of itself, ensuring the colony ship could continue travelling through space without interference.<ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/into-the-sunset</ref> This ship would eventually be caught in the gravity well of Neptune, crashing onto its surface. The explanation for Neomuna staying hidden on Neptune's surface would be detailed by the [[Neomuni]] archivist Quinn Laghari, stating that the erratic magnetic field of Neptune was perfect for hiding a city.
 
With the advent of [[Lightfall]], Neptune has become the subject of an invasion by the [[Shadow Legion]], seeking to take a paracausal artifact from Neomuna, known as the Veil. This artifact was hidden on Neptune by Savathûn, with the people of Neomuna using its powers to create technology such as the [[CloudArk]]. The shimmering city of Neomuna has now become scarred with damage, with an unquantified section of the city demolished by the parking of Calus's flagship, the [[Typhon Imperator]].


==Overview==
==Overview==
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The planetary resource consists of [[Cloud Accretions]].
The planetary resource consists of [[Cloud Accretions]].
==History==
===The Collapse===
Immediately prior to the Collapse, the [[Ishtar Collective]] AI [[Soteria]] foresaw the imminent arrival of the Black Fleet using its Vex-derived powers of prediction, and against the orders of [[Clovis Bray I]] prematurely launched a fleet of ECHO colony ships with a heading for the Andromeda Galaxy.<ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/long-arm</ref> Before Clovis Bray managed to contain the AI within a pillory installation and retake control of the fleet, Soteria split off a submind of itself within a single colony ship, which would eventually become caught in the gravity well of Neptune and crash into its surface.<ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/into-the-sunset</ref> A second colony ship, the Exodus Indigo, would subsequently land on Neptune during the Collapse, bringing with it several high-ranking Ishtar Collective scientists such as [[Maya Sundaresh]] and [[Chioma Esi]]. These survivors of the Collapse would go on to found the city of [[Neomuna]], which remained hidden for centuries thanks in part to Neptune's erratic magnetic field.
At some point during the Collapse, [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen]] killed the [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple of the Witness]] [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain|Nezarec]] and stole the [[the Veil|Veil]] from his [[Pyramid]], hiding it away on Neptune so as to keep it from the Witness. As a result of her deception, the Witness chose to leave the Sol System and withdraw its Black Fleet to intergalactic space.
===City Age===
After [[Empress Caiatl]] and the [[Imperial Cabal]] arrived in the system, increased Cabal traffic around Neptune's gravity well was detected with an unknown purpose.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Crow]]: [[Uldren Sov#Quote|"Huh, Cabal Cruisers keep returning to Neptune's orbital path. I wonder if they are hiding something in its gravity well."]]''</ref>
Neptune would become a focus of Vanguard attention thanks to the conclusion of [[Season of Plunder]], as Osiris had gained visions of a city hidden upon its surface, gleaned from his time as the puppet of Savathûn. Despite all the searching performed during [[Season of the Seraph]], nothing was detected upon Neptune, until Rasputin confirmed the existence of the city, and that the information was kept hidden in a vault in the Cosmodrome.
With the advent of [[Lightfall]], Neptune has become the subject of an invasion by the [[Shadow Legion]], seeking to take a paracausal artifact from Neomuna, known as the Veil. This artifact was hidden on Neptune by Savathûn, with the people of Neomuna using its powers to create technology such as the [[CloudArk]]. The shimmering city of Neomuna has now become scarred with damage, with an unquantified section of the city demolished by the parking of Calus's flagship, the [[Typhon Imperator]].


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