SIVA Crisis: Difference between revisions

===Raid on Felwinter Peak===

{{Quote|The Iron Temple was once a place of Light. Then the Iron Lords were lost, and Saladin turned it into a memorial. Now it will be reborn, much like that curious servitor.|Tyra Karn.}}

At some point during the beginning sequences of the SIVA Crisis, the Fallen raided the abandoned [[Vostok Observatory]] under the command of [[Sepiks Perfected]], the reconstituted remnants of Sepiks Prime. Unable to respond to the incursion before the Fallen completely overran the Iron Temple, [[Lord Saladin]] summoned the Guardians to help him hold off the Fallen until he arrived with additional forces. Fighting the Fallen through the mountains blistering cold, the Guardian reached the Observatory just as Sepiks arrived and began attacking the Temple. Using the high-ground to their advantage, the Guardian was able to drive the Fallen away and seemingly destroy Sepiks Perfected.

   

===The Cosmodrome Breach===

As tasked by Saladin to investigate the breach in the Cosmodrome and to confirm Saladin's fears, the Guardian arrives at the wall and finds a section of it in ruins with a heavy Devils presence. Tracking Sepkis, the Guardian fights through the wall and finds a strange pattern outside and with Ghost scans, discovers that a nanotechnology is consuming the building, thereby confirming Saladin's fears that SIVA has returned. Instantly, Hive ships appear, apparently driven out of their holds by the Fallen. Fighting both Hive and Fallen to a sensor grid to restore the sensor network for Shiro-4, the Guardian encounters a new enemy of Fallen: The Devil Splicers. After defeating the new powerfully-augmented Fallen, Saladin now knows for sure that the Fallen have restarted production of SIVA for their own desires. Shiro-4 tracks to Fallen to the [[Plaguelands]], an area that has been quarantined for years, but has now become the Devil Splicers territory.

===Destroying SIVA===

{{Quote|The Young Wolf has stopped the flow of SIVA to the Devil Splicers, ended the torment of the Iron Lords, and lifted centuries of grief and regret from Saladin's shoulders. My old friend is a changed man. Centuries ago, I thought the story of the Iron Lords was finished. I see now that it was waiting for the next chapter.|Tyra Karn.}}

After returning to the Iron Temple to learn the full history of SIVA and the fall of the Iron Lords, the Guardian and Saladin agree that SIVA is still new to the Fallen and therefore haven't mastered it yet. Regardless, both wonder how the Fallen discovered SIVA in the first place. With Tyra Karn's help they follow a trail left behind by Lord [[Timur]] who was obsessed with the works of [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]], the original creators of SIVA. The trail led to [[Mars]], deep in [[Cabal]] territory. With the Cabal nearby, the Fallen couldn't learn all of SIVA but after fighting through the Cabal, the Guardian was able to reach the lab where the SIVA prototypes were located, hopefully to find a solution to SIVA. The solution turned out to be a self-destruct sequence.   

   

=== Splicer Experiments ===

{{Quote|The Splicers are playing god. They view SIVA as a means to reshape how they see fit. The Hive are just victims of the Splicers' willingness to push their curiosity.|Shiro-4.}}

During the Guardian's patrols in the Plaguelands, the Guardian discovered that the Devil Splicers were engaging in all-out war with the Hive. Seeking to discover what was driving the Hive on the warpath, the Guardian began to search Splicer cargo and found that the Splicers have been corralling Hive Thralls on orders from an unknown Splicer Priest, for unknown reasons. Further investigation found that the Devil Splicers have been experimenting on the Hive using SIVA, explaining the Hive's violent aggression. Yet the news worries Shiro, as he initially believes that the Splicers are seeking to control the Hive using SIVA.

===Breaking the Devil Splicers===

The SIVA Crisis was not fully averted though, since any remaining SIVA was still out there and in Fallen hands, not to mention the Splicers' latest Archon was still alive, [[Aksis, Archon Prime]] inside his [[Perfection Complex]] and [[Sepiks Perfected]] was still in hiding since the Iron Temple raid.  

===Desperate Alliance===

{{Quote|Variks has brought unsettling news. The Devil Splicers have used SIVA to resurrect an old foe: Taniks the Scarred has become Taniks Perfected.|[[Commander Zavala]]}}

After a few months since the loss of their Archon, some of the Devil Splicers sought out allies to hopefully turn the tide of the Crisis. Those allies turned out to be the crew of the infamous Fallen Mercenary [[Taniks, the Scarred]]. To secure an alliance, the Devil Splicers used SIVA to resurrect their leader as [[Taniks Perfected]]. Though his mind and body are overtaken by SIVA, Taniks' leadership and ruthlessness remained. However, chatter of their alliance was intercepted by [[Variks, the Loyal]] who relayed his findings to the Vanguard.