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Though the Guardians intercepted the Cabal forces and shut down the transmission, it was nonetheless received. In addition to this, many officials in the Last City feared an attack as a result to all their successes, as a [[New Monarchy]] agent explained that with so many officers, field commanders and Primuses dead or on the run, the Cabal Empire would have no choice but to respond.

[[File:TheRedWar.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The [[Red Legion]] engages the [[Tower]].]]

{{Quote|How do we come back from this?"<br>"You don't.|[[Ghost (Little Light)|Ghost]] and [[Dominus Ghaul]]}}

Despite Ghaul's success in attacking the City and the loss of the Light, the Guardian refused to give up the fight, and after setting up a camp in the [[European Dead Zone]], they sought out to gain new powers and began developing a counterattack against the Red Legion.

{{Quote|I am Ghaul, and your [[Light]]... is mine.|[[Dominus Ghaul]]}}

[[File:Face Off.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Dominus Ghaul]] interrogates [[The Speaker]].]]

Additionally on [[Nessus]], Ghaul sent some his Red Legion forces in order to occupy the planetoid and begin drilling into the Vex ruins that lied there. The Red Legion's drilling operations awakened the Vex and [[Protheon, Modular Mind]] and their activities alerted the Fallen there, engaging them as well. Another Red Legion force was sent to the moon of [[Io]], where they began to drill into the planet to access the latent Traveler energies within the moon, hoping to see if its possible to harvest and control the Light. However, their actions attracted the remnants of the Taken, catching the Cabal off-guard and a great many of them became Taken themselves. It was clear that a new mysterious entity has begun to direct the Taken in the absence of [[Oryx]].

{{Quote|If we wait, we die. But if we attack together, we can take back our home, our Light... our hope. Or we die trying.|Commander Zavala.}}

Depsite the loss of the City, the Vanguard sought to regroup what was left of their forces and launch a counterattack against the Red Legion to take back the Last City and free the Traveler. They planned to regroup on the moon of Titan but found that a new breed of Hive have already infested much of the planet, losing many Lightless Guardians in a failed attempt to drive the Hive off. This weakened Vanguard moral and their leadership splinters off into different areas of the system.

Back on Earth at the Farm, the reunited Vanguard discuss a strategy to disable the Almighty and liberate the City. Despite the impossibility of the task, they know it is worth it. [[Suraya Hawthorne]] helps the Vanguard in giving them directions to pass the Cities' walls undetected and advise the Guardian to take out Thumos, the Unbroken and take his security pass and ship to travel to the Almighty and disable it. On that cue, the Vanguard's forces will launch their attack and after getting close enough to the Traveler Suppressor Device, the Guardian would use the Vex teleporter to quickly travel to the device and free the Traveler.

{{Quote|Fitting your Traveler would send you to face me once more.|Dominus Ghaul}}

After succeeding in taking down Thumos and stealing his personal ship, the Guardian travel to the Almighty to disable the massive weapon. Despite fighting past elite defenders and dealing with the intense solar rays, the Guardian succeeds in disabling the Almighty's coolants, causing it to malfunction, rendering it inoperable. Escaping the massive warship, the Guardian informs the Vanguard of their success and head back to Earth to join the fight. On that cue, the Vanguard initiates their attack to liberate their home. Despite the loss of their light, the Vanguards forces succeed in breaking through the Red Legions defenses and set up the Vex device but are wounded in the process. Despite this, the Guardian successfully uses the device and boards Ghaul's command ship, the Immortal, which is at the center of the Light-restraining device. Bypassing the ships forces, the Guardian reaches top of the ship and encounter Ghaul once more. This time, however, Ghaul has forcibly taken a portion of the Traveler's Light to battle with the Guardian with abilities similar to theirs.

Unbeknownst to Guardians and the other inhabitants of the Solar System, at the moment the Traveler awoke and released its Light, that wave of Light continued spreading well beyond Earth. Eventually, it passed through extragalactic space beyond the bounds of the Milky Way, rousing an [[Unknown extragalactic race|unknown fleet]] from dormancy. The fleet turned towards the source of the Light and presumably began traveling to it.

Despite the victory in reclaiming the Last City, there was still much work to do in dealing with whats left of the Red Legion while also handling other threats like the Fallen House of Dusk and the Vex while learning more about the new Hive breeds and containing the Taken.

Despite the demoralizing loss of their Dominus and the Consul, the Red Legion continued to be a threat to the Last City but the Guardians maintained their vigilance against them, primarily in the EDZ. Guardians succeeded in numerous efforts against the Red Legion, from sabotaging their defenses, supplies and vehicles, destroying any Mining Landers and Infiltrator bases encountered and taking out field commanders and high-profile leaders when found. In desperation, the Red Legion made contact with [[Bracus Zahn]] and his disgraced group to supply them with dangerous weapons needed to combat the Guardians. Hawthorne and Cayde intercepted their meeting with the Bracus and sent in the Guardians to take down Zhan. Breaching [[Firebase Hades]], the Guardians hunted Zhan and his company throughout the Cabal Cruiser before cornering him at the airfields. Despite Zahn's weapons, the Guardians succeeded in taking down the Bracus, depriving the Red Legion of the much needed weapons.

Though the Guardians and the Vanguard became aware of the newly emerged [[House of Dusk]] since the Red Legions arrival, they know very little about them, such as their goals, motives or even their leaders. Regardless, the Guardians battled the Fallen whenever and wherever they could, preventing them form stealing supplies for the Farm and City, taking out high-profile targets when encountered and thwarting Glimmer extraction crews.

Another Fallen plot was discovered in the EDZ where Guardians heard reports of "glowing Fallen". Investigating, the Guardians encountered the strange Fallen but discovered they are more enhanced versions of the Fallen than previously encountered. Further investigations into the plot discovered that the Fallen are using stolen Cabal technology to create enhanced ether to create stronger and more powerful soldiers. The Guardians scoured the Dead Zone and found numerous empty caches before finding the main supply cache, destroying it. Doing so, drew out the mastermind of the plot, [[Raksil, Archon Priest]], the first Dusk Archon encountered. The Guardians battled with the Archon before cornering him in the Salt Mines and despite his enhanced defenders, Raksil was defeated. However, knowing that Raksil couldn't have created the enhanced ether without a Servitor, the Guardians used the Archons death to bring the servitor responsible for the production out of hiding. Their predictions proved true as [[Serkuleks, the Fount]] was forced into the open, allowing the Guardians to engage the Prime Servitor. Despite Serkulek's defenses and constant fleeing across the Dead Zone, the Guardians destroyed the Servitor, completely depriving the Dusk Fallen the means to produce more enhanced ether.

In addition to Io, a remnant faction of [[Taken]] continued to operate within the [[European Dead Zone]], primarily near the Dark Forest, battling whatever Fallen, Cabal or Guardian force that gets near. A contingent of the Red Legion began to use Psions to siphon Taken energy to empower themselves which causes the notice of the Vanguard. Fighting the Cabal through the Dark Forest in the Deadzone, the Guardians corner the Colossus in command of their activities and destroy him. A larger Taken force gathered in the Deadzone under the command of a Taken Phalanx, [[Grask, the Consumed]]. The Taken, under clear directions, were tasked to corrupt the natural landscape and water supply within the Deadzone using Taken energy. Should they succeed, then the entire Deadzone would be rendered inhospitable, threatening the Farm. After destroying each of the Taken's stronger forces and removing the Blight's causing the infestations, the Guardians were successful in defeating Grask, weakening the Taken in the Deadzone but the Vanguard continue to question who is creating new Taken and directing them in Oryx' absence. This lead the Vanguard to develop investigations into Oryx, specifically [[Xivu Arath|his]] [[Savathûn|sisters]] mentioned in the [[Books of Sorrow]].

On Io, Ikora Rey's Hidden agents discovered Vex units interacting with the Taken, causing her to worry if the Taken are preparing for something. She sends the Guardians to investigate and find that the Taken are kidnapping Vex units all over the region using Blights. Tracking down the Taken through a cave system to a abandoned Cabal base, the Guardians face off against [[Ir Arok, Tongue of Quria]] and other entities directing the Taken's efforts. The Guardians chase discovered that the Taken are preparing to build a new Taken army to replenish their ranks lost in the Taken War using the Vex. Though Ir Arok escapes again, the Guardians track the Taken Knight down to an area in the [[Pyramidion]]. Cornering the Knight, the Guardians succeed in defeating him but found that some of the Taken Vex traveled through a Blight portal, increasing the Taken's numbers but the Taken's efforts to build a new army have been temporarily stopped.

Though the Guardians succeeded in killing the head of the Cabal, Dominus Gaul's predecessor, [[Emperor Calus]], returned to reclaim control of his empire. Traveling to the Solar System aboard his massive ship, [[The Leviathan]], Calus immediately set to work on reclaiming the Cabal empire and gave elements of the now leaderless Red Legion the chance to "join the loyalist regime," sending them on missions to collect geological data on Nessus. These transmissions are intercepted in the [[Adventure]] ''[[Invitation from the Emperor]].'' Calus intended to convert the soil of the planet into "Royal Wine".