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After waking [[Rasputin]], and the ill-fated attempt by [[Felwinter|Lord Felwinter]] to communicate with the [[Warmind]], with promises of peace and goodwill belied by the army of the Iron Lords assembling in the Cosmodrome for a fight, Rasputin activated his defences and the battle commenced. Thousands of combat Frames, and SIVA Constructs moved to their positions, preparing an ambush for the Iron Lords as they advanced through the canyon between the Lord’s Watch and the Giant’s Husk on their coastal route to Site-6 and the Replication Chamber. Great tendrils of SIVA nanites exploded out of the depths of their underground confinement, as Rasputin’s will made them break through their restraints, smashing through rock and stone as they exploded up out of what is now the Archon's Keep and began to race across the coast towards the battle that had broken out at the tanker. | After waking [[Rasputin]], and the ill-fated attempt by [[Felwinter|Lord Felwinter]] to communicate with the [[Warmind]], with promises of peace and goodwill belied by the army of the Iron Lords assembling in the Cosmodrome for a fight, Rasputin activated his defences and the battle commenced. Thousands of combat Frames, and SIVA Constructs moved to their positions, preparing an ambush for the Iron Lords as they advanced through the canyon between the Lord’s Watch and the Giant’s Husk on their coastal route to Site-6 and the Replication Chamber. Great tendrils of SIVA nanites exploded out of the depths of their underground confinement, as Rasputin’s will made them break through their restraints, smashing through rock and stone as they exploded up out of what is now the Archon's Keep and began to race across the coast towards the battle that had broken out at the tanker. | ||
When Rasputin’s attack came, the [[Iron Lords]] were caught between the towering Cosmodrome wall where it perched atop sheer cliffs on the one side, and the ruins of the beached tanker on the other. The Lords ducked and scattered for cover as the narrow space filled with the echoing discharge of weaponry, each of them a legendary warrior in their own right, together they would be unstoppable. A fierce battle raged as the ground became slick with blood and machine oil, as ammunition ran low. Then the tendrils hit. Exploding through the old tanker as the densely packed swarms of SIVA nanites bounded across the coastal plane towards them, they engulfed the Iron Lords, encircling them and cutting them off from each other in the confusion, as the brutal order of professional violence gave way to the frantic chaos of a route. [[SIVA]] coiled and thrashed about like an enraged monster, crushing Ghosts<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.0|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.0]]''</ref> everywhere it found them hovering over their fallen Guardians, while its nodes spewed forth new swarms of the nanites, enveloping the Iron Lords in the red and buzzing clouds that angrily wormed their way through every nook and cranny in their armour. Infesting them. Eating them alive, and hollowing them out into armoured shells to be puppeteered against their comrades. <ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.7|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.7]]''</ref>( | When Rasputin’s attack came, the [[Iron Lords]] were caught between the towering Cosmodrome wall where it perched atop sheer cliffs on the one side, and the ruins of the beached tanker on the other. The Lords ducked and scattered for cover as the narrow space filled with the echoing discharge of weaponry, each of them a legendary warrior in their own right, together they would be unstoppable. A fierce battle raged as the ground became slick with blood and machine oil, as ammunition ran low. Then the tendrils hit. Exploding through the old tanker as the densely packed swarms of SIVA nanites bounded across the coastal plane towards them, they engulfed the Iron Lords, encircling them and cutting them off from each other in the confusion, as the brutal order of professional violence gave way to the frantic chaos of a route. [[SIVA]] coiled and thrashed about like an enraged monster, crushing Ghosts<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.0|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.0]]''</ref> everywhere it found them hovering over their fallen Guardians, while its nodes spewed forth new swarms of the nanites, enveloping the Iron Lords in the red and buzzing clouds that angrily wormed their way through every nook and cranny in their armour. Infesting them. Eating them alive, and hollowing them out into armoured shells to be puppeteered against their comrades. <ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.7|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.7]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The_Plaguelands]]'', ''[[Saladin Forge|Lord Saladin]]: "It infected our weapons... our armor. The corruption puppeted us against one another."''</ref> | ||
Most of the survivors of the initial attack fled back the way they had come, through the ruined tanker and the canyon beyond, up to the wall and the Lords Watch, where they would be safe enough atop the cliffs to rally and regroup. In the meantime, those still trapped by the swarm and the hundreds upon hundreds of frames flooding back into the area, attempted to fight a rear guard action to buy time with their last stands for their brothers and sisters to escape. Some, such as the carrier of an Iron Medallion managed to scale the cliffs and gain a brief reprieve out of the chaos below, before they two were cornered and killed. [[Colovance|Lord Colovance]], unable to escape from the tanker that would soon be his grave fought on until he ran out of ammunition, never giving up in the melee that followed against the hundreds of frames, and his own fallen comrades being puppeteered by SIVA like violent rag-dolls against the living until he could go on no further. His Light was not enough.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.1|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.1]]''</ref> | Most of the survivors of the initial attack fled back the way they had come, through the ruined tanker and the canyon beyond, up to the wall and the Lords Watch, where they would be safe enough atop the cliffs to rally and regroup. In the meantime, those still trapped by the swarm and the hundreds upon hundreds of frames flooding back into the area, attempted to fight a rear guard action to buy time with their last stands for their brothers and sisters to escape. Some, such as the carrier of an Iron Medallion managed to scale the cliffs and gain a brief reprieve out of the chaos below, before they two were cornered and killed. [[Colovance|Lord Colovance]], unable to escape from the tanker that would soon be his grave fought on until he ran out of ammunition, never giving up in the melee that followed against the hundreds of frames, and his own fallen comrades being puppeteered by SIVA like violent rag-dolls against the living until he could go on no further. His Light was not enough.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.1|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.1]]''</ref> | ||
The rest of the Iron Lords, enjoying the brief respite the sacrifice of Lord Colovance and the others had bought them in their escape, took the opportunity to plan their next actions. SIVA was now a far greater threat than anything they had previously imagined and too great a threat to the City in the hands of Rasputin for them to simply retreat. SIVA and the Replication Chamber they had wished to use for the good of humanity, now had to be destroyed in order to save humanity from its past creations and the dangerous they represented. (IT/PL TS). [[Jolder|Lady Jolder]] would lead a strike force on by an alternative route to Site-6 to destroy the Replication Chamber, which included the Lords Felwinter, [[Gheleon]] and [[Saladin Forge]], while the warlock Tinasha-3, known to her fellow Iron Lords as [[Ashraven|Lady Ashraven]] would secure the nearby Bunker Triglav and take command of its artillery overlooking the battlefield. Then, with the bunker secured and the guns online, the Ashraven force would hold out against Rasputin as long as they could to distract the Warmind’s forces from Jolder’s group while they secretly closed on Site-6 to destroy the Chamber, and contain SIVA.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.3|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.3]]''</ref> | The rest of the Iron Lords, enjoying the brief respite the sacrifice of Lord Colovance and the others had bought them in their escape, took the opportunity to plan their next actions. SIVA was now a far greater threat than anything they had previously imagined and too great a threat to the City in the hands of Rasputin for them to simply retreat. SIVA and the Replication Chamber they had wished to use for the good of humanity, now had to be destroyed in order to save humanity from its past creations and the dangerous they represented. (IT/PL TS). [[Jolder|Lady Jolder]] would lead a strike force on by an alternative route to Site-6 to destroy the Replication Chamber, which included the [[Felwinter|Lords Felwinter]], [[Gheleon]] and [[Saladin Forge]], while the warlock Tinasha-3, known to her fellow Iron Lords as [[Ashraven|Lady Ashraven]] would secure the nearby Bunker Triglav and take command of its artillery overlooking the battlefield. Then, with the bunker secured and the guns online, the Ashraven force would hold out against Rasputin as long as they could to distract the Warmind’s forces from Jolder’s group while they secretly closed on Site-6 to destroy the Chamber, and contain SIVA.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.3|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.3]]''</ref> | ||
The plan approved and the ravenous, serpent-like tendrils of SIVA approaching once more, the Iron Lords moved out, though not without another final separation and a desperate rear-guard action fought to buy the time needed for Jolder to escape, and Ashraven to secure Bunker Triglav, and to train its guns on the enemy swarm. In an instant SIVA was upon them, shooting up the cliff face as the tendrils lashed out at this rear guard, the tendrils coiling about and forming shapes to grapple with the Lords, driving them back from the ledge and opening the way for the Frame army to continue their advance.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.7|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.7]]''</ref> | The plan approved and the ravenous, serpent-like tendrils of SIVA approaching once more, the Iron Lords moved out, though not without another final separation and a desperate rear-guard action fought to buy the time needed for Jolder to escape, and Ashraven to secure Bunker Triglav, and to train its guns on the enemy swarm. In an instant SIVA was upon them, shooting up the cliff face as the tendrils lashed out at this rear guard, the tendrils coiling about and forming shapes to grapple with the Lords, driving them back from the ledge and opening the way for the Frame army to continue their advance.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/SIVA#Dormant_SIVA:_Iron_Lords_2.7|Dorman SIVA: Iron Lords 2.7]]''</ref> | ||
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: REPLICATE. ELIMINATE. IMMUNIZE.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment Rasputin-6]]''</ref> | : REPLICATE. ELIMINATE. IMMUNIZE.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment Rasputin-6]]''</ref> | ||
Only nine Iron Lords finally make it into Replication Chamber ( | Only nine Iron Lords finally make it into Replication Chamber. <ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The_Plaguelands]]''</ref> What awaited them inside it was beyond reckoning. The Iron Lords planned to plant explosives in the facility and destroy the Replicator, to prevent more SIVA from being produced <ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The_Iron_Tomb]]''</ref>, but Rasputin was not about to let that happen. What remained of Rasputin’s defences blanketed the area, reinforced by ever more frames, constructs, SIVA and according to Lord Saladin: “some things I haven't seen before nor since. They felt no pain. No fear.” <ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The_Iron_Tomb]]''</ref> (which may be referring to the Remnants created after SIVA hollows out a victim, such as the [[Remnant of Felwinter]]) | ||
In these final moments as the last of the Iron Lords were overwhelmed by Rasputin’s forces, it seemed as though the Warmind’s presence was almost physical, according to Saladin, as though he was trying to communicate something vital that they did not understand. ( | In these final moments as the last of the Iron Lords were overwhelmed by Rasputin’s forces, it seemed as though the Warmind’s presence was almost physical, according to Saladin, as though he was trying to communicate something vital that they did not understand.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/20/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The_Iron_Tomb]]''</ref> All while SIVA tendrils the size of monstrous tree trunks coiled and lashed about, crushing Ghosts, and grappling Guardians while their nodes produced still more of the buzzing swarm to devour the Iron Lords and secure the Chamber. The explosives armed, but with no chance of escape, Lady Jolder knew what had to be done. She closed the blast doors, to magnify the explosion within and prevent any surviving SIVA from escaping the chamber at the same time as she locked Lord Saladin, battling in the corridor beyond, out, so that he was the only survivor of what happened next when she detonated the bomb, killing herself and the Iron Lords inside the chamber and significantly damaging but not destroying the Replication Complex. | ||
===Aftermath=== | ===Aftermath=== | ||