Chioma Esi
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Doctor Chioma Esi was a scientist and researcher who worked with her wife Dr.Maya Sundaresh at the Ishtar Collective on Venus during the Golden Age.
Biography
Esi met Maya Sundaresh when they were both undergraduates. While Esi was deadlifting in their school's gym, Maya complained about how loud she was, leading to an argument about if deadlifting was even practical.[1] Despite this contentious first meeting, the two eventually fell in love and got married, and were rarely apart for very long periods of time.[2]
Several decades later, Esi and Maya joined the Ishtar Collective on Venus to study the Vex ruins and constructs that had appeared on the planet after it was transformed by the Traveler. While working on a Vex code, it made the leap from simulation to reality, taking control of a utility Frame. Esi activated an alarm while Maya attempted to use a gravity grapple to pin the frame, but was unable to lift it. Esi took the grapple and was able to use it to pin the frame to the wall, saving their lives while also settling their debate about if deadlifting was practical.[1]
Esi and her team eventually began working on a active Vex platform they dubbed specimen twelve. She was able to create a interface that allowed her to see what the Vex was thinking, and was alarmed one day to discover that it was perfectly simulating two-hundred twenty-seven copies of her team. Esi informed Maya, who shared her alarm and noted that for all philosophical intents and purposes, those copies were them. Esi agreed, and when Maya suggested calling a team meeting to inform the others, Esi let her know that Maya's copies had done the same thing.[3]
They met with their fellow teammambers, Dr.Shim and Duane-Mcniadh, and explained the situation to them. Duane-Mcniadh was confused by what the issue was, and Esi explained that the Vex could torture their simulated counterparts, and that logically, they had to treat their pain as their own, with Maya noting it could torment them for eternity. Duane-Mcniadh objected that they had no obligation to their simulated copies and that they were not truly linked, angering Esi, but Shim interrupted and pointed out that given that there was only one true reality, they were likely just another simulation themselves. Esi, Maya, and Duane-Mcniadh were stunned by this, and realized they were in more trouble than they originally believed.[4]
Forty years after their work at the Ishtar Collective, Esi took a job on Hyperion, one the moons of Saturn, while Maya worked in a isolated lab in the city of Lhasa on Earth. Despite her schedule keeping her busy and Hyperion's distance from Earth, Esi wrote to Maya every week, although her wife could not respond due to the Lhasa lab's strict security measures.[2]
List of Appearances
- Destiny (First mentioned)
- House of Wolves (Mentioned only)
- The Taken King (Mentioned only)
- Destiny 2 (Mentioned only)
- Curse of Osiris (Mentioned only)
References
- ^ a b Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Tractor Canon
- ^ a b Bungie (2015/9/15), Destiny: The Taken King, Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Vex 5
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Vex
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Vex 2
