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| {{about|the fanfic version of the Pyramids|the official version|Black Fleet}} | | {{about|the fanfic version of the Pyramids|the official version|Black Fleet}} |
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| |image= [[File:Chris Bjerre Destiny 2 Vision Cinematic Concept Art Pyramid.jpg|300px]] | | |image= [[File:Chris Bjerre Destiny 2 Vision Cinematic Concept Art Pyramid.jpg|300px]] |
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| |homeworld= [[Ascendant Plane|Ascendant plane]] | | |homeworld= [[Ascendant Realm|Ascendant Plane]] |
| |focalworld(s)= [[Solar system]] {{c|currently}} | | |focalworld(s)= [[Solar system]] {{c|currently}} |
| |goals= Ostensibly reduce complexity to simplicity | | |goals= Ostensibly reduce complexity to simplicity |
| |war= [[Forum:Sanctuary|Sanctuary]] <br> The Hierarchy of Hierarchies | | |war= [[Forum:Sanctuary|Sanctuary]] <br> The Hierarchy of Hierarchies <br> [[Forum:House of Time|House of Time]] <br> [[Imperial Cabal]] |
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| |distinctions= [[Nightmare]] creation <br> Paracausal interference | | |distinctions= [[Nightmare]] creation <br> Paracausal interference |
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| |notable-group= The Shadowkeepers | | |notable-group= |
| |notable-person= [[Forum:The Guardian (Nightmare)|The Guardian]] <br> [[Forum:The Black Swordsman|The Black Swordsman]] <br> [[Forum:The White Angel|The White Angel]] | | |notable-person= |
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| {{Quote|We were betrayed. Our [[Forum:The Guardian (Nightmare)|savior]], our messiah, has fallen to ''them''. We have fled our [[The Last City|home]]. We have nothing left to shelter behind. Please, we beg of you, do not cast us out to the dark.|[[Ikora Rey]]}} | | {{Quote|Reality is often disappointing. So I have chosen to remake it in my image. My brothers are content with folly. I have proven them to be in error. If you wish to dispute this, come at me with all of your armies and philosophies. I shall prove my argument thus.|The Architect}} |
| '''The Black Fleet''' is a fleet of tetrahedral megastructures responsible for the enshrouding of the [[Solar System]]. They are the eternal nemesis of the [[Traveler]] and all servants of the [[Light]], and actively pursue the Traveler wherever it may go. | | '''The Black Fleet''' is a fleet of tetrahedral megastructures responsible for the enshrouding of the [[Solar System]]. They are the eternal nemesis of the [[Traveler]] and all servants of the [[Light]], and actively pursue the Traveler wherever it may go. |
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| At least one major pyramid unit was left behind, heavily damaged, in orbit of [[Forum:Titania (system)|Titania]] for inscrutable purposes. | | At least one major pyramid unit was left behind, heavily damaged, in orbit of [[Forum:Titania (system)|Titania]] for inscrutable purposes. |
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| ===Arrival of the Black Fleet===
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| Many months after the destruction of [[The Almighty]], during which the remnants of the Cabal empire trickled in after the sudden loss of [[Torobatl]] and their core worlds, the Black Fleet arrived ''en mass'' into the system. Multiple pyramidic fleet units entered from all areas surrounding the system, taking up holding positions around the major Jovian worlds, and began converting all local matter into gigantic constructs called "J-brains". [[Uranus]], [[Neptune]], and most of the Kuiper belt bodies were absorbed in this manner. [[Saturn]] was the next to fall, the inert [[Dreadnaught]] becoming a seed for the new J-brain, and [[Jupiter]] soon followed almost simultaneously.
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| None of this happened without major resistance. The [[Forum:House of Time|House of Time]] launched several attacks upon Saturn's growing brain, utilizing hundreds of thousands of ships in its greatest offensive since the [[Red War]] and the [[Forum:Viruses|Viral conflict]]. To a ship they were summarily executed, their forces no match for pyramidic scales. The forces of the Nine also launched a similar assault on the invaders of Jupiter in conjunction with the Reef and, bizarrely enough, a Cabal warfleet that had been intent on conquering the asteroid belt. These too similarly failed to catastrophic effect; the survivors universally fled to Earth and cis-lunar space, [[Mars]] having been swallowed up completely.
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| The Traveler was the final stand against the onslaught. [[Venus]] and [[Mercury]] disappeared, and the very Sun itself started to go black from the first stages of enshrouding—for the construction of each J-brain projected an unfathomable amount of physical Darkness. Soon it became a literal battle between Light and Dark, as the Traveler's form grew visibly brighter with pulsations of energy, and the boundaries of its influence mingled with that of the pyramids on the [[Moon]], where horrors were birthed out of the twisted graves of the First Collapse. In the outermost limits of the atmosphere, the fleets of Caiatl's regime and the House of Time battled against endless sorties of scales.
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| Upon Earth itself blights appeared everywhere except where the Traveler's shield of light was strongest. Hordes of horrors poured forth—Nightmares conjured out of the collective psyches of many species. Cabal and human fought side by side, Eliksni and Awoken defended the walls of the Last City, which had grown to encompass most of South America and parts of Central America, against the armies of the Dark. The Guardians themselves numbered in the hundreds of millions, the greatest concentration since the Twilight Gap; nary a free Ghost remained Unpaired. It seemed it would be an endless stalemate, the Traveler still recovering from wounds both deep and ancient, and fresh and recent, and the Darkness in the fullness of its strength.
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| ===The Betrayal===
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| The Darkness had a backdoor. Through the power of Stasis it wielded an undue influence over the minds of those Guardians who adopted its usage, and gradually began to sow discord within the ranks of the Alliance. Those Guardians who hadn't fully embraced Stasis were less affected than those who did; and they who were most affected began to forsake using the Light, preferring to fight fire with fire. They started exploring the rifts and portals created by the Darkness, ending up in strange and mysterious places, and some became lost. When they returned, they had become twisted—the first harbingers of the Shadowkeepers.
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| Among these were the Guardian themselves. A notable figure in the history of the Last City, who felled numerous godlike beings and slew countless lieutenants of evil, they were among the first targets the Darkness attempted to subvert to its own side. After Stasis was gifted to them on [[Europa]], through the siren song of the J-brains, the Guardian began to lose sight of their mission and started becoming despondent. Their Ghost obviously noticed this and was concerned, only to have it waved off. Though they remained mute their neurological patterns became nigh unintelligible, rendering them effectively mad.
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| What Ghost could decipher was a consistent sense of urgency; at first this was assumed to be the destruction of the Pyramids, however impossible that sounded. What was not clear was that this urgency was actually directed towards getting closer to the source of the songs. After long last the Guardian volunteered on a solo mission in the depths of the [[European Dead Zone]], where the [[Shard of the Traveler]] once lay, and subsequently disappeared. The [[Vanguard]] were too busy to be concerned when they did not return; [[Elisabeth Bray|Elsie Bray]], however, went after them with [[Eris Morn]].
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| Instead they encountered the Black Swordsman. They briefly fought him until the Guardian themselves reappeared. Their Ghost was gone, their arms and armor replaced with living Darkness. Before, the Black Swordsman was evenly matched with the Exo and the Hunter; with the Dark Guardian, the battle was turned in their favor, and the two Allies barely escaped with their lives. They were able to make it back to the City in time to relay to the Vanguard and the Consensus the terrible truth before the Descent happened.
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| ===The Second Collapse=== | | ===The Second Collapse=== |
| At the head of a great army of Nightmares and twisted beings now known as Shadowkeepers—fallen Guardians among them—came marching the Swordsman and Dark Guardian. In the skies above the unified Cabal and Eliksni fleets broke and fell, and a great Pyramid began its descent downwards. The Moon started to disassemble itself into a J-brain. The Traveler pulsated, and blasted forth a wave of power. The Shadowkeeper host was obliterated—save for two. The Dark Guardian had thrown a shield of Darkness over themselves and the Black Swordsman. When it lifted, a third figure had joined them: the White Angel. More portals were opened and a new host of Shadowkeepers poured forth, encompassing the walls of the City, and began their assault. The Last City's end was nigh.
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| Again the Traveler pulsed with power—it rose up into the sky to meet its dark mirror, a living sphere of flame against an obsidian diamond. The Pyramid fired an esoteric beam of power and the Traveler halted, shivering slightly, as their ontological energies clashed. More pyramids entered, adding their own weaponry to the fray. Upon the ground the Last City's walls had collapsed and the endless cycle of death and destruction had begun. Millions upon millions were slain, [[Zavala]] among them. With a final scream the Traveler split in two with a dazzling burst of light. Its lower half disintegrating completely, the upper was propelled out into space, blasting a hole through the first Pyramid.
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| As the Shadowkeepers faltered those of the City who were able to slip past fled into ships in secret places, and launched after the Traveler. The pyramids in the skies were not as dazzled—scores upon scores of ships were annihilated as they turned their paracausal weapons upon them. Ketches and Barques exploded like crystals, Cabal warships and carriers fell like stones, City jumpships simply faded away into puffs of dust. Nonetheless over a thousand ships were able to breach the atmosphere and penetrate the almost physical mesh of Darkness now beginning its enshrouding of Earth.
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| They fled onwards, fleeing Earth, following after the dying guiding light of the Traveler. Pyramidic scales picked off ships like flies, until two hundred and twenty ships remained to exit the realm where the Solar System had once sat in. The age of the City was over, and a new age of Darkness had begun.
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| *'''Heavy Scale'''—measuring between fifteen and thirty meters, they seem to favor "bubble" tactics, that is englobe a select enemy and drown them in weaponsfire. | | *'''Heavy Scale'''—measuring between fifteen and thirty meters, they seem to favor "bubble" tactics, that is englobe a select enemy and drown them in weaponsfire. |
| *'''Autowar Scale'''—measuring one hundred meters, named such by the Hierarchy of Hierarchies, they construct new Scales in situ and send them into battle, and are just as deadly as their smaller counterparts. | | *'''Autowar Scale'''—measuring one hundred meters, named such by the Hierarchy of Hierarchies, they construct new Scales in situ and send them into battle, and are just as deadly as their smaller counterparts. |
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| ===Shadowkeeper===
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| The name given to entities wholly corrupted by the pyramids in service to the Darkness is simply the "Shadowkeeper". There is no distinction between willing servitude and outright enslavement. Members of all six species present in the solar system are among their ranks—[[Humanity|Human]], [[Awoken]], [[Fallen|Eliksni]], [[Cabal]], [[Hive]], and [[Vex]]. Their physical appearance is that of a rippling shadow, more opaque than the [[Taken]] armies commanded by [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]], with eyes of golden fire. They command powers and abilities that are the antithetical opposite of the Light—Stasis, Entropy, and Fracture.
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| According to remnants of [[Rasputin]]'s analyses from the First Collapse, there is growing evidence that these beings are wholly artificial, drawn out of the collective psyche of entire racial minds. Examples include the Black Swordsman, otherwise known as Kirito, apparently created wholesale out of an artificial program that had formerly been under Rasputin's prerogative, which in turn had been based upon a [[Wikipedia:Kirito (Sword Art Online)|character]] from a [[Wikipedia:Sword Art Online (2012 TV series)|centuries-old entertainment series]]. This means that they are specially constructed, tailor made even, for each invasion of a targeted species. They supplement the Nightmares that soften up resistance to the Pyramids until the main Fleet arrives.
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| The most notable of these servants is simply The Guardian, hero of the Last City and killer of their many and varied foes. It is unknown how The Guardian finally fell to the Darkness' service but it is believed exposure to [[Stasis]] is what hastened their fall, much in the same manner as what happened to [[Dredgen Yor|Rezyl Azzir]]. What is known for certain is that, during the war against the Black Fleet, the Guardian slowly and surely grew more erratic, disappearing for weeks on end in pursuit of the City's enemies—and finally, one day after a very lengthily departure, returned at the head of an army by the side of the Black Swordsman and the White Angel, and overran [[Earth]]'s defenses. They personally slew millions of [[Guardian]]s and civilians where before they had once staunchly defended.
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| <center>'''[[Forum:The Guardian (Nightmare)|The Guardian]]'''<br>
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| The former hero of the Last City, now sworn in service to the Black Fleet as a hollow nightmare of their former selves. Personally massacred millions of civilians and Guardians of the City.</center>
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| <center>'''[[Forum:The Black Swordsman|The Black Swordsman]]'''<br>
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| A rogue a-life program once in service to Rasputin, designed and modeled upon an ancient Japanese military program known as A.L.I.C.E., for the development of better weapons and defense protocols for the betterment of humanity. Corrupted by the Black Fleet during the First Collapse, the Swordsman lost all trace of its former identity and reverted to what it knew: killing or be killed. It went dormant throughout the majority of the Dark and City ages until the Black Fleet reawakened it in preparation for their assault.</center>
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| <center>'''[[Forum:The White Angel|The White Angel]]'''<br>
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| A rogue a-life program designed by Rasputin to keep the Swordsman in check as its necessary other half; as a paired set of programs, their "existence" is slaved to the other. Corrupted by the Black Fleet during the First Collapse, losing all trace of its former personality and reverting to what it knew: killing, healing, or be killed. Unlike the Swordsman it remained semi-active on the Moon, repelling Hive and Fallen forces from its facility, until the Black Fleet reclaimed it in preparation for their assault.</center>
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| *[[Forum:Totomaru|Totomaru, Scorchbreaker of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Eobard Thawne|Eobard Thawne, Speedbreacher of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Malcolm Merlyn|Malcolm Merlyn, Crystalline of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Damien Darhk|Damien Darhk, Warkeeper of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Tobias Whale|Tobias Whale, Ragefuser of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Reign|Reign, Willbreaker of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Leopold Fitz|Leopold Fitz, Bloodhacker of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Anton Ivanov|Anton Ivanov, Supremacy of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Hiram Lodge|Hiram Lodge, Hornkeeper of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Morgana le Fay|Morgana le Fay, Bladestriker of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Zevon|Zevon, Pride of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Fikrul|Fikrul, Shardwalker of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Uldren Sov (Nightmare)|Uldren Sov, Duskkiller of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Djin|Djin, Mightkeeper of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha, Vengeance of Kirito]]
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| *[[Forum:Phoenixaro Uchihamaki|Phoenixaro Uchihamaki, Bladelord of Kirito]]
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| !'''Shadowkeeper''' | | !'''TBA (TBA)''' |
| !'''[[Nightmare]]''' | | !'''[[Nightmare]]''' |
| !'''[[Human]]''' | | !'''[[Human]]''' |
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| |'''Angel''' | | |'''Angel''' |
| |''Baseline soldier of the Black Fleet, armed with Shadow Launchers and utilize Barrier Shields.'' | | |''Baseline soldier of the Black Fleet, armed with Shadow Launchers and utilize Barrier Shields.'' |
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| |Angelic Nightmare | | |Angelic Nightmare |
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| |'''Archangel''' | | |'''Archangel''' |
| |''Frontline infantry, comes in light and heavy variants; light variant carries Shadow Launchers and Barrier Shields, heavy variant carries Pitch Javelins and Shade Bulwarks.'' | | |''Frontline infantry, comes in light and heavy variants; light variant carries Shadow Launchers and Barrier Shields, heavy variant carries Pitch Javelins and Shade Bulwarks.'' |
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| |'''Ruler''' | | |'''Ruler''' |
| |''Morale booster unit, extremely aggressive, armed with Darkness Scepter and uses Darkness Blasts.'' | | |''Morale booster unit, extremely aggressive, armed with Darkness Scepter and uses Darkness Blasts.'' |
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| |'''Power''' | | |'''Power''' |
| |''Long-range rearguard support unit, armed with Chaos Rifles and Fusion Knives.'' | | |''Long-range rearguard support unit, armed with Chaos Rifles and Fusion Knives.'' |
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| |Empowered Nightmare | | |Empowered Nightmare |
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| |'''Stronghold''' | | |'''Stronghold''' |
| |''Large defensive unit that flank and provide heavy support, armed with omnidirectional Shade Bulwarks and Soulrenders.'' | | |''Large defensive unit that flank and provide heavy support, armed with omnidirectional Shade Bulwarks and Soulrenders.'' |
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| |'''Lordship''' | | |'''Lordship''' |
| |''Support unit, actively heals others, armed with Shade Incantation and Tenebrous Shield.'' | | |''Support unit, actively heals others, armed with Shade Incantation and Tenebrous Shield.'' |
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| |'''Throne''' | | |'''Throne''' |
| |''Mobile siege cannon. Shielded by Stasis, a Darkness-based subclass.'' | | |''Mobile siege cannon. Shielded by Stasis, a Darkness-based subclass.'' |
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| |'''Cherub''' | | |'''Cherub''' |
| |''Lesser command unit, provides various debuffs for enemies, has greater morale boosting range. Shielded by one of three Darkness-based subclasses; armed with twin High Swords.'' | | |''Lesser command unit, provides various debuffs for enemies, has greater morale boosting range. Shielded by one of three Darkness-based subclasses; armed with twin High Swords.'' |
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| |'''Seraph''' | | |'''Seraph''' |
| |''Higher command unit, provides various buffs for allies; makes certain units invulnerable until killed. Shielded by one of three Darkness-based subclasses; armed with a High Sword and Tenebrous Shield.'' | | |''Higher command unit, provides various buffs for allies; makes certain units invulnerable until killed. Shielded by one of three Darkness-based subclasses; armed with a High Sword and Tenebrous Shield.'' |
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| |'''Incarna''' | | |'''Incarna''' |
| |''Highest command unit, provides buffs and debuffs for allies and enemies; shielded by all three Darkness-based subclasses; armed with a Soulstealer Sword and Darkness Glyph.'' | | |''Highest command unit, provides buffs and debuffs for allies and enemies; shielded by all three Darkness-based subclasses; armed with a Soulstealer Sword and Darkness Glyph.'' |
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| Curiously enough, some systems and civilizations are "spared" the enshrouding completely, as what happened to the Taishibethi system and the Hierarchy of Hierarchies, instead suffering only the detonation of their star and the unmaking of their whole world. No one has offered a satisfactory answer, and it may well be an utter mystery. | | Curiously enough, some systems and civilizations are "spared" the enshrouding completely, as what happened to the Taishibethi system and the Hierarchy of Hierarchies, instead suffering only the detonation of their star and the unmaking of their whole world. No one has offered a satisfactory answer, and it may well be an utter mystery. |
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| Those who weren't able to escape the enshrouding of Earth fled instead to a Vex-like construct embedded in the twisted and splintered fragments of of the Vault of Glass. This minor dimension is scarcely larger than Phobos in size and is almost completely inaccessible. So far the Fleet has not made any move towards invading it; the survivors who live within have made efforts to find a way back into the material universe without attracting notice, but have not found a way.
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
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| *''[[Destiny 2]]:'' | | *''[[Destiny 2]]:'' |
| **''[[Forum:Paradox|Paradox]]'' {{1st}} | | **''[[Beyond Light]]'' |
| ***''[[Forum:Season of the Inferno|Season of the Inferno]]'' {{Mo}}
| | **''[[The Witch Queen]] |
| ***''[[Forum:Shadows' Legacy Update|Shadows' Legacy Update]]'' {{Mo}}
| | **''[[Lightfall]]'' |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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