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{{Article quote|The mystery of a thousand thousand lifetimes.}} | {{Article quote|The mystery of a thousand thousand lifetimes.}} | ||
'''Titania''' is a Super-HydroJovian world in the Taishibeth system, erroneously classed as a double-system. It was discovered by the Argus array | '''Titania''' is a Super-HydroJovian world in the Taishibeth system, erroneously classed as a double-system. It was discovered by the Argus array during the Second Collapse. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
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====Orbitals==== | ====Orbitals==== | ||
*'''The Obelisk''': an ancient artifact of xenosophont origin, believed to have been left by the [[Traveler]] as a marker for a return visit. It is a lengthily object measuring twenty kilometers in size and is totally black, emitting nothing on the infrared or electromagnetic scales. | *'''The Obelisk''': an ancient artifact of xenosophont origin, believed to have been left by the [[Traveler]] as a marker for a return visit. It is a lengthily object measuring twenty kilometers in size and is totally black, emitting nothing on the infrared or electromagnetic scales. | ||
**'''Sanctuary''': a Terran space station in orbit around the Obelisk, the last known refuge for humanity. | **'''[[Forum:Sanctuary|Sanctuary]]''': a Terran space station in orbit around the Obelisk, the last known refuge for humanity. | ||
**'''Zavala's Crucible''': a Terran space station outfitted for Guardian war games, dedicated to [[Zavala]]'s memory. | **'''Zavala's Crucible''': a Terran space station outfitted for Guardian war games, dedicated to [[Zavala]]'s memory. | ||
* '''Derelict Pyramid''': discovered in the far reaches of the Titano ring system, this seemingly disabled Pyramid is still potent. | * '''Derelict Pyramid''': discovered in the far reaches of the Titano ring system, this seemingly disabled Pyramid is still potent. | ||
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In the midst of civil war Lyt Ahn discovered the Black Fleet long before any Hierarchical eye thought to, the methods and sciences of the archailect already quite strange. It rallied the warring fleets of the system, overriding their masters' will, and mustered for the attack. But when the attack came, it was everywhere. The Hive made the first assault, led by an unnamed son of the Taken King. They smashed the Hivers' homeworlds to pieces and waged war upon the system's star, breaking apart its arrays and orbitals, killing billions of sophonts. The Vex followed, causing havoc on Titania itself, and disrupted the Jovians. Last of all the Black Fleet's hammer broke upon the shield of the archailect. For centuries the war raged onwards—repeatedly the Hive were beaten back, the Crystaliens using the raw power of their psionics to launch endless noopathic assaults; the Vex smashed apart by esoteric warmachines designed by the archailect; and the Black Fleet clashed with the collective might of the Hierarchy in both realspace and on the Ascendant plane. | In the midst of civil war Lyt Ahn discovered the Black Fleet long before any Hierarchical eye thought to, the methods and sciences of the archailect already quite strange. It rallied the warring fleets of the system, overriding their masters' will, and mustered for the attack. But when the attack came, it was everywhere. The Hive made the first assault, led by an unnamed son of the Taken King. They smashed the Hivers' homeworlds to pieces and waged war upon the system's star, breaking apart its arrays and orbitals, killing billions of sophonts. The Vex followed, causing havoc on Titania itself, and disrupted the Jovians. Last of all the Black Fleet's hammer broke upon the shield of the archailect. For centuries the war raged onwards—repeatedly the Hive were beaten back, the Crystaliens using the raw power of their psionics to launch endless noopathic assaults; the Vex smashed apart by esoteric warmachines designed by the archailect; and the Black Fleet clashed with the collective might of the Hierarchy in both realspace and on the Ascendant plane. | ||
But it was all for naught. A witch of the Hive infected the archailect's systems with a Vex virus, and caused Lyt Ahn to go mad. The backlash broke the Crystalien fleets to nothingness. The way clear, the Black Fleet took advantage of Lyt Ahn's madness, located the source of the Traveler's gift, and used the obelisk to focus their dark might upon the sun—with a burst of paracausal might it detonated, and laid waste to the entire system. The Jovians evaporated as the timeline reset, countless trillions lost to the ether, and Titania was ejected | But it was all for naught. A witch of the Hive infected the archailect's systems with a Vex virus, and caused Lyt Ahn to go mad. The backlash broke the Crystalien fleets to nothingness. The way clear, the Black Fleet took advantage of Lyt Ahn's madness, located the source of the Traveler's gift, and used the obelisk to focus their dark might upon the sun—with a burst of paracausal might it detonated, and laid waste to the entire system. The Jovians evaporated as the timeline reset, countless trillions lost to the ether, and Titania was ejected into the distant wastes of the outer system. Their mission complete, the Black Fleet departed. | ||
Reduced to mere millions the surviving Crystaliens and Hivers | Reduced to mere millions the surviving Crystaliens and Hivers forsook all advanced technologies and sciences, retreating to simpler methods, and buried themselves into their worlds. The damage was done, their civilization was no more. | ||
===Evacuation of Earth=== | ===Evacuation of Earth=== | ||
Following the Second Collapse of Earth, and the loss of much of the solar system to Darkness, a ragtag fleet of some two hundred and twenty ships arrived in Titania's orbit. Among their number were Cabal and Fallen vessels. At their van was the shattered hemisphere of the Traveler, broken beyond repair. They settled into orbit around the Obelisk and converted the fleet and the Traveler's corpse into a space station—the last surviving refuge for humanity and its allies. A governing council was established and expeditions to harvest resources began. | |||
===The Present Day=== | ===The Present Day=== | ||