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==Technology== | ==Technology== | ||
Hive technology is esoteric and often bio-mechanical, constructed or grown from organic materials like bone or chitin. Through signs and incantations, the Hive are able to channel the Darkness, and through this magic, they are able to contend with the conventional technology of other species on equal or greater footing. According to [[Fynch]], old Hive structures decay into literal skeletons; everything the Hive use, from their weapons, ships and buildings, were all once things the Hive enslaved and twisted into a useful shape.<ref>'''Destiny Lore Vault''' - ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= | Hive technology is esoteric and often bio-mechanical, constructed or grown from organic materials like bone or chitin. Through signs and incantations, the Hive are able to channel the Darkness, and through this magic, they are able to contend with the conventional technology of other species on equal or greater footing. According to [[Fynch]], old Hive structures decay into literal skeletons; everything the Hive use, from their weapons, ships and buildings, were all once things the Hive enslaved and twisted into a useful shape.<ref name=EMT>'''Destiny Lore Vault''' - ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF-MqXXDKzU&list=PLS2hBTtCDufTQo_DnbAwJlew8zBWXqo-a&index=1&ab_channel=DestinyLoreVault Eight Million Tales - dialogue playlist]''</ref> This fact is also supported by Eris, who mentions that Oryx has prisoners tortured and then renders them down into chitin for his Dreadnaught,<ref>'''Destiny''': [[The Sunless Cell]] strike</ref> as well as Toland, who theorised that the giant creatures, whose bones can be found on the Moon, were used by the Hive to burrow into the lunar rock to create the Hellmouth.<ref>'''Destiny''': Ghost Scan MN-CON-3</ref> | ||
Hive tend to use physical chains with Runes in order to lock doors, and recently energy barriers powered by Soulfire crystals. Hive Runes have various meaning that the Hive can use to tap into different dimensions either as a doorway to another location or as a source of power. These dimensions hold no distinction between a word and its meaning, and in case where the Hive erode the barrier between these dimensions and our own, the Hive rune for "death" can bring literal death to others.<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-festering-halls-titan-3| Ghost Scan: Festering Halls, Titan]</ref> Runes can be "hacked", though it is consider incredibly difficult to do so; a triptych of runes is said to be "uncrackable". Ghost are able to hack Hive Runes, but it takes them time.<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/the-summoning-pits| The Summoning Pits - Ghost dialouge]</ref> Some Rune-locked doors, however, can only be broken using a Hive item known as a [[Tomb Husk]]. Hive crystals are structures powered by, or made of, Soulfire, an energy implied to be emitted by souls themselves. Hive crystals are used as power sources either for rituals or, more commonly, for maintaining barriers, whether to guard entrances or to shield a particular Hive from attack. Although the exact mechanism behind the barriers and crystals is unknown, a cutoff comment by [[Clovis Bray I]] has him believe that the barriers are some form of emitted [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect| Casmir field], though Ana mutes him before further details are explained.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Mission - Operation: Diocles''</ref> | |||
Some known Hive materials include [[Hadium Flake|Hadium]], which is a reactive crystal that stores any energy it is exposed to, [[Wormspore]], concentrated transmutation catalyst that reacts to both the Light and the Darkness, and [[Moldering Shard]]s. [[Osmium]] holds a certain significance to the Hive due to their early years on [[Fundament]], seemingly a precious component for certain rituals, and a variant found scattered within Savathun's Throne World known as [[Fundemental Osmium]] is described as super-dense transition metal with paracausal traces made from supernovae and dead stars that was taken from Fundament.<ref>''[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/evidence-board-hard-evidence| Evidence Board - Hard Evidence]''</ref><ref>''[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/hard-evidence-step-4| Evidence Board - Hard Evidence Step 4]''</ref> There also exists a filament that's said by Fynch to be a metamaterial capable of soaking up everything from vibration to EM radiation; an "all in one" passive scanner. Other examples of Hive inventions mentioned by Fynch include a Hive torch that may be used to broadcast signals by pulsing exotic radiation in a cycle, a "boson impactor" that can be used as a bomb, and a difficult-to-make adhesive mixed with a "morta-toxin" - an exotic poison that affects Hive.<ref name=EMT/> | |||
The Hive have taken an interest in fuse their own dark understanding with humanity's mastery of war. The most well-known of these are the [[Weapons of Sorrow]], created by either the Hive themselves or Humans who learn of Hive science. | |||
===Weaponry=== | ===Weaponry=== | ||