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The '''Hive''', formerly known as the '''Krill'''<ref name="KrillHive">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXcW1SeqwfE&ab_channel=GeneralHay] '''Youtube''': ''Vow of the Disciple Lore Book dialogue(3:01)]''</ref>, are a macabre, incredibly ancient species of arthropod aliens hailing from the world of [[Fundament]] and aligned with [[The Witness|the Witness]] and the [[Black Fleet]]. Their entire culture is based around the [[Sword Logic]]: a supernatural, thanatological study of competitive survivalism which dictates that they must destroy other civilizations in order to accrue [[Paracausality|paracausal]] power and feed the [[Worm]]s that live within their bodies. Along with the Witness, they are led by a pantheon of dark gods, who derive power and sustenance from the destruction wrought by the Hive.

In [[Sol]], they have a significant presence on the [[Moon]], where they have built the [[Hellmouth]] and [[Scarlet Keep]], as well as having a presence on certain regions of [[Earth]],<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Crucible_Arenas#The_Rusted_Lands|The Rusted Lands]]''</ref> around [[Saturn]], where the massive [[Dreadnaught]] orbits, the icy regions of [[Mars]] and on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], where they infest the ruined arcologies.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Hive_Arsenal#Dreadnaught|Dreadnaught]]''</ref> They also have a strong presence in the [[Dreaming City]] and [[Tangled Shore]].  

The Hive are an "impossibly ancient" race born from a pact with the [[Worm Gods]]. Hive structures delve deep into wherever they lay claim to, unheeding of the damage done in the process, crafting linked caverns and gothicesque columns; these underground spaces resemble a dungeon recently pulled up after an extended period underwater.<ref name = "GIJ2014">[http://www.gameinformer.com/games/destiny/b/playstation4/archive/2014/04/04/a-player-39-s-journey.aspx?PostPageIndex=4 '''Game Informer January 2014''', ''page 55'']</ref> They are able to manipulate the physical world in ways humanity can only begin to imagine,<ref>[http://www.destinythegame.com/au/en/game/enemies/hive '''Bungie''': ''Hive'']</ref> and have witnessed the [[Darkness]] consume countless worlds in the past.<ref name = "Destiny">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref>

At the time of the first ''Destiny''  game, they have burrowed deep into the [[Moon]], staying there for centuries while growing stronger.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eAbpZfqE8r4 '''YouTube''': ''Official Destiny Gameplay Trailer: The Moon'']</ref> The [[Guardian]]'s [[Ghost]] states that he believed the Hive to be contained on the Moon for centuries, but the player first encounters them in [[Old Russia]] underneath the [[Skywatch]], where the [[Fallen]] have attempted to seal them away.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvIZUrB92fI '''Youtube''': ''Destiny Gameplay Walkthrough - Alpha Part 1'']</ref> The Guardians eventually discover that this is just the beginning; the Hive have been building an army and intend to invade Earth en masse.<ref name = "Beta">'''Bungie (2014-7-17)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Beta PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard</ref>

Long ago their [[Krill homeworld|homeworld]] crashed into Fundament, ostensibly to hide from something unknown. The shards of this homeworld became a number of continents that floated upon a sea called the Fundament Ocean within a layer of the gas giant's atmosphere, and the Krill eventually built a meager civilization upon them and forgot their old history. In addition to the Krill, Fundament was home to hundreds of other intelligent species, and Fundament's fifty-two moons were inhabited by a space-faring species called the [[Ammonite]]s who were overseen by [[The Traveler|the Traveler]].<ref name="Curiosity">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Calcified_Fragments:_Curiosity|Calcified Fragments: Curiosity]]''</ref><ref name="Syzgy">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IV:_Syzygy|IV: Syzgy]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIV:_52_and_One|XIV: 52 and One]]''</ref>

Life was quick and harsh for the krill. Their natural lifespan rarely exceeded ten Fundament-years, though females who ate "mother jelly" became able to spawn and live longer. In terms of environmental hazards, Fundament was almost inhospitable. The Fundament Ocean was toxic, the skies were eternally stormy, the rain poisonous and sometimes corrosive, lightning had enough power to vaporize anyone it struck, "living clouds" called [[Stormjoy]]s would prey on the populace, and the Krill frequently warred with each other.<ref name="Curiosity"/><ref name="Predators"/>

The progenitors of the contemporary Hive were [[Xi Ro]], [[Sathona]], and [[Aurash]], the three daughters of the [[Osmium King]] who ruled the continent called the Osmium Court.<ref name="Predators"/> When the Osmium King was ten years old, he fell to madness, fearing an event called the Syzygy wherein Fundament's fifty-two moons would align and create a massive tidal wave, the God-Wave, that would destroy Fundament's civilizations.<ref name="Syzgy"/> [[Taox]], a sterile mother who served as the teacher to the King's daughters, feared the King's daughters were too weak to succeed the King and invited a rival kingdom, the [[Helium Drinkers]] of the Helium Court, to invade the Osmium Court, kill the royal family, and allow Taox to rule the Osmium Court as their regent.<ref name="Hate">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#II:_The_Hateful_Verse|II: The Hateful Verse]]''</ref> The Helium Drinkers invaded and slew the Osmium King, but the three sisters, two years old at the time, escaped on a ship and vowed to take their revenge against the Helium King and Taox.<ref name="Oath">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#III:_The_Oath|III: The Oath]]''</ref>

After a year of traveling the sea, the sisters salvaged an ancient, high-tech ship they called "The Needle" from the Shvubi Maelstrom. Xi Ro wanted to sell it at the Kaharn Atoll, a gathering place of Fundament's many species, in order to raise enough money to hire a mercenary army, but Aurash wanted to take command of the ship. Sathona sided with Aurash, goaded on by a worm that their father had kept; the worm had washed up on the Osmium Court's shores and was seemingly dead, but Sathona could hear it speak.<ref name="Needle Worm">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#V:_Needle_and_Worm|V: Needle and Worm]]''</ref> Unbeknownst to Sathona, the voice she was hearing was in fact that of the [[The Witness|the Witness]], a paracausal entity who sought to claim the Krill away from the Traveler; in truth, there was no imminent danger from a "god-wave" or the syzygy that would supposedly cause it.{{Citation needed}}

The sisters spent the next two years reactivating the ship, until Aurash decided to use it to fulfill its intended purpose: she wanted to dive to Fundament's core in the hopes of learning a secret that would prevent the Syzygy.<ref name="Sisters">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#VI:_Sisters|VI: Sisters]]''</ref>

As they descended, the sisters encountered a vast creature called the [[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]], a disciple of the Traveler. The Leviathan warned the sisters against proceeding further, telling them that they faced a choice between the Sky and the Deep, the Light and the Darkness, the way of life and the way of death. The sisters rejected the Leviathan, unable to accept that allowing their people to suffer was the better way, and instead decided to follow the worm Sathona had saved, which urged them to continue diving.<ref name="Dive">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#VII:_The_Dive|VII: The Dive]]''</ref><ref name="Leviathan">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#VIII:_Leviathan|VIII: Leviathan]]''</ref>

===Events of the Collapse and City Age===

At some point before the dawn of [[Human]]ity on [[Earth]], the Hive had secretly seeded themselves deep below the depths of Luna.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Patrol]]: [https://youtu.be/fBQiXy50qsM?si=c2tCRLhJNY7HrWiB Toland Patrols]''</ref> It is there that they would completely terraform the entire interior of the moon from the bottom up into an impregnable fortress called the [[Hellmouth]].<ref name= "Hellmouth">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Blizzard Activision, Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Hive#Ghost Fragment: Hive|Ghost Fragment: Hive]]''</ref> Traces of their presence was first uncovered by human scientists sometime during the [[Golden Age]], where they uncovered an [[Anomaly (artifact)|artifact]] that established contract with [[the Witness]].<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Lore:[[Lore:Revelation|Revelation]] - [[Lore:Revelation#The Discovery|The Discovery]]''</ref>  The Hive would emerge during the [[Collapse]], where they slaughtered the inhabitants of the [[First Light Lunar Installation]] and the [[K1]] [[The Anomaly|Project site]].<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Lore:[[Lore:Revelation|Revelation]] - [[Lore:Revelation#Downfall|Downfall]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Blizzard Activision, Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Places/Moon#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Ocean_of_Storms_2|Ghost Fragment: The Ocean of Storms 2]]''</ref> After claiming their stake on the moon, they continued to lay in dormancy and built their strength for centuries until the threat of their existence faded to myth by the time of the City Age.<ref name="Moon">'''Bungie (2016/4/15)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls|Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls]]''</ref>  

Hive originate as eggs or cocoons<ref name="Heart"/> laid by a special caste of Wizard known as a Brood Queen. Upon hatching, newborn Hive swallow a Worm larva whole, becoming symbiotic with the Worm inside them.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''' m ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Hive#Ghost_Fragment:_Hive_2|Ghost Fragment: Hive 2]]''</ref> These newborn Hive grow into Thrall, and Thrall that survive into maturity become Acolytes. Acolytes who have proven themselves can become Knights, who in turn may become Princes leading their own broods.<ref name="Hive"/>  

*'''[[Worms|The Worm Gods]]''', those who gave the Hive their immortality in exchange for a tithe of Light

Hive have access to several forms of teleportation, from simple materialising and de-materialising from seemingly dust, to climbing out of shallow pools of water. The most iconic of them are "Ruptures";<ref>'''Destiny: [[The Taken King]]''' - ''[[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/lost-to-light|Lost to Light]]''</ref><ref>'''Destiny: [[The Taken King]]''' - [[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-rupture|Rupture - Ghost Scan]]''</ref> dimensional portals to different parts of space, or even new "spaces" in other dimensions such as the [[Ascendant Realm]] or the [[Vex Network]],<ref name=Partition/> caused by cutting a wound into the flesh of space itself,<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Hive_Arsenal#Tomb_Ship|Tomb Ship]]''</ref> which they use for interstellar travel. These wounds can be performed either by use of the Sword Logic,<ref name=Incision/><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIII:_Into_the_Sky|XIII: Into The Sky]]''</ref> through Soulfire rifts,<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Weapon - Disparity''</ref> whatever method is employed by Tombships, or through Hive statues that are used to both activate and navigate through Ruptures. According to Eris Morn, however, only an Ascendant is able will a Rupture to open,<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard - Mission - [[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/enemy-of-my-enemy|Enemy of my Enemy]]</ref> and only Ascendant Hive can move through them;<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard - Mission -[[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/lost-to-light|Lost to Light]]</ref> a Rupture can sense if a being holds an Ascendant's soul<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard - Mission -[[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/regicide|Regicide]]</ref> and will repulse any who do not possess one. There exists another method: a turbine known as a "Dimensional Lock", which allows Oryx to move between dimensions. Crota also appears to have one in his Throne World. According to scans, the place the lock is kept along with everything in said place only exists in one realm as long as the turbine is stationary.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Ghost]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-dimensional-lock Ishtar Collective - Ghost Scan: Dimensional Lock]''</ref>

The Hive have taken an interest in fusing 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 studied Hive science.

*[[Hive Axe]]

*[[Dreadnaught]]

*The official ''Destiny'' guide mentioned an additional Hive sect, The Scarlet Brood, but this sect never appeared in the game.{{Citation needed}}

*Artwork showing the Krill sisters depict them as having four fingers, while all current Hive possess only three. This could be the result of mutations performed across millions of years of evolution, or potentially due to the corruption of the Darkness alongside their pact with the worms.