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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Ishtar Academy=== | |||
During the [[Golden Age]], Maya Sundaresh was part of the Ishtar Academy, studying various phenomena on Venus, such as the Vex and [[Ahamkara]].<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref> She, along with Dr. [[Shim]], [[Chioma Esi]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]], extensively studied the [[Vex]] after capturing an operation platform they designated as "Subject 12." In the process, Esi discovered that the Vex were running a simulation of their research team that was completely accurate.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex|Ghost Fragment: Vex]]''</ref> After much debate, they concluded that the only way to save themselves from the simulation was to bring in something the Vex could not simulate, proposing that a [[Warmind]] was far too complex to simulate. <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 3|Ghost Fragment: Vex 3]]''</ref> They were able to rescue 227 undamaged copies of themselves from inside the Vex, and all copies voted to become explorers in the Vex information network.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref> | During the [[Golden Age]], Maya Sundaresh was part of the Ishtar Academy, studying various phenomena on Venus, such as the Vex and [[Ahamkara]].<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref> She, along with Dr. [[Shim]], [[Chioma Esi]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]], extensively studied the [[Vex]] after capturing an operation platform they designated as "Subject 12." In the process, Esi discovered that the Vex were running a simulation of their research team that was completely accurate.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex|Ghost Fragment: Vex]]''</ref> After much debate, they concluded that the only way to save themselves from the simulation was to bring in something the Vex could not simulate, proposing that a [[Warmind]] was far too complex to simulate. <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 3|Ghost Fragment: Vex 3]]''</ref> They were able to rescue 227 undamaged copies of themselves from inside the Vex, and all copies voted to become explorers in the Vex information network.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref> | ||
Nearly forty years later, Maya was part of new research team on Earth in Lhasa. They had built a form of mind-forking device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. The experiments were overseen by a Warmind, and they were locked in complete isolation. The experiments proved emotionally taxing, and potentially fatal, and the team resulted in ritual and worship in an attempt to appease the device. After experiencing an unknown event while using the device on herself, she became determined to reunite with her partner Chioma and quit the program. She advised her team to continue the log she started at the beginning of the experiments.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 5|Ghost Fragment: Vex 5]]''</ref> Years later by the time of [[The City]] the same log was still being used by the Future War Cult, who continued to experiment with her device.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/City_Factions#Ghost Fragment: Future War Cult|Ghost Fragment: Future War Cult]]''</ref> | ===Founding the Future War Cult=== | ||
Nearly forty years later, Maya was part of a new research team on Earth in Lhasa. They had built a form of mind-forking device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. The experiments were overseen by a Warmind, and they were locked in complete isolation. The experiments proved emotionally taxing, and potentially fatal, and the team resulted in ritual and worship in an attempt to appease the device. After experiencing an unknown event while using the device on herself, she became determined to reunite with her partner Chioma and quit the program. She advised her team to continue the log she started at the beginning of the experiments.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 5|Ghost Fragment: Vex 5]]''</ref> Years later by the time of [[The City]] the same log was still being used by the Future War Cult, who continued to experiment with her device.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/City_Factions#Ghost Fragment: Future War Cult|Ghost Fragment: Future War Cult]]''</ref> | |||
===Activities on Europa=== | |||
Shortly before the collapse, either Maya herself or one of her virtual copies infiltrated [[Clovis Bray I]]'s research facility on [[Europa]]. | |||
Later, a virtual copy of Maya controlling a Vex unit subverted Clovis I's automated surgery machinery, causing him to be gruesomely vivisected and awakened prematurely. She tortured him for information about "[[Darkness|Clarity]]", the [[paracausal]] force which Bray had been guided by and made use of in developing his Exos. However, [[Elisabeth Bray]] (who had by now been uploaded into an Exo body) intervened, destroying the Vex and reassembling her grandfather. | |||
==Journal Excerpts== | ==Journal Excerpts== | ||