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{{Quote|Brilliant. Driven. Beautiful.|Cayde-6<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref>}} | {{Quote|Brilliant. Driven. Beautiful.|Cayde-6<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref>}} | ||
'''Maya Sundaresh''' was a [[Venus]]ian researcher and member of the [[Ishtar Collective]] | '''Maya Sundaresh''' was a [[Venus]]ian researcher and member of the [[Ishtar Collective]], as well as a founding member of the [[Future War Cult]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Ishtar Academy=== | ===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 | {{Quote|We have to act as if we're in the real universe, not one simulated by the specimen. Otherwise we might as well give up."<br>"Your sim self is saying the same thing.|Maya Sundaresh and Chioma Esi}} | ||
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 for the Vex. <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 Network|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> | |||
===Founding the Future War Cult=== | ===Founding the Future War Cult=== | ||
{{Quote|What I’m doing here in Lhasa isn’t science. It’s unethical, secret, and shameful. [...] But I believe it’s important.|Maya's record log}} | |||
Nearly forty years later, Maya was part of a new research team on Earth in Lhasa. Overseen by a Warmind and locked in isolation, the team began conducting experiments with a mind-forking device built in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. The experiments proved emotionally taxing, and the team turned to superstition and ritual behavior as attempts to understand the manifesting danger of the device failed. After experiencing an unknown event while using the device on herself, Maya 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 in [[The Last City]], the same log was still being used by the Future War Cult, who continued to experiment with the 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> | Nearly forty years later, Maya was part of a new research team on Earth in Lhasa. Overseen by a Warmind and locked in isolation, the team began conducting experiments with a mind-forking device built in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. The experiments proved emotionally taxing, and the team turned to superstition and ritual behavior as attempts to understand the manifesting danger of the device failed. After experiencing an unknown event while using the device on herself, Maya 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 in [[The Last City]], the same log was still being used by the Future War Cult, who continued to experiment with the 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=== | ===Activities on Europa=== | ||
Shortly before the | {{Quote|Of course I’m not a Vex. Is there “a” Vex? Is “Vex” something you can be, rather than something that you do? I don’t know. I don’t know why they sent me here. I don’t know if they do either. They just ''do'' things. Why do you think I’m here, Clovis?|Vex copy of Maya torturing Clovis Bray}} | ||
Shortly before the Collapse, either Maya herself or one of her virtual copies infiltrated [[Clovis Bray I]]'s research facility on [[Europa]]. She assisted with Bray's research into the Vex and Exo development, until she was eventually terminated for criticizing her employer's unethical conduct. Afterward, Bray found no record of his corporation having ever employed Maya. | |||
Later, a virtual copy of Maya within the Vex network subverted Clovis I's automated surgery machinery, causing him to be gruesomely vivisected and awakened prematurely. She revealed that she was one of the copies of Maya that had been captured by the Vex, and had been selected from among billions of further Vex-made copies for her willingness to serve them. 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 corrupted medical frames and reassembling her grandfather. | Later, a virtual copy of Maya within the Vex network subverted Clovis I's automated surgery machinery, causing him to be gruesomely vivisected and awakened prematurely. She revealed that she was one of the copies of Maya that had been captured by the Vex, and had been selected from among billions of further Vex-made copies for her willingness to serve them. 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 corrupted medical frames and reassembling her grandfather. | ||
The copy of Maya persisted within the Vex network, however, and continued to torment Clovis I even as he prepared to be uploaded into an exobody. Clovis' final journal entry, which contains a transcript of his last words before uploading, also contains taunting messages from the Vex copy of Maya, written in Clovis' own handwriting. | The copy of Maya persisted within the Vex network, however, and continued to torment Clovis I even as he prepared to be uploaded into an exobody. Clovis' final journal entry, which contains a transcript of his last words before uploading, also contains taunting messages from the Vex copy of Maya, written in Clovis' own handwriting. | ||
===Maya's Copies in the Vex Network=== | |||
{{Quote|Think we're close enough to Vex at this point to use one of their tricks?"<br>"What's a little more tightrope walking between friends?|Two copies of Chioma Esi conversing through radio}} | |||
The 227 simulated teams of Ishtar scientists had sustained losses, members of several groups dying in the Vex network. Some copies eventually made contact with [[Praedyth]], a [[Guardian]] trapped within after [[Kabr's Fireteam|his fireteam]]'s failed raid on the [[Vault of Glass]]. Surprised at first, as establishing any radio connection had been impossible before for either party, they resolved this could be a rare chance for escape; if the signal had been allowed to pass through, maybe so could them. As the door of the [[Black Garden]] opened before the reawakened [[The Undying Mind|Undying Mind]] and its Vex, Praedyth and the simulated scientists made their attempt at leaping out of the network. | |||
==Journal Excerpts== | ==Journal Excerpts== | ||
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''Our supervisory warmind has devised a drug it says will protect and prepare us.'' | ''Our supervisory warmind has devised a drug it says will protect and prepare us.'' | ||
''I am beginning to wonder if we were wrong about the merchant and the alchemist. Or if that explanation of time was incomplete. | ''I am beginning to wonder if we were wrong about the merchant and the alchemist. Or if that explanation of time was incomplete.'' | ||
*RECORD 0-CHASM-09 | *RECORD 0-CHASM-09 | ||