Maya Sundaresh: Difference between revisions

===Founding the Future War Cult===

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===

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.

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''We built the device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. An observatory, yes, but I think of it as a mind-ship. Capable of displacing its payload across space and time.''

''I thought that I could look inside the device, and find one of the other Chiomas. I thought I could call out to one of the forks we sent out there to explore.''

''Zakharik Gilmanovich Bekhterev. May he rest in peace. When our probes continued to fail, when my report remained our only positive finding, he volunteered to use the device. One minute of subjective experience inside.''

''After we extracted him, he said that he felt determined. I asked him what he meant and he said that he meant it, he had been determined, he could feel all his choices set out before him like a railroad. Deviation was impossible.''

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''Our supervisory warmind has devised a drug it says will protect and prepare us.''

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''We are all growing superstitious. The behavior of the device is inconsistent. Impossible to replicate. We turn to ritual behavior to appease it.''

''Rajesh. When he reached a displacement of eight he told us he was dead. I believed him. He was dead. He spoke to us. It was true. Whatever he saw, it was his own future.''

''We speak of nothing but the device. We talk about it like a demigod. When I get out of here I know the whole world will look like a fraying veil.''

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''I heard you, my love. I was at six, oscillating on the event axis, coordinated with a known manifold. I heard you. You were talking to me — not me, but another me, another Maya Sundaresh.''

''And I said, not me but the other me, I said, my love, I am always home.''

==Trivia==

*Cayde-6 served as her bodyguard during the Golden Age. He was in love with her, but she paid him little mind.<ref>'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' ''[[Cayde's_Treasure_Island_Book|Cayde's Treasure Island Book]]''</ref>

*In [[The Insight Terminus]] Strike, at the end of the strike in one of the alternate dialogues, the [[Ghost]] mentions someone in the access log named "MSund12", this could very likely be referenced to the 12th simulated copy of Maya Sundaresh.

==List of appearances==