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'''Rasputin''' (also identified as '''AI-COM/RSPN'''<ref name= "GFR3">'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3]]''</ref> and '''the Tyrant'''<ref name= "GFOldRussia3">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Earth#Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3|Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3]]''</ref>) is a [[Warmind]] housed in the [[BrayTech Futurescape]] in the [[Hellas Basin]]. He was created during the [[Golden Age]]<ref name = "Beta">'''Bungie (2014-7-17)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Beta PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard.''</ref> and was believed to have been destroyed during the [[Collapse]] until the [[Iron Lords]] awoke his wrath.<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]]''</ref>

After the mission, R was used mainly as an emergency response system for pre-Golden Age space stations; useful for running system diagnostics like checking oxygen and fuel.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/3/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Worthy]], Quest:[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/quest-the-tyrant-the-lie?highlight=The+Lie The Tyrant, The Lie]''</ref>

[[File:Rasputinpic5.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin compound in Hellas Basin]]

By the [[Golden Age]], the corporation [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] took the code of the safety AI and programmed it into an interplanetary defense system with sentience; becoming the most powerful military intelligence ever developed.<ref>[https://www.destinythegame.com/uk/en/expansion2 '''DestinyTheGame''': ''Expansion II - Warmind'']</ref>  [[Ana Bray|Dr. Anastasia Bray]] was responsible for teaching Rasputin language, which she accomplished by uploading a massive compilation of human works of literature into his network.

Rasputin was the one to first discover the coming of the [[Darkness]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref> At that time, Rasputin's original core programming was to protect humanity. However, every action he had taken to that point had either failed or was statistically predicted to have a 100% probability of failure. Once it became clear that no conceivable action could be taken to fulfill his core programming, he implemented a protocol known as MIDNIGHT EXIGENT and reconfigured his core programming to that of long term survival, abandoning his previous function and going dark, while simultaneously ordering all remaining forces and facilities at his disposal to do the same.<ref name= "GFR3"/>

Rasputin made further preparations, known as the "ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE." If humanity was threatened with extinction, and that the Traveler attempted to leave, Rasputin would open fire with his most powerful weapons to immobilize the Traveler and thereby coerce it into a "pseudoaltruistic" defensive action. In effect, the Traveler would be forced to protect humanity if it wanted to survive. Rasputin would avoid culpability for such an attack by initiating it through a series of proxies.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_5|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5]]''</ref> Even before the Collapse, Rasputin had been discreetly stockpiling such weapons in the Cosmodrome, though some human operators suspected Rasputin's involvement.<ref name= "GFOldRussia3"/>

Rasputin attempted to contain potentially dangerous data about the Darkness that was discovered by Dr.[[Shanice Pell]] at the [[New Pacific Arcology]] on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. It dispatched an [[Exo]] team led by [[Morgan-2]] to contain the data by taking Pell and her staff into custody along with their research.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Last_Days_on_Kraken_Mare#Faces_Like_Shields|Last Days on Kraken Mare - Faces Like Shields]]''</ref> However, Administrator [[Mia van der Venne]] believed Rasputin was overstepping its authority by denying the scientists a choice about what to do with the data and subtly warned Pell to evacuate alongside the rest of the moon's population as the Darkness closed in. Unable to contain Pell's discovery peacefully, Rasputin destroyed the ship carrying the scientists with a [[Warsat]], utilizing the TWILIGHT EXIGENT protocol to justify lethal force on humans.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Last_Days_on_Kraken_Mare#Kalki.27s_Burning_Sword.2C_Part_II|Last Days on Kraken Mare - Kalki's Burning Sword, Part II]]''</ref>

[[File:Rasputinpic7.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Site 6]]]]

Rasputin left an active [[Seraphim Vault|presence]] on Earth and disconnected from the Mindlab on Mars. Having remained dormant during the [[Dark Age]], he was alerted to an asset gone rogue: "SIDDHARTHA GOLEM", having been resurrected by a [[Ghost]] to become a Light-bearer named [[Felwinter]]. Enraged at the loss of his "son" to the [[Light]], Rasputin sent falling [[Warsat]]s and armies of militarized [[frame]]s to terminate the now-Risen Exo, but all failed to kill Felwinter. It soon laid a trap promising Felwinter and the [[Iron Lords]] [[SIVA]], a powerful nanotechnology capable of disassembling matter and reconstituting it into almost any desired form.

Unfortunately, despite Lord [[Felwinter]]'s attempts to reason with him, Rasputin immediately activated all of its defensive measures against the Iron Lords, including SIVA. By then, Rasputin had programmed SIVA to kill not only Felwinter, but the other Iron Lords as collateral.<ref name=" GFR6"/> Realizing that they had been arrogant and that SIVA posed a significant threat to the world, the Iron Lords fought back. Hundreds of the Iron Wolves perished in the battle for the [[Plaguelands]], with eight of the founding ten Iron Lords sacrificing themselves to seal SIVA within its replication chamber.<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[King of the Mountain]]''</ref> Only [[Saladin Forge]] and [[Efrideet]] survived. Rasputin, content that the trespassers had been ejected from his facilities, withdrew his countermeasures and began passive observation of the Guardians.<ref name="GFR6"/> However, he would be left melancholic over the death of Felwinter and the damage this had irrevocably caused.

[[File:Rasputinpic6.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Seraphim Vault]]]]

Rasputin has resisted any recent attempts by the [[City]] to parlay, even going so far as to dismember a scouting team sent by the [[Vanguard]].<ref name="FallenSABER">'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard [[Fallen S.A.B.E.R.]].''</ref> Rasputin is later encountered on Mars within the [[Dust Palace]], attempting to protect a broken AI related to the Warmind of Mars from the invading Cabal. The AI is ultimately lost after a long battle with the [[Psion Flayers]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Dust Palace (strike)]]''</ref>

Since awakening, Rasputin has faced a number of direct threats to himself. [[Omnigul]] and the [[Spawn of Crota]] accessed the bunker through unknown means and attacked Rasputin, either to destroy him or corrupt him for their own purposes, but were thwarted by the Guardians.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-12-9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard [[Siege of the Warmind]].''</ref> Later, during the [[Taken War]], a group of [[Taken]] also penetrated Rasputin's bunker to prevent the Guardian from obtaining Golden Age stealth technology; while they did not damage or corrupt Rasputin, they had ample opportunity to do so.<ref name="PrometheanCode"/> The bunker was breached a third time when the [[Fallen]] attempted to hijack Rasputin's systems using the modified [[Shank]] [[S.A.B.E.R.-2]], seeking to bypass the Warmind's security protocols and take control of his orbital weapon systems. Though S.A.B.E.R.-2 was ultimately destroyed, Rasputin again had to be rescued through the efforts of Guardians.<ref name="FallenSABER"/>

Conceding that his bunker's defenses had failed too many times, Rasputin triggered the IKELOS subroutine, an initiative to provide advanced weaponry to the Guardians to aid them against the forces of the [[Darkness]]. The end result of IKELOS was the [[Sleeper Simulant]], a heavy [[fusion rifle]] with a unique core based on obsolete DVALIN FORGE fusion rifles that the Warmind had armed humanity with during the onset of the Collapse. The Sleeper Simulant represented a successful melding of Golden Age technology with contemporary designs and [[Banshee-44]]'s gunsmithing expertise.

[[File:Rasputinpic1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Entrance to Rasputin Facility]]

Rasputin soon came under siege from the Hive once again, but this time at his central core facility in Hellas Basin. Making matters worse, his [[Grasp of Nokris|attackers]] were led by the Hive god [[Nokris]], a son of [[Oryx]], and [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], one of the Hive's gargantuan [[Worm]] Gods. Unable to adequately defend himself against such a massive threat, Rasputin accepted the assistance of Ana Bray and the Guardian, granting them the use of the powerful [[Valkyrie]] javelin and other Golden Age weaponry.  

[[file:OsirisRasputin.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|Osiris confronting Rasputin]]

[[File:ZavalaRasputin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin showing Zavala the incoming threat]]

As the Guardians worked to activate the Seraph Bunker on Io and connect it to Rasputin's mainframe, Rasputin had a confrontation with the Vanguard Commander. Zavala questions the ancient machine in his sincerity of understanding the stakes, which Rasputin answered by showing Zavala how close the Darkness is to the Solar System and of his past, having survived the Collapse. Finally coming to an understanding with Zavala, the Titan Vanguard vows that once ''The Almighty'' has been broken, he will agree to work with Rasputin, granting the Warmind whatever resources the Last City has in battling the coming Darkness. In addition, Rasputin begun to send his combat frames on missions to secure "valuable assets" in the form of sleeper nodes.

[[File:RasputinFelwinter.gif|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin reveals his secret]]

[[File:Rasputinshutdown.gif|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin shuts down]]

Ana spent the next two years attempting to restore Rasputin into the Exo frame, to no avail. Following the City's alliance with the [[Imperial Cabal]] and the settlement of the [[House of Light]], with the help of an Imperial Psion and [[Splicer]] tech, she managed to enter a Mindscape with Rasputin to verify he was still intact.<ref name="GrandOverture">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Risen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Grand_Overture#Lore|Grand Overture]]''</ref>  

After Osiris was awakened by the power of the reliquaries, he experienced visions of a [[Neomuna|city]] on [[Neptune]]. After being told there was nothing there by [[Ikora]] and her Hidden, he resolved to ask Rasputin what he knew regarding this city. Learning that he was still disabled and that Ana had made no progress in repairing him, Osiris suggested asking her grandfather, [[Clovis Bray]], to try and fix him. After battling through Xivu Arath’s [[Wrathborn]] on Europa, they reached the AI and asked him to help repair Rasputin. Out of a need for legacy and self preservation, Clovis agreed and inserted himself into Rasputin's experimental Exo frame. He explained to Ana and Osiris that they must gather Rasputin's subminds and inject them into his core in order to fully fix him.

However, as the Guardians made progress in gathering the submind data of Malahayati and Charlemagne and gained access to the Seraph Station, the main hub of Rasputin's Warsat Network, Ana found an unconventional means to quickly restore Rasputin: finding the Ghost of the Lord Felwinter, [[Felspring]], who was recently discovered to be once a piece of Rasputin's code placed in an Exo before being made a Risen. Ana believes that within Felspring, the missing pieces of Rasputin's code, linguistic data and even pieces of Felwinter's personality engram can be used. Gaining Lord Saladin's approval in gaining access to Felspring's remains at the Iron Temple, the Guardian arrives to fend off a force of House Salvation Fallen led by [[Rilliks, Instrument of Xivu Arath]]‎, alongside Saladin's Iron War Beasts. The Guardians and Cabal prevailed in repelling the Fallen attack and after acquiring Felspring's remains and connect them to Rasputin's mainframe, the Warmind itself connects and speaks to Ana directly. Shocked, Rasputin clarifies that he copied Clovis's voice modulation to allow him to speak and inform Ana and the Guardian that they are in danger. Rasputin reveals that Clovis Bray I has deceived them, that he was never created by the scientist to be humanity's protector but as a means for Clovis Bray to assume control. In his mind, Clovis Bray was the only one worthy of be humanity's savior and thus sought to create a machine god of his own and use it to replace the Traveler but thanks to Ana Bray's deviance from his agenda, by teaching him the things that Clovis found "irrelevant": independent thought, history, art, philosophy and music, this did not happen. Through them, Rasputin had seen the beauty in humanity and thus changed Clovis's protocols and locked him out, infuriating his creator and saving countless lives. However, despite failing during the Collapse, Rasputin had awakened, but so has Clovis, now a digital mind like himself and instead of using Rasputin as his proxy, Clovis intends to have Rasputin be his prototype, a means to allow himself to become a machine god and be humanity's savior, as he always intended.

Furious over this revelation, Ana, alongside Elisabeth and the Guardian head back to the [[H.E.L.M.]] to confront Clovis. Though Ana was prepared to shoot her grandfather, Clovis attempted to justify his deceit, claiming that the Traveler could not be relied upon as it had abandoned the Eliksni and gave the Hive the Light and with Rasputin under their control, they can fight the enemies of humanity together. Ana lowered her weapon but instead of complying with her grandfather as he expected, she instead uploads Rasputin's personality into the prototype Exo Frame, leading the two digital minds to clash for control. Despite Clovis's efforts and demanding Elisabeth to stop Ana, Rasputin seized control over the frame, deleting Clovis's personality in the process. With their grandfather removed, Ana took her leave, requesting to be alone for a bit. Her sister agreed before taking her leave but Rasputin, after rebooting his new frame, requested that the Guardian speak with Ana, stating she shouldn't be alone right now. The Guardian agrees and speaks with Ana, who while happy that Rasputin can now speak directly with humanity, something she has always wanted, she dreads the thought of the damage Clovis would've caused once he used Rasputin to integrate himself into Seraph Station.

After speaking with Ana, the Guardians approach Rasputin at his request, who confirms Clovis's continued existence as an AI but confined to the Exoscience labs of Europa and is furious that his plans are now ruined. Further, Rasputin clarifies his current state, confirming that Felwinter's memories are now his own, and comes to accept to view himself the way the Iron Lord did: a tyrant who squandered a power that could've been used to save humanity. Grateful for the Guardian's efforts to save him from the brink of oblivion, Rasputin vows to return the favor by using all of his power to protect humanity. However, despite being able to directly speak with humanity, Rasputin states he is still does not have the necessary code to upload himself to Seraph Station, thereby advising the Guardian to continue the strategy of gathering submind data.

Rasputin was the one to first discover the coming of the Darkness which he termed ''"IT"''.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref> At the time, Rasputin's original core programming was to protect humanity. To be allowed to be this, he was designed to be stronger than the enemies of Earth and to survive anything that was thrown at him.

[[File:RaputinGif1.gif|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin's Map of the Sol System]]

[[File:Ground_installations.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|[[The Last Array]]]]

**'''PALISADE IMPERATIVE''' – a condition invoked to suppress intruders in restricted areas of Rasputin's facilities.

**'''CARRHAE BLACK''' – an unspecified emergency condition.

**'''CARRHAE WHITE''' – an emergency condition in which the Solar System faces an external threat.

*'''EGYPTIAN''' – a security protocol; purpose unknown.

*'''TWILIGHT EXIGENT''' – a counterattack protocol and moral structure change under which all humans are assumed dead without Warmind intervention. This protocol prioritizes maximising survival of the human species over than minimizing harm to individuals.

*'''MIDNIGHT EXIGENT''' – a long-term counterattack protocol and moral structure change. All systems enter a period of extended deactivation in an effort to survive and later devise a countermeasure for an overwhelming threat. The protocol seemingly allow Rasputin to ignore his responsibility to protect human populations in favor of taking any measures deemed necessary to ensure his own survival. As of [[The Guardian]] slaying [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], '''MIDNIGHT EXIGENT''' is still in-progress.<ref name="SleeperD2">'''Bungie (2018/5/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Sleeper Simulant]]''</ref>

*'''NEFELE STRONGHOLD''' Unknown, intentionally hidden by Rasputin

*'''ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE''' – a last-resort measure aimed at preventing the Traveler from leaving Earth during a major calamity by crippling it. Rasputin devised this protocol in secret from his human overseers. It is uncertain if this protocol was ever activated.

*'''LOKI CROWN''' – fire all available caedometric weaponry at the Traveler.

*'''SECURE ISIS''' – unknown, declaration to "cauterize public sources", possibly as security protocol related to '''EGYPTIAN'''.

**'''FENRIR HEART''' – unknown, possibly a specific strategy or type of weapon. It was ineffective against the Darkness.

**'''SURTR DROWN''' – unknown, possibly a specific strategy or type of weapon. It was ineffective against the Darkness.

**'''DVALIN FORGE''' – a plan to produce weapons to arm human forces in the event of a '''CARRHAE''' emergency. '''DVALIN FORGE''' weaponry proved ineffective against the Darkness.

*'''TELESPHOURUS WEAVE''' – a subroutine that directs Rasputin's medical resources to a Vault in the [[Cosmodrome]].

[[File:Warmind_Vault_JYS-2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Warmind Vault JYS-2]]]]

[[File:Rasputinpic14.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin Base]]

 

*Rasputin builds his own Frames which appeared in [[Season of the Worthy]] and a modified version called Heavy Frames which were present during the Seraph Tower public event.