Rasputin: Difference between revisions

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>

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 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>

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.

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.

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.