SIVA Crisis: Difference between revisions

As tasked by Saladin to investigate the breach in the Cosmodrome and to confirm Saladin's fears, the Guardian arrives at the wall and finds a section of it in ruins with a heavy Devils presence. Tracking Sepkis, the Guardian fights through the wall and finds a pattern outside the wall and with Ghost scans, discovers that a nanotechnology is consuming the building, confirming Saladin fears that SIVA has returned. Instantly Hive ships appear, apparently driven out of their holds. Fighting both Hive and Fallen to a sensor grid to restore the sensor network for Shiro-4, the Guardian encounters a new enemy of Fallen, The Devil Splicers. After defeating the new powerfully-augmented Fallen, Saladin now knows for sure that the Fallen have restarted production of SIVA for their own desires. Shiro-4 tracks to Fallen to [[Plaguelands]], an area that has been quarantined for years, but has now become the Devil Splicers territory.

To open up a new front for the war and to establish a beachhead in the Plaguelands, Saladin and Shiro-4 have the Guardian infiltrate Splicer defenses for reinforcements but find that the Splicers have repaired a gun emplacement that was destroyed during the Collapse using SIVA. Any reinforcements would be destroyed but thanks to the Guardians efforts, destroyed the SIVA nodes powering the cannons, allowing reinforcements to arrive and Guardians to explore the quarantined zone.

After retrieving the SIVA prototypes from the Clovis Bray lab on Mars, Shiro-4 and Lord Saladin task the Guardian to go into [[Site 6]] and destroy the SIVA replication chamber to end the SIVA Crisis. After fighting through the Fallen in the Archon's Keep and cutting off their control of it, the Guardian enters into the Site 6 deep beneath [[the Warrens]]. Once the Guardian enters the replication complex, the Guardian sees the remnants of the Iron Lords that died during the attack on Site 6 in the Dark Age and are being controlled by SIVA. Once the remnants were defeated using a discarded [[Iron Battle Axe]], thus putting the Iron Lords to rest, the SIVA self-destruct sequence is initiated and the Guardian successfully escapes, preventing any more SIVA from being created.

During the Guardian's patrols in the Plaguelands, the Guardian discovered that the Devil Splicers engaging in all-out war with the Hive. Seeking to discover what was driving the Hive on the warpath, the Guardian began to search Splicer cargo and found that the Splicers have been corralling Hive Thralls on orders from an unknown Splicer Priest, for unknown reasons. Further investigation found that the Devil Splicers have been experimenting on the Hive using SIVA, explaining the Hive's violent aggression. Yet the news worries Shiro-4 that the Splicers are seeking to control the Hive using SIVA.

Seeking to end the Splicers' vile experiments by eliminating its leading figure, the Guardians form a fireteam and invade a Hive nest in an old missile silo currently being contested over with the Splicers. Fighting to the center of the nest the fireteam find an [[Ogre]], [[Kovik's Monster]], that was recently experimented on yet still alive. Soon the Splicer leader, [[Kovik, Splicer Priest]], appeared with a rifle powered by the Ogre's [[Void]] eye. Despite Kovik's weapon and freeing the Ogre, the Priest was killed, ending the Splicers' experiments on the Hive. However, Shiro-4 worries whether the Splicers will continue Kovik's work or not and wonders what other perversions the Fallen are conducting.

To further prevent the Devil Splicers from creating other monsters or weapons out of the Hive, Shiro-4 orders the Guardian to invade the [[Hellmouth]] on the [[Moon]] and stop the Splicers from abducting any more Hive Ogres. Fighting though both Fallen and Hive, the Guardian reaches the [[Summoning Pits]] right before the Splicers capture a [[Hive Abomination]]. Despite the struggle of facing both the Abomination, the Hive and the Devil Splicers, the Guardian was able to slay the monster and therefore prevent the Splicers from gaining any more test subjects.

Since the Devil Splicers proved SIVA's worth by bringing back Sepiks Prime, the Guardians under Shiro's orders, sought to end the "perfected" Prime Servitor, this time for good. Following the same path to the same lair where Sepiks Prime was destroyed, the Guardians fight to [[the Devils' Lair]] where Sepiks Perfected was being tended to. Killing the Captains protecting it, the Guardians were able to leave Sepiks Prime vulnerable to attack, and were able to destroy it. Much like what happened two years ago, Sepiks was killed, this time for good.

After dealing with Sepiks, the Guardians were ordered by Shiro-4 to infiltrate the Devil Splicers' true lair and end the radical group. After defeating [[Vosik, the Archpriest]], repairing the [[Siege Engine]] and defeating [[Meksis, Siege Engineer]], the Guardians infiltrated the SIVA [[Server Farm]] and descended into the Perfection Complex, where the true source of SIVA and the Devil Splicer threat resided. There, after a long and perilous struggle, the Guardians faced and destroyed Aksis using his own [[SIVA Charge]]s and Empowerment. With the death of Aksis and Sepiks, the Guardians were able to successfully break the Devil Splicers' leadership.