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{{Quote|Staying alive was the mission. And I always complete the mission.|Sloane}} | {{Quote|Staying alive was the mission. And I always complete the mission.|Sloane}} | ||
'''Deputy Commander Sloane''' is a [[Titan (class)|Titan]] who served as a [[Vanguard|Vanguard Scout]]. During the [[Red War]], Sloane served as Commander [[Zavala]]'s deputy and secured the moon of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] as an outpost for the Vanguard. | '''Deputy Commander Sloane''' is a [[Titan (class)|Titan]] who served as a [[Vanguard|Vanguard Scout]]. During the [[Red War]], Sloane served as Commander [[Zavala]]'s deputy and secured the moon of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] as an outpost for the Vanguard. In recent times, she has become bonded with [[Ahsa]], a creature that opposes [[The Witness]], but has also become partially [[Taken]] at the hands of [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Early life and career=== | ===Early life and career=== | ||
{{Quote|The siege is broken. The stalemate we've had with the Eliksni for what, a hundred years? It's over. We won.|Sloane, in a report to Commander Zavala}} | {{Quote|The siege is broken. The stalemate we've had with the Eliksni for what, a hundred years? It's over. We won.|Sloane, in a report to Commander Zavala}} | ||
At some point after being resurrected by her [[Ghost]] Síocháin, Sloane arrived at the refugee camp below the [[Traveler]]. Alongside her fellow [[Guardian]]s, including Lord [[Shaxx]], Sloane helped construct massive walls to protect the growing settlement, which eventually became known as [[The Last City]].<ref | At some point after being resurrected by her [[Ghost]] Síocháin, Sloane arrived at the refugee camp below the [[Traveler]]. Alongside her fellow [[Guardian]]s, including Lord [[Shaxx]], Sloane helped construct massive walls to protect the growing settlement, which eventually became known as [[The Last City]].<ref>'''Bungie (2017/5/25)''', ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI5poBxV_-A Destiny 2 Gameplay Premiere – Zavala's Prelude]''</ref> She was present when the Guardians first encountered and fought the [[Hive]] on [[Earth]], after which she gained a hatred of them and became determined to wipe them out.<ref name="Duty Bound">'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [[Duty Bound]]''</ref> Sloane also fought in the [[Battle of Twilight Gap]] and helped fight back the [[Fallen]]'s attempted assault on the Last City.<ref>'''''[[Destiny: Warmind (comic)]]''', Chapter 3, Page 4''</ref> | ||
[[File:SloaneShaxxIkoraWall.jpg|thumb|300px|Sloane aiding the construction of the City Wall.]] | [[File:SloaneShaxxIkoraWall.jpg|thumb|300px|Sloane aiding the construction of the City Wall.]] | ||
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After watching the Young Wolf depart Titan for the final time, Sloane entered her office and put on the recovered suit of power armor. Upon putting on the helmet she realized the controls were not in a language she knew but guessed the correct option to select to activate the armor. As it conformed to her size, Sloane tested her movement and tried to summon [[Arc]] energy, but the suit blocked it. She decided she would need to learn how to utilize her Light through the suit and adjusted more settings before moving outside, finding that each step and move she made synched the suit more to her and made it easier to control. As a massive storm hit Siren's Watch, a [[Thrall]] charged her, but Sloane easily grabbed it by the head and ripped it apart with the enhanced strength of the armor. Her laugh was broadcast by the suit as a battle cry that echoed throughout the abandoned platform and up the overhead Pyramid as the storm raged around her.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress_and_Egress#Sloane:_Riastrad|Riastrad]]''</ref> | After watching the Young Wolf depart Titan for the final time, Sloane entered her office and put on the recovered suit of power armor. Upon putting on the helmet she realized the controls were not in a language she knew but guessed the correct option to select to activate the armor. As it conformed to her size, Sloane tested her movement and tried to summon [[Arc]] energy, but the suit blocked it. She decided she would need to learn how to utilize her Light through the suit and adjusted more settings before moving outside, finding that each step and move she made synched the suit more to her and made it easier to control. As a massive storm hit Siren's Watch, a [[Thrall]] charged her, but Sloane easily grabbed it by the head and ripped it apart with the enhanced strength of the armor. Her laugh was broadcast by the suit as a battle cry that echoed throughout the abandoned platform and up the overhead Pyramid as the storm raged around her.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress_and_Egress#Sloane:_Riastrad|Riastrad]]''</ref> | ||
Following the disappearance of Titan, both Sloane and [[Asher Mir]] were declared MIA. | |||
=== | ===Missing in action=== | ||
{{Quote|Don't worry. We've survived many horrors. We'll survive this one, too.|Zavala's hallucination of Sloane}} | {{Quote|Don't worry. We've survived many horrors. We'll survive this one, too.|Zavala's hallucination of Sloane}} | ||
Following the reformation of the Traveler, Zavala began to daydream of those lost on the disappeared planets, Sloane included, while preparing a speech to the people of the City. He imagined requesting that she lead the Vanguard's efforts to combat the [[House of Salvation]] on [[Europa]] while she was visiting his office, which she accepted.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[Lore]]: [[Phobos_Warden_Armor#Lore_4|Phobos Warden Strides/Greaves/Boots]]''</ref> | Following the reformation of the Traveler, Zavala began to daydream of those lost on the disappeared planets, Sloane included, while preparing a speech to the people of the City. He imagined requesting that she lead the Vanguard's efforts to combat the [[House of Salvation]] on [[Europa]] while she was visiting his office, which she accepted.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[Lore]]: [[Phobos_Warden_Armor#Lore_4|Phobos Warden Strides/Greaves/Boots]]''</ref> Half a year later during the [[Endless Night]], Sloane's uninhabited apartment in the City was slated to be emptied by the building's landlord who hoped to capitalize on people moving away from the newly-established [[Botza District|Eliksni Quarter]]. Offended by the disrespect to her memory, one of the moving workers, [[Sonja]], stole the [[Crown-Splitter]] Sloane kept in her home armory with the intent to give it to an active Guardian.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Splicer]] - [[Lore]]: [[Crown-Splitter#Lore|Crown-Splitter]]''</ref> | ||
Cut off from the outside world following Titan's disappearance, Sloane had fallen into the methane ocean, but survived thanks to her scavenged suit of Golden Age power armor. As she sank into the depths, she experienced visions of the past and future, seemingly originating from an entity that wished to make contact.<ref name="WeirWalkerSuit">'''Bungie (2023/05/23)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Deep]] - [[Lore]]: [[NPA "Weir-Walker" Suit]]''</ref> She subsequently awoke on the seabed, and began pursuing the Titan Pyramid as it moved around the moon, making her way through the ruins of the Arcology as she did so. In her travels, she and her Ghost discovered temporal rifts similar to those left by the Witness on Mars, which provided glimpses into the past of Titan. In one of these rifts, Sloane saw a Golden Age marine biologist, [[Gideon Tepin]], who was pacing around while talking about telepathic messages he had received from a creature out in the ocean. Síocháin accessed archival data from the Arcology and determined that the creature was a "psychic space whale" the researchers had termed "TLev-01," and which was not native to Titan.<ref name="WeirWalkerSuit"/> | |||
Sloane continued pursuing the Pyramid, but was always too late to catch it during its stops, only being able to find traces of its activities at each of the places it came to rest. At one of these sites, she found a cave contaminated with Taken residue which contained a Hive sigil. After fighting off a group of Taken, she noticed that she could perceive the thoughts of the Taken through the sigil, and also began to hear a voice in her head prodding her to interact with it. She reached out and touched the sigil, causing her to become enveloped in Taken corruption, and heard the voice of [[Xivu Arath]], the Hive God of War, in her mind, saying that the War God had accepted her challenge.<ref name="WeirWalkerSuit"/> | |||
Sloane's Light held back the Taken corruption, but over the course of the following year her condition steadily worsened. Nonetheless, she continued her mission, pursuing the Pyramid and fighting any Hive and Taken that got in her way. Eventually, however, she ran afoul of Xivu Arath's forces, who surrounded her as Sloane was overcome with a psychic assault from the God of War. Acting through a Taken Knight whose sword anchored the Black Terrace to the physical world, Xivu Arath peeled Sloane's power armor from her flesh and bones, trying to get Síocháin to appear so that she could destroy the Ghost and sever Sloane's connection to the Light. At the last moment, however, she was rescued by a massive serpentine creature, the same one that had been telepathically communicating with her since she had fallen into the ocean.<ref name="WeirWalkerSuit"/> | |||
Sloane | Sloane let the creature lead her to safety, and learned that her name was [[Ahsa]]. With her condition, Sloane was able to partially communicate with Ahsa but was able to identify her as an old enemy of [[The Witness]], the true enemy of the Traveler and cause of the Collapse, and she and important intelligence to share regarding The Witness.<ref name="ScubaShell">'''Bungie (2023/05/23)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Deep]] - [[Lore]]: [[Síocháin's Scuba Shell]]''</ref> | ||
===Distress Signal=== | |||
{{Quote|You don't understand. That distress call wasn't for me. It was for her.|Sloane}} | |||
[[File:Destiny2seasonofthedeepaquanaut.jpg|thumb|right|340px|Sloane introducing Ahsa.]] | [[File:Destiny2seasonofthedeepaquanaut.jpg|thumb|right|340px|Sloane introducing Ahsa.]] | ||
Realizing she didn't have the means or the manpower to strengthen her connection to Ahsa, Sloane rigs together a distress signal aimed towards the Vanguard on Earth to get the aid she and Ahsa need. The Vanguard Coalition managed to receive her signal following the Guardians combating the Cabal [[Shadow Legion]] on [[Neptune]] and Earth. Zavala, exhilarated at the thought of his friend possibly still alive, assembles a team involving himself, the Guardian, Saint-14 and Lord Saladin to find her. After arriving and combating Hive and Taken serving Xivu Arath, the Guardian and Zavala found her one kilometer down in the methane seas. The Drifter was also present after hearing of Titan's return and provided aid in helping the Guardian reach Sloane's position. The group are shocked to see her condition but more so on first meeting Ahsa. Sloane brought them all up to speed that Ahsa could provide invaluable information regarding The Witness which convinced Zavala to approve of the operation, with Drifter providing his Gambit tech that can utilize the egregore coral to strengthen her physic connection to Ahsa, thereby allowing her to interpret her messages. | Realizing she didn't have the means or the manpower to strengthen her connection to Ahsa, Sloane rigs together a distress signal aimed towards the Vanguard on Earth to get the aid she and Ahsa need. The Vanguard Coalition managed to receive her signal following the Guardians combating the Cabal [[Shadow Legion]] on [[Neptune]] and Earth. Zavala, exhilarated at the thought of his friend possibly still alive, assembles a team involving himself, the Guardian, Saint-14 and Lord Saladin to find her. After arriving and combating Hive and Taken serving Xivu Arath, the Guardian and Zavala found her one kilometer down in the methane seas. The Drifter was also present after hearing of Titan's return and provided aid in helping the Guardian reach Sloane's position. The group are shocked to see her condition but more so on first meeting Ahsa. Sloane brought them all up to speed that Ahsa could provide invaluable information regarding The Witness which convinced Zavala to approve of the operation, with Drifter providing his Gambit tech that can utilize the egregore coral to strengthen her physic connection to Ahsa, thereby allowing her to interpret her messages. | ||