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*''Two days after the Last City's fall'' - [[The Guardian]] awakens, having survived the fall from [[The Immortal]]. Badly wounded, the Guardian makes their way through the now-abandoned  Last City and finds their Ghost. Learning that the Red Legion are hunting and executing Lightless Guardians and that the Vanguard has ordered the evacuation of Earth, the Guardian leaves the City behind and ventures into the wilderness.

*Heeding a strange vision, the Guardian ventures into corrupted area surrounding a massive Shard of the Traveler that broke off during the [[Collapse]]. Defeating a starving band of Fallen scavengers from a [[House of Dusk|previously unseen faction]], the Guardian's Ghost reconnects to the Light through a fragment of the Shard. Once more empowered, the Guardian defeats the Fallen band and their leader, [[Skriviks, the Sharp-Eyed]].

*After assisting [[Devrim Kay]] and Hawthorne in setting up a comms signal network that will help more refugees find the Farm, the Guardian learns that Commander [[Zavala]] has relocated to [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] with another group of survivors and is planning a counterattack against the Red Legion. Upon arriving at the [[New Pacific Arcology]], Zavala and Deputy Commander [[Sloane]] inform the Guardian that their plans have been thrown into disarray by an unforeseen [[Hive]] infestation. The Guardian helps them secure the facility's command center and restore its power. They then intercept an encrypted high-priority Red Legion signal which they hope will provide them some insight in how to combat the Cabal. The Guardian enters the arcology to retrieve a Golden Age CPU to crack the signal. Unfortunately, the signal reveals that the Red Legion has brought in [[The Almighty]], a superweapon designed to shatter suns and destroy systems. In light of this overwhelming threat, Zavala asks the Guardian to locate the missing members of his fireteam: [[Cayde-6]] and [[Ikora Rey]].

*The Guardian travels to [[Nessus]], the source of a strangely-amplified signal believed to be from Cayde-6. In the [[Arcadian Valley]], the Guardian encounters a Golden Age AI, [[Failsafe]], the sole survivor of the ''[[Exodus Black]]'' expedition launched 500 years ago. Failsafe confirms that "the Cayde unit" is on the planetoid, but is trapped in a [[Vex]] teleporter network; Failsafe broadcasted the distress signal in the hopes that someone else would arrive to rescue Cayde. After tracking Cayde, the Guardian frees him from the network by stealing the original teleporter pad Cayde used, then defeats a band of Fallen before they breach Failsafe's core. Cayde reveals he wanted the teleporter to board Ghaul's ship and assassinate him, an act that would almost certainly have been a suicide mission, but is brightened up when told that Zavala needs him back. Cayde directs the Guardian to [[Io]] to find Ikora Rey.

*The Guardian finds Ikora at [[Echo Mesa]] on Io, where she had gone to reflect on her inability to predict the Red Legion's invasion and the Guardians' loss of their powers. Without warning, a massive gout of the Traveler's energy erupts from Io's surface, a reaction provoked by Red Legion activity. Ikora sends the Guardian to investigate. The Red Legion base is found almost empty, the Cabal having accomplished their goal and now evacuating Io, but the Guardian discovers an unwelcome surprise: [[Taken]]. [[Asher Mir]], a Warlock researching the Vex on Io, informs the Guardian that the Taken are draining the Traveler energy still stored within Io. The Guardian stops the dark ritual, but when Asher Mir learns that Zavala's plan to save the Solar System is to blow up The Almighty, he insists that he can prove the Commander is wrong to do so. The Guardian infiltrates a long-empty [[Warmind]] vault, defeating more Taken along the way, and connects Asher to its systems to crunch data. Asher's fears are confirmed: The Almighty is linked directly to the Sun, and will take the Sun with it if it is destroyed without severing that link. Meanwhile, the Speaker persuades Ghaul to earn the Traveler's favor in order to gain its power, despite The Consul's protests that their experiment on Io has given the Cabal the tools needed to seize the Light.

*In order to reach The Almighty, The Guardian is charged with stealing a Cabal ship from the base in the EDZ. The Guardian uses a [[Drake Tank]] to disable the [[Cabal carrier]] commanded by [[Thumos, the Unbroken]], kills Thumos for his authorization codes, and then absconds with his personal shuttle. At The Almighty, the Guardian breaks through the vessel's security and overloads its core, breaking the link with the Sun and rendering the superweapon permanently inert. While the Guardian returns to Earth, The Consul informs Ghaul of the disaster that had befallen their mightiest weapon and berates him for his hesitance. Ghaul realizes the truth to The Consul's words, but strangles him to death for his insubordination.

*The Guardian arrives in the Last City after the counterattack is underway. Fighting through the streets and across the rooftops, the Guardian rendezvouses with the Vanguard and uses the teleporter to board Ghaul's ship and confront the Dominus. Ghaul reveals he has already siphoned the Traveler's Light and gained the powers of a Guardian. Although the battle is fierce and Ghaul gathers more and more Light to strengthen himself, the Guardian prevails. Unexpectedly, Light bursts from Ghaul's corpse and takes his form, revealing Ghaul has become Light incarnate. As Ghaul proclaims himself to be a god, however, Light begins to shine through the Traveler's cage. Miraculously, the Traveler finally reawakens, emitting a powerful wave of Light that shatters the cage and obliterates Ghaul. The other Guardians regain their Light and the Red Legion is forced to flee from the City, defeated for the first time in their history.

*The Traveler's Light wave spreads across the Solar System and beyond. In intergalactic space, the wave washes over a [[Unknown extragalactic race|mysterious fleet of ships]] that activates and begins moving in the direction of the wave's source.

*Reconstruction begins in the liberated Last City. The Vanguard establishes a [[Tower (Destiny 2)|new headquarters]] while the old Tower is rebuilt, and plans are drawn up to replace the City districts lost during the Red Legion's attack and subsequent occupation. Although the Red War continues, with the Traveler awake there is hope for victory.