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|  ||      ||    || The Warmind Rasputin detects the sudden arrival and rapid approach of an unidentified entity outside the Solar System<ref name="Darkness">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref> with the aid of technology abandoned by the Future War Cult.<ref name="Vex 5"/> Recognizing the entity as a threat, Rasputin assumes control of humanity's [[Planetary Defense Network]].<ref name="Darkness"/>

|  ||      ||    || The Traveler makes its "final exodus" from Io, leaving the moon's terraforming incomplete and fleeing to Earth as the Collapse begins.<ref name="GFC6"/>

|  ||      ||    || Rasputin attempts to defeat the Darkness using all available weapons, but to no avail. In a last ditch attempt to stop the impending doom, Rasputin enacts ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE, and prepares to fire upon the Traveler with his most powerful weapons, thereby coercing it into a "pseudoaltrusitic" defensive action, should it attempt to leave.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_5|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5]]''</ref> The Traveler, for reasons unknown, chooses to stay and fight.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Traveler#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Traveler|Ghost Fragment: The Traveler]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Traveler#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Traveler_2|Ghost Fragment: The Traveler 2]]''</ref>

|  ||      ||    || As all countermeasures fail to affect the entity and defeat becomes a certainty, Rasputin decides to enact YUGA SUNDOWN, and shuts down to protect itself, leaving billions of people to perish.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_3|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Mysteries|Ghost Fragment: Mysteries]]''</ref>

|  ||      ||    || [[First Fleet]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/anguish-of-drystan?highlight=First+Fleet Anguish of Drystan]''</ref> or quite possibly what comes to be known as the [[Cassini]]<ref>[http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/17/bungies-destiny-revealed '''Multiplayer Blog''' ''Bungie's Destiny Revealed'']</ref>, is lost around the orbit of Saturn.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [http://db.destinytracker.com/items/1649128456-spirit-of-saturn Spirit of Saturn]''</ref>

|  ||      ||    || On Mercury, Venus, and Mars, dormant Vex units reacting to the Collapse reactivate and begin terraforming several worlds. While Mercury is turned into a machine in days<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRpcIHpmoY '''Youtube''': ''Official Destiny E3 Trailer -- New Beginnings'']</ref><ref name="Gate Lord's Eye"/> the Vex spread is temporarily stalled by the Traveler.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]''</ref><ref name="Gate Lord's Eye">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Eye of a Gate Lord]]''</ref>

|  ||      ||    ||A massive spacecraft bearing a [[sigil]] of Golden Age Earth on its prow crashes on an unidentified battle-scarred world where over two dozen Exo soldiers fight a titanic battle with the Vex.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends_%26_Mysteries#Mystery:_Vault_of_Glass_2|Mystery: Vault of Glass 3]]''</ref>

|  ||      || '''The Collapse''' || The Darkness, the ancient enemy of the Traveler, arrives in the Solar System, precipitating the Collapse and the abrupt end of the Golden Age. [[Earth]]'s defenders are steadily beaten back until humanity is threatened with extinction. Humanity is saved only through the intervention of the Traveler,<ref name="ign 11272012">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/28/destiny-story-details-concept-art-leaked '''IGN''': ''Bungie's Destiny Story Details, Concept Art Leaked'']</ref> which sacrifices itself to stop the Darkness.<ref>'''Game Informer January 2014''', ''page 52''</ref> With its last breath, the Traveler creates the [[Ghost]]s, to seek out those who can wield its [[Light]] as a weapon.<ref name = "GrimoireGhosts">'''Bungie (2014/6/12)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Ghost#Ghosts|Ghosts]]''</ref>

|  ||      || '''The fall of a shard of the Traveler''' || A shard of the Traveler lands in the [[European Dead Zone]] during its battle with the Darkness.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjxUFCSmaO0&feature=youtu.be&t=3m41s '''YouTube''' - ''Destiny 2 - 5 Things You Didn’t See On The Livestream'']</ref>

|  ||      ||    || At some point during the Collapse, some humans seeking refuge from the Darkness flee into deep space, <ref name = "AwokenGrimoire">'''Bungie (2014/6/12)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Races#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref> and become the [[Awoken]]. Many take up residence in the Reef.<ref name="AwokenGrimoire"/> The Awoken also claim Mars at this time.<ref>[http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/long-tomorrow-9g '''Ishtar Collective''' - ''Long Tormorrow-9G'']</ref>