Timeline

Template:Timeline Destinypedia: Timeline is a Destinypedia page which lays out the timeline of the Destiny franchise. This page is simply a reference for general events. For detailed information, please refer to the timeline template provided on the right.

Timeline

The Golden Age

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• The present day - The Traveler is discovered on Mars. It imparts its vast knowledge to humanity and colonization of the Solar system begins.

• The first Exo are built to aid and protect humans.

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• 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, sacrificing itself to stop the Darkness. In its last breath, the Traveler creates the Ghosts, to seek out those who can wield its light as a weapon.
  • At some point during the Collapse, humans seeking refuge from the Darkness flee into deep space.

The Dark Age

• In the aftermath of the Collapse comes the Dark Age. It is a time of vast suffering and terrible evil.

The Dark Age was a time of vast suffering and terrible evil. But out of it, the Awoken emerged, and the Exo appeared from the ruins with their memories broken.

• Those who fled into space during the Collapse return as the Awoken.

• The Exo reappear, their memories broken.

• Rumors circulate of a haven beneath the Traveler.

The City Age

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• The City is founded - Survivors of the Collapse, human, Awoken, and Exo, travel from far and wide to the site of the inactive Traveler, and begin building a City beneath its protective aura.
• The Battle of Twilight Gap - Sometime after the City has been established, the Forces of the City fight a fierce battle outside its walls in the valley of Twilight Gap against an onslaught of the armies of the Darkness.

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• The events of Destiny - A Ghost revives a long-dead Guardian outside the Cosmodrome in Old Russia. The Speaker tasks this Guardian with finding the means to restore the Traveler before the Darkness returns and destroys the City once and for all.