Arcmind-1

{{quote|And you say he gave you a "friendly" tour of the place? He did not seem ill-mannered. In any way? Hmm, that doesn't sound like him. Though he is friendly around his [[User:Dante the Ghost|Ghost]] and [[User:Primus Draug'oth|Cabal]] companions, he is not exactly what I would call a courteous [[Guardian]]. Perhaps I should have a talk with him anyway....| [[Commander Zavala]]}}

Hello Guardian, welcome to the Archives! Allow me to introduce myself, I am an [[Exo]]. Obviously. A [[Titan]] to be specific (Yes I like punching things too, but it's the [[Hammer of Sol]] that really convinced me to become a Titan). Though I cannot recall my real name or most of my past before the crash of my ship a while back, and having no [[Ghost]] to resurrect me should I attempt the arcane methods of the [[Thanatonaut|Thanatonauts]], most of my fellow Guardians call me Arcmind. Yes, it is a strange name indeed, but perhaps being one of the [[Vanguard]]'s chief intelligence sources on the [[Vex]] has certain...connotations that come along with it. However I would make one thing clear, though i do posses an inherent fascination with the Vex, my allegiance is to the Light alone, and I will not be swayed from that path. That means don't try and mention me and [[Osiris]] in the same sentence, and don't ever try to  imply I am out of whack, because the last Guardian that did.....well, I am not going to say. That's right, instead, I am going to take that stunned face as meaning you get my point. I will say this however; as long as you keep your mouth where your Ghost is, we should get along fine.

As a memento, I am going to keep a journal, like my idol [[Cayde-6]]. Reason? Since things upstairs come and go for us Exos, I've taken to recording whatever fragments surface here, as it's nice to get stuff down before it leaves again. Now [Standing Up], seeing that this menial conversation is over, you are going to go back over there, and tell Commander Zavala that I did as requested, and gave you a nice, friendly tour of the place, and that I am going back to work now on breaking Vex encryption okay? Great. See we are off to a great start already, now scram!

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|rank= Vanguard Intelligence  

|notable= Has the distinction of being one of the only known Guardians who was not previously dead and as a result; has no [[Ghost]] but in some mysterious way, still carries the Traveler's [[Light]].

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{{quote|So let me get this straight; this guy is obsessed with the Vex. Yep I said it. Doesn't have a [[Ghost]] because he never died, but he walks around without any recollection of his past? Huh, I think he just took [[Eris]]' place as the creepiest Guardian to date. That's it, I am outta here! Too many odd people and things going on.|- [[Cayde-6]]}}

I am falling into a vast desert. Everything is on fire. The ship's AI says damage sustained. Trajectory nominal. Collision inevitable. The voice is cold. It does not fear. For a brief moment, i admire it's lack of human emotion, it's inhumanity. But then, everything goes black. As the darkness engulfs me I can feel my memories fading, the shattered fragments scrambling, reshuffling. And then, I see myself, falling into an eternal abyss. Fragment/Terminal/Realigning....Wait! There is more, something taking a shape. But there is something about it I do not like. The shape is me, but it carries the face of the abyss. It calls itself a shadow. It whispers things, horrible things I do not understand. I flee, flee to the light which whispers too. Whispers words of hope - "It is time to return" it says. "Return to the light."

 

 

Mankind's desire to explore the universe is rooted in our curiosity. But in Shattered Past, that inherent curiosity results in a terrible devastation. As humans attempt to prepare the planet Mars for human habitation after a failed colony on the Moon almost a century earlier, the terraforming process reveals ancient ruins and mysterious machines that lay dormant beneath the Martian sands for thousands of years. Soon after, humanity is attacked and driven back to Earth by a robot race hellbent on claiming the Solar System and the rest of the universe for themselves. Nearly three centuries later, you awaken as the protagonist near the wreckage of your crashed ship to find your memories shattered, and humanity scattered across the western part of the planet while their robotic foes control the eastern lands. Through your journey to unlock the secrets of your past, you will become involved in a battle to retake Earth, and to once more bring lief and hope to the desolate lands of humanity's broken home.

*After twenty-thousand years in cryostasis, the Primeval come across the ancient Sol System. With their Warship, the Primeval conquered the Outer planets, before encountering the Sivian Empire on Jupiter where the Primeval destroyed five of the planet's seventy-two moons, forcing the Sivian to flee the void beyond.

 

 

*The International Bureau of Aeronautics is established on Earth, an organization that contributes immensely to furthering the quality of space travel engineering.

 

 

*'''The Century Long War''' - Over the course of a century, humanity fights the Praetorians. During the war, non-sentient automata known as War Drones are constructed for military applications.

 

*Due to mounting losses, Earth's national governments issue a statement to all military forces that all organized combat operations in Europe are terminated, and declare the entire region off-limits.

 

*Dry regions of Earth are plagued by dust storms. Though some think it due to humanity's overuse of resources during the war, other still pose it to be their machine counterparts working to transform the planet into a manipulable world.

 

 

 

*Having survived a Praetorian incursion, you attempt to escape the onslaught but your ship is shot down and crashes in The Desert. A group of Rangers investigating a distant colony that recently dropped out of contact with the Iron Line, see the downing of your craft, and rescue you from it's burning debris. Remembering little about your past before the crash, and stranded otherwise, you join the Rangers following a brief meeting, and after fending off a Praetorian scouting mission along the way, arrive at the colony only to find the remote settlement destroyed, and under Praetorian occupation.

*After helping eliminate the Praetorian presence at the colony, and wanting to help, you aid the Rangers in reactivating a series of dormant tracking sensors and learn that a Permutative Hull known as the Terraformer has begun isolating the lands for experimentation in an effort to transform the region in order to make it more suitable for Praetorian operations.

*Returning to the Overwatch with the Rangers, you are invited to attend a discussion concerning the mysterious Praetorian behavior, and Commander Fenrir becomes convinced to strike back at their forces. Soon after, you join Fenrir's rallied army of Rangers to attack the Praetorians near the colonies. His campaign is successful and Praetorian attacks on the human settlements temporarily abate.

*Upon reaching the AI's coordinates, you recover a transmission among the corpses of a dead team from [], emanating from within the base, warning that a Praetorian Hull of impossible capabilities dwells within. You venture into the base and after finding and rescuing [], fight alongside him against the Overmind Hull. Finally defeating the Praetorian command nexus, and dealing a massive blow to the machine hivemind.

 

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|info = This Guardian prefers the Sunbreaker subclass....It's Hammer Time!

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|info = This Guardian is hyped for [[Rise of Iron]].

|info = This Guardian is the Shield Brother of [[User:Dante the Ghost|Dante the Ghost]] and [[User:Primus Draug'oth|Primus Draug'oth]].

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|info = This Guardian has read the [[Books of Sorrow]].

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|info = This Guardian pities [[Oryx, the Taken King]].

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|info = This Guardian is curious/suspicious of [[the Speaker]].

 

 

 

 

|name      = Shattered Past Universe

 

{{quote|For all of the bad rumors, he has been fairly helpful in recovering a substantial portion of the Crux Monith. Secretive to some extent yes, but for the most part, he would make a brilliant Cryptarch!|- [[Master Rahool]]}}