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The ship could be described as umbrella-shaped, consisting of a long spine with an engine on one end and a large shield on the other that doubled as storage space. It carried many smaller ships near the shield.<ref name="BI"/> Because several previous colony ships had vanished mysteriously while exiting the Solar System, the ''Yang Liwei'' was built ''"armed to the molars"'' against possible extrasolar hostiles.<ref name="CI">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_I|Cosmogyre I]]''</ref>
The ship could be described as umbrella-shaped, consisting of a long spine with an engine on one end and a large shield on the other that doubled as storage space. It carried many smaller ships near the shield.<ref name="BI"/> Because several previous colony ships had vanished mysteriously while exiting the Solar System, the ''Yang Liwei'' was built ''"armed to the molars"'' against possible extrasolar hostiles.<ref name="CI">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_I|Cosmogyre I]]''</ref>


It was captained by [[Alis Li|Alice Li]] and had a crew complement of 900. [[Mara Sov]], [[Uldren Sov|Uldwyn Sov]], and their mother [[Osana Sov]] were all part of the crew. In addition to its crew, it carried 40,000 colonists in stasis. An incomplete census of the total number of humans aboard tallied 30,111 women, 10,295 men, and 485 other.<ref name="BI">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Brephos_I|Brephos I]]''</ref><ref name="CIII">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_III|Cosmogyre III]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Ecstasiate_III|Ecstatiate III]]''</ref>
It was captained by [[Alis Li|Alice Li]] and had a crew complement of 900. [[Mara Sov]], [[Uldren Sov|Uldwyn Sov]], and their mother [[Osana Sov]] were all part of the crew. In addition to its crew, it carried 40,000 colonists in suspended animation. An incomplete census of the total number of humans aboard tallied 30,111 women, 10,295 men, and 485 other.<ref name="BI">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Brephos_I|Brephos I]]''</ref><ref name="CIII">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_III|Cosmogyre III]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Ecstasiate_III|Ecstatiate III]]''</ref>


==History==
==History==
===The Collapse===
The [[Collapse]] began before the ''Yang Liwei'' could leave the system. [[Rasputin]] attempted to conscript it and its weaponry in defense of the Solar System, but the ship was intercepted and trapped by a [[Pyramids|Pyramid]]. Intuiting that the entity was targeting the Traveler, Captain Li broadcast a declaration of neutrality in an attempt to buy its indifference. As she did so, the Traveler intervened by sending out a beam of [[Light]] to push back the Darkness, but failed to fully repel it. The immense energy of the interaction between the two paracausal entities resulted in the formation of a kugelblitz, which swallowed the ''Yang Liwei''.<ref name= "CI/><ref name="CIII"/><ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_IV|Cosmogyre IV]]''</ref>
The [[Collapse]] began before the ''Yang Liwei'' could leave the system. [[Rasputin]] attempted to conscript it and its weaponry in defense of the Solar System, but the ship was intercepted and trapped by a [[Pyramids|Pyramid]]. Intuiting that the entity was targeting the Traveler, Captain Li broadcast a declaration of neutrality in an attempt to buy its indifference. As she did so, the Traveler intervened by sending out a beam of [[Light]] to push back the Darkness, but failed to fully repel it. The immense energy of the interaction between the two paracausal entities resulted in the formation of a kugelblitz, which swallowed the ''Yang Liwei''.<ref name= "CI/><ref name="CIII"/><ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_IV|Cosmogyre IV]]''</ref>


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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Liwei Yang Liwei] was the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program, during the Shenzhou 5 mission in 2003.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Liwei Yang Liwei] was the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program, during the Shenzhou 5 mission in 2003.
*The ship's log mentions the amount of people and the numbers per gender, but it does not explain what type of lifeforms the "485 other" were, as only the [[Awoken]] arrived in the [[Distributary]].


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Destiny 2]]:'' ''[[Forsaken]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Destiny 2]]:'' ''[[Forsaken]]'' {{Fm}}
**''[[Season of the Drifter]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Seraph]]'' {{Mo}}


==References==
==References==