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The '''Clipse''' are a warlike member species of [[Emperor Calus]]'s [[Loyalists|Loyalist forces]].
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The '''Clipse''' are a warlike member species of [[Emperor Calus]]'s [[Loyalists|Loyalist]] forces.


==History==
==History==
The Clipse were once a more peaceful technological race. However, following their centennial anniversary of global peace, an unknown alien threat unleashed a gamma-ray burst that wiped out their technology, killed everything on their planet's western hemisphere, poisoned the atmosphere, and burned a "signal" into the asteroids and comets of their solar system. The resulting collapse of civilization was complete.
The Clipse were once a more peaceful technological race who had arisen on the moon of [[Kaga-Clipse]]. However, following their centennial anniversary of global peace, an unknown alien threat (most likely the [[Hive]]) unleashed a gamma-ray burst that wiped out their technology, killed everything on their planet's western hemisphere, poisoned the atmosphere, and burned a "signal" into the asteroids and comets of their solar system. The resulting collapse of civilization was complete.


As the Clipse rediscovered subsistence agriculture, the marked asteroids began to rain ceaselessly down on the planet, "seeding" it with hostile alien life. To combat this new enemy, the Clipse were forced to militarize in turn. As such, thousands of years after the collapse, the Clipse had become an extreme martial culture that worshipped guns and ''"knew only war"'', with the planet an eternal battleground between them and the invasive alien ecosystem.<ref name = "Mask of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Armor of Rull#Mask of Rull|Mask of Rull]]''</ref><ref name="Boots">'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]], [[Armor of Feltroc#Boots of Feltroc|Boots of Feltroc]]''</ref> Their moon, [[Kaga-Clipse]], became their military capital, bristling with interceptors and defenses.<ref name = "VI">'''Bungie (2019/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Opulence]], [[Lore:Confessions|Confessions]]: [[Lore:Confessions#Entry VI|Entry VI]]''</ref>
As the Clipse rediscovered subsistence agriculture, the marked asteroids began to rain ceaselessly down on the planet, "seeding" it with hostile alien life. In order to combat this new enemy, the Clipse were forced to militarize in turn. As such, thousands of years after the collapse, the Clipse had become an extreme martial culture that worshiped guns and ''"knew only war"'', with the planet an eternal battleground between them and the alien horde.<ref name = "Mask of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Mask_of_Rull|Mask of Rull]]''</ref><ref name = "Imperial Shadow's Cloak">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Imperial Shadow's Cloak]]''</ref>


Under the reign of [[Emperor Calus]], the Clipse were absorbed into the [[Cabal]] empire. They grew to be one of Calus's favorite member species. Believing their condition of eternal war to be an unalterable fact, Calus provided aid in the form of high culture and luxuries in an attempt to enrich their brutal society. The Clipse did not appreciate his gifts.<ref name = "VI"/>
It was during this time that [[Emperor Calus]] as Emperor, had discovered and set out to conquer the Clipse. Victorious against the Clipse, Calus now began delivering aid to them, giving them everything they needed to win their endless war.<ref name = "Gauntlets of Rull"/> However, he could not repair their atmosphere.<ref name = "Shadow's Mark">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Shadow's Mark]]''</ref> However the war went on, this did not sit well the the alien race as they did not need culture and luxury, but actual means to win the war.


After [[Dominus Ghaul]]'s [[Midnight Coup (event)|coup]], he attempted to earn the Clipse's loyalty by sending military aid to their embattled planet. His efforts only succeeded in poisoning it and its people, its hostile ecosystem proving too resilient to destroy without also destroying the planet. After a century of failure, Ghaul decided he was wasting his resources and abandoned the Clipse and their world.<ref name = 'VI'/>
In exile aboard his [[Leviathan]], Caus discovered them again. He invited the Clipse to join his Loyalists. When they refused, Calus turned to conquest. The Clipse planetary defenses and moon-based interceptors proved no match for his gigantic starship, and his legions invaded the planet itself, led by a [[Shadows|Shadow]], [[Valus]] [[Valus Nohr|Nohr]].<ref name = "Mask of Rull"/><ref name = "Chassis of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Chassis_of_Rull|Chassis of Rull]]''</ref> The battle to take the Clipse capital lasted for weeks, but Nohr ultimately destroyed their forces.<ref name = "Greaves of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Greaves_of_Rull|Greaves of Rull]]''</ref>


In exile aboard his [[Leviathan]], Calus discovered them again. He invited the Clipse to join his Loyalists, and they attempted to shoot him down with missiles, believing they would get back in Ghaul's good graces by defeating the former Emperor. Rebuked, Calus turned to conquest. Kaga-Clipse's guns and interceptors proved no match for his gigantic starship, and he landed 6,000 troops on Kaga-Clipse itself, led by a [[Shadows|Shadow]], [[Valus]] [[Valus Nohr|Nohr]].<ref name = "Mask of Rull"/><ref name = "Chassis of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Armor of Rull#Chassis of Rull|Chassis of Rull]]''</ref> The campaign to capture the Clipse moon lasted for eight weeks. Towards the end, the Clipse had trapped Nohr in her own bastion, only for her to break out and destroy their forces on her famous "thunder run," calling down missile strikes from the Leviathan against vital command posts. <ref name = "Greaves of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Armor of Rull#Greaves of Rull|Greaves of Rull]]''</ref><ref name = 'VI'/>
Desperate, the Clipse gathered their greatest warriors and launched a boarding action against the Leviathan. Only [[Rull]] survived to reach Calus's throne room, bloody and exhausted, where the Emperor casually offered him refreshment and alliance. Bemused, Rull accepted.<ref name = "Gauntlets of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Armor_of_Rull#Gauntlets_of_Rull|Gauntlets of Rull]]''</ref>


Desperate, the Clipse gathered their greatest warriors and launched a commando boarding action against the Leviathan. Only [[Rull]] survived to reach Calus's throne room, bloody and exhausted, where the Emperor casually offered him refreshment and alliance. Bemused, Rull accepted.<ref name = "Gauntlets of Rull">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Armor of Rull#Gauntlets of Rull|Gauntlets of Rull]]''</ref>
However, despite their victory over the Clipse, instead of attempting to retake the planet, only a select few boarded the Leviathan, the only means of victory were the bombardment of the planet, exterminating all life on it. <ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/entry-vi?highlight=clipse Entry VI]</ref>


His victory secured, Calus rewarded the Clipse surrender, first by bringing thousands into arcologies aboard the Leviathan to live the rest of their lives in his trademark opulence, and second by winning their perpetual war: incinerating their planet and all life on it, including all the other Clipse, with Kaga-Clipse's own guns. Calus felt this annihilation was kinder than forcing them to continue living among struggle and suffering.<ref name = 'VI'/>
==Notable Members==
 
*[[Rull]]
What became of the survivors after Calus flew the Leviathan into the Mercury anomaly is unknown.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/5/24)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Haunted]] - [[Duality (dungeon)|Duality]]: [[Duality (dungeon)#Ninth repressed memory|Ninth Repressed Memory]]''</ref>
 
After [[Empress Caiatl]] took power, she issued an edict for the arrest of Calus, naming his genocide of the Clipse alongside other high crimes he had committed.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]], [[The Hidden Dossier#.28.28042.29.29|Hidden Dossier]]''</ref>


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Cabal Booklet]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Cabal Booklet]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Destiny 2]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Destiny 2]]'' (Mentioned)
**''[[Season of Opulence]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[The Hidden Dossier]]'' {{Mo}}


==References==
==References==
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