Editing Clipse

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==History==

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>

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"/>

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 further poisoning the planet 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]], Calus discovered the Clipse again. He invited them 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 Calus' 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 the commando [[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>

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>