Editing Dark Age

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{{Quote|No one knew what had happened to the Traveler. No one understood what had happened to the world. But they heard the whispered call.|[[Grimoire:Places/The_City#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Dark_Age|Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age]]}}
The [[Dark Age]] is the period that followed the [[Collapse]] when the [[Golden Age]] ended.<ref name = "GrimoireTheCity"/> According to [[Lakshmi-2]], "a thousand kings" rose and fell during this age.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lakshmi-2]]: [[Lakshmi-2#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref> It is followed by the [[City Age]].<ref name = "GrimoireTheCity">'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places#The_City_Age|The City Age]]</ref> Looking through various sources on the beginning of the [[Dark Age]]—which directly succeeded the Golden Age—as well as comments made by [[Ghost]] throughout most of the [[Story|campaign]] missions, it can be assumed that the Dark Age and those that followed lasted for at least four centuries.<ref>'''Planet Destiny''', ''[http://planetdestiny.com/rise-of-iron-story/ Rise of Iron Story]''</ref>

==Overview==
{{Quote|The Golden Age burned bright - and the night that overtook us after the Collapse was swift and total.|Grimoire Description.}}
The Dark Age was a time of vast suffering and terrible evil. Many survivors formed colonies in the wilderness in a desperate attempt to survive. Colonies tended not to last long from either alien hordes or infighting. Humanity was on the fringe of extinction.<ref name="GF:DarkAge"/>

But out of it, the [[Awoken]] emerged, and the [[Exo]] appeared from the ruins with their memories broken. Furthermore, the [[Ghost]]s had begun looking for their [[Guardian]]s, and rumours circulated of the haven beneath the [[Traveler]] that would one day become [[the Last City]].<ref name="DarkAge">'''Bungie (2014//6/12)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/The_City#The_Dark_Age|The Dark Age]]''</ref> 

However, some of the earliest Guardians chose not to protect the world, but subjugate it. Taking over various parts of the planet, Guardians became warlords and injustice reigned. Eventually, Guardians with integrity chose to stand up to their warlord brethren as the [[Iron Lords]].<ref name = "What’s Going On In Destiny’s Story – 2016 Edition">'''Gameinformer, [http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2016/08/24/what-s-going-on-in-destiny-s-story-2016-edition.aspx?PostPageIndex=3 What’s Going On In Destiny’s Story – 2016 Edition]'''</ref> Eventually, more and more noble Guardians joined the cause until an an army hundreds strong was formed and the oppressive warlords were deposed.<ref name = "What’s Going On In Destiny’s Story – 2016 Edition">'''Gameinformer, [http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2016/08/24/what-s-going-on-in-destiny-s-story-2016-edition.aspx?PostPageIndex=3 What’s Going On In Destiny’s Story – 2016 Edition]'''</ref>

Elsewhere in the Solar System the Cabal established a beachhead on [[Phobos]] for initiating the invasion of Mars. During the invasion the Cabal encountered the native Vex programing the [[Virgo Prohibition]], and began a massive war of attrition following their nearly uncontested conquest of [[Mars]]. The Vex fought to protect the entrance to their "birthplace", the [[Black Garden]], from the ever expanding Cabal [[Exclusion Zone]], but apparently failed to halt the Cabal advance. This war was fought with little outside interference, the City busy with her own problems.<ref name="Virgo"/><ref name="Shield"/>

==Events==
===The Collapse===
*The Warmind [[Rasputin]] detects the sudden arrival and rapid approach of an unidentified entity outside the Solar System. Recognizing the entity as a threat, Rasputin assumes control of humanity's [[Planetary Defense Network]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref>

*A pilot designated SABER GREEN piloting the ship Secure ISIS communicates with ICE MINARET. Civilian launches are not scrubbed, threatening fleeing civilians, to preserve secrecy. They are carrying an antimatter payload of one annihilation-pumped caedometric weapon codenamed RIGOR, and two other unknown devices codenamed SKYSHOCK and APEX. ICE MINARET remarks that they both know where the order came from.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Earth#Ghost_Fragment:_Old_Russia|Ghost Fragment: Old Russia]]''</ref>

*Rasputin attempts to defeat the Darkness using all available weapons, but to no avail. In a last ditch attempt to stop the impending doom, Rasputin enacts ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE, and prepares to fire upon the Traveler with his most powerful weapons, thereby coercing it into a "pseudoaltrusitic" defensive action, should it attempt to leave.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_5|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5]]''</ref> The Traveler, for reasons unknown, chooses to stay and fight.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Traveler#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Traveler_2|Ghost Fragment: The Traveler 2]]''</ref>

*As all countermeasures fail to affect the entity and defeat becomes a certainty, Rasputin decides to enact YUGA SUNDOWN, and shuts down to protect itself, leaving billions of people to perish.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_3|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Mysteries|Ghost Fragment: Mysteries]]''</ref>

*On Mercury, Venus, and Mars, dormant Vex units reacting to the Collapse reactivate and begin terraforming several worlds. While Mercury is turned into a machine in days<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRpcIHpmoY '''Youtube''': ''Official Destiny E3 Trailer -- New Beginnings'']</ref><ref name="Gate Lord's Eye"/> the Vex spread is temporarily stalled by the Traveler.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]''</ref><ref name="Gate Lord's Eye">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Eye of a Gate Lord]]''</ref>

*A massive spacecraft bearing a [[sigil]] of Golden Age Earth on its prow crashes on an unidentified battle-scarred world where over two dozen Exo soldiers fight a titanic battle with the Vex.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends_%26_Mysteries#Mystery:_Vault_of_Glass_2|Mystery: Vault of Glass 3]]''</ref>

*'''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,<ref name="ign 11272012">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/28/destiny-story-details-concept-art-leaked '''IGN''': ''Bungie's Destiny Story Details, Concept Art Leaked'']</ref> which sacrifices itself to stop the Darkness.<ref>'''Game Informer January 2014''', ''page 52''</ref> With its last breath, the Traveler creates the [[Ghost]]s, to seek out those who can wield its [[Light]] as a weapon.<ref name = "GrimoireGhosts">'''Bungie (2014/6/12)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Ghost#Ghosts|Ghosts]]''</ref>

*At some point during the Collapse, some humans seeking refuge from the Darkness flee into deep space.<ref name = "AwokenGrimoire">'''Bungie (2014/6/12)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Races#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref>

*[[First Fleet]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/anguish-of-drystan?highlight=First+Fleet Anguish of Drystan]''</ref> or quite possibly what comes to be known as the [[Cassini]]<ref>[http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/17/bungies-destiny-revealed '''Multiplayer Blog''' ''Bungie's Destiny Revealed'']</ref>, is lost around the orbit of Saturn.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [http://db.destinytracker.com/items/1649128456-spirit-of-saturn Spirit of Saturn]''</ref>

*The Cabal, encountering no meaningful resistance from human defenses, establish a beachhead on [[Phobos]] for initiating the invasion of Mars.<ref name="Shield">'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Crucible_Arenas#Black_Shield|Black Shield]]''</ref> On the planet however, the Cabal become engaged in a massive campaign of attrition with a native Vex programming called the [[Virgo Prohibition]], who desperately attempts to protect the entrance to the [[Black Garden]] from an ever-expanding [[Exclusion Zone]]. This war will continue throughout the Dark Age and well into the City Age with little outside interference.<ref name="Virgo">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]''</ref>

===Dark Age===
*In the aftermath of the Collapse comes the [[Dark Age]]. It is a time of vast suffering and terrible evil.<ref name ="DarkAge"/>

*The Fallen arrive in the Solar System in their Ketches to loot and pillage humanity's former worlds and colonies.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends_&_Mysteries#Rezyl_Azzir_-_Before_These_Walls|Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls]]''</ref>

*The [[House of Devils]] destroy [[London]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lakshmi-2]]: [[Lakshmi-2#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref>

*Those humans who fled into space during the Collapse become the [[Awoken]]. Many take up residence in the [[Reef]].<ref name="Awoken">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Races#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref>

*Many survivors of the Collapse gather within secret enclaves in desperate attempts to survive.<ref name="GF:DarkAge">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/The_City#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Dark_Age|Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age]]''</ref> Some Awoken return to Earth and the Exo emerge but their memories have been irreparably damaged.<ref name="DarkAge"/> Ghosts travel among the refugee columns, seeking the first [[Guardian]]s.<ref name="DarkAge"/>

*Before the first Guardians appear, [[Takanome's Rangers|rangers]] led by the legendary [[Ayane Takanome]] protect humanity's survivors.<ref>[http://db.planetdestiny.com/items/view/653809107 '''Planet Destiny''' - ''Takanome Ranger 1.0 chest'']</ref><ref>[http://db.planetdestiny.com/items/view/2900708617 '''Planet Destiny''' - ''Ayane Takanome's Cloak'']</ref> They disappear after the Guardians become commonplace.<ref>''[http://db.planetdestiny.com/items/view/2702267949 Planet Destiny - Takanome Ranger 1.0 gauntlets]''</ref><ref>[http://db.planetdestiny.com/items/view/3871542676 '''Planet Destiny''' - ''Takanome Ranger 1.0 helmet'']</ref>

*The first humans to be resurrected by the Traveler become ruthless [[Warlord]]s, bringing about chaos and anarchy. Having had enough at last, [[Radegast]] brings [[Saladin Forge]], [[Perun]], and [[Jolder]] together to end the Warlords, and forms the [[Iron Lords]].<ref>'''Bungie (2016/9/20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Iron_Lords#Lord_Radegast|Lord Radegast]]''</ref>

*The Iron Lords confront the [[Warlord]] [[Segoth]] as he travels to a secluded village. After a bloody battle, the Iron Lords emerge victorious and Segoth is gunned down by [[Perun]] as he attempts to escape.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/9/20)''', ''Destiny: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Iron_Lords#Lady_Perun|Lady Perun]]</ref>

*As the Iron Lords gain renown, Exo Warlord [[Felwinter]] changes sides, out of a desire for peace and security, and gives his [[Felwinter Peak|mountain]] to the Iron Lords, who rename it the as the [[Iron Temple]].<ref name="Felwinter">'''Bungie (2016/9/20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Iron_Lords#Lord_Felwinter|Lord Felwinter]]''</ref>

*Rumors circulate of [[The Last City|a haven]] beneath the dormant [[Traveler]].<ref name = "DarkAge"/>

* Felwinter meets with the Warlord [[Citan]] to broker peace. Citan refuses, and the Exo puts him down. As his Ghost revives him once more, Felwinter uses his [[Shotgun]], [[Felwinter's Lie]] to terminate them both.<ref name="Felwinter"/>

*The Iron Lords challenge the Warlord Rience.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/9/20)''', ''Destiny: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Iron_Lords#Lady_Jolder|Lady Jolder]]''</ref>

*[[Timur]] and Felwinter traverse the Arabian Shores in search of the Seraphim Vault. While en-route, they are attacked by a group of Fallen before discovering an old Clovis Bray facility in the secluded wastes.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/9/20)''', ''Destiny: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Iron_Lords#Lord_Timur|Lord Timur]]''</ref> 

*The first [[Titan]]s pledge to defend the refugees gathering to the Traveler, forming the [[Pilgrim Guard]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/14)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [[Mark of the Pilgrim Guard]]''</ref>

*Reports are made of a [[Centurion|Cabal commander]], [[Bracus Tho'ourg]], who secured the [[Buried City]] on Mars with merely a fraction of the planet’s Cabal forces. The first Guardians who faced him died at some point between here and the City Age.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Cabal_Command#Bracus_Tho.27ourg|Bracus Tho'ourg]]''</ref>

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