Editing Freeborn Otzot

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|notable=Successfully recreated the [[OXA Machine]].<br>Co-conspirator of the [[Midnight Coup (event)|Midnight Coup]].
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{{quote|Is this not Calus's new Empire, an empire of achievement? Can't the Psions grow fat in thought, as you grow fat with power?|Freeborn Otzot appealing to Emperor Calus}}
'''Freeborn Otzot''' is the highest-ranking [[Psion Flayer]], and the lead scientist for the [[Cabal Empire]]. She is a prominent, albeit traitorous, leader to her own [[Psion|people]], and was partially responsible for conspiring the [[Midnight Coup (event)|Midnight Coup]] that overthrown [[Emperor Calus]]. 

She is also a rebel leader of the [[Psion Conclave]], though her entry and motives remain shrouded in mystery.

==Biography==

===Ancient Past===
Centuries before [[Ghaul's coup]], the [[Psion]]s found the [[OXA Machine]], a machine able to perceive the future, but it was destroyed when the Cabal enslaved the Psions. Centuries later, Freeborn Otzot, a particularly brilliant Psion, rebuilt it on [[Brand]]. [[Emperor Calus]] was impressed enough by her ambition and genius to order the machine preserved and Otzot fêted. Appealing to Calus' egalitarian values, she was rewarded by elevation to his court as Imperial Dreamer and given anything she asked.<ref name ="FBOPS"/>

When Calus made public his intentions to free all Psions within the Cabal Empire, Otzot rebelled because it would dilute the prestige of her status as a freeborn. Otzot participated in the coup to oust Calus by using the OXA Machine to communicate with the conspirators, ensuring that the Psions remained subservient to the Cabal.<ref name ="FBOPS">[[Cabal Booklet]] - [[Cabal_Booklet#The_Scientist:_Freeborn_Otzot,_Psion_Savant|The Scientist: Freeborn Otzot, Psion Savant]]</ref>

===Growing Influence===
While the forces of the [[Imperial Cabal]] and the [[Shadow Legion]] were engaged in the [[War against the Witness|conflict between the Witness and the Coalition]], Otzot would take advantage of this to begin spreading her influence among the Cabal of the [[Sol System]].

During the [[Operation Ahamkara|operation]] to stop the [[The Witness|Witness]] and prevent them from completing the Final Shape inside the [[The Pale Heart|Pale Heart]], the Guardian would help [[Micah-10]] to do what they could to heal the Traveler and helping to locate several lost [[Ghost]]s. One of these [[The Oracle|missions]] involved finding and saving Bean, a Ghost that was investigating the ruins of the [[Exodus Black]] on [[Nessus]]. Once they got close to the location, Micah, Cayde and the Guardian would detect a detachment of the [[Red Legion]] despite the fact that their leadership had been dismantled for some years, leading the team to think that a Cabal warlord was acting on their own or worse they were following the Shadow Legion. Overcoming their defenses and advancing deep into the planetoid toward the [[The Insight Terminus|Terminus]], the Guardian would encounter an exact copy of [[Kargen, the Technocrat]], that they had killed in the past. They would pursue and kill him, to prevent the Psion Flayer from tapping into the [[Vex Network]] again, thus discovering that the Cabal cloning technology was capable of even cloning Psions. After recovering Bean's signal, the Ghost would discover that Kargen's clone was once again trying to access Vex data on [[OXA Machine|OXA]], the Psion prediction machine that was able to see the future in branching paths. Micah-10 notes that OXA sounds very similar in function to [[The Device]] created with Vex data and technology used by [[Future War Cult]], and the Ghost becomes hesitant as, based on what data Kargan was looking for, he can't say for sure that the two machines aren't of the same design. Ghost further reveals that Kargan was also trying to access the [[Sol Divisive]]'s research on the [[The Veil|Veil]], but the Ghost doesn't know how they all connect. Even if they could not do that, they could discover that the orders for this Red Legion squad were coming from Otzot, and very recently, leading the team to think that there might be defector branches within the Shadow Legion not loyal to the Witness and that the Psion defectors siding with the Dark Fleet were just creating a deception to cover their own operations. Seemingly trying to find this data to plot potential outcomes so they can plan for Humanity's success, Kargen was stopped and blocked from the Vex Network by [[Maya Sundaresh]].<ref name="oracle">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Oracle]]''</ref>

In addition, during the [[Upheaval on Nessus]], forces of the Shadow Legion that should have been left without any leadership would show interest in Nessus again. Remnants from [[House Dusk]] turned into Pirates would investigate the planetoid following the increased Vex and Coalition activity after the crash of an [[Echo (object)|Echo]]. The Shadow Legion would start to work together with them as mercenaries, allowing the Fallen to use their channels to communicate, modifying their bombs with their own technology and sending their forces and local commanders as support on the field. In addition [[Failsafe]] would detect the Fallen crews operating on Nessus repeatedly entering Shadow Legion territory with no incidents, leading [[Ikora Rey]] to speculate that a new force was driving the Shadow Legion to continue sending scouts to Nessus supported by the Fallen Pirates, offering them the security a House would normally provide but without understanding what in exchange for<ref name="breach">'''Bungie (2024/6/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Echoes]] - [[Breach Executable]]''</ref>.

==Personality and traits==
Freeborn Otzot is a genius among her race, being capable of reconstructing the [[OXA Machine]], which had the ability to prophesize using clairvoyant abilities. Calus describes her as ''"[glowing] with the power of her thoughts."'' However, she demonstrates a tragic level of self-interest, going as far as to prolong the enslavement of her own race to maintain her special status as one of the few free [[Psion]]s as her class's power depends on their role as meditators between Cabal royalty and their subject masses.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/2/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]], [[Lore]]: [[Beloved (lore)|Beloved]] - [[Beloved (lore)#I am exactly that old when I realize that my father, the Emperor Calus, is full of shit.|Entry 10]]''</ref> 

==Trivia==
*Freeborn Otzot is by definition an Uncle Tom, an individual who is inherently aware of their own lower-class status based on race.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Cabal Booklet]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Destiny 2]]:'' ''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Risen]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[The Final Shape]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Beloved (lore)|Beloved]]'' {{Mo}}

==References==
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