Editing Fundament

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|name = Fundament
|star, position= 
|moon(s)= Fifty-two {{C|formerly}} <br> The [[Traveler]] {{C|formerly}} <br> [[Hive#Origins|Krill]] homeworld<ref name="Curiosity"/> {{C|formerly}}
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|gravity= 
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|atmosphere= {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hydrogen Hydrogen]}} (H<sub>1</sub>) <br> {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Helium Helium]}} (He<sub>2</sub>) <br/> {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Neon Neon]}} (Ne<sub>10</sub>)
|temperature= 
|demonym= 
|species=*[[Ammonite]] {{C|formerly}}
*Needleship-builders {{c|formerly}}
*[[Hive#Origins|Krill]] {{C|formerly}}
*The [[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]] {{C|formerly}}
*The Starcutters
*[[Worm]] {{C|formerly}}
*Stormjoys  {{C|non-sapient}} 
*Thousands of non-sapient species 
*Five hundred and fourteen intelligent species
|population= Trillions 
|government= Monarchy {{C|Krill}}
}}
{{Quote|That's what Fundament must be. A titanic gas planet. The endless storm above us must be one layer of the atmosphere. And the sea we float on... there's more down beneath it. So much more!|[[Aurash]]<ref name="Curiosity"/>}}
'''Fundament''' is a hycean planet<ref name="Curiosity">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Calcified_Fragments:_Curiosity|Calcified Fragments: Curiosity]]''</ref> in an unknown star system that gave rise to the [[Hive]] billions of years ago.<ref name="Curiosity"/>

==History==
{{Quote|Dearest sisters ''[....]'' We aren't native to the Fundament. Our ancient ancestors came here to hide.|Aurash<ref name="Curiosity"/>}}
Long ago, the rocky planet that was the homeworld of the [[Hive#Origins|Krill]] collided into Fundament and shattered. The shards of the planet came to float upon a vast sea, the Fundament Ocean, within one of Fundament's layers, and became "continents" upon which the Krill eked out a meager existence;<ref name="Curiosity"/> five hundred and eleven other intelligent species also inhabited Fundament's sea through presumably similar circumstances.<ref name="Conquerors">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XI:_Conquerors|XI: Conquerors]]''</ref> In Fundament's orbit lay fifty-two moons inhabited by the spacefaring [[Ammonite]] civilization,<ref name="One">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIV:_52_and_One|XIV: 52 and One]]''</ref> which benefited from an alliance with the [[Traveler]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XVI:_The_Sword_Logic|XIV: The Sword Logic]]''</ref> Deep beneath the Fundament Ocean dwelled a creature called the [[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]], a disciple of the Traveler.<ref name="Dive">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#VII:_The_Dive|VII: The Dive]]''</ref> Deeper still, the [[Worm]]s, direct servants of the [[Darkness]], who were imprisoned for millions of years.<ref name="Bargain">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IX:_The_Bargain|IX: The Bargain]]''</ref>

Life was quick and harsh for the Krill. Their natural lifespan rarely exceeded ten Fundament-years, though Krill who ate "mother jelly" became able to spawn and live longer. In terms of environmental hazards, Fundament was hostile to the point of being almost uninhabitable. The Fundament ocean was toxic, freak lightning storms constantly ravaged the skies, the rain was poisonous and sometimes corrosive, lightning had enough energy to vaporize anyone it struck, "living clouds" called Stormjoys would prey on the populace, and the Krill were frequently in conflict.<ref name="Predators">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#I:_Predators|I: Predators]]''</ref>

One kingdom of the Fundament Ocean was the [[Osmium Court]], ruled by the [[Osmium King]]. When the King went mad out of fear of the "Syzygy", a catastrophic and artificially-induced alignment of Fundament's moons that would create a devastating global tidal wave, [[Taox]], the teacher of the King's three daughters, invited the rival [[Helium Drinkers]] of the [[Helium Court]] to invade and install her on the Osmium Throne. The Helium Drinkers did so,<ref name="Hate">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#II:_The_Hateful_Verse|II: The Hateful Verse]]''</ref> but failed to kill the King's three daughters: [[Oryx|Aurash]], [[Savathûn|Sathona]], and [[Xivu Arath|Xi Ro]]. The sisters escaped on a ship, swearing an oath to avenge their father by overthrowing the Helium Drinkers and hunting down Taox.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#III:_The_Oath|III: The Oath]]''</ref>

Eventually the sisters salvaged and reactivated "the needle", a derelict, high-tech ship designed to explore Fundament's deepest depths.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#V:_Needle_and_Worm|V: Needle and Worm]]''</ref> Deep below the sea, the sisters encountered the Leviathan,<ref name="Dive"/> who warned them away,<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#VIII:_Leviathan|VIII: Leviathan]]''</ref> but they continued on and encountered the Worms and made a pact with them to gain immortality and power, taking on the Worms' parasitic larvae and spreading them among the other Krill;<ref name="Bargain"/><ref name="Immortals">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#X:_Immortals|X: Immortals]]''</ref> thus the first true Hive were created, and Xi Ro became Xivu Arath,<ref name="Deep">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XII:_Out_of_the_Deep|XII: Out of the Deep]]''</ref> Sathona became Savathûn,<ref name="Conquerors"/> and Aurash became Auryx.<ref name="Immortals"/>

In a few short years the Hive conquered a swathe of Fundament's surface, reclaiming the Osmium Court and harrying Taox off-world.<ref name="Deep"/> After building their first starships, the Hive followed Taox and encountered the Ammonite civilization that lived among the moons, as well as the Traveler.<ref name="One"/> The Ammonite were far more advanced than anything on Fundament's surface and were initially able to repulse the Hive advance, especially as Auryx held the Hive back in the hope of achieving a peaceful resolution to the conflict.<ref name="Prey">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XV:_Born_As_Prey|XV: Born As Prey]]''</ref> Decrying Auryx's weakness, Savathûn killed her sister. The Worms then vested Auryx and her sisters with the power to defy death so long as they continued their conquest and fed their worms.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XVII:_The_Weakness_Verse|XVII: The Weakness Verse]]''</ref> Auryx returned to life and together her and his sisters defeated the Ammonite, killed the Leviathan as it tried to reach safety on the Ammonite home moon, and forced the Traveler to flee.<ref name="Crusaders">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIX:_Crusaders|XIX: Crusaders]]''</ref>

The three leaders of the Hive transformed Fundament's fifty-two moons into mobile colonies for the Hive<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIII:_Into_the_Sky|XIII: Into the Sky]]''</ref> and set out to conquer the universe in the name of the Darkness and find Taox, who still eluded them.<ref name="Crusaders"/> Fundament's fate afterwards is unknown, though the Syzygy had already taken place before the Hive had begun to war against the Ammonite.<ref name="Deep"/> It is likely the global tidal wave had wiped out what remained of Fundament's surface civilizations, or the majority of those who survived the Hive.<ref name="Deep"/> The ultimate cause of the Syzygy was clarified in The Witch Queen. The Worms had told the Krill sister trio that the alignment of the moons was caused by the Traveler to prevent the surface civilizations from contacting the Worms,<ref name="Conquerors"/><ref name="Prey"/> while the Leviathan claimed that the Worms were behind the event in its final plea to the Hive.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XVIII:_Leviathan_Rises|XVIII: Leviathan Rises]]''</ref>. However, the truth is revealed through the memories associated with the original worm larva that guided Savathûn and her father. The Witness itself used the Syzygy as an impetus to cause the Krill sister trio to turn towards the Darkness, as The Witness suspected they would soon become associated with The Traveler and the Light.

==Locations==
===Fundament's surface===
*Bone Plaza—a Krill nation
*[[Helium Court]]—a Krill nation, land of the [[Helium King]] and the [[Helium Drinkers]]
*Hydrogen Fountain—a Krill nation
*Kaharn Atoll—a gathering place for Fundament's many species
*[[Osmium Court]]—a Krill nation, home of the [[Osmium King]], the teacher [[Taox]], and the royal heirs [[Xi Ro]], [[Sathona]], and [[Aurash]]
*Shvubi Maelstrom
*Star-surgery—a Krill nation, land of the Starcutters
*Tungsten Monoliths—detailed information about Fundament

===Fundament's orbit===
*Fundament's fifty-two moons
**Large ice moon—capital of the [[Ammonite]] civilization
**Dry moon

==Trivia==
*During The Witch Queen campaign, it is revealed that the deceased worm larva that the Osmium King and Savathûn spoke with, as well as the Worm Gods themselves, lied to the Hive about the Syzygy and the God-Wave as part of a ploy by the Witness and Rhulk to keep the Krill from being chosen by the Traveler.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Destiny]]:'' ''[[The Taken King]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Cabal Booklet]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Destiny 2]]:'' ''[[The Witch Queen]]'' {{1st}} {{c|Flashbacks}}

==References==
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