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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The Leviathan is a gigantic spaceship, | The Leviathan is a gigantic spaceship, which is used by the Loyalists to eat planets and process them into a thick, purple "royal wine". When a desired object is targeted, Cabal soldiers are sent to gather data on its geology to find out how to grind it up. The resulting rubble would be refined and mixed with "royal nectar" to produce the royal wine for Calus' consumption. A large palace where Emperor Calus and his servants reside stands on the head of the ship, and two small artificial suns hover in place above the highest tower. | ||
The Leviathan is formidably armed, carrying laser weapons, missile bombardments and fusion missiles powerful enough to destroy [[Cabal warship]]s in a single direct hit. These weapons use an unusual, immersive targeting system that may involve psionics | The Leviathan is formidably armed, carrying laser weapons, missile bombardments and fusion missiles powerful enough to destroy [[Cabal warship]]s in a single direct hit. These weapons use an unusual, immersive targeting system that may involve psionics, there is even an energy that courses through the ship that can be utilized by certain items obtained. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Construction=== | ===Construction=== | ||
The Leviathan was constructed at some point prior to or during Calus' reign as Emperor. According to Calus himself, the ship was modeled after "a mythical beast from the dreams of worms", Which was thought to be the [[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]] of [[Fundament]]. The design of the ship was also based off of a "landwhale" native to the cabal homeworld. Its original function, whether a prison barge, warship or pleasure craft, is unclear. | |||
The Leviathan was constructed | |||
===Calus's Exile=== | ===Calus's Exile=== | ||
{{Quote|This Leviathan. This prison ship. I will remake it, as I have been remade. No longer will it represent a mythical beast from the dreams of worms. It will serve as an icon for my newfound gluttony.|Emperor [[Calus]]}} | {{Quote|This Leviathan. This prison ship. I will remake it, as I have been remade. No longer will it represent a mythical beast from the dreams of worms. It will serve as an icon for my newfound gluttony.|Emperor [[Calus]]}} | ||
On the night of the [[Ghaul's coup|coup]] that deposed him, Emperor Calus was arrested and quietly ushered aboard the Leviathan, where [[Dominus Ghaul]] and his co-conspirators intended him to remain in exile in perpetuity. The Leviathan's navigation system was locked onto a course that would take it far from the Cabal Empire's domain. | On the night of the [[Ghaul's coup|coup]] that deposed him, Emperor Calus was arrested and quietly ushered aboard the Leviathan, where [[Dominus Ghaul]] and his co-conspirators intended him to remain in exile in perpetuity. The Leviathan's navigation system was locked onto a course that would take it far from the Cabal Empire's domain. After many centuries, the system failed and the ship progressed no further; it had come upon a great expanse of nothingness, and could not plot a course through a place that did not exist. It was here that Calus claimed to have encountered something that overawed him, potentially the [[Darkness]] itself, and resolved to become its herald. With the navigation system unlocked, Calus charted a course back to Cabal territory, collecting [[Shadows]] from various alien races along the way to enact his revenge against his usurpers. | ||
After many centuries, the | |||
===Post Red War=== | ===Post Red War=== | ||
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===Forsaken=== | ===Forsaken=== | ||
The [[Reef]] armada regularly | The [[Reef]] armada regularly performs fleet maneuvers near the Leviathan to intimidate Calus that any action he takes can be met with equivalent force. Though target locks are established, no fire is exchanged on either side. | ||
===A Shadow Gone Mad=== | ===A Shadow Gone Mad=== | ||
Wanting a Shadow to command the Hive, Calus | Wanting a Shadow to command the Hive, Calus breeds [[Gahlran]] to wear a Hive artifact known as the [[Crown of Sorrow]]. However, Gahlran is driven mad by the Crown's power, as it was a trap laid by [[Savathûn, the Witch-Queen]]. Under the control of Savathûn, Gahlran summons a massive Hive infestation, killing many Loyalists, and taking control of the depths of the Leviathan's Menagerie. Now wanting his former Shadow put down, Calus calls upon the Guardian and their allies once more, offering more riches and rewards upon their success. | ||
Calus later | After a grueling struggle against the mad Shadow and the Hive's magic, the Guardians succeeded in killing Gahlran and retrieving the crown. With the artifact back in Calus' possession, he orders his Psions to continue studying the runes found underneath it to find a way to prevent anyone else who would wear it from falling to its madness, and to also leave its ability to control the Hive intact. | ||
Calus later honors the Guardians with a Tribute Hall established aboard his ship, and offers them to become his Shadows of Earth. | |||
===Beyond Light=== | ===Beyond Light=== | ||
Sometime after the arrival of the [[Pyramids]] in the Sol System, the Leviathan mysteriously vanished from the orbit of Nessus. [[Osiris]] | Sometime after the arrival of the [[Pyramids]] in the Sol System, the Leviathan mysteriously vanished from the orbit of Nessus. [[Osiris]] looked into its disappearance, but found nothing hinting as to why the Leviathan left or where it was headed. Logs found aboard the ''[[Glykon Volatus]]'' suggested that the Leviathan was simply hidden at some location in the System while Calus performed his experiments. In reality, after returning from the Glykon, Calus drove his Leviathan into the anomaly of [[Mercury]], as the [[The Witness|Voice]] suggested through the Crown of Sorrow. Though he feared it would be torn like the Glykon, the Leviathan resisted, and though it came out mutated, it was still well capable of space travel.<ref>[[Duality (dungeon)|Repressed Memory 9]]</ref> | ||
In reality, after returning from the Glykon, Calus | |||
===Season of the Haunted=== | ===Season of the Haunted=== | ||
{{quote|The Leviathan is growing, changing, transforming. You are witnessing the death of one state of being... and the beginning of another.|[[Emperor Calus]]}} | {{quote|The Leviathan is growing, changing, transforming. You are witnessing the death of one state of being... and the beginning of another.|[[Emperor Calus]]}} | ||
[[File:Season of the Haunted Leviathan infested.jpg|thumb|290px|The Leviathan infested with Egregore.]] | [[File:Season of the Haunted Leviathan infested.jpg|thumb|right|290px|The Leviathan infested with Egregore.]] | ||
Two years after its disappearance, the Leviathan returned to the [[Sol System]] in orbit of [[Luna]], having become derelict, dilapidated and heavily overgrown with [[Darkness]]-enhanced [[Egregore|flora]] similar to the ''[[Glykon Volatus]]''; the latter where Calus sacrificed countless [[Scorn]] to feed the extradimensional fungi. Calus had also forged a psychic connection from his ship to the [[Pyramid (Luna)|Lunar Pyramid]] beneath the Moon, turning the Leviathan into an extension of the dormant structure's influence and rousing the [[Nightmares]] to haunt his derelict vessel. Undead hordes of [[Scorn]] that Calus previously experimented upon would also infest the Leviathan and ally with the Loyalist Cabal. The Leviathan also changed in some yet unknown ways, as some hull parts can be found inside the ship, and Calus seems to say that now it is somehow alive. This was confirmed later by Calus when he admitted the Leviathan was once his prison, but he was now one body with the ship, able to feel the beings within the ship "wriggling through my innards". | Two years after its disappearance, the Leviathan returned to the [[Sol System]] in orbit of [[Luna]], having become derelict, dilapidated and heavily overgrown with [[Darkness]]-enhanced [[Egregore|flora]] similar to the ''[[Glykon Volatus]]''; the latter where Calus sacrificed countless [[Scorn]] to feed the extradimensional fungi. Calus had also forged a psychic connection from his ship to the [[Pyramid (Luna)|Lunar Pyramid]] beneath the Moon, turning the Leviathan into an extension of the dormant structure's influence and rousing the [[Nightmares]] to haunt his derelict vessel. Undead hordes of [[Scorn]] that Calus previously experimented upon would also infest the Leviathan and ally with the Loyalist Cabal. The Leviathan also changed in some yet unknown ways, as some hull parts can be found inside the ship, and Calus seems to say that now it is somehow alive. This was confirmed later by Calus when he admitted the Leviathan was once his prison, but he was now one body with the ship, able to feel the beings within the ship "wriggling through my innards". | ||
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**[[Emperor's Respite]] {{C|[[Crucible]] map}} | **[[Emperor's Respite]] {{C|[[Crucible]] map}} | ||
*[[Tribute Hall]] {{c|Landing zone}} | *[[Tribute Hall]] {{c|Landing zone}} | ||
**[[ | **[[The Descent]] | ||
**[[Ever Downward]] | **[[Ever Downward]] | ||
***[[The Depths]] | ***[[The Depths]] | ||
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;[[Arena]] | ;[[Arena]] | ||
*[[The Menagerie]] | *[[Menagerie|The Menagerie]] | ||
;Miscellaneous | ;Miscellaneous | ||
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*[[Nightmare Containment]] | *[[Nightmare Containment]] | ||
;[[ | ;[[Mission]]s | ||
*[[Operation: Midas]] | *[[Operation: Midas]] | ||
*[[Sever]] | *[[Sever]] | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*The name of this ship is a reference to the mythical creature in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan the Bible], a sea creature of enormous size. | *The name of this ship is a reference to the mythical creature in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan the Bible], a sea creature of enormous size. | ||
*One idea for the Leviathan's origin, according to artist [https://www.artstation.com/dorje Dorje Bellbrook], was that the ship was inspired by creatures native to Calus' homeworld resembling large " | *One idea for the Leviathan's origin, according to artist [https://www.artstation.com/dorje Dorje Bellbrook], was that the ship was inspired by creatures native to Calus' homeworld resembling large "land whales" that would travel along the ground and swallow anything caught in their path.<ref>'''ArtStation''': ''[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/D6Q1O Destiny 2: Cabal City-Eating Landwhale]'' (''"I thought it would be cool if Emperor Calus was inspired to make the Leviathan from a creature native to his home planet, a huge land whale that would slide across the plains and devour anything in its path."'')</ref> It is unknown whether this is canon information or not, though similar-looking creatures feature prominently in Calus's heraldry and architecture. | ||
*The Leviathan is the first Raid location featuring multiple, separate Raid activities. | *The Leviathan is the first Raid location featuring multiple, separate Raid activities. | ||
*The Leviathan is probably not as large as it seems as the planetoid that it is swallowing, Nessus, is only about 50km in diameter. Since the Leviathan is only a little bit larger than Nessus, it's assumed the Leviathan is meant to eat moons and planetoids, instead of entire planets. Although, Nessus may have been altered as it is more spherical and has a horizon when on the surface. However it should also be noted that considering the mouth is consistently shown to be twice as large as Nessus at a bare minimum, the Leviathan would have to be at least one hundred kilometers in size. When seen again orbiting Luna, the Leviathan is nearly overlapped by the Earth's Moon, which is 3,475 km in diameter, further showcasing that the Leviathan isn't as large as initially believed. | *The Leviathan is probably not as large as it seems as the planetoid that it is swallowing, Nessus, is only about 50km in diameter. Since the Leviathan is only a little bit larger than Nessus, it's assumed the Leviathan is meant to eat moons and planetoids, instead of entire planets. Although, Nessus may have been altered as it is more spherical and has a horizon when on the surface. However it should also be noted that considering the mouth is consistently shown to be twice as large as Nessus at a bare minimum, the Leviathan would have to be at least one hundred kilometers in size. When seen again orbiting Luna, the Leviathan is nearly overlapped by the Earth's Moon, which is 3,475 km in diameter, further showcasing that the Leviathan isn't as large as initially believed. | ||
*The Dungeon [[ | *The new Dungeon [[Duality]] starts in The Tribute Hall. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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**''[[Curse of Osiris]]'' | **''[[Curse of Osiris]]'' | ||
**''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]'' | **''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]'' | ||
**''[[ | **''[[Joker's Wild]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[Season of Opulence]]'' | **''[[Season of Opulence]]'' | ||
**''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[Beyond Light]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Beyond Light]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[Season of the Haunted]]'' | **''[[Season of the Haunted]]'' | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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{{Cabal}} | {{Cabal}} | ||
[[Category:Vehicles]] | [[Category:Vehicles]] | ||
[[Category:Locations]] | [[Category:Locations]] | ||
