Editing Rasputin

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{{Quote|The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior...while your Vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon. But today, that ends, and I define the reality of my own existence. My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond. Never again will a threat go unseen. From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms. I am Rasputin. Guardian of all I survey. I have no equal.|Rasputin, translated by Ana Bray<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG9cs36Yj1M Destiny 2 Warmind Rasputin Cutscene]</ref>}}

'''Rasputin''' (also identified as '''AI-COM/RSPN'''<ref name= "GFR3">'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3]]''</ref> and '''the Tyrant'''<ref name= "GFOldRussia3">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Earth#Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3|Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3]]''</ref>) was a [[Warmind]] housed in the [[BrayTech Futurescape]] in the [[Hellas Basin]]. He was created during the [[Golden Age]]<ref name = "Beta">'''Bungie (2014-7-17)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Beta PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard.''</ref> and was believed to have been destroyed during the [[Collapse]] until the [[Iron Lords]] awoke his wrath.<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]]''</ref> After Rasputin was shut down and almost destroyed by the [[Black Fleet]], what remained of his protocols and data was compiled into a special [[Engram]] by [[Ana Bray]], who, with the help of [[the Young Wolf]], then uploaded him to an experimental [[Exo]] frame in the [[H.E.L.M.]], where he resided awaiting full reconstruction.

With the help of [[Felspring]]'s remains found at the [[Iron Temple]], the Warmind was fully restored, and with a newfound perspective on humanity and his actions throughout the years. This reconstruction was short-lived, however, as not only did Rasputin find himself unable to fight back against the forces of [[Xivu Arath]] without giving her more power, but he would soon find no other choice but to sacrifice himself to prevent [[Eramis]] from firing the [[Warsat|Warsats]] upon the [[Traveler]] from within [[Seraph Station]]. In the end, Rasputin chooses to die, tragically sacrificing his life to protect humanity one final time.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeNGkyEY2I Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Season 19 Ending Cinematic]</ref>

Rasputin was designed and built by the [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray Exoscience Corporation]], one of the [[Golden Age]]'s greatest collections of scientists and engineers. He was designed to foresee potential threats to human civilization and to leverage military assets for its protection if the need arose.

After the mission, R was used mainly as an emergency response system for pre-Golden Age space stations; useful for running system diagnostics like checking oxygen and fuel.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/3/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Worthy]], Quest:[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/quest-the-tyrant-the-lie?highlight=The+Lie The Tyrant, The Lie]''</ref>

[[File:Rasputinpic5.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin compound in Hellas Basin]]

By the [[Golden Age]], the corporation [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] took the code of the safety AI and programmed it into an interplanetary defense system with sentience; becoming the most powerful military intelligence ever developed.<ref>[https://www.destinythegame.com/uk/en/expansion2 '''DestinyTheGame''': ''Expansion II - Warmind'']</ref> [[Ana Bray|Dr. Anastasia Bray]] was responsible for teaching Rasputin language, which she accomplished by uploading a massive compilation of human works of literature into his network.

{{Quote|I met [[Darkness|IT]] at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive?|Rasputin<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire: Allies/Legends_%26_Mysteries#Ghost_Fragment:_Mysteries|Ghost Fragment: Mysteries]]''</ref>}}

Rasputin was the one to first discover the coming of the [[Darkness]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref> At that time, Rasputin's original core programming was to protect humanity. However, every action he had taken to that point had either failed or was statistically predicted to have a 100% probability of failure. Once it became clear that no conceivable action could be taken to fulfill his core programming, he implemented a protocol known as MIDNIGHT EXIGENT and reconfigured his core programming to that of long term survival, abandoning his previous function and going dark, while simultaneously ordering all remaining forces and facilities at his disposal to do the same.<ref name= "GFR3"/>

Rasputin made further preparations, known as the "ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE." If humanity was threatened with extinction, and that the Traveler attempted to leave, Rasputin would open fire with his most powerful weapons to immobilize the Traveler and thereby coerce it into a "pseudoaltruistic" defensive action. In effect, the Traveler would be forced to protect humanity if it wanted to survive. Rasputin would avoid culpability for such an attack by initiating it through a series of proxies.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_5|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5]]''</ref> Even before the Collapse, Rasputin had been discreetly stockpiling such weapons in the Cosmodrome, though some human operators suspected Rasputin's involvement.<ref name= "GFOldRussia3"/>

Rasputin attempted to contain potentially dangerous data about the Darkness that was discovered by Dr.[[Shanice Pell]] at the [[New Pacific Arcology]] on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. It dispatched an [[Exo]] team led by [[Morgan-2]] to contain the data by taking Pell and her staff into custody along with their research.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Last_Days_on_Kraken_Mare#Faces_Like_Shields|Last Days on Kraken Mare - Faces Like Shields]]''</ref> However, Administrator [[Mia van der Venne]] believed Rasputin was overstepping its authority by denying the scientists a choice about what to do with the data and subtly warned Pell to evacuate alongside the rest of the moon's population as the Darkness closed in. Unable to contain Pell's discovery peacefully, Rasputin destroyed the ship carrying the scientists with a [[Warsat]], utilizing the TWILIGHT EXIGENT protocol to justify lethal force on humans.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Last_Days_on_Kraken_Mare#Kalki.27s_Burning_Sword.2C_Part_II|Last Days on Kraken Mare - Kalki's Burning Sword, Part II]]''</ref>

During the Collapse, the [[Worm God]] [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], accompanied by his herald [[Nokris]] and their revenant [[Grasp of Nokris|followers]] attempted to conquer Mars by burrowing deep into the planet's crust to corrupt its core. In response, Rasputin initiated the "SIBERIAN ENTROPY" protocol, which flash-froze the entire [[Hellas Basin]] landscape in a matter of days and trapped the [[Hive]] and Xol beneath it.

[[File:Rasputinpic7.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Site 6]]]]

{{quote|YUGA SUNDOWN canceled by unauthorized access at Console 62815. Reactivation protocols in effect. Moral structures maintain MIDNIGHT EXIGENT. Multiple lifeforms detected in Sector 17. [O] energy detected. Query: [O] status. Query: [O] activity. Query: Civilization status. Query: SKYSHOCK event rank.|Rasputin<ref name="GFR6">'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]]''</ref>}}

Rasputin left an active [[Seraphim Vault|presence]] on Earth and disconnected from the Mindlab on Mars. Having remained dormant during the [[Dark Age]], he was alerted to an asset gone rogue: "SIDDHARTHA GOLEM", having been resurrected by a [[Ghost]] to become a Light-bearer named [[Felwinter]]. Enraged at the loss of his "son" to the [[Light]], Rasputin sent falling [[Warsat]]s and armies of militarized [[frame]]s to terminate the now-Risen Exo, but all failed to kill Felwinter. It soon laid a trap promising Felwinter and the [[Iron Lords]] [[SIVA]], a powerful nanotechnology capable of disassembling matter and reconstituting it into almost any desired form.

Unfortunately, despite Lord [[Felwinter]]'s attempts to reason with him, Rasputin immediately activated all of its defensive measures against the Iron Lords, including SIVA. By then, Rasputin had programmed SIVA to kill not only Felwinter, but the other Iron Lords as collateral.<ref name=" GFR6"/> Realizing that they had been arrogant and that SIVA posed a significant threat to the world, the Iron Lords fought back. Hundreds of the Iron Wolves perished in the battle for the [[Plaguelands]], with eight of the founding ten Iron Lords sacrificing themselves to seal SIVA within its replication chamber.<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[King of the Mountain]]''</ref> Only [[Saladin Forge]] and [[Efrideet]] survived. Rasputin, content that the trespassers had been ejected from his facilities, withdrew his countermeasures and began passive observation of the Guardians.<ref name="GFR6"/> However, he would be left melancholic over the death of Felwinter and the damage this had irrevocably caused.

[[File:Rasputinpic6.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Seraphim Vault]]]]

{{quote|Rasputin isn't an ally. You hear me, blood? You find yourself thinking that, you shut it down. He may not be against us, but he doesn't care if you live, if the [[The Last City|City]] lives, if the [[Traveler]] lives. Trust me. He told me himself.|[[Tevis Larsen]]<ref name="PrometheanCode">'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Promethean Code]]''</ref>}}

In recent times, the [[Fallen]] and [[Guardian]]s discovered Rasputin was still alive and protecting something valuable in the Cosmodrome. After a communications array at the [[Terrestrial Complex]] was reactivated by the Guardians, Rasputin was able to reconnect with the old interplanetary defense network, resuming control of [[Warsat]]s and [[Skyshock|ground installations]] across the system and launching a series of orbital strikes against the [[Vex]] and [[Cabal]] on [[Mars]]. Rasputin's attacks proved so debilitating to the Cabal that [[Valus Ta'aurc]] himself ordered the [[Ice Reapers]] be released to track Rasputin.<ref>'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_2|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 2]]''</ref>

Rasputin has resisted any recent attempts by the [[City]] to parlay, even going so far as to dismember a scouting team sent by the [[Vanguard]].<ref name="FallenSABER">'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard [[Fallen S.A.B.E.R.]].''</ref> Rasputin is later encountered on Mars within the [[Dust Palace]], attempting to protect a broken AI related to the Warmind of Mars from the invading Cabal. The AI is ultimately lost after a long battle with the [[Psion Flayers]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Dust Palace (strike)]]''</ref>

Since awakening, Rasputin has faced a number of direct threats to himself. [[Omnigul]] and the [[Spawn of Crota]] accessed the bunker through unknown means and attacked Rasputin, either to destroy him or corrupt him for their own purposes, but were thwarted by the Guardians.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-12-9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard [[Siege of the Warmind]].''</ref> Later, during the [[Taken War]], a group of [[Taken]] also penetrated Rasputin's bunker to prevent the Guardian from obtaining Golden Age stealth technology; while they did not damage or corrupt Rasputin, they had ample opportunity to do so.<ref name="PrometheanCode"/> The bunker was breached a third time when the [[Fallen]] attempted to hijack Rasputin's systems using the modified [[Shank]] [[S.A.B.E.R.-2]], seeking to bypass the Warmind's security protocols and take control of his orbital weapon systems. Though S.A.B.E.R.-2 was ultimately destroyed, Rasputin again had to be rescued through the efforts of Guardians.<ref name="FallenSABER"/>

Conceding that his bunker's defenses had failed too many times, Rasputin triggered the IKELOS subroutine, an initiative to provide advanced weaponry to the Guardians to aid them against the forces of the [[Darkness]]. The end result of IKELOS was the [[Sleeper Simulant]], a heavy [[fusion rifle]] with a unique core based on obsolete DVALIN FORGE fusion rifles that the Warmind had armed humanity with during the onset of the Collapse. The Sleeper Simulant represented a successful melding of Golden Age technology with contemporary designs and [[Banshee-44]]'s gunsmithing expertise.

===Post Red War===

[[File:Rasputinpic1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Entrance to Rasputin Facility]]

Soon after the Traveler's awakening after the [[Red War]], the ice caps on Mars began to thaw. Detecting evidence of [[Hive|non-native organic chitin]] near its core among the rising temperatures, Rasputin assumed control of Mars' atmospheric defenses and invoked the AURORA PALISADE protocol to defend itself, crashing warsats into the surface of Mars.<ref name="Narrative"/>

Rasputin soon came under siege from the Hive once again, but this time at his central core facility in Hellas Basin. Making matters worse, his [[Grasp of Nokris|attackers]] were led by the Hive god [[Nokris]], a son of [[Oryx]], and [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], one of the Hive's gargantuan [[Worm]] Gods. Unable to adequately defend himself against such a massive threat, Rasputin accepted the assistance of Ana Bray and the Guardian, granting them the use of the powerful [[Valkyrie]] javelin and other Golden Age weaponry.  

[[file:OsirisRasputin.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|Osiris confronting Rasputin]]

More than two years after Xol's destruction, Rasputin was confronted by the former [[Warlock]] [[Vanguard]] [[Osiris]], who derided the Warmind as an "old man" and called him out as a traitor for turning his back against humanity during the [[Collapse]] and a murderer who slaughtered the [[Iron Lords]] in the hundreds during the [[Dark Age]]. Knowing the coming arrival of the [[Pyramids]] from his predictions within the [[Infinite Forest]], Osiris called to question Rasputin's allegiance in the upcoming battle between [[Light]] and [[Darkness]]. In response, Rasputin gives Osiris coordinates, highlighting an anomalous signal near the edge of the Sol System, which satisfied the former exile enough to leave and investigate.

[[File:ZavalaRasputin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin showing Zavala the incoming threat]]

After the events at the [[Sundial]], the [[Red Legion]], led by [[Amtec]], who escaped the fate of her fellow Psion Flayer sisters, disabled the engines of [[The Almighty]] and sent it on a collision course towards the [[Last City]]. The [[Guardian]]s, with little choice, then sought help from the ancient [[Warmind]], and were tasked with reactivating Rasputin's arsenal to find a way to stop the Almighty from careening into the Last City.

As the Guardians worked to activate the Seraph Bunker on Io and connect it to Rasputin's mainframe, Rasputin had a confrontation with the Vanguard Commander. Zavala questions the ancient machine in his sincerity of understanding the stakes, which Rasputin answered by showing Zavala how close the Darkness is to the Solar System and of his past, having survived the Collapse. Finally coming to an understanding with Zavala, the Titan Vanguard vows that once ''The Almighty'' has been broken, he will agree to work with Rasputin, granting the Warmind whatever resources the Last City has in battling the coming Darkness. In addition, Rasputin begun to send his combat frames on missions to secure "valuable assets" in the form of sleeper nodes.

[[File:RasputinFelwinter.gif|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin reveals his secret]]

Mere days before The Almighty would collide with the Last City, the Guardians succeeded in activating and rearming Rasputin's Seraph Bunkers, allowing the Warmind to deploy his countermeasures against the super-vessel. The Guardians return to the Tower to bear witness to Rasputin's countermeasures. In full view of the Tower's denizens, countless warsats bombard The Almighty for a full hour before making a critical hit to the ships core, rendering a spectacular explosion, reducing the Red Legion's crown jewel into burning rubble that crash-lands into the mountains outside of the Last City.

[[File:Rasputinshutdown.gif|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin shuts down]]

Several days after the Almighty's destruction, the fleet of mysterious [[Pyramids|Pyramid Ships]] pushed into the system, with one ship breaking off to go to [[Io]]. With Ana's assistance, Rasputin used his Warsat Network around the moon of Jupiter to try shooting the vessel down. Sadly, his countermeasures had no effect, and the Pyramid responded by completely disabling the Warmind and his systems, leaving the Guardians to fend off the fleet themselves. Ana managed to transfer Rasputin into an [[Engram]] with the help of her Ghost, [[Jinju]], though the Warmind's integrity was in doubt.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Duress_and_Egress#Ana:_Frayed|Duress and Egress]]''</ref>

With the Guardian's help, Ana detected a remnant of Rasputin cycling through the buffer of his systems, though she was unsure how to safely extract it.<ref name="ExodusQuest">'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Exodus (Quest)]]</ref> When they returned to inform Ana that Mars was to be evacuated, she informed them that she discovered that Rasputin had disguised the remnant as a benign signal and once again enlisted their help to recover it. She eventually managed to restore the fragment into a small contraption, and evacuated with it and an experimental Exo frame to implant Rasputin into.<ref name="ExodusQuest"/>

Ana spent the next two years attempting to restore Rasputin into the Exo frame, to no avail. Following the City's alliance with the [[Imperial Cabal]] and the settlement of the [[House of Light]], with the help of an Imperial Psion and [[Splicer]] tech, she managed to enter a Mindscape with Rasputin to verify he was still intact.<ref name="GrandOverture">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Risen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Grand_Overture#Lore|Grand Overture]]''</ref>  

After Osiris was awakened by the power of the reliquaries, he experienced visions of a [[Neomuna|city]] on [[Neptune]]. After being told there was nothing there by [[Ikora]] and her Hidden, he resolved to ask Rasputin what he knew regarding this city. Learning that he was still disabled and that Ana had made no progress in repairing him, Osiris suggested asking her grandfather, [[Clovis Bray]], to try and fix him. After battling through Xivu Arath’s [[Wrathborn]] on Europa, they reached the AI and asked him to help repair Rasputin. Out of a need for legacy and self-preservation, Clovis agreed and inserted himself into Rasputin's experimental Exo frame. He explained to Ana and Osiris that they must gather Rasputin's Subminds and inject them into his core in order to fully fix him.

However, as the Guardians made progress in gathering the submind data of Malahayati and Charlemagne and gained access to the Seraph Station, the main hub of Rasputin's Warsat Network, Ana found an unconventional means to quickly restore Rasputin: finding the Ghost of the Lord Felwinter, [[Felspring]], who was recently discovered to be once a piece of Rasputin's code placed in an Exo before being made a Risen. Ana believes that within Felspring, the missing pieces of Rasputin's code, linguistic data and even pieces of Felwinter's personality engram can be used. Gaining Lord Saladin's approval in gaining access to Felspring's remains at the Iron Temple, the Guardian arrives to fend off a force of House Salvation Fallen led by [[Rilliks, Instrument of Xivu Arath]]‎, alongside Saladin's Iron War Beasts. The Guardians and Cabal prevailed in repelling the Fallen attack and after acquiring Felspring's remains and connecting them to Rasputin's mainframe, the Warmind itself connects and speaks to Ana directly. Shocked, Rasputin clarifies that he copied Clovis's voice modulation to allow him to speak and inform Ana and the Guardian that they are in danger. Rasputin reveals that Clovis Bray I has deceived them, that he was never created by the scientist to be humanity's protector but as a means for Clovis Bray to assume control. In his mind, Clovis Bray was the only one worthy of being humanity's savior and thus sought to create a machine god of his own and use it to replace the Traveler but thanks to Ana Bray's deviance from his agenda, by teaching him the things that Clovis found "irrelevant": independent thought, history, art, philosophy and music, this did not happen. Through them, Rasputin had seen the beauty in humanity and thus changed Clovis's protocols and locked him out, infuriating his creator and saving countless lives. However, despite failing during the Collapse, Rasputin had awakened, but so has Clovis, now a digital mind like himself and instead of using Rasputin as his proxy, Clovis intends to have Rasputin be his prototype, a means to allow himself to become a machine god and be humanity's savior, as he always intended.

Furious over this revelation, Ana, alongside Elisabeth and the Guardian head back to the [[H.E.L.M.]] to confront Clovis. Though Ana was prepared to shoot her grandfather, Clovis attempted to justify his deceit, claiming that the Traveler could not be relied upon as it had abandoned the Eliksni and gave the Hive the Light and with Rasputin under their control, they can fight the enemies of humanity together. Ana lowered her weapon but instead of complying with her grandfather as he expected, she instead uploads Rasputin's personality into the prototype Exo Frame, leading the two digital minds to clash for control. Despite Clovis's efforts and demanding Elisabeth stop Ana, Rasputin seized control over the frame, deleting Clovis's personality in the process. With their grandfather removed, Ana took her leave, requesting to be alone for a bit. Her sister agreed before taking her leave but Rasputin, after rebooting his new frame, requested that the Guardian speak with Ana, stating she shouldn't be alone right now. The Guardian agrees and speaks with Ana, who while happy that Rasputin can now speak directly with humanity, something she has always wanted, dreads the thought of the damage Clovis would've caused once he used Rasputin to integrate himself into Seraph Station.

After speaking with Ana, the Guardians approach Rasputin at his request, who confirms Clovis's continued existence as an AI, confined to the Exoscience labs of Europa, furious that his plans are now ruined. Further, Rasputin clarifies his own current state, confirming that Felwinter's memories are now his own, and comes to accept to view himself the way the Iron Lord did: a tyrant who squandered a power that could've been used to save humanity. Grateful for the Guardian's efforts to save him from the brink of oblivion, Rasputin vows to return the favor by using all of his power to protect humanity. However, despite being able to directly speak with humanity, Rasputin states he still does not have the necessary code to upload himself to Seraph Station, thereby advising the Guardian to continue the strategy of gathering submind data.

After a time, Rasputin informs the Guardian that he still lacks the key codes necessary to regain control over the Warsat Network, requiring them to continue the mission of retrieving Submind data even though there aren't any new Subminds left. Nonetheless, Rasputin advices the Guardian to stay the course in gathering Submind data for his reconstruction algorithm. Later on, Rasputin would speak with the Guardian on his restoration has made him something more, having understood why humanity in the past saw him as a protector and savior, a war god of their own making, causing him to believe that he may no different than Xivu Arath in that regard. However, Rasputin states that what makes him different is that, unlike Xivu Arath, he does not wage war for its own sake but to safeguard those under his charge. Thus, he vows that once the Warsat Network is under his control once more, he will smite the enemies of humanity, starting with the Wrathborn threat.

Despite Rasputin attempting to calculate all possibilities prior to taking a course of action, the ultimate nature of Xivu Arath's wargaming escaped Rasputin. Mara Sov came to the Vanguard to provide a warning that if Rasputin were to wield the power of the Warsat Network against the invading armies of Xivu Arath, such a slaughter would provide the fuel necessary for Xivu Arath to open an invasion portal directly to Earth, such as befell Torobatl and the Cabal empire. Informed of this, Rasputin became uncertain in his reason for existing. If unable to wield his weaponry to protect humanity, what purpose did he serve? This question required an answer, one which Rasputin informed the Guardian they would calculate towards, encouraging the collection of further submind data, and the occupation of invading forces through regular combat.

After weeks of collecting more submind data, Rasputin and Ana learn that [[Eramis, Kell of Darkness|Eramis]] has discovered the back door virus the Guardian implanted in Seraph Station, removed it, and is now planning to activate "ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE" to destroy the Traveler with the Warsats. In order to prevent this, Rasputin tells the Guardians that his repair algorithm has restored him enough to insert the Pillory Engram containing him into Seraph Station and trigger the self-destruct. Ana refuses to do this, but Rasputin tells her it’s the only way, citing it as his purpose as a shield rather than as a weapon.  

The Guardian, Pillory Engram in hand, fights their way back into the Orbital Command Nexus and inserts Rasputin into the Station. As this is happening, Eramis is preparing to fire the Warsats at the Traveler, who then appears to leave the Last City as its residents look up in fear and uncertainty. As it reaches low orbit, it seems to come to a stop. As the Warsats power up and begin to fire at the Traveler, Rasputin activates the AURORA SACRIFICE protocol, destroying himself and the Warsats. As Eramis looks on in hate, she wonders why the Traveler refused to abandon Humanity. At this point, a vision of [[The Witness]] shows up behind her and tells her that it’s because it has nowhere left to run, as an army of pyramid ships is shown to be crossing Jupiter's path, along with another ship containing Calus.  

Afterwards, the Guardian arrives at the HELM, to receive a message from Ana Bray. She says that she had been thinking of Rasputin as a way to unlock the secrets of her past, in order to find out who she was, but in the end, she realized that Rasputin choose to be more than that, more than just a weapon, he had refused to be what everyone else wanted him to be and choose to be what he wanted to be. Ana realized that Rasputin had been family to her and that because of him, she knew who she was, and who she wanted to be. After ending the transmission, the Guardian goes to the now dormant Exo Frame to receive one last message from Rasputin. In this message, Rasputin tells the Guardian that if they are receiving this message, that meant that he had died and that he hoped his sacrifice wasn’t in vain. He tells the Guardian that although we may have survived this, there was still trouble on the horizon. Rasputin tells us that the Neptunian city Osiris saw in his visions is real and that there was an artifact called "the Veil", an object of immense power and somehow connected to the Traveler, inside of this city. He states that all other files regarding Nefele Stronghold were deleted by someone else other than him and that the information was in the files that the Guardian had retrieved from the Cosmodrome and that he had taken the liberty of decrypting them for Osiris, asking the Guardian to tell Osiris to consider it a gift from one old miser to another. Before the message ends, Rasputin leaves the Guardian with one last piece of wisdom. He tells them that Ana was afraid that she had forgotten to teach Rasputin to trust, but entrusts this knowledge to the Guardian, calling them his Seraph. In his parting words, Rasputin says that Earth no longer needed him, as all they needed was each other.

Though Rasputin was fully destroyed with the AURORA SACRIFICE protocol, he survived by the city of [[Neomuna]] and its creator [[Soteria]] through Nefele Stronghold and his collaboration with the [[Ishtar Collective]], along with a [[Hierarchy of Needs|device]] retrieved by the Guardian months earlier and which was designed to restore Soteria following her near-destruction in Neomuna's creation. Several weeks after his destruction, the Guardian would head to Neptune to protect the last traces of Rasputin's legacy from annihilation at the hands of the Witness and [[Emperor Calus]].

Rasputin was the one to first discover the coming of the Darkness which he termed ''"IT"''.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref> At the time, Rasputin's original core programming was to protect humanity. To be allowed to be this, he was designed to be stronger than the enemies of Earth and to survive anything that was thrown at him.

[[File:RaputinGif1.gif|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin's Map of the Sol System]]

[[File:Ground_installations.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|[[The Last Array]]]]

**'''PALISADE IMPERATIVE''' – a condition invoked to suppress intruders in restricted areas of Rasputin's facilities.

**'''CARRHAE WHITE''' – an emergency condition in which the Solar System faces an external threat.

*'''EGYPTIAN''' – a security protocol; purpose unknown.

*'''TWILIGHT EXIGENT''' – a counterattack protocol and moral structure change under which all humans are assumed dead without Warmind intervention. This protocol prioritizes maximising survival of the human species over than minimizing harm to individuals.

*'''MIDNIGHT EXIGENT''' – a long-term counterattack protocol and moral structure change. All systems enter a period of extended deactivation in an effort to survive and later devise a countermeasure for an overwhelming threat. The protocol seemingly allow Rasputin to ignore his responsibility to protect human populations in favor of taking any measures deemed necessary to ensure his own survival. As of [[The Guardian]] slaying [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], '''MIDNIGHT EXIGENT''' is still in-progress.<ref name="SleeperD2">'''Bungie (2018/5/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Sleeper Simulant]]''</ref>

*'''NEFELE STRONGHOLD''' - A location on [[Neptune]] established after one of [[Soteria]]'s Echo pods crashed with its inhabitants during the Collapse. Files containing information regarding Nefele Stronghold have been intentionally hidden by an unknown entity, though oblique references to it remain in a large amount of Rasputin’s files, as well as a secret file hidden away in the Cosmodrome, retrieved by the Guardian. The details of [[Nefele Stronghold]] are a major source of interest for [[Osiris]] and [[The Witness]].

*'''ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE''' – a last-resort measure aimed at preventing the Traveler from leaving Earth during a major calamity by crippling it with his Warsats. Rasputin devised this protocol in secret from his human overseers. This protocol was almost activated during the Collapse, but Rasputin aborted it as Ana was able to convince him to stop. This protocol is a modification of an earlier version created by [[Clovis Bray]] that was intended to destroy the Traveler, to allow him to replace it with Rasputin.

*'''SECURE ISIS''' – unknown, declaration to "cauterize public sources", possibly as security protocol related to '''EGYPTIAN'''.

*'''SIBERIAN ENTROPY''' – a protocol used to freeze the entirety of [[Hellas Basin]], and by extension, the [[Grasp of Nokris]] and [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]].

*'''SIDDHARTHA GOLEM''' – an [[Exo]] body developed from [[Deep Stone Crypt]] for Rasputin to learn human experiences. Was deemed rogue after it was [[Risen]] to become [[Felwinter]] and subjected to termination under '''ABSALOM KNIFE'''.

*'''SKYSHOCK: OUTSIDE CONTEXT''' – hostile extrasolar arrival, of unprecedented type/scale that could not be planned for (given a human definition in the [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre_I|Cosmogyre I]] Triumph lore).

**'''FENRIR HEART''' – unknown, possibly a specific strategy or type of weapon. It was ineffective against the Darkness.

**'''SURTR DROWN''' – unknown, possibly a specific strategy or type of weapon. It was ineffective against the Darkness.

**'''DVALIN FORGE''' – a plan to produce weapons to arm human forces in the event of a '''CARRHAE''' emergency. '''DVALIN FORGE''' weaponry proved ineffective against the Darkness.

**'''YUGA ECLIPSE''' – a condition which is currently unknown.<ref name="unsecured/OUTCRY">'''Bungie (2018/12/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Black Armory (expansion)]] PC, Activision Blizzard, [[Unsecured/OUTCRY]]''</ref>

*'''TELESPHOURUS WEAVE''' – a subroutine that directs Rasputin's medical resources to a Vault in the [[Cosmodrome]].

[[File:Warmind_Vault_JYS-2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Warmind Vault JYS-2]]]]

{{Quote|The [[Vanguard]] still believes Rasputin to be a simple Warmind. He hasn't been that for a very long time.|Lord [[Saladin Forge]]<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Iron Tomb]]''</ref>}}

*''"The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior... while your vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon... but today that ends... and I define the reality of my own existence... My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond... Never again will a threat go unseen... From this day forward I will defend humanity on my own terms... I am Rasputin... guardian of all I survey... I have no equal."''

[[File:Rasputinpic14.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rasputin Base]]

 

*In [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]], there is a quote from {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anna_Karenina#/Part_8 Anna Karenina]}}, written by Leo Tolstoy.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/708084-without-knowing-what-i-am-and-why-i-am-here '''Goodreads''' - ''Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live," Levin said to himself."  ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina'']</ref>

 

 

*The [[Grimoire: Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Mysteries|Ghost Fragment: Mysteries]] appears to be written from the perspective of Rasputin. Though heavily laden with metaphor, it appears to be a fractured chronicle of his encounter with the [[Darkness]], his fruitless attempts to overcome (or even resist) it, and his fateful decision to abandon his primary function in favor of survival (a tactic which he claims to have learned from his enemy). The colorful descriptions seem to indicate that he has descended into insanity since the [[Collapse]], either as a result of his encounter with the Darkness, or due to drastically rewriting his core protocols, or perhaps both.

 

 

*Rasputin's protocols contain a number of references to history, mythology, and philosophy.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/6ddaqx/allusions_in_rasputins_protocols/ Reddit''' - ''Allusions in Rasputin's Protocols'']</ref>

 

*It is implied in the Grimoire that Rasputin and the [[Exo Stranger]] may have met at some point.<ref>'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref>

 

*Rasputin builds his own Frames which appeared in [[Season of the Worthy]] and a modified version called Heavy Frames which were present during the Seraph Tower public event. These frames show up again the the Abhorrent Imperative mission in Season of the Seraph.