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{{Battle infobox
{{Battle infobox
|prev=[[SIVA Crisis]]
|prev=[[SIVA Crisis]]
|conc=[[Eliksni siege]]
|next=[[Hunt for the Scorn]]
|next=[[Hunt for the Scorn]]
|image=[[File:TheLastCity.jpg|350px]]
|image=[[File:TheLastCity.jpg|350px]]
|conflict=
|date=  
|date=  
|place=*[[Fields of Glass]], [[Mercury]]
|place=*[[Mercury]]
**[[The Almighty]]
**[[The Almighty]]
*[[European Dead Zone]], [[Earth]]
*[[Earth]]
*[[Hellas Basin]], [[Mars]]
*[[Mars]]
*[[The Reef]]
*[[The Reef]]
*[[New Pacific Arcology]], [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]
*[[Titan (moon)|Titan]]
*[[Echo Mesa]], [[Io]]
*[[Io]]
*[[Arcadian Valley]], [[Nessus]]
*[[Nessus]]
**[[The Leviathan]], Nessus Orbit
**[[The Leviathan]]
|result=
|result=
'''1ST PHASE:'''
*Death of [[Dominus Ghaul]] and [[The Consul]]
*First true defeat of the Red Legion
**First true defeat of the Red Legion
**Death of [[Dominus Ghaul]] and [[The Consul]]
**Red Legion leadership weakened
**[[The Almighty]] main weapon rendered permanently inoperable
**[[The Almighty]] main weapon rendered permanently inoperable
*Traveler reawakens
*Traveler reawakens
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*Emperor Calus's Leviathan arrives in Sol and begins consuming Nessus
*Emperor Calus's Leviathan arrives in Sol and begins consuming Nessus
**Calus start recruiting Guardians and members of the Red Legion
**Calus start recruiting Guardians and members of the Red Legion
*House of Dusk lose an Archon and two Prime Servitors
*Death of Val Ca'uor, acting [[Red Legion]] commander
**House of Dusk is broken and split into syndicates and personal factions, notably the Kell's Scourge
*House of Dusk is broken and split into Syndicate and personal Factions, notably the Kell's Scourge
*The Vex lose key structures like the Pyramidion on Io and the Black Garden gate on Mars
*The Vex lose the Black Garden gate and destruction of [[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]]  
*Savathun's plans on Titan thwarted
*[[Aftermath of The Red War]] begins
*Last City remains heavily ruined by the conflict
|side1=*[[The Last City]]
**Original Tower destroyed and Vaults destroyed
-----
'''2ND PHASE:'''
*Death of [[Val Ca'uor]], acting [[Red Legion]] commander
**Red Legion attempts at replenishing resources on Mercury, Mars and Leviathan stopped
**Red Legion leadership, forces and morale degraded leading to mass desertions
**Calus keeps recruiting from the Red Legion and the Guardians
*[[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]] destroyed
**Vex are unable to find a future where they win over the [[Light]] and [[Darkness]] forces
**[[Dendron, Root Mind]] destroyed repeatedly
**Contacts re-established with [[Osiris]]
**[[Saint-14]] tomb found and [[Perfect Paradox]] recovered
*[[Argos, Planetary Core]] destroyed
**Vex conversion of Nessus slowed
*[[Xol, Will of the Thousands]] killed
**Xol voluntarily becomes a weapon to survive in the hands of the Guardians
*[[Nokris, Supplicant to Savathûn|Nokris, Herald of Xol]] is killed repeatedly
**Nokris' [[Escalation Protocol|champions]] are killed
***Grasp of Nokris falls under Savathun's influence
*Contacts re-established with [[Anastasia Bray]]
**[[Rasputin]] is restored and begins to rearm
|side1='''Humanity'''
*[[The Last City]]
----
*The [[Reef]]
*The [[Reef]]
----
*[[The Sunbreakers]]
*[[The Sunbreakers]]
|side2='''Cabal'''
|side2=
*[[Red Legion]]
*[[Red Legion]]
|side3='''Other'''
|side3='''Other'''
*[[Loyalists]]
*[[Loyalists]]
----
*[[Hive]]
*[[Hive]]
*[[Taken]]
----
*[[Fallen]]
*[[Fallen]]
----
*[[Vex]]
*[[Vex]]
----
*[[Taken]]
*[[Nine]]
*[[Nine]]
|side4=
|side4=
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|commanders2=
|commanders2=
'''Red Legion:'''
*[[Dominus Ghaul]]
 
<br>
'''1ST PHASE:'''
*[[The Consul]]
*[[The Consul]]
*[[Dominus Ghaul]]
*[[Thumos, the Unbroken]]
*[[Bracus Zahn]]
'''2ND PHASE:'''
*[[Val Ca'uor]]
*[[Val Ca'uor]]
*[[Valus Thuun]]
*[[Niruul, the Hollow Voice]]
*[[Kargen, the Technocrat]]
*[[Ozletc, the Sky Piercer]]
*[[Tazaroc, the Sun Eater]]
 
|commanders3=
|commanders3=
'''Loyalists:'''
'''Loyalists:'''
*[[Emperor Calus]]
*[[Emperor Calus]]
-----
-----
'''Savathûn's Brood and Taken:'''
'''Hive:'''
*[[Savathûn]]
*[[Savathûn]]
**[[Savathûn's Song]]
**[[Savathûn's Song]]
**[[Quria, Blade Transform]]
***[[Ir Arok, Tongue of Quria]]
**[[Grask, the Consumed]]
----
----
'''Grasp of Nokris:'''
'''Fallen:'''
*[[Xol, Will of the Thousands]]
**[[Nokris, Supplicant to Savathûn|Nokris, Herald of Xol]]
----
'''House of Dusk:'''
*[[Craask, Kell of Kings]] (indirectly)
*[[Brandaks Prime]]
*[[Brandaks Prime]]
*[[Serkuleks, the Fount]]
*[[Serkuleks, the Fount]]
**[[Raksil, Archon Priest]]
**[[Raksil, Archon Priest]]
*[[Thaviks, the Depraved]]
*[[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax, the Forsaken]]
----
----
'''Sol Collective:'''
'''Vex:'''
*[[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]]
*[[Acanthos, Gate Lord]]
*[[Argos, Planetary Core]]
*[[Protheon, Modular Mind]]
*[[Protheon, Modular Mind]]
*[[Brakion, Genesis Mind]]
*[[Brakion, Genesis Mind]]
'''Precursors:'''
*[[Dendron, Root Mind]]
|commanders4=
|commanders4=
|forces1=
|forces1=
'''Last City:'''
'''Last City:'''
*Thousands of [[Guardian]]s
*[[Guardian]]s
*[[City Militia]]
*[[City Militia]]
*Underground resistance
*Underground resistance
----
'''The Reef:'''
*Thousands of [[Corsair]]s
----
'''The Sunbreakers:'''
*Dozens of Guardians
|forces2=
|forces2=
'''Red Legion:'''
*[[Red Legion]] and fleet
*[[Red Legion]] and fleet
**[[The Immortal]]
**[[The Immortal]]
**[[The Almighty]]
**[[The Almighty]]
**[[Traveler Cage]]
**[[Traveler Cage]]
*Countless Cabal
|forces3=
|forces3=
'''Loyalists:'''
'''Loyalists:'''
*Countless [[Loyalists]]
*[[Loyalists]]
**[[The Leviathan]]
**[[The Leviathan]]
----
----
'''Savathûn's Brood:'''
'''Hive:'''
*Countless [[Savathûn's Brood]] Hive
*[[Savathûn's Hive]]
*Countless Taken
----
----
'''Grasp of Nokris'''
'''Fallen:'''
*Countless [[Grasp of Nokris]] Hive
*[[House of Dusk]]
----
'''House of Dusk:'''
*Countless [[House of Dusk]] Fallen
----
'''Sol Collective'''
*Countless [[Sol Collective]] Vex
|forces4=
|forces4=
|casual1=
|casual1=
'''The Last City:'''
*Many Guardians and Guardian Orders, such as the Sunbreakers, are destroyed
*Thousands of Guardians and some Guardian Orders
*Original Tower destroyed
----
*Vaults destroyed
'''The Sunbreakers:'''
*Dozens of Guardians (entirety of the Order)
|casual2=
|casual2=
'''Red Legion:'''
*Cabal Imperial leadership crippled
*Most of Red Legion leadership
*The Almighty is rendered permanently inoperable
**Countless Cabal
|casual3=
|casual3=
*Hive leadership of Titan  
*Hive leadership of Titan crippled
**Thousands of Hive
*House of Dusk lose an Archon and two Prime Servitors
**Thousands of Taken
----
*Hive leadership of Mars
**Thousands of Hive
----
*Most of House of Dusk leadership
**Thousands of Fallen
----
*Most of Sol Collective Axis Minds
**Thousands of Vex platforms
|casual4=
|casual4=
|civilian= Hundreds of thousands of City civilians
|civilian= Hundreds of thousands of City civilians
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Following Val Ca'uor's invasion, Emperor Calus ordered a Guardian response team to repel the Red Legion, offering further riches and rewards upon their success. The Guardians heeded the exiled emperor's call and ascended the Leviathan's spire, just as the acting commander destroyed one of Calus's robotic proxies. Upon confronting Ca'uor, the Guardians engaged the Red Legion's elite forces to prevent them from taking control of the Leviathan. Using the Leviathan's own formidable weapons, the Guardians managed to decimate the Red Legion fleet blockading the Spire and killed the acting commander in a climatic battle. In the wake of losing the majority of their fleet, their ground forces and leader, the Red Legion was forced to withdrawal in disgrace. Ca'uor's death would officially mark the effective end of the Red War.
Following Val Ca'uor's invasion, Emperor Calus ordered a Guardian response team to repel the Red Legion, offering further riches and rewards upon their success. The Guardians heeded the exiled emperor's call and ascended the Leviathan's spire, just as the acting commander destroyed one of Calus's robotic proxies. Upon confronting Ca'uor, the Guardians engaged the Red Legion's elite forces to prevent them from taking control of the Leviathan. Using the Leviathan's own formidable weapons, the Guardians managed to decimate the Red Legion fleet blockading the Spire and killed the acting commander in a climatic battle. In the wake of losing the majority of their fleet, their ground forces and leader, the Red Legion was forced to withdrawal in disgrace. Ca'uor's death would officially mark the effective end of the Red War.
===Time Undone===
[[Aftermath of The Red War|Following Val Ca'uor's death]], the Red Legion began to suffer even greater amounts of lowered morale, leading to mass desertion among its ranks. Some individuals, such as [[Garut Gra'am]], rooted themselves in Lost Sectors to survive. However, a prominent group of deserters formed their own group, called the [[Unbowed Legion]], made their debut in the EAZ in an attempt to take over the area as a base of operations. Despite the group being lead by [[Mouvurg, Unbowed Legion|three]] [[Daazaz Dar, Unbowed Legion|large]] [[Shogmar, Unbowed Legion|Cabal]] commanders, they were quickly put to an end by the Guardians.
Despite suffering from desertions, the Red Legion began to make a reappearance some time following the [[Nightmare Hunt]]s and the [[Vex Offensive|Vex's Offensives]] on [[Luna]]. As a result of the Undying Mind's final destruction, the Timeways over Mercury have become undone, allowing anyone access into the [[Corridors of Time]]. A family of [[Psion Flayer]]s took notice of this and sought to use such power to their advantage. Taking control of the Red Legion's remaining forces, the Psion Sisters commandeered the device called the [[Sundial]], a creation of Osiris', in attempt to assume control over time itself. Their goal in using Osiris' creation was to alter time itself. As in, undo their defeat in the Red War at the hands of the Guardians. However, [[Osiris]] learned of the Red Legion's activities and, refusing to allow the timeways to be perverted, summons the Guardians to combat the Red Legion.
For weeks, the Guardians battled the Red Legion's forces, using the Sundial to confront and defeat the Psion Flayer masterminds, the sisters [[Niruul, the Hollow Voice]], [[Ozletc, the Sky Piercer]] and [[Tazaroc, the Sun Eater]]. However, refusing to be defeated so easily, the three sisters combined together, creating [[Inotam, Oblivion's Triune]], to defeat the Guardians. Despite Inotam's power, the Guardians prevailed, stopping the Red Legion from assuming control over time itself and undoing the Guardians victory in the Red War.
===Broken Almighty===
[[File:D2 SoW Almighty.jpg|thumb|340px|The Almighty's final moments.]]
Though the Guardians succeeded in defeating the Red Legion on Mercury, a final Psion sister remains, [[Amtec]]. Desiring vengeance in the name of her sisters and leaving nothing to chance, she and a Red Legion force breach ''The Almighty'' and sabotage the vessel, destroying its navigation systems and engine coupling, despite the efforts of Zavala and [[Ana Bray]]. The Almighty was then left adrift but with an intended target: the Last City on Earth. Thus began [[The Almighty Crisis]].
Unable to divert or destroy ''The Almighty'', the Vanguard is forced to cooperate with the ancient Warmind [[Rasputin]], the only entity that has the technology and power to possibly save the Guardians' home from destruction. The Guardians then work with the Warmind in activating his [[Seraph Bunker]]s across the system to activate and weaponize Rasputin's systems to hopefully find a way to stop ''The Almighty''.
Ultimately, after months of restarting the Seraph Bunkers and rearming its systems, Rasputin was able to divert countless warsats towards ''The Almighty'', which was, by then, days away from reaching the Last City. In a grand display, the warsats were able to breach the ship's shields and strike at its core, causing it to explode and its wreckage to crash land outside the mountains of the Last City's territory. Despite Amtec's efforts, her scheme ended in a blazing wreck that left her vengeance unfulfilled and the Red Legion completely weakened and lost. However, it is unconfirmed if Amtec died in the explosion or remains alive.


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
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**''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]''
**''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]''
**''[[Forsaken]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Forsaken]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Drifter]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of Opulence]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Shadowkeep]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Shadowkeep]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of Dawn]]'' {{Mo}}
***''[[Season of Dawn]]''
**''[[Season of the Worthy]]'' {{Mo}}
***''[[Season of the Worthy]]''
**''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[The Witch Queen]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Haunted]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Lightfall]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of Defiance]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Deep]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Into the Light]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[10th Anniversary]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Destiny: Warmind (comic)|Destiny: Warmind]]''
*''[[Destiny: Cayde's Six]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Hidden Dossier]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Destiny Grimoire Anthology, Volume V]]'' {{Mo}}
 
==Trivia==
 
The Red War storyline became the center of a lawsuit against [[Bungie]] in October, 2024, when sci-fi author Kelsey Martineau alleged that Bungie copied elements of their story (written in 2013/'14) for the narrative. The main point of the lawsuit claims that both Martineau's story and ''Destiny 2'' feature a faction called the Red Legion as the main antagonists in their respective stories. In Martineau's story, the Red Legion is an alien army led by Overlord Yinnerah, a warlord that seeks to conquer Earth and claim Tononob Station, a massive floating habitat in low orbit. As of October 10, 2024, Bungie has not responded to the lawsuit.<ref>[https://gamerant.com/sci-fi-author-lawsuit-against-bungie/ '''Game Rant''' - ''Sci-Fi Author Files Lawsuit Against Bungie'']</ref>


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Wars]]
[[Category:Wars]]
[[Category:Cabal]]
[[Category:Hive]]
[[Category:Taken]]
[[Category:Fallen]]
[[Category:Vex]]
[[Category:Guardians]]
[[Category:Warmind]]
[[Category:Worms]]

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