Editing Reef

[[File:VestianOutpost.jpg|thumb|275px|The [[Vestian Outpost]] is a social space located in the Reef.]]
{{Article quote|Dare to strike a bargain with the ruthless Queen.}}
{{Quote|The fate of those escaping Earth during the Collapse was once unknown. But here drifts a graveyard of lost ships, and among them - the Realm of the Awoken.|[[Grimoire]] description.}}
The '''Reef''' is a debris field in orbit within the [[wikipedia:Asteroid_Belt|Asteroid belt]] in the [[Sol System]]<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJkiwDeWqQ '''Destiny''' - ''PlayStation 4 Official Announcement'']</ref><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness">[http://www.bungie.net/7_Pathways-Out-Of-Darkness/en-us/News/News?aid=10241 '''Bungie.net''' ''Pathways out of Darkness'']</ref> and the domain of an expansive [[Awoken]] nation under [[Queen]] [[Mara Sov]]. It is considered by the [[City]] to straddle the boundary between the far edge of the [[Traveler]]'s influence and the unabated darkness beyond the Inner System.<ref name="Destiny">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard''</ref>

==History==
The massive hulks of dead [[Golden Age]] ships that make up the Reef mark the furthest point that people fleeing [[Earth]] and the Inner System during the [[Collapse]] were able to reach; the [[Darkness]] ensured they made it no further.<ref name="Destiny"/> The early Awoken either arose from or colonized the Reef at some point in the [[Dark Age]], establishing a matriarchal society ruled by a queen and completely independent from the [[City]].<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement"/><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness"/><ref>[http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/17/bungies-destiny-revealed/ ''''Bungie's Destiny Revealed''</ref> Outsiders, including Earth-born Awoken, are considered trespassers and if necessary will be expelled by lethal force.<ref name="Destiny"/> This has changed after the rebellion of the [[House of Wolves]], as Guardians are now welcomed into the Reef to combat the Fallen menace.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: House of Wolves Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref>

The Awoken of the Reef have long preferred to remain distant and aloof from the affairs of the [[City]], but are known to be associated with the [[Nine]], who are said to control the planets beyond the asteroid belt.<ref name="The Queen">'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#The Queen|The Queen]]''</ref> The current Queen allied with the Nine in a successful [[Reef Wars|war]] against the [[Fallen]] House of Wolves.<ref name="GFTQ">'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: The Queen|Ghost Fragment: The Queen]]''</ref> With half their House destroyed, their [[Kaliks Prime|Prime Servitor]] missing, and their [[Skolas, Wolf Kell|Kell]] and [[Aksor, Archon Priest|Archon]] sealed within the [[Prison of Elders]], the House of Wolves became vassals of the Queen and lived alongside the Awoken until their rebellion.<ref name="The Queen"/><ref name="GFTQ"/> In the aftermath of the uprising, and various thefts by Fallen, the Queen opened the Reef up to the [[Guardian]]s to fight alongside the Awoken.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 '''YouTube''' - ''Official Destiny Expansion II: House of Wolves Prologue'']</ref>

When [[Oryx]] invaded the Solar System, the Reef was on the forefront of repelling the [[Hive]] fleet. Their vast armada, led personally by the Queen, met Oryx's fleet in combat in the rings of [[Saturn]], but were overwhelmed by Oryx's [[Dreadnaught]]'s superweapon and virtually the entire armada was obliterated with very few survivors. With the Queen missing in action, her Emissary, [[Petra Venj]], became acting regent-commander.
<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Inventory/Special_Weapons#Telesto|Telesto]]''</ref>

Though the Dreadnaught was restricted to Saturn, and most of its accompanying fleet annihilated by its own superweapon, hundreds of [[Seeder Ship|Seeder]]s nonetheless landed across the Reef, flooding it with Hive and causing widespread damage.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Awoken_of_the_Reef#Regent|Regent]]''</ref>

The arrival of the [[Red Legion]] caused even more devastation in the Reef, facilitated by the supposedly-traitorous [[Broken Legion]] (in actuality a Trojan horse) from the Prison of Elders. Raids led by the [[House of Kings]] led to further destabilization, forcing Petra to pull back and consolidating the Reef's territory in order to protect civilian life.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#Fanatic_.7C_Part_I|Fanatic | Part I]]''</ref>

Years after [[Mara Sov]] disappeared from the [[Solar System]], the Reef collapsed from the loss of their armada and security; capping at it were the Scorned Barons, a gang of renegade [[Barons]] terrorizing both Fallen and Awoken alike, and the betrayal of the former Reef prince [[Uldren Sov]], having allied with the [[House of Kings]] and united the disjointed Fallen into the [[House of Dusk]]. The Scorned Barons were caught and imprisoned by a [[Guardians|Guardian]] posse lead by Hunter Vanguard [[Cayde-6]] and Petra Venj, leaving only their Archon [[Fikrul]] to escape and met with Uldren at the brink of death; becoming the first of the [[Scorn]]. 

A year after the [[Red War]], Petra Venj and Cayde-6 were able to bring Uldren and Fikrul into the Prison. Taking advantage of this, the imprisoned Uldren orchestrated the [[Scorn]] into a massive breakout from the [[Prison of Elders]], releasing the Scorned Barons from their cages and murdering Cayde-6 in the process. The Scorn forces fled into the [[Tangled Shore]] under Uldren and their eight commanding [[Baron]]s. The situation became so dire that the [[Guardian]] were called upon to contain the chaos.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u4oyarcc4I</ref>

==Society==
{{quote|The Reef was lost the moment it lost its [[Mara Sov|Queen]].|[[Zavala]]}}
Reef society is matriarchal and ruled by a single Queen with near-absolute power, essentially an authoritarian monarchy. The current and only known Queen of the Reef is [[Mara Sov]]. Second to the Queen in power is her brother Prince [[Uldren Sov]], Master of Crows, who manages the Reef's intelligence network of "Crows" and serves as the Queen's chief adviser.

The Queen commands the military forces of the Reef through seven [[Paladin]]s. The Royal Armada, consisting of the Reef's space fleet in addition to the [[Corsair]]s, who serve as field scouts, and the [[Vestian Guard]], which patrols the Reef's borders, is led by four Paladins. The Royal Army, which encompasses the Reef's soldiers, battle stations, and military installations, is in the charge of two. The seventh Paladin directs the [[Queen's Guard]], which is dedicated to protecting the Queen from both direct threats to her person and indirect threats that endanger the Reef as a whole and therefore the Queen by extension and/or association.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#The Royal Awoken Guard|The Royal Awoken Guard]]''</ref>

Other significant institutions include the [[Techeun]]s and the Reef [[Cryptarch|Cryptarchy]]. The Techeuns, also known as "witches", serve as advisors to the Queen, but following the rebellion of the [[House of Wolves]], two Techeuns now attend her in lieu of Fallen bodyguards.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: The Reef 2|Ghost Fragment: The Reef 2]]''</ref> The Reef Cryptarchy's function is similar to the Cryptarchy of the [[City]], but it follows a different philosophy: where the City's Cryptarchs seek to decrypt [[Engram]]s to uncover secrets of the Golden Age and aid the [[Guardian]]s in the process, the Reef's Cryptarchs believe their purpose is to encrypt and safeguard civilization's informational infrastructure.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Master Ives, Cryptarch|Master Ives, Cryptarch]]''</ref>

==Locations==
*[[Vestian Outpost]]—a military outpost guarding the entrance to the Queen's realm. It was opened to [[Guardian]] presence in wake of the [[Fallen|Wolf]] rebellion.
*[[4 Vesta|Vestian Web]]—the heart of the Reef, built around the asteroid 4 Vesta
*[[Amethyst]]—a space station razed during the Reef Wars
*[[RSS Amestris]]—a space station that was the site of an [[Aphelion]] attack.
*[[2 Pallas]]—an asteroid home to a major Awoken community
*[[10 Hygiea]]—an asteroid home to the largest division of the Reef [[Cryptarch|Cryptarchy]]
*[[65 Cybele]]—an asteroid converted into an Awoken military fortress, site of the Cybele Uprising that ended the Reef Wars
*[[7 Iris]]—the site of the Battle of Iris where the Awoken captured [[Parixas, the Howling|Parixas]]
*[[324 Bamberga]]—an asteroid that was used at the Battle of Bamberga's Wrath to capture [[Drevis, Wolf Baroness]]
*[[Pallas Falls]]—site of a shootout between three [[Awoken]] [[Paladin]]s and [[Pirrha, the Rifleman]]
*[[704 Interamnia]]—an asteroid with a notable mercantile city and artisan forges 
*[[19 Fortuna]]—the site of the Fortuna Plummet that destroyed the fleet of [[Beltrik, the Veiled]]
*[[687 Tinette]]—an asteroid destroyed in the Fortuna Plummet
*[[128 Nemesis]]—an asteroid involved in the Haunting of Nemesis, perpetrated by [[Hiraks, the Mindbender]]
*[[951 Gaspra]]—site of [[Hiraks, the Mindbender|Hiraks']] Slaughter of Gaspra
*[[16 Psyche]]—an asteroid that was the site of a massacre by [[Araskes, the Trickster]]
*[[Hildian Asteroids]]—a group of asteroids involved in a campaign of the same name
*Accretion Fields—an area mined by [[Kaniks, the Mad Bomber]]
*Origin Libraries—an outpost of the Reef Cryptarchy destroyed by [[Kaniks, the Mad Bomber|Kaniks]]
*[[Prison of Elders]]—a massive incarceration complex that holds the most dangerous captives of the Reef
*[[Tangled Shore]] {{C|Destination}}
**[[Four-Horn Gulch]]
**[[Hall of the Exalted]]
**[[Hellrise Canyon]]
**[[Jetsam of Saturn]]
**[[Sorik's Cut]]
**[[Thieves' Landing]]
**Ragged Valley—a dangerous cut of land that was raced by both [[Yaviks, the Rider]] and [[Marcus Ren]]
*[[Dreaming City]] {{C|Destination}}
**[[Keep of Voices]]
**[[The Watchtower]]

==Activities==
===[[Story]] Missions===
*[[The Awoken]]
*[[A Key Awaits]]
*[[Nothing Left to Say]]
*[[Scorned]]

===[[Arena]]s===
*[[Prison of Elders]] {{C|''[[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]]''}}

===[[Crucible]]===
*[[The Drifter]] {{C|''[[The Taken King]]''}}
*[[Gambler's Plan ]] {{C|''[[Forsaken]]''}}
*[[The Citadel ]] {{C|''[[Forsaken]]''}}

===[[Gambit]]===
*[[Cathedral of Scars]] {{C|''[[Forsaken]]''}}
*[[Kell's Grave]] {{C|''[[Forsaken]]''}}
===[[Social]]===
*[[Vestian Outpost]] {{C|''[[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]]''}}

===[[Strike]]s===
*[[Broodhold]] {{c|''[[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]]''}}
*[[The Hollowed Lair]] {{c|''[[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]]''}}
*[[Warden of Nothing]] {{c|''[[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]]''}}
*[[The Corrupted]] {{c|''[[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]]''}}

===[[Raid]]s===
*[[Last Wish]]

==Trivia==
*On Earth, shipwrecks often form [[wikipedia:artificial_reef|artificial reefs]], which then become home to a wide variety of life. A number of videos and pieces of concept art indicate that the same process is occurring within the debris field of the Reef<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement"/><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness"/>.
*Despite being a matriarchal society, Awoken males are capable of reaching positions of power and respect, such as the Paladins and the Cryptarchy; [[Hallam Fen]] and [[Master Ives]] being examples.
**In ''[[Forsaken]]'', it is explained that there are no objections to Awoken males reaching positions of influence and power within the Awoken's society. Merely, it was just simply rare.
*The two [[Destination|destinations]] in The Reef contain all enemy races as a whole, meaning that it has more races than any other planet or moon in the series, with multiple enemy factions across each.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:The reef desktop.jpg|Concept art of The Reef.
File:Crow and queen of the Reef.jpg|The Queen, her brother, and Eliksni guards in the throne room
File:Reef fallen e3.jpg|An Eliksni bodyguard on the Reef
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Destiny]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]]''
**''[[The Taken King]]''
*''[[Destiny 2]]'' 
**''[[Curse of Osiris]]'' {{mo}}
**''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]'' {{mo}}
**''[[Forsaken]]''
***''[[Black Armory]]''
***''[[Joker's Wild]]''
**''[[Shadowkeep]]'' {{mo}}
***''[[Season of Dawn]]''
***''[[Season of the Worthy]]'' {{mo}}
***''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{mo}}

==References==
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