Editing SIVA Crisis

|prev= [[Wolf Rebellion]]

|image= [[File:SIVA.png|300px]]

|conflict= [[City-Fallen war]]

|place= [[Plaguelands]] <br> [[Moon|The Moon]] <br> [[Mars]]

|result= City advantage, [[Fallen]] Leadership crumbled

*Death of Devils' military leaders

|side1= [[The Last City]]

|side2= [[Devil Splicers]]  

*[[Lord Saladin]]

*[[Vanguard|The Vanguard]]

*[[Vosik, the Archpriest]]

*[[Sepiks Perfected]]

*[[Taniks Perfected]]

|forces1= [[Guardian]]s

|forces1= [[Iron Lord]]s

|forces2= [[Devil Splicers]]

|casual1=

|casual2=

 

The '''SIVA Crisis''' was a major conflict being fought between the [[SIVA]]-infected [[Fallen]] and the new [[Iron Lord]]s. The crisis was triggered when the Fallen [[Splicers]] rediscovered SIVA within the long-sealed [[Plaguelands]]. While the orthodox leadership of the Splicers saw SIVA as another technology to be worshiped, the sect loyal to the [[House of Devils]] was more ambitious: they sought to use SIVA to make themselves into gods. Imbuing themselves with SIVA's power, the Devil Splicers began subsuming the rest of their House and spreading the techno-plague. Recognizing the ancient threat his fellow [[Iron Lords]] had sealed away long ago, Lord [[Saladin Forge]] issued a call-to-arms to the Guardians in order to raise a new generation of Iron Lords.  

===Prelude: Transmission Incident===

The Owl Sector reconvened for the first time since an event called the Dawn Calamity in response to field reports from Guardians whose armor had become infested with "tech mites", which manifested as swarms of colorful specks that swirled around their heads.<ref name="OS">[http://owlsector.bungie.net/archive.html#en Bungie.net - Owl Sector Records]</ref> Five varieties of tech mite were documented, each with a unique coloration: Brilliance 3.2 (green), Glory 2.1 (white), Splendor 2.6 (yellow), Magnificence 2.0 (blue), and Fortitude 3.1 (pink). The tech mites originated from the [[Dust Palace]] on [[Mars]], but rapidly spread to other Guardians. While this phenomenon, designated "Transmission", initially alarmed the Vanguard as it overrode Guardians' armor systems, Guardians responded to it with enthusiasm and mocked attempts by the Owl Sector to quarantine them.<ref name="OS"/>

Unable to contain the mites' spread among the Guardians, the Owl Sector and Vanguard instead implemented a quarantine on the [[Last City]] in order to prevent non-Guardians' exposure. Meanwhile, Bypass Authority Berriole traveled to the Dust Palace to learn the origin of the tech mites. She followed sets of tracks to a lab, where various locked storage cabinets had been cut or blasted open. At a console in the lab, she discovered the mites were linked to a [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] project overseen by a Dr. Zarin Shirazi who worked under [[House Bray|Dr. Willa Bray]]. Berriole transmitted records of Dr. Shirazi's experiments with the mites, which had been encrypted to an unusual degree, to the Owl Sector. The records revealed that the tech mites were a nanomachine therapy to improve subjects' intelligence and strength for the Golden Age's colonization effort, but they produced several unforeseen side-effects including manic and paranoid behavior, loss of voice, levitation, and comas. Shirazi developed a countermeasure and saved the test subjects, but she had become disillusioned with the project and recommended to Dr. Bray that it be abandoned.<ref name="OS"/>

Upon the Guardian's success, Saladin arrived and finished off any cloaked Fallen. Unfortunately, the victory was bittersweet as Sepiks revives itself and flees. Having been ordered to track Sepiks escape, [[Shiro-4|Shiro]] detects several breaches on the [[Cosmodrome]] [[The Wall|wall]], prompting Saladin to send the Guardian to track Sepiks down.

As tasked by Saladin to investigate the breach in the Cosmodrome and to confirm Saladin's fears, the Guardian arrives at the wall and finds a section of it in ruins with a heavy Devils presence. Tracking Sepkis, the Guardian fights through the wall and finds a strange pattern outside and with Ghost scans, discovers that a nanotechnology is consuming the building, thereby confirming Saladin's fears that SIVA has returned. Instantly, Hive ships appear, apparently driven out of their holds by the Fallen. Fighting both Hive and Fallen to a sensor grid to restore the sensor network for Shiro-4, the Guardian encounters a new enemy of Fallen: The Devil Splicers. After defeating the new powerfully-augmented Fallen, Saladin now knows for sure that the Fallen have restarted production of SIVA for their own desires. Shiro-4 tracks to Fallen to the [[Plaguelands]], an area that has been quarantined for years, but has now become the Devil Splicers territory.

{{Quote|The Young Wolf has stopped the flow of SIVA to the Devil Splicers, ended the torment of the Iron Lords, and lifted centuries of grief and regret from Saladin’s shoulders. My old friend is a changed man. Centuries ago, I thought the story of the Iron Lords was finished. I see now that it was waiting for the next chapter.|Tyra Karn.}}

After retrieving the SIVA prototypes from the Clovis Bray lab on Mars, Shiro and Lord Saladin task the Guardian to go into [[Site 6]] and destroy the SIVA replication chamber to end the SIVA Crisis. After fighting through the Fallen in the Archon's Keep and cutting off their control of SIVA, the Guardian enters into the Site 6 deep beneath [[the Warrens]]. Once the Guardian enters the replication complex, the Guardian finds the remnants of the Iron Lords that died during the attack on Site 6 in the [[Dark Age]] and are being controlled by SIVA. Once the remnants were defeated using a discarded [[Iron Battle Axe]], thus putting the Iron Lords to rest, the SIVA self-destruct sequence is initiated and the Guardian successfully escapes, preventing any more SIVA from being created.

The SIVA Crisis was not fully averted though, since any remaining SIVA was still out there and in Fallen hands, not to mention the Splicers' latest Archon was still alive, [[Aksis, Archon Prime]] inside his [[Perfection Complex]] and Sepiks Perfected was still in hiding since the Iron Temple raid.  

{{Quote|Variks has brought unsettling news. The Devil Splicers have used SIVA to resurrect an old foe: Taniks the Scarred has become Taniks Perfected.|[[Commander Zavala]].}}

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