Editing Sloane

At some point after being resurrected by her [[Ghost]] [[Síocháin]], Sloane arrived at the refugee camp below the [[Traveler]]. Alongside her fellow [[Guardian]]s, including Lord [[Shaxx]], Sloane helped construct massive walls to protect the growing settlement, which eventually became known as the [[Last City]].<ref>'''Bungie (2017/5/25)''', ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI5poBxV_-A Destiny 2 Gameplay Premiere – Zavala's Prelude]''</ref> She was present when the Guardians first encountered and fought the [[Hive]] on [[Earth]], after which she gained a hatred of them and became determined to wipe them out.<ref name="Duty Bound">'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]], Item Description, [[Duty Bound]]''</ref> Sloane also fought in the [[Battle of Twilight Gap]] and helped fight back the [[Fallen]]'s attempted assault on the Last City.<ref>'''''[[Destiny: Warmind (comic)]]''', Chapter 3, Page 4''</ref>

Over the years, Sloane rose through the ranks of the Vanguard to become Deputy Commander of the Vanguard under Commander [[Zavala]]. During the [[Age of Triumph]], she received reports that the [[Fallen]] Houses were abandoning their strongholds and disappearing in the aftermath of the [[SIVA Crisis]]. In response, Sloane oversaw a scouting mission to the [[Cosmodrome]] in [[Old Russia]] to confirm the reports. They found that most of the [[House of Devils]] and [[House of Kings|Kings]] had indeed abandoned not only the region but their House banners as well. [[Marcus Ren]] informed Sloane that he believed the Fallen's siege of the Last City had finally been broken. Sloane reported this information to Zavala, and informed him that she was coordinating with [[The Reef]], [[Iron Lords]], and the [[Warlock]]s to uncover more intelligence on the Fallen's new motives and movements.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/3/28)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Age of Triumph]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Ghost Fragment: Fallen 6|Ghost Fragment: Fallen 6]]''</ref>

When the [[Red Legion]] invaded the solar system and conquered the [[Last City]], imprisoning the Traveler in a [[Traveler Cage|cage]] to strip the Guardians of their [[Light]], Sloane evacuated [[Earth]] with hundreds of other Guardians and refugees under the leadership of Commander Zavala. Sloane reported to Zavala aboard one of their ships in order to begin planning their resistance to the Cabal invasion.<ref name="SPR">'''Bungie (2018/7/31)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Solstice of Heroes]], [[Rekindled Solstice Armor (Titan)#Solstice Plate (Rekindled)|Solstice Plate (Rekindled)]]''</ref> While leaving Earth, the fleet intercepted a encoded [[Cabal]] transmission, but were unable to decrypt it.<ref name="Hope">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Hope]]''</ref> They settled upon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], one of the moons of [[Saturn]], as their rally point. Sloane and Shipwright [[Amanda Holliday]] aided Zavala in crafting a message to send to the scattered Guardian forces throughout the system. She found the Commander's messages to be void of hope and made it sound like the war was already lost, but found herself unable to criticize Zavala beyond asking him to be more inspiring, although Amanda had no such issues and raised their concerns to him. Sloane backed up Amanda, pointing out that they were not using most of their fuel to reach Titan to simply hide and that Zavala's message needed to include a plan for the Guardians to rally behind. Zavala did not change the message, and ordered them to send it out as it was.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/7/31)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Solstice of Heroes]], [[Rekindled Solstice Armor (Titan)#Solstice Greaves (Rekindled)|Solstice Greaves (Rekindled)]]''</ref>

Upon the fleet's arrival at Titan, the Vanguard and refugees landed at the [[New Pacific Arcology]] to set up base and plan their counterattack, however, they found that the [[Hive]] had established a stronghold there. Under Zavala's command, Sloane sent two teams to scout the Arcology to determine the extent of the Hive's infestation. Both teams were wiped out in the mission but reported back enough information to confirm nearly the entire Arcology was under Hive control. Sloane reported the situation to Zavala but believed even without the Light that the Guardians could storm the Arcology and wipe out the Hive, stating that if they needed they could burn down the entire place to drive them out. Her commander did not even turn to look at her, merely lamenting that he had been a fool to come to Titan and that their strength could not match the Hive. Increasingly concerned about Zavala's demeanour, Sloane told him he was not wrong and that Titan had all the resources and technology they needed to strike back at the Cabal if they could defeat the Hive, but Zavala cut her off and ordered all forces pulled back to the landing area they secured before dismissing her.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/7/31)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Solstice of Heroes]], [[Rekindled Solstice Armor (Titan)#Solstice Mark (Rekindled)|Solstice Mark (Rekindled)]]''</ref>

With a command center established, Sloane and the others turned their attention to restoring power to the station. She and Amanda informed the Young Wolf that they would guide them over the comms to the pistons that needed to be restarted. As they progressed, Sloane informed them that the Fallen on Titan had followed them from Earth, and noted that they needed to get Amanda flying again so she could provide support on these missions. When the pilot reminded her that her Hawk had been heavily damaged, Sloane informed her she would have it moved to the top of the repair queue. When the Guardian reached the pistons, they learned some of them had been encased in Hive chitin, which Sloane directed to be destroyed so the pistons could function properly. When all the pistons were clear but power still did not return, Sloane suggested the Young Wolf make their way to the central power platform and flip the central circuit breaker, hoping that would be sufficient to restore power. Her solution worked, and while the others celebrated having power, Sloane told her team they had done good work but they still needed to decode the intercepted transmissions.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Riptide]]''</ref>

When the Guardian returned to the command center in Siren's Watch, Sloane took a brief moment to admire the view and thanked them for helping get the command center powered. She then revealed that she was ready to begin plotting the Vanguard's counterattack against the Red Legion and needed their help to do it. The first step was to decode the transmissions they had intercepted using an advanced CPU that Amanda had detected deeper into the Arcology complex. Sloane warned the Young Wolf that they had no intel on the Hive presence within and was worried that they could be summoning anything in their warrens. Despite the heavy Hive presence, the Young Wolf succeeded in their mission and Sloane used the CPU to decrypt the transmissions. To her horror, she learned the Red Legion had positioned a superweapon known as ''[[The Almighty]]'' in orbit of the sun and would use it to destroy the entire solar system once they had what they wanted, and that they had done so to hundreds of other systems they conquered. Sloane briefed Zavala and the Young Wolf on the situation, and defeatedly noted that the war was already essentially lost. Zavala refused to believe that and decided that they would launch an all-out assault on ''The Almighty'' and questioned when the fleet would be ready to attack. Sloane tried to caution him, but he cut her off, noting that if they waited, they would all die and that their only hope was to fight and reclaim the Last City and their Light, ending with a declaration that he needed the rest of his fireteam, [[Cayde-6]] and [[Ikora Rey]].<ref>'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Utopia]]''</ref>

After Cayde and Ikora joined Zavala, the Young Wolf, and the rest of the resistance at [[The Farm]] on Earth, Sloane continued to provide tactical support and plan operations from her outpost on Titan. She contacted the Young Wolf upon learning that the Red Legion was moving high-yield explosives in the [[Sunken Isles]] near [[Firebase Hades]] in the [[European Dead Zone]]. Sloane directed for them to be destroyed, although [[Suraya Hawthorne]] protested that they could be used against the Cabal. An intercepted manifest pointed to the location of the remaining explosives within the firebase, and Sloane wanted them transmatted away. Hawthorne suggested using transmat juice to detonate them, which Sloane incredulously repeated, but Hawthorne shot back that she probably did not know how transmats worked either. Realizing that she did not, Sloane quickly declared that the topic was not relevant and ordered the Young Wolf into the base, where they placed transmat beacons on three explosive devices. Sloane detected several heavy tanks offline near the Young Wolf's position and ordered them to leave before they were activated, but Hawthorne interrupted and told them to go outside to the tanks. Sloane was skeptical of what she was planning, but her skepticism turned to admiration when Hawthorne told them to retransmat the explosives to the tanks. She had the Young Wolf guard the explosives from a Cabal counterattack while their Ghost prepared them for detonation and told Hawthorne that this was a good plan. Once the explosives were detonated and the tanks destroyed, Sloane requested the Young Wolf withdraw before more Cabal arrived. After they escaped the base, Sloane congratulated everyone on their successful mission and declared she would track down the explosives that had been sent away, while Hawthorne noted they made a good team and should work together again in the future.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[No Safe Distance]]''</ref>

When the final assault began on the Last City to reclaim it from the Red Legion, Sloane returned to Earth and fought in the streets of the occupied City. She eagerly took the battle to the invaders and received new damage to her armor, but survived the battle long enough for the Young Wolf to defeat [[Dominus Ghaul]] and for the Traveler to awaken and destroy the cage trapping the Light, restoring its gifts to Sloane and the other Guardians. In the aftermath of the battle, Sloane was ordered by Zavala to return to Titan and secure the moon and Saturn against any threats that presented themselves in the region. When the Young Wolf stopped by Titan, Sloane apologized for not assisting them in person during the reclamation of the Last City. She noted that it would be wise for the Red Legion to retreat now that they had suffered so many defeats and declared that if they were too stubborn to do so the Guardians would continue pushing them back.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Chosen]] - Post-mission dialogue''</ref>

When Commander Zavala and Sloane fled to Titan to establish a secret base against the Red Legion, the Fallen saw an opportunity to follow them there like Vultures as Sloane describes them. The Fallen quickly got to work after finding long-abandoned [[Golden Age]] cities such as the [[New Pacific Arcology]] ripe for plunder and intercepted many unmanned shipments sent to Earth by Sloane.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/09/04)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], [[Scatterhorn Armor#Scatterhorn Mask / Helm / Hood|Scatterhorn Helmet]]''</ref>  

Later a group of Fallen led by [[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax]] competed against the Guardians sent by Sloane to gain access to an ancient methane reactor, with the motivation of boosting Ether production for Servitors by doubling or tripling the output.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/09/23)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/quest-chances-and-choices-enemy-of-my-enemy Enemy of Enemy]''</ref>

This proved to be foolhardy as her fireteam quickly became trapped by the Hive within the Archeology and hunted down, killed, and converted into crystals full of [[Void]] [[Light]] for use in a summoning ritual. Taeko as the lone survivor watched as her best friends were desecrated by the Hive and made contact with the rescue team sent by Commander [[Zavala]] and Sloane. She soon discovered a huge [[Shrieker]] known as [[Savathûn's Song]] was responsible for the horrors the Hive were committing and dissuaded the rescue team from coming any further. Taeko's sacrifice was not in vain, as the strike team was able to destroy the monstrous Shrieker and prevent whatever ritual the Hive was preparing for from occurring.<ref name="SS">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]], [[Savathûn's Song (strike)]]''</ref>

Several months after the conclusion of the Red War, Sloane remained on Titan as the commander of the Vanguard's New Pacific Arcology outpost. She received word of Cayde-6's death in the [[Reef]] at the hands of [[Uldren Sov]] and the [[Scorn]] Barons while attempting to stop a riot in the [[Prison of Elders]], and that the Young Wolf had defied Zavala to seek revenge on the murderers. The next time they visited Titan, Sloane stated that she understood why the Commander was upset but wanted to know if Cayde had been avenged. Noting the Young Wolf's surprise, Sloane revealed that she understood that duty could not always be put before their obligations to their friends and that she admired the Young Wolf for seeking justice. She told them that she supported them and wished them luck in keeping up their good work.<ref name="LC">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], [[Last Call]]''</ref>

Shortly after routine shipment of Golden Age technology back to the Last City from the Arcology, a Fallen [[Ketch]] arrived at Siren's Watch to let off a landing party of [[Dreg]]s to steal from Sloane's work crews. Sloane intervened and the attackers were repelled, but contrary to her expectations, the Fallen had been after supplies rather than the Golden Age technology that took off not long before, leading her to the conclusion that the Fallen were leaving the Arcology. It wouldn't take long to find out why, as she looked up into the sky and saw a [[The Titanian Pyramid|Pyramid]] hovering inside Titan's atmosphere.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress and Egress#Sloane: Overseer|Overseer]]''</ref>

Sloane was visited by the Young Wolf under orders of Zavala to determine what her plans were for combating the threat. She was pleased to see her old friend and noted that while Zavala was focused on the Pyramids she was concerned about what the Hive were up to. Sloane informed the Young Wolf that the Hive was taking advantage of the Pyramids arrival distracting the Vanguard to dig deeper into the Golden Age secrets of the Arcology. She declared that she would not allow them to pick the bones of humanity before they were even dead and issued orders to the Young Wolf to disrupt the Hive's operations. When they reported back after disrupting the Hive operations, Sloane thanked them and stated she would put together a plan to deal with them and the Pyramid. She then fell silent as she looked over the methane seas of Titan, now darkened by the Pyramid, and exchanged nods of respect with the Young Wolf as they departed.<ref name="Exodus">'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], [[Exodus (Quest)]]''</ref>

Due to the Pyramids presence, many of Sloane's work crews were evacuated from Titan, leaving the platforms to the mercy of the methane ocean's waves and Sloane in a foul mood due to the constant shaking. She contacted Amanda in the hopes her friend could guide her through constructing something to stabilize the platform and allow her to focus on overseeing operations. However, most of Amanda's suggestions were beyond Sloane's capability, and she had no time to search the Arcologies to locate an [[Engram]] that might contain a useful wavebreaking structure. After hearing the last of Amanda's ideas and watching her spill her ramen attempting to mime them, Sloane gave her a cheery wave as she signed off. However, she stayed in alone in her darkened office for some time afterwards, reflecting on the situation.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress and Egress#Sloane: Wavebreaker|Wavebreaker]]''</ref>

After watching the Young Wolf depart Titan for the final time, Sloane entered her office and put on the recovered suit of power armor. Upon putting on the helmet she realized the controls were not in a language she knew but guessed the correct option to select to activate the armor. As it conformed to her size, Sloane tested her movement and tried to summon [[Arc]] energy, but the suit blocked it. She decided she would need to learn how to utilize her Light through the suit and adjusted more settings before moving outside, finding that each step and move she made synched the suit more to her and made it easier to control. As a massive storm hit Siren's Watch, a [[Thrall]] charged her, but Sloane easily grabbed it by the head and ripped it apart with the enhanced strength of the armor. Her laugh was broadcast by the suit as a battle cry that echoed throughout the abandoned platform and up the overhead Pyramid as the storm raged around her.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress and Egress#Sloane: Riastrad|Riastrad]]''</ref>

Following the disappearance of Titan, both Sloane and [[Asher Mir]] were declared MIA by the Vanguard.

Following the reformation of the Traveler, Zavala began to daydream of those lost on the disappeared planets, Sloane included, while preparing a speech to the people of the City. He imagined requesting that she lead the Vanguard's efforts to combat the [[House of Salvation]] on [[Europa]] while she was visiting his office, which she accepted.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[Lore]]: [[Phobos Warden Armor#Lore 4|Phobos Warden Leg Armor]]''</ref> Half a year later during the [[Endless Night]], Sloane's uninhabited apartment in the City was slated to be emptied by the building's landlord who hoped to capitalize on people moving away from the newly-established [[Botza District|Eliksni Quarter]]. Offended by the disrespect to her memory, one of the moving workers, [[Sonja]], stole the [[Crown-Splitter]] Sloane kept in her home armory with the intent to give it to an active Guardian.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Splicer]] - [[Lore]]: [[Crown-Splitter#Lore|Crown-Splitter]]''</ref>

Sloane continued pursuing the Pyramid, but was always too late to catch it during its stops, only being able to find traces of its activities at each of the places it came to rest. At one of these sites, she found a cave contaminated with Taken residue which contained a Hive sigil. After fighting off a group of Taken, she noticed that she could perceive the thoughts of the Taken through the sigil, and also began to hear a voice in her head prodding her to interact with it. She reached out and touched the sigil, causing her to become enveloped in Taken corruption, and heard the voice of [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]], the Hive God of War, in her mind, saying that the War God had accepted her challenge.<ref name="WeirWalkerSuit"/>

Sloane's Light held back the Taken corruption, but over the course of the following year her condition steadily worsened. Nonetheless, she continued her mission, pursuing the Pyramid and fighting any Hive and Taken that got in her way. Eventually, however, she ran afoul of Xivu Arath's forces, who surrounded her as Sloane was overcome with a psychic assault from the God of War. Acting through a Taken Knight whose sword anchored the [[Black Terrace]] to the physical world, Xivu Arath peeled Sloane's power armor from her flesh and bones, trying to get Síocháin to appear so that she could destroy the Ghost and sever Sloane's connection to the Light. At the last moment, however, she was rescued by a massive serpentine creature, the same one that had been telepathically communicating with her since she had fallen into the ocean.<ref name="WeirWalkerSuit"/>

Realizing she didn't have the means or the manpower to strengthen her connection to Ahsa, Sloane rigs together a distress signal aimed towards the Vanguard on Earth to get the aid she and Ahsa need. The Vanguard Coalition managed to receive her signal following the Guardians combating the Cabal [[Shadow Legion]] on [[Neptune]] and Earth, and [[Soteria]] revealing to them a lead to follow the Witness into the portal lies on Titan. Zavala, exhilarated at the thought of his friend possibly still being alive, assembles a team involving himself, the Guardian, Saint-14 and Lord Saladin to find her. After arriving and combating Hive and Taken serving Xivu Arath, the Guardian and Zavala found her one kilometer down in the methane seas. The Drifter was also present after hearing of Titan's return and provided aid in helping the Guardian reach Sloane's position. The group are shocked to see her condition but more so at first meeting Ahsa. Sloane brought them all up to speed that Ahsa could provide invaluable information regarding The Witness, which convinced Zavala to approve of the operation, with Drifter providing his technical knowledge to process the egregore coral to strengthen her physic connection to Ahsa, thereby allowing her to interpret her messages.

Zavala ultimately had to come clean with how much things had changed while Sloane was MIA. From Guardians wielding powers tied to the Darkness like [[Stasis]] and [[Strand]], to the formation of an [[The Coalition|alliance]] against the Witness between the Vanguard, Empress Caiatl's Cabal Empire, Mithrax's [[House of Light]], and the [[Awoken]], Savathûn using the body of Osiris to infiltrate the Last City, her [[Lucent Brood]] being granted the Light, the Witness attacking the Traveler, the discovery of a [[Neomuna|city]] on Neptune, and most tragically, Amanda Holliday's death, Sloane was strongly shocked. The news of Amanda's death hit Sloane the hardest, as they were close, but Zavala could tell from the look in her eyes that she nonetheless buried that pain. Disregarding the news, Sloane soldiered on with the mission, with Saint-14 providing tactical support as the Guardians dived into the seas once more to collect egregore coral. During the mission, Saint-14 tried to initiate a conversation with Sloane, trying to get her to open up about her experiences, but the Deputy Commander was not responsive. Instead she wanted to focus on the mission, something which Saint wholeheartedly agreed with. Despite Xivu Arath's continued demands and taunts, Sloane persisted in her role as bait, allowing the Guardians to reach the sea floor, take out [[Kudazad, Binder of Savathûn]] and collect further coral samples. With it, Sloane interprets the second message which involved a "city of light" and a "silent god withholding a deeper truth", but the interpretation takes a toll on her.

*''Ahh. It's a hell of a view, isn't it? We're up and running thanks to you. There's plenty more to do around here, though. Chief among them — finally breaking ground on a counteroffensive against the Red Legion. I have a plan, but it won't work without you. We intercepted a priority one Red Legion signal during the City evacuation, but we can't crack the encryption. Holliday says there's tech that can do the job in the Arcology, which is effectively hostile territory. You'd be going in blind. The place has been dark for centuries. All we know for sure is the Hive is raising hell down there, perhaps literally. But if you're in… Let's put the plan into action.''

*''They call it… "The Almighty." The crown jewel of the Red Legion and life's work of their leader… Dominus Ghaul. Ghaul has subjugated hundreds of worlds. Those that resisted… no longer exist. You see, The Almighty… annihilates stars. Nothing- and no one- survives Ghaul's ambition. What he wants… is the Traveler. And its Light. As for The Almighty… it's now pointed at our sun. In short, sir… the war's over. And we've lost.''

*Sloane is seen on Titan with her face and arms exposed; given that Titan has apparently not been terraformed by the Traveler, and that methane becomes liquid at -161.49°C (-258.68°F), it is unknown how she can survive without protective equipment.