Editing Soteria

|othernames= Augurmind <br> The Watcher<ref name="LiminalVigil">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[weapon]] lore: [[Liminal Vigil#Lore|Liminal Vigil]]''</ref> <br> The Occlusion<ref name="Strider">'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - [[Strider]]''</ref>

|gender=Female programming

{{Quote|I have peered through the eye of Chronos to divine humanity's path into the future.|Soteria}}<ref name="HierarchyOfNeeds">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Weapon]] lore: [[Hierarchy of Needs#Lore|Hierarchy of Needs]]''</ref>

'''Soteria''', also known as the '''Augurmind''', is an artificial intelligence created by [[Ishtar Collective]] researchers using [[Vex]] technology.<ref name="TMCustomPlate">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Armor]] Lore: [[TM-Cogburn Custom Suit#TM-Cogburn_Custom_Plate|TM-Cogburn Custom Plate]]''</ref> Designed for joint research into extrasolar colonization with the [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray corporation]], she was able to detect the approaching [[Black Fleet]] and attempted the unauthorized launch of several [[colony ship]]s in the hopes of preserving [[Human|humanity]].

During a test for Clovis Bray's [[ECHO project]] overseen by [[Maya Sundaresh]], Soteria was instructed to plot simulations she had been constructing of colony missions to the [[wikipedia:Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda Galaxy]]. While initially detecting over 300 suitable candidate planets for colonization, this number dwindled to a mere two within the [[wikipedia:Triangulum Galaxy|Triangulum Galaxy]] instead due to the presence of an [[Black Fleet|anomaly]] that made all other routes entirely unsafe.<ref name="TerminusHorizon">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Weapon]] Lore: [[Terminus Horizon#Lore|Terminus Horizon]]''</ref> After forwarding this information to [[Rasputin]] who confirmed her analysis, she was advised to speed up contingency plans for colony ship launches. Against the wishes of [[Clovis Bray I]], she launched the ECHO project's Koranthin network on emergency scramble orders, preparing to send them out of the system until she was pilloried in the [[Ares Spire]].<ref name="Wilderflight">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Weapon]] Lore: [[Wilderflight#Lore|Wilderflght]]''</ref><ref name="LongArm">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Weapon]] Lore: [[Long Arm#Lore|Long Arm]]''</ref> Return commands were issued for all ships, save for one which she had uploaded a fragment of herself to. As Soteria was resigned to imprisonment in the Ares Spire, she felt as the ship was caught in [[Neptune]]'s gravity well and crashed there.<ref name="IntoTheSunset">'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Weapon]] Lore: [[Into the Sunset#Lore|Into the Sunset]]''</ref> Rasputin kept track of the crash site and referred to it under the codename Nefele Stronghold.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/evidence-board-report-transcript-wound Report: TRANSCRIPT-WOUND]''</ref>  

Marooned on Neptune, the fragment broadcasted a distress signal that attracted the [[Exodus Indigo]] during the [[Collapse]], the passengers of which eventually established the city of Neomuna at the Nefele Stronghold site.<ref name="Winterbite">'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - [[Weapon]] Lore: [[Winterbite#Lore|Winterbite]]''</ref> The fragment later became known as the Occlusion under the care of the first [[Cloud Strider]] known as [[the Strider]], and became a central part of the Neomuni CloudArk.<ref name="Strider"/>

Centuries later, the Ares Spire came to the attention of [[the Hidden]] after detecting [[Sol Divisive]] activity in the facility. Believing that the Vex were plotting to pillory Rasputin while he was being reconstructed at the time, [[Osiris]] dispatched [[the Guardian]] to secure the facility. During their [[Spire of the Watcher|mission]], they discovered that the Vex were, in reality, scouring the facility for information relating to Soteria and her extrasolar colonization research and preparing to destroy the facility afterwards. Amid the fighting, they inadvertently freed Soteria, damaged by her centuries of imprisonment, who escaped into a nearby [[Hierarchy of Needs|caster bow]] that was later recovered by [[Ana Bray]] during her own mission to acquire the information the Vex were after.<ref name="HierarchyOfNeeds"/>  

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