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===Joining Clovis on Europa=== | ===Joining Clovis on Europa=== | ||
{{Quote|Aren't the Vex a perfect demonstration of what could go wrong? Human minds trapped in a totally inhuman context, tormented and mutilated by an unsympathetic alien god. If we want to preserve our minds for eternity, couldn't we end up that way? Aren't we giving up the grace of death? The promise that all suffering will end?|Elsie, arguing with her grandfather Clovis I about seeking immortality through the Exo program}}<ref name="MLVF">'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#NOTE—VEX_FLUID|Mysterious Logbook - VEX FLUID]]''</ref> | |||
Elsie eventually began suffering the same symptoms as her father and discovered that she too was afflicted by what her grandfather had dubbed the "Clovis Curse". She received a message from Clovis I asking her to join him on [[Europa]] to aid him in his research, which he described as risky and in need of her expertise with outside-context problems.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#MESSAGE_TO_BRAY,_ELISABETH|Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE TO BRAY, ELISABETH]]''</ref> Clovis I eventually sent her another message, revealing that he knew she was ill as well and explained that his project could save her and Clovis II, whose final memory scan was still on file within the Clovis Bray archives. The message also revealed that Clovis I was dying as well and he pleaded with her to join him so they could all be saved.<ref name="MLME2"/> Elsie agreed to join him in order to limit the damage his experiments caused. She warned him that if he revealed to anyone else in the family that she was dying she would never speak to him again and refuse to let him save her from dying in agony, a prospect which Elsie hoped was still enough to trouble him.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#MESSAGE_FROM_BRAY,_ELISABETH|Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE FROM BRAY, ELISABETH]]''</ref> | Elsie eventually began suffering the same symptoms as her father and discovered that she too was afflicted by what her grandfather had dubbed the "Clovis Curse". She received a message from Clovis I asking her to join him on [[Europa]] to aid him in his research, which he described as risky and in need of her expertise with outside-context problems.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#MESSAGE_TO_BRAY,_ELISABETH|Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE TO BRAY, ELISABETH]]''</ref> Clovis I eventually sent her another message, revealing that he knew she was ill as well and explained that his project could save her and Clovis II, whose final memory scan was still on file within the Clovis Bray archives. The message also revealed that Clovis I was dying as well and he pleaded with her to join him so they could all be saved.<ref name="MLME2"/> Elsie agreed to join him in order to limit the damage his experiments caused. She warned him that if he revealed to anyone else in the family that she was dying she would never speak to him again and refuse to let him save her from dying in agony, a prospect which Elsie hoped was still enough to trouble him.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#MESSAGE_FROM_BRAY,_ELISABETH|Mysterious Logbook - MESSAGE FROM BRAY, ELISABETH]]''</ref> | ||
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After the Vex gateway, which they dubbed the [[Glassway]], was finished, Clovis I decided to conduct a expedition through it. Elsie insisted on joining the research team, which would also include her grandfather via a remote operated drone. They emerged onto a statite orbiting a [[2082 Volantis|thirteen-billion year old type-0 hypergiant star]], an impossibility the Vex had engineered by feeding the star energy to stop it from going supernova. They began exploring the region and gathered samples from the statite and Vex structures. When several Vex platforms took notice of them and fired, Elsie annihilated them with a matter laser. Her grandfather chided her for the excessive response, noting that they did not want to enter into a war with the Vex and that they needed to only scavenge and abduct, which hopefully would only result in a like response from the Vex.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#ENTRY_7|Mysterious Logbook - Entry 7]]''</ref> | After the Vex gateway, which they dubbed the [[Glassway]], was finished, Clovis I decided to conduct a expedition through it. Elsie insisted on joining the research team, which would also include her grandfather via a remote operated drone. They emerged onto a statite orbiting a [[2082 Volantis|thirteen-billion year old type-0 hypergiant star]], an impossibility the Vex had engineered by feeding the star energy to stop it from going supernova. They began exploring the region and gathered samples from the statite and Vex structures. When several Vex platforms took notice of them and fired, Elsie annihilated them with a matter laser. Her grandfather chided her for the excessive response, noting that they did not want to enter into a war with the Vex and that they needed to only scavenge and abduct, which hopefully would only result in a like response from the Vex.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#ENTRY_7|Mysterious Logbook - Entry 7]]''</ref> | ||
Upon returning to Europa, Elsie began analyzing their samples along with data stolen from the [[Ishtar Collective]] regarding the Vex. She discovered that there was risk of contamination by Vex cytostructures that could introduce thoughts and even hallucinations into the minds of those infected. Furthermore, there was the risk of the Vex creating perfect copies of individuals to study and analyze for subsequent annihilation once the Vex learned all they could. This information led to Elsie arguing that utilizing the Vex for Exo research was too large a risk. She and Clovis I frequently fought about the concept of immortality through an artificial shell. Elsie worried that humanity would risk becoming like the Vex in such a state, losing all concept of morality and reality with the loss of death as a possibility, but her grandfather countered that Exobodies would provide the best defense against Vex infiltration of their minds.<ref name="MLVF"/> | |||
==Personality and Traits== | ==Personality and Traits== | ||