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| |image= [[File:Nine.png|300px|Insignia of the Nine as it appears in Destiny 2: three circles divided into nine pieces.]]
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| |Domain(s)= [[Unknown Space]] <br> [[Jupiter]] <br> [[Saturn]]
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| |Type= Oligarchy
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| |Functions=
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| |Other names= IX <br> Ennead<ref name="Ennead">'''Bungie (2018/8/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/equitis-shade-rig Equitis Shade Rig]''</ref>
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| |Conflicts= [[Wolf Rebellion]] {{C|catalyst}}
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| |Leadership=
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| |Notable= Released [[Skolas, Kell of Kells]] <br> Hosts the [[Trials of the Nine]]
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| {{Quote|More of your brother's [[Crow (title)|Crows]] have entered the Cauldrons of [[Rhea]]. The Nine do not approve.|[[Techeun]]<ref name="TheQueen">'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Queen|Ghost Fragment: The Queen]]''</ref>}}
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| The '''Nine''' (often represented as the '''IX''') are the enigmatic rulers of the "Jovians", the worlds and [[Jovian|people]] beyond the Solar System's asteroid belt.<ref name="Activision">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2014/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> They reside deep within an alternate dimension in spacetime, the [[Unknown Space]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfmh3HDlGNg '''YouTube''' - ''Destiny 2: The Third Spire Social Space'']</ref>
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| ==History==
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| {{Quote|[[Osiris|He]] says the Nine are vulnerable every moment they touch our world.|Brother Vance<ref name="Vance">'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quotes: [[Brother Vance]]''</ref>}}
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| Little of the Nine is known outside of legends and the cryptic sayings of [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]].<ref name="Xur">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]: [[Xûr#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref> [[Osiris]] is said to have met with the Nine on [[Europa]],<ref name="Vance"/> and before his exile had an obsessive interest in them to the exclusion of his duties as the [[Warlock]] [[Vanguard]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'', ''[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Osiris#Osiris| Osiris]]''</ref> Nonetheless the Nine appear to have a vested interest in helping the City, tasking Xûr to sell powerful weapons to Guardians.<ref name="Xur"/> Following the [[Red War]], the Nine have taken an active interest in [[Guardians]], and have began to host the [[Trials of the Nine]] through their proxy, [[The Emissary]].<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> [[Emperor Calus]] is dismissive of their efforts.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/i-am-alive I Am Alive]''</ref>
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| The Nine have an alliance of sorts with [[The Reef]]<ref name="TheQueen"/> but their loyalty is in doubt following the release of [[Skolas, Kell of Kells]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Mystery: The Fate of Skolas|Mystery: The Fate of Skolas]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'', ''[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/House_of_Wolves#Prison_of_Elders|Prison of Elders]]''</ref> despite rumours to the contrary.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Silent Fang]]''</ref> The Cabal know of them as the Ennead,<ref group=note>An "ennead" is a group or set of nine, from the Greek ''enneas''.</ref><ref name="Ennead"/>
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| ===Identity===
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| {{quote|I cannot explain what the Nine are. They are... very large. I cannot explain. The fault is mine, not yours.|Xûr, Agent of the Nine}}
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| Very little about the Nine or the Jovian peoples is known due to the isolation of the outer Solar System. Multiple legends offer contradictory clues and hints as to their nature, but none have been proven. The Cabal call them the Ennead.<ref group=note>An "ennead" is a group or set of nine, from the Greek ''enneas''.</ref><ref name="Ennead"/>
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| It may very well be that all have some portion of truth to them.
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| *Former human colonies who made a compact with an alien force to survive became the Nine and/or the Jovians.<ref name="Legends 2">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'', ''[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends_%26_Mysteries#Ghost_Fragment:_Legends_2| Ghost Fragment: Legends 2]]''</ref>
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| *Deep-orbiting [[Warmind]]s who survived the [[Collapse]].<ref name="Legends 2"/>
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| *Ancient leviathan intelligences originating either from Europa or [[Titan (moon)|Titan]].<ref name="Legends 2"/>
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| *The Nine originated from the [[wikipedia:Corona_Borealis|Corona-Borealis]] supercluster.<ref name="Legends 2"/><ref group=note>The ''Corona Borealis'' is a constellation and known as the "Northern Crown". Additionally, it is made up of seven stars, one of Bungie's many [[halopedia:Seven|references to the number seven]].</ref>
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| *The first [[Awoken]], now transcended into mental energy moving along the [[Jupiter]]-[[Io (moon)|Io]] [[wikipedia:flux_tube|flux tube]].<ref name="Legends 2"/><ref group=note>The Jupiter-Io flux tube is a cylindrical section of Jupiter's magnetic field line which passes between Jupiter and Io. If it were able to be seen by the naked eye, it would resemble a tube of electromagnetic force between the two. Electrical current passes along this flux tube forming a circuit between the planet and moon, which ionizes the cloud of volcanic sulfur, oxygen, sodium and chlorine into a ring of plasma which surrounds the planet, boosting its already powerful magnetic field even further. The flux tube itself boosts radio emissions from Jupiter, making them increase considerably when Io's orbit brings it closer to Earth.</ref>
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| *[[Ghost]]s who exited the [[Solar System]] and studied the [[wikipedia:Heliosphere#Heliopause|heliopause]].<ref name="Legends 2"/><ref group=note>Heliopause (also known as heliosphere) is the boundary between solar wind and external cosmic rays, effectively the outer boundary of the Solar System. Therefore, the "Deep Black" is outside of the reach of the Sun's influence.</ref>
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| *Remnants of the [[Darkness]], broken by the [[Traveler]]'s sacrifice, still seeking to destroy human civilization.<ref name="Legends 2"/>
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| *A viral language of pure meaning.<ref name="Legends 2"/>
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| *Imprints of a transcendent entity left behind after its complete destruction.<ref name="Legends 2"/><ref group=note>This is likely a reference to [[wikipedia:Plato|Plato]]'s [[wikipedia:Allegory_of_the_Cave|Allegory of the Cave]].
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| :In this allegory, Plato explains that the inhabitants of the cave are prisoners, trapped inside with no knowledge of, nor have any desire to escape to, the outside world. Behind them a fire burns; objects passed through its light cast a shadow on the cave wall. A prisoner one day escapes their shackles and leaves the cave to find the sun, which shines more brightly than a campfire and overwhelms him; armed with this knowledge of the new reality he returns to try and convince his fellow men to escape but they steadfastly refuse.
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| :The objects which pass between the flames and the wall are what Plato calls the "Theory of Forms", or "Ideas". These objects are the true, metaphysical essence of what the prisoners perceive on the wall. Because the prisoners are shackled they lack knowledge of the "reality" of these shapes and presume the "shadows" are what's real when in fact they are not. The true reality, or higher reality, is what Plato called the "Good", and those which have discovered the "Good" must not remain there alone, but return to release their brethren and perceive the Good.
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| :''Destiny'' inverts this by having the Nine be the remnants of the Forms, the shadows "''burned into the weft of what is''" are the only remains of the Forms. Something, like the Darkness or even the Light, destroyed the transcendent Forms and recreated them into a new metaphysical archetype. To put it more bluntly, the Nine are the ghosts of dead gods, whose bodies were slain and now endure as wisps of what they once were.</ref>
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| In ''Destiny 2'' there are seventeen [[Lore entries]] which seem to have five particular members of the Nine defined. These members are as follows:
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| {| cellpadding="5" border="1" style="clear: both;"
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| ! '''I'''
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| ! '''II'''
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| ! '''III'''
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| ! '''IV'''
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| ! '''V'''
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| | Proper Punctuation. || lower case || BIG CASE || BIG PUNCTUATION. || B I G C A S E A L L S P A C E
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| | Most well-spoken and neutral in personality. || Almost whisperlike and cautious. || Pragmatic and straight to the point; emphatic. || Well-spoken but straight to the point; emotive and forceful. || Contrariwise and sarcastic; emphatic and forceful.
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| ===Agents of the Nine===
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| *[[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]
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| *[[The Emissary]]
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| ===Territory===
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| *[[Jupiter]]
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| **[[Europa]]
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| *[[Saturn]]
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| **[[Rhea]]
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| **[[Titan (moon)|Titan]]
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| *[[Unknown Space]]
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| ==Trivia==
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| *The name, "The Nine" or "IX", is likely a reference to the "[[wikipedia:Ix (Dune)|Ix]]" in Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' series, a fictional planet whose position from its sun inspired the name, ruled by the Ixian Technocracy. Ix was the primary provider of technology for the Old Imperium (or Galactic Padishah Empire) after the infamous Butlerian Jihad, which banned AI; ironically, Leto Atreides II used many of their creations later in his reign, a situation unthinkable in his early years.
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| :Additionally it could also reference the {{Plain|[http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/n/ninerings.html Nine Rings of Power]}} in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, given by Sauron (in disguise as Annatar) to corrupt nine powerful kings of men to his service, of which three were Númenórean, the last noble survivors from the island kingdom of Númenor that Sauron had destroyed. "''Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die...''"
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| *Some of Xûr's dialogue partly explains the in-universe legends behind the Nine, as he mentions that what Guardians do ''"is to speak in a language of pure meaning"''.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]: [[X%C3%BBr,_Agent_of_the_Nine#Destiny_2|Quotes]]''</ref>
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| ==Notes==
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Destiny]]'' {{First mentioned}}
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| **''[[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]]'' {{mo}}
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| *''[[Destiny 2]]'' {{Mo}}
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| **''[[Curse of Osiris]]'' {{C|mentioned}}
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| **''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]'' {{C|mentioned}}
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| ==References==
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