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{{quote|More of your brother's 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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{{Quote|More of your brother's 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>}}
The '''Nine''' (often represented as the '''IX''') are the enigmatic rulers of the [[Jovians]], the worlds and 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>
The '''Nine''' (often represented as the '''IX''') are the enigmatic rulers of the [[Jovians]], the worlds and 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>


==Overview==
==Overview==
The Nine have made contact with the [[Last City]] via one of their agents, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|Xûr]],<ref name="Activision"/> who sells Guardians what he calls "trash" yet are powerful weapons;<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]: [[Xûr#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref> and have formed an alliance with the [[Reef]].<ref name="TheQueen"/> After the apparent release of [[Skolas]], their loyalty is in doubt<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> [[Osiris]] had met with the Nine on [[Europa]]. According to [[Brother Vance]], "He says the Nine are vulnerable every moment they touch our world."<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quotes: [[Brother Vance]]''</ref> Prior to this, when he was [[Warlock]] [[Vanguard]] of the City Osiris had sought after them to the exclusion of his duties.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'', ''[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies/Osiris#Osiris| Osiris]]''</ref>
The Nine have made contact with the [[Last City]] via one of their agents, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|Xûr]],<ref name="Activision"/> who sells [[Guardians]] what he calls "trash" yet are powerful weapons;<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]: [[Xûr#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref> and have formed an alliance with the [[Reef]].<ref name="TheQueen"/> After the apparent release of [[Skolas]], their loyalty is in doubt<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> [[Osiris]] had met with the Nine on [[Europa]]. According to [[Brother Vance]], "He says the Nine are vulnerable every moment they touch our world."<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quotes: [[Brother Vance]]''</ref> Prior to this, when he was [[Warlock]] [[Vanguard]] of the City Osiris had sought after them to the exclusion of his duties.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'', ''[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies/Osiris#Osiris| Osiris]]''</ref>


Very little about the Nine or the Jovians is known due to the isolation of the outer Solar System. One legend describes the Nine but offers seemingly contradictory clues to their nature:
==Identity==
 
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. It may very well be that all have some portion of truth to them.
*''The Nine are survivors of the cis-Jovian colonies who made a compact with an alien force to ensure their own survival.''
*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>
*''The Nine are deep-orbit [[warmind]]s who weathered the [[Collapse]] in hardened stealth platforms.''
*Deep-orbiting [[Warmind]]s who survived the [[Collapse]].<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of [[Europa]] or the hydrocarbon pits of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]].''
*Ancient leviathan intelligences originating either from Europa or [[Titan (moon)|Titan]].<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the [[wikipedia:Corona_Borealis|Corona-Borealis]] supercluster.''
*The Nine originated from the [[wikipedia:Corona_Borealis|Corona-Borealis]] supercluster.<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine are the firstborn [[Awoken]] and their minds now race down the field lines of the [[Jupiter]]-Io [[wikipedia:flux_tube|flux tube]].''
*The first [[Awoken]], now transcended into mental energy moving along the [[Jupiter]]-Io [[wikipedia:flux_tube|flux tube]].<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine are [[Ghost]]s who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the [[wikipedia:Heliosphere#Heliopause|heliopause]].''
*[[Ghost]]s who exited the [[Solar System]] and studied the [[wikipedia:Heliosphere#Heliopause|heliopause]].<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine are the aspects of the [[Darkness]], broken by the [[Traveler]]'s rebuke, working to destroy us from within.''
*Remnants of the [[Darkness]], broken by the [[Traveler]]'s sacrifice, still seeking to destroy human civilization.<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning.''
*A viral language of pure meaning.<ref name="Legends 2"/>
*''The Nine are the shadows left by the annihilation of a transcendent shape, burned into the weft of what is.''<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard'', ''[[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies/Legends_%26_Mysteries#Ghost_Fragment:_Legends_2| Ghost Fragment: Legends 2]]''</ref>
*Imprints of a transcendent entity left behind after its complete destruction.<ref name="Legends 2"/>


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The name, "The Nine" or "IX", is likely a reference to the "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 Bulterian Jihad, which banned AI; ironically, Leto Atreides II used many of their creations later in his reign, a situation unthinkable in his early years.<ref>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ix_(Dune) '''Wikipedia''' - ''Ix (Dune)'']</ref>
*The name, "The Nine" or "IX", is likely a reference to the "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 Bulterian Jihad, which banned AI; ironically, Leto Atreides II used many of their creations later in his reign, a situation unthinkable in his early years.<ref>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ix_(Dune) '''Wikipedia''' - ''Ix (Dune)'']</ref>
*Additionally it could also reference the Rings of Power—"''Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die''"—given by Annatar to corrupt nine powerful kings of men, of which three were Númenórean.<ref>[http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/n/ninerings.html '''The Encyclopedia of Arda''' - ''Nine Rings]''</ref>
*Corona Borealis is a constellation, known as the "Northern Crown".<ref>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Corona_Borealis#/Stars '''Wikipedia''' - ''Corona Borealis/Stars'']</ref> It is made up of seven stars, one of Bungie's many references to the number seven.<ref>[https://www.halopedia.org/Seven '''Halopedia''' - ''Seven'']</ref>
*Corona Borealis is a constellation, known as the "Northern Crown".<ref>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Corona_Borealis#/Stars '''Wikipedia''' - ''Corona Borealis/Stars'']</ref> It is made up of seven stars, one of Bungie's many references to the number seven.<ref>[https://www.halopedia.org/Seven '''Halopedia''' - ''Seven'']</ref>
*Additionally it could also reference the Rings of Power—"''Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die''"—given by Annatar to corrupt nine powerful kings of men, of which three were Númenórean.<ref>[http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/n/ninerings.html '''The Encyclopedia of Arda''' - ''Nine Rings]''</ref>
*Heliopause (also known as heliosphere) is the boundary between solar wind and external cosmic rays, effectively the outer boundary of the Solar System.<ref>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Heliosphere '''Wikipedia''' - ''Heliosphere'']</ref> Therefore, the "Deep Black" is outside of the reach of the Sun's influence.
*Heliopause (also known as heliosphere) is the boundary between solar wind and external cosmic rays, effectively the outer boundary of the Solar System.<ref>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Heliosphere '''Wikipedia''' - ''Heliosphere'']</ref> Therefore, the "Deep Black" is outside of the reach of the Sun's influence.
*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>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Io_(moon)#/Interaction_with_Jupiter.27s_magnetosphere '''Wikipedia''' - ''Io (moon)/Interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere'']</ref>
*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>[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Io_(moon)#/Interaction_with_Jupiter.27s_magnetosphere '''Wikipedia''' - ''Io (moon)/Interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere'']</ref>

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"More of your brother's Crows have entered the Cauldrons of Rhea. The Nine do not approve."
— Techeun[1]

The Nine (often represented as the IX) are the enigmatic rulers of the Jovians, the worlds and people beyond the Solar System's asteroid belt.[2][3]

Overview

The Nine have made contact with the Last City via one of their agents, Xûr,[2] who sells Guardians what he calls "trash" yet are powerful weapons;[4] and have formed an alliance with the Reef.[1] After the apparent release of Skolas, their loyalty is in doubt[5][6] despite rumours to the contrary.[7] Osiris had met with the Nine on Europa. According to Brother Vance, "He says the Nine are vulnerable every moment they touch our world."[8] Prior to this, when he was Warlock Vanguard of the City Osiris had sought after them to the exclusion of his duties.[9]

Identity

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. It may very well be that all have some portion of truth to them.

  • Former human colonies who made a compact with an alien force to survive became the Nine and/or the Jovians.[10]
  • Deep-orbiting Warminds who survived the Collapse.[10]
  • Ancient leviathan intelligences originating either from Europa or Titan.[10]
  • The Nine originated from the Corona-Borealis supercluster.[10]
  • The first Awoken, now transcended into mental energy moving along the Jupiter-Io flux tube.[10]
  • Ghosts who exited the Solar System and studied the heliopause.[10]
  • Remnants of the Darkness, broken by the Traveler's sacrifice, still seeking to destroy human civilization.[10]
  • A viral language of pure meaning.[10]
  • Imprints of a transcendent entity left behind after its complete destruction.[10]

Trivia

  • The name, "The Nine" or "IX", is likely a reference to the "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 Bulterian Jihad, which banned AI; ironically, Leto Atreides II used many of their creations later in his reign, a situation unthinkable in his early years.[11]
  • Additionally it could also reference the Rings of Power—"Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die"—given by Annatar to corrupt nine powerful kings of men, of which three were Númenórean.[12]
  • Corona Borealis is a constellation, known as the "Northern Crown".[13] It is made up of seven stars, one of Bungie's many references to the number seven.[14]
  • Heliopause (also known as heliosphere) is the boundary between solar wind and external cosmic rays, effectively the outer boundary of the Solar System.[15] Therefore, the "Deep Black" is outside of the reach of the Sun's influence.
  • 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.[16]

List of appearances

References

  1. ^ a b Bungie (2014-9-9), Destiny, House of Wolves PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Ghost Fragment: The Queen
  2. ^ a b Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard
  3. ^ Bungie (2014/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard
  4. ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny: Console, Activision Blizzard, Xûr, Agent of the Nine: Quotes
  5. ^ Bungie (2015/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Mystery: The Fate of Skolas
  6. ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny, House of Wolves PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Prison of Elders
  7. ^ Bungie (2014/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, The Silent Fang
  8. ^ Bungie (2015/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quotes: Brother Vance
  9. ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Osiris
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Ghost Fragment: Legends 2
  11. ^ Wikipedia - Ix (Dune)
  12. ^ The Encyclopedia of Arda - Nine Rings
  13. ^ Wikipedia - Corona Borealis/Stars
  14. ^ Halopedia - Seven
  15. ^ Wikipedia - Heliosphere
  16. ^ Wikipedia - Io (moon)/Interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere
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