Clipse
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The Clipse are a warlike client species of the Emperor Calus's Loyalists.
History
The Clipse were once a more peaceful technological race. However, following their centennial anniversary of global peace, an unknown alien threat unleashed a gamma-ray burst that wiped out their technology, killing everything on their planet's western hemisphere, poisoning the atmosphere, and burning a "signal" into the asteroids and comets of their solar system. The resulting collapse of civilization was complete.
As the Clipse rediscovered subsistence agriculture, the marked asteroids began to rain ceaselessly down on the planet, "seeding" it with hostile alien life. To combat this new enemy, the Clipse were forced to militarize in turn. As such, thousands of years after the collapse, the Clipse had become an extreme martial culture that worshipped guns and "knew only war", with the planet an eternal battleground between them and the invasive alien ecosystem.[1][2] Their moon, Kaga-Clipse, became their military capital, bristling with interceptors and defenses.[3]
The Cabal Empire
Under the reign of Emperor Calus, the Clipse were absorbed into the Cabal empire. They grew to be one of Calus's favorite member species. Believing their condition of eternal war to be an unalterable fact, Calus provided aid in the form of high culture and luxuries in an attempt to enrich their brutal society. The Clipse did not appreciate his gifts.[3]
After Dominus Ghaul's coup, he attempted to earn the Clipse's loyalty by sending military aid to their embattled planet. His efforts only succeeded in further poisoning the planet and its people, its hostile ecosystem proving too resilient to destroy without also destroying the planet. After a century of failure, Ghaul decided he was wasting his resources and abandoned the Clipse and their world.[3]
Skirmish against the Leviathan
In exile aboard his Leviathan, Calus discovered the Clipse again. He invited them to join his Loyalists, and they attempted to shoot him down with missiles, believing they would get back in Ghaul's good graces by defeating the former Emperor. Rebuked, Calus turned to conquest. Kaga-Clipse's guns and interceptors proved no match for Calus' gigantic starship, and he landed 6,000 troops on Kaga-Clipse itself, led by a Shadow, Valus Nohr.[1][4] The campaign to capture the Clipse moon lasted for eight weeks. Towards the end, the Clipse had trapped Nohr in her own bastion, only for her to break out and destroy their forces on her famous "thunder run," calling down missile strikes from the Leviathan against vital command posts. [5][3]
Desperate, the Clipse gathered their greatest warriors and launched a boarding action against the Leviathan. Only the commando Rull survived to reach Calus's throne room, bloody and exhausted, where the Emperor casually offered him refreshment and alliance. Bemused, Rull accepted.[6]
His victory secured, Calus rewarded the Clipse surrender, first by bringing thousands of Clipse into arcologies to live out the rest of their lives in his trademark opulence, and second by ending their perpetual war by incinerating their planet and all life on it, including all the other Clipse, using Kaga-Clipse's own guns. Calus felt this annihilation was kinder than forcing them to continue living among struggle and suffering.[3]
What became of the survivors after Calus flew the Leviathan into the Mercury anomaly is unknown.[7]
After Empress Caiatl took power, she issued an edict for the arrest of Calus, naming his genocide of the Clipse alongside other high crimes he had committed.[8]
List of appearances
- Cabal Booklet (First mentioned)
- Destiny 2 (Mentioned only)
- Season of Opulence (Mentioned only)
- The Hidden Dossier (Mentioned only)
References
- ^ a b Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2, Mask of Rull
- ^ Bungie (2017/12/5), Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris, Boots of Feltroc
- ^ a b c d e Bungie (2019/6/4), Destiny 2: Season of Opulence, Confessions: Entry VI
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2, Chassis of Rull
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2, Greaves of Rull
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2, Gauntlets of Rull
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Duality: Ninth Repressed Memory
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, Hidden Dossier
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