We don't find the guardian But we do find his ghost Just kinda, floating there, doing nothing Nonreactive We walk up and your ghost comes out to look And some SIVA shoots out of it and into your ghost And the ghost we were investigating dies Or was already dead, but falls to the ground.

We're soon after ambushed by darkness powered SIVA constructs All with a small black pyramid shard (Like the shard from Beyond Light) in their chests Anyways, our ghost is infected, and our powers are now on the fritz We're randomly changing power types and subtypes, and the power screen in the inventory is locked So we run But not to the tower Because we don't want to infect anyone else The vanguard has reinstated the Farm as a quarantine zone for guardians who've been infected with this new SIVA virus

Ana Bray contacts us and tells us that Rasputin is not involved and is working on a fix. Turns out an AI splinter that was controlling the SIVA factories reached out and contacted the darkness, sharing its last directive of "Consume. Enhance. Replicate". It was stuck with this directive and was cut off from Rasputin. The darkness answered it with "Consume. Enhance. Replicate. Salvation" and gave it darkness shards on which to grow bodies After learning how to control the darkness (the SIVA constructs use Darkness powers against us) It soon figures out a way to control light, and starts infecting ghosts in an effort to control them and use them to create constructs with light powers The SIVA constructs take over the Warmind bunker and contact Rasputin. When they learn that Rasputin is working with us, they classify him as an enemy And cut the connection They take over the Warmind bunker and turn it into a fortress (Further fortifying what the Cabal had built above it) And launch an attack on Mars Ana Bray sends an emergency call to the tower and the vanguard route it to the farm. She's asking for help. The constructs are attacking Rasputin, and, surprisingly enough, the only thing slowing them down is the Hive. The initial attack landed in the middle of Hive territory, and the constructs are clearing out the nests, working their way to the Clovis-Bray complex But the feed cuts out [Edited: Lore Correction]

So, i think it woulb be better if the darkness said "give them salvation", instead of something like "kill the guardians".

That was the SIVA to the darkness. Though yeah, the darkness would probably respond with something like that. I just went back to check, and the last directive was actually Consume. Enhance. Replicate. Though it was directed at Iron Lords at the time, but still held for the Guardians. The SIVA computer would have given it's directive of Consume. Enhance. Replicate. And likely the darkness would have responded with something like Consume. Enhance. Replicate. Salvation. Basically adding on to the directives it already had.

Yeah, thats better. Its just that the "salvation" thing is basically what the darkness is, so it would be cool if it was in the SIVA code.

Rasputin interrupts the broadcast and warns that Warsats are heading towards the farm The civilians have just enough time to evacuate before they hit The Warsats hit and SIVA constructs climb out and start attacking and using Darkness powers and everything goes to shit You fight your way out and get to your ship and head for Mars When you get to Mars you meet up with Ana and she tells you that she and Rasputin are working on a fix for the SIVA corruption, but need some samples of the SIVA constructs or a piece of whatever device is controlling it. She can do a temp fix for now, but it locks you to one energy type for now (Your choice)

[Insert Strike here] You make your way into what's left of the hive nest while they're battling it out with the SIVA constructs The Hive are losing, but they're managing to distract the constructs enough that you don't face the full force and you use the tunnels to make your way around the larger battles. You make your way to a Warsat that's spawning constructs. (The Warsats have been turned into mini SIVA factories), and you are attacked by constructs and a construct boss. After you finish them off you investigate the Warsat to rip out the SIVA construction core and a dark shard when your ghost malfunctions and falls to the ground You're suddenly lightless again You grab your ghost and run You fight (lightless) through the tunnels and make your way to an opening Ghost is talking to you but glitches out half the time he can still heal you, but can't resurrect you, and he manages to call your ship to the opening. You fight off a small wave of Hive while you wait for your ship to get there, and run as soon as it arrives. You get back to the CB complex and talk to Anna. She takes the equipment and makes a quick fix for your ghost again. but you don't get your light back not the powers at least Your ghost can only heal and resurrect you Anna has a fix for that though She fixes the SIVA manufacturing Core and gives it to you and she codes it to make a grenade for you a SIVA grenade You go on an adventure to experiment with the new power when you get back, Ana has a way to fortify her fix, so your ghost doesn't go down again, but hasn't quite figured out how to restore your powers properly She suggests another jaunt into the caves to find another core More fighting. More constructs A lot less hive. You find another ghost floating around the tunnels It flies up to you Its eye glows red, and a SIVA construct body forms around it Just like with the pyramid shards You fight a SIVA construct with light powers It throws a flaming knife at you, and a Swarm grenade This ghost belonged to a Hunter Gunslinger You fight it and destroy the body, and the ghost flies away you find another Warsat and rip out the production core Anna refurbishes it, and you get your SIVA melee power

SIVA abilities do Kinetic damage, the same as your Kinetic guns. Class names Mainframe Titan Upgraded Hunter Hacker Warlock Grenades - Chaff Burst: Spreads a harmful cloud around you that obscures all but your vision (Your allies can see through it in PvE, but not PvP, your vision is monochrome and blurry) The vision-obscuring goes away fairly quickly, but the corrosive effect lingers for a while. - Combat Scanner: A thrown scanner that stuns nearby enemies and gives a short-range ping that highlights your enemies, letting you see them through walls for a short period. - Net Trap: sets a trap where the grenade lands that explodes and launches a net at a nearby enemy, slowing them Titan Melee Buckshot punch: You punch forward and fire out a spray of microparticles in a shotgun-like blast ahead of you. Hunter Melee Chaining shot: You charge up a melee shot, and fire it forward. It can jump to nearby targets after the first, depending on the charge level. Warlock melee SIVA Slash: 3 Charges, the SIVA strikes for you and doesn't interrupt your shooting or other abilities. Titan super Rain Fire You get overshields and jump up and hover and can fly around, and you get a what's basically an A-10 chain gun. Not quite as strong for single target damage as the Hunter's golden gun as it can't do precision damage, but it can ad clear like mad. But yeah, the big thing for the constructs being a problem is because when the body is destroyed, the shard or infected ghost just goes back to the nearest core and gets a new body Haven't figured out the Hunter or Warlock Supers yet Or other grenades or melee abilities.