NOTE: I ignore "A Guardian Rises" for most of my characters' backstories. For Awoken Guardians, it makes no sense at all that they were in the Cosmodrome. My Awoken Hunter, Kiara Pel, was a young woman when the Darkness hit. Like most children of the Golden Age, she was innocent and perhaps a bit superficial, but she possessed courage and intellect. She would need both for what was coming. She was among the original Awoken, the people who flew ships off into the dark and were mysteriously transformed in the interplanetary graveyard that became the Reef. 80 years after the Darkness hit, she was part of a mission sent to Mars to search for useful supplies for the expanding number of Awoken. However, she found a nest of Vex, which quickly overwhelmed her team. being the leader of the mission, she sacrificed herself to allow the others to escape, and died under the Vex's boots. 280 years after that, a Ghost found her bleached bones, half-buried in the sand. One mysterious revive later, she was reborn as a fearsome huntress. She gave her allegiance to the City, and later to the New Monarchy. Having lived through the Golden Age, she wanted to restore it. She only lasted a short time as a gunslinger, preferring the invisible ways of the Bladedancer. She continues to walk that path today.