*Before we start, I must say that this post is influenced by The Muzzy's Book of Sorrows series, which I will link at the bottom of this page. There are three stories that the SIVA Fragments tell: Clovis Bray, the Fallen and the Iron Lords. This post will include all three stories, so don't go looking for more. Enjoy! [b]Clovis Bray:[/b] The story starts off with Zarin, an employee who works for Clovis Bray, protesting to Clovis Bray not to continue further research into what we can assume is SIVA because of lethality risks. We find out that Zarin was a good employee with no records of protest of the work she was doing, and that she claimed she was trying to act in Clovis Bray's best interests by not continuing the research. Clovis says that his company will use Zarin's research to bolster space colonization, and that Zarin's participation is no longer necessary, and that Zarin was [i]most likely[/i] trying to access unreleased data without authorization. [quote]-Cut to after the SIVA nanites have been developed and are in testing-[/quote] We learn from someone named Dr. Zhang, who is reporting to Clovis Bray, that SIVA nanites can preform over 200 tasks over multiple different trials and enviroments, and that all that was left to build was the replication chamber and the all-clear for production. Clovis Bray orders that a "kill switch" for SIVA to be developed. The reasons for the installation of a kill switch is because a scientist formerly on the staff, which we can assume is Zarin, said that SIVA may bring a few "undesirable outcomes." After that, Clovis brings up the research facility, to which Dr. Zhang responds that SIVA would not have been near finished in six months without the facility and budget. We now fast forward to when the replication complex is finished. Clovis Bray thanks Dr. Zhang for her service, and refers to the wonders SIVA will bring as the New Machine Age. We have also found out the Zarin is linked to the Owl Sector (see Rising Wind's post below). [b]Iron Lords:[/b] This story takes place during the Iron Lords' battle at the Replication Complex. It appears that SIVA began controlling Iron Lords during the battle, as the narrator says that he is fighting his brother and himself. A SIVA tendril crushes his ghost, and he dies shortly after, killed by frames. We find out next that Colovance died by a tanker, where hundreds a frames killed him after he ran out of ammo and smashed a ton of framess to bits. Next, we learn that SIVA has already destroyed all of the urns that recharge iron axes, and that SIVA learned from the urns, as SIVA learns from what it consumes. Next, we learn that most of the remaining Iron Lords were going to draw out most of the frames so that Jolder's group (the A-Team) can destroy the Replication Complex. We now learn what happens to Finnala and Felwinter. Finnala said that she doesn't mind dying, because it doesn't last. We then hear someone pleading with Finnala to wake up. Felwinter tried to contact Rasputin, but Rasputin "didn't respond with words." The remaining part is what the Iron Lord's felt before they died: First there is doubt (How do I fight you?), next there is fear (I don't want to die!) and then denial (I've come too far to die!). [b]The Fallen (This part may give you a headache):[/b] This story is about how the Fallen acquired SIVA. We first learn that SIVA brings pain, but "godhood" must come at a price. The Fallen are no longer the Fallen. They are undefined, and make their new selves. From the Splicers' point of view, SIVA is a machine of a thousand parts, but controlled by a single mind, and that the complexity of the mind only requires the will to weild it. The Splicers think of themselves as gods that freed themselves from what has always bound them, and that they are at last equal to the god that they worshipped. We learn that unlike how a simple species requires time to develop, but machines do not. Spans of life do not matter to machines, only the building of complexity. We now learn how a SIVA-fied Fallen thinks, in the form of Aksis, Archon Prime. According to Aksis, the memories of his past self (before SIVA) do not belong to him, but to a version if him that could die, and that he can die no longer. The SIVA controlling Aksis can see from his eyes, breathe with his lungs, stride with is legs, and kill with his hands, yet the SIVA is not Aksis. The SIVA is SIVA, yet it is also Aksis (let the headaches ensue). Back into the POV of Aksis, Aksis' thinking is much clearer than it was before SIVA, yet it is not Aksis' mind that is thinking, but another consciousness that is separate from Aksis'. Aksis feels that he has a choice to make, yet he has made no choice, and that the choice has been made for him. Additionally, lore master Saint-14 wrote this about Aksis and SIVA- [quote]Aksis is the mind that controls SIVA, but that mind is no longer Aksis, if that makes any sense. Aksis and SIVA have merged completely giving SIVA a kind of pseudo-consciousness through a complete merging. [/quote] ~Saint-14 Aaaaaand that is all! I was writing this at 2 in the morning so let me know if there are any spelling/grammar errors that I need to fix, or if I need to fix something on that Fallen part, which still confuses me. Thanks for reading! Muzzy's Book of Sorrows Post: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/203322661/0/0 Rising Wind's post on the Owl Sector: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/213832967/0/0