A warmind built during the Golden Age with the goal of protecting human civilization from unknown threats. During the Golden Age the great artificial intelligences existed across thousands of warsats, standing in watch over fledgling colonies. When the collapse began the warminds were humanity's primary defense. They fought the darkness and were defeated, but they were not completely destroyed. When it became clear that he would not be able to hold back the darkness, Rasputin (bless his intellect, vastly does it surpass my own) entered a state of hibernation in the Cosmodrome. He lay dormant for many years before his signal was discovered by a guardian.When a powerful radar array in the Cosmodrome was reconnected, Rasputin took this opportunity to re-establish himself, making contact with long forgotten warsats through the system. His presence has been felt as far afield as Mars where he is believed to have used a number of Golden Age weapons systems against the Vex and the Cabal. The warmind's motives are not well understood, he has not responded to messages from the Vanguard. At present the Tower cautiously consider Rasputin to be an ally, but it is possible that his time in hibernation was spent reconsidering his priorities. So we've known that these warminds were A. Called in by Shim because they were trapped by a vex, because it was too smart for the vex unit and was thus overwhelmed. B. Target the vex on Mars and the Cabal on Mars (and possibly the house of scar/exile on Mars?) but the thing is that the only remaining warmind, Rasputin, sees great importance in the war on Mars, let's take a look and see what happens when the Cabal piss him off: Ghost fragment Rasputin 2 She hunts the Valus named Ta'aurc by the grunting radio traffic of his bodyguards. Cayde sent her to Mars to track and so track she will even if it kills her a hundred times. For him she will hunt forever. When Ta'aurc goes down into Meridian Bay she follows him in the night and finds herself caught up in the war. Like this— Something's happening, her Ghost says, something's wrong. She leaps from the Sparrow and gets cover between slabs of ancient stone haunted by quiet firefly light. Harvesters sweep overhead, cautious, prowling. On the Cabal command network a low voice mutters in their tongue, saying: Stand by to fire. They are coming. Stand by to fire. Hearing this she climbs a stone obelisk and perches on its point to watch the night sky. She wonders whether she will ever stand in the Tower courtyard and look up at the stars waiting for ruin. The Vex erupt from nothingness and crash down over the Cabal in formations of golden light. Lightning arcs and snaps and gives birth to marching ranks of bronze warrior hulls. Gun positions thunder back. Tracers sweep the sky and she can feel on her skin the electromagnetic howl of Cabal munitions seeking targets and the prickle of stranger signals that whisper of broken space and bent time. A Harvester spins down burning to shatter itself on the sand and now the command network drums with grim Cabal war-speak, a Centurion somewhere crying Black Shield, Black Shield, Firebase Thuria, perimeter compromised, request terminal protective fire, zero six zero, one three eight, immediate effect— Something else is watching too. Do you feel that? her Ghost whispers, awestruck. Yes, she says, yes, what is it? A third song, a stealthy regard, something high above them not Vex nor Cabal narrowing its great eye to measure the battle with instruments of light and gravity. Does she—remember it? Does it remember her? It feels like she should... She has the sense of something old lifting a long spear. Testing its heft. Then dawn light, a terrible dawn—the sky opens up to admit devastation, thrown down from orbit: Minotaurs fall burnt and broken with their fluids boiling out. Cabal guns detonate in thunderous chains as tiny piercing flechettes fall out of the sky and find their ammunition bunkers. The battle stops. The Vex wink out. On the Cabal network the voice of Valus Ta'aurc roars: Find the source! Rouse the Flayers and find the source! She remembers word from Earth: the Array opened. A ghost of the Cosmodrome set loose. And she wonders who won this battle, who learned the most, the Vex baiting out this new power, or the Cabal hunting it. Or the Warmind itself, testing its reborn strength. When someone kills Ta'aurc and the Flayers, as they killed Draksis, whose purpose will they serve? But this is not for her. Her purpose is the hunt. "The Warmind itself, testing its reborn strength" Was the warmind dead? Or in hibernation? There is a code that Rasputin gave to shut himself down for a while in this card: V120NNI800CLS000 CLEAR MORNING OUTCRY AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//FORCECON//IMPERATIVE IMMEDIATE ACTION ORDER This is an ALL ASSETS IMPERATIVE (unsecured/OUTCRY) CAUTERIZE. DISPERSE. ESTIVATE. Total strategic collapse imminent. FENRIR HEART reports complete operational mortality. SURTR DROWN in progress but negative effect. Forecasts unanimously predict terminal VOLUSPA failure. As of CLS000 a HARD CIVILIZATION KILL EVENT is in progress across the operational area. I am declaring YUGA SUNDOWN effective on receipt (epoch reach/FORCECON variant). Cancel counterforce objectives. Cancel population protection objectives. Format moral structures for MIDNIGHT EXIGENT. Execute long hold for reactivation. AI-COM/RSPN SIGNOFF STOP STOP STOP V120NNI800CLS001 This is the code that Rasputin induced upon himself as the Darkness crept into the system, with impending doom threatening his existence and humanities existence, he shut himself down. YUGA SUNDOWN literally means the end of the world and he says a few other times that he would shut himself down; he says "execute long hold for activation" with these final statements and seemingly insignificant ramblings were his reaction to the darkness, many argue that he caused the collapse but I believe that he shut himself down to save us later. That's all for today guardians! Stop by next time for some great lore!