

In the end, almost all of the Iron Lords and Iron Wolves sacrificed themselves to stop SIVA and seal it within its complex. Unable to communicate or reason with Rasputin, the Iron Lords still managed to infiltrate Site 6 and release the nanotech only for Rasputin to turn it against them, infecting several of their numbers against their fellow Iron Lords. Rasputin treated the intruders as hostile and activated its defenses. Many years later, Rasputin was reactivated when the Iron Lords, hoping to harness SIVA to bring about a new Golden Age, trespassed into Site 6. Rasputin didn't answer with words." - Unknown Iron Lord. ~consume enhance replicate~ Said he could make it understand. " Felwinter tried to communicate with the Warmind. Īt some point, SIVA was transported to worlds outside of the Solar System under the direction of the Warmind Rasputin. What became of the cache is unknown but it may have survived the crash on Nessus and may be in the ruins of the Exodus Black. One such colony ship was the Exodus Black, which carried a cache of SIVA on it's journey to colonize Kepler-186. The first SIVA replication chamber, designated Site 6, was built within the Cosmodrome in order to outfit the colony ships and rapidly build cities throughout other worlds. So confident was Clovis Bray in SIVA's capabilities that they eschewed adding safety measures, such as a kill switch. The Transmission project was eventually shuttered after it caused unforeseen side-effects in test subjects, and Clovis Bray focused entirely on SIVA, which was later completed and approved for deployment. Chioma Esi speculated in her audio diaries that Willa had been inspired by Vex radiolaria in designing the technology. While Transmission was intended only to enhance the strength, speed, and intelligence of prospective colonists using nanomachines, Willa envisioned SIVA as an all-purpose nanomachine capable of breaking down matter and reconstituting it, with applications ranging from reconstructive surgery to rapidly building entire cities. Willa Bray, the eldest granddaughter of House Bray. Ĭlovis Bray began work on SIVA at the height of the Golden Age, alongside a similar project known to the Guardians only as Transmission. The New Machine Age, shall we call it? Let's begin." - Dr. I look forward to the wonders that come from this replication complex. "Thank you for your faithful service, Dr. We are waiting for your signal to start." " The complex is ready for wholescale replication of the SIVA nanite.

Alerted by Lord Saladin, the Guardian soon put a stop to this, destroying the Replication Chamber and later ending Aksis, Archon Prime. They could resurrect Fallen enemies and even use the tech against their enemies. It not only changed their forms, but it also granted them new abilities.

It was later rediscovered by the Fallen, who took it to be the perfection of technology and sought to perfect themselves entirely, freeing them from their dependency on ether and mortal flesh and become Machine-Gods. Unable to destroy the virus, and with most of the Iron Lords being puppeted against each other under SIVA's control, Lady Jolder sealed both the virus and all of the Iron Lords (with the exception of Lord Saladin and Lady Efrideet) within its bunker, deep within the bowels of the Cosmodrome. It was later rediscovered by the Iron Lords during the early City Age, but it turned against them with the aid of the last Warmind, Rasputin, who was awakened from his centuries-long hibernation when the Iron Lords tried to steal SIVA in their attempt to utilize it for humanity's betterment. Considered an amazing breakthrough in technology, SIVA was envisioned be used to create new structures and colonies on new worlds faster than regular construction methods an all-purpose nanomachine capable of breaking down matter and reconstituting it, with applications ranging from reconstructive surgery to rapidly building entire cities. Prototypes contained in the Clovis Bray facilities on Mars were each programmed with only a single function, including Construct creation, viral armor enhancements, and cybernetic diagnostics. The technology had the ability to create nearly anything that anyone could ever need. Each nanomachine in SIVA's design is an independent, thinking machine that utilises a distributed quantum network to coordinate movement, akin to a mechanical version of Radiolaria, which is suggested to be what inspired the design. SIVA was once a Golden Age breakthrough in self-assembling, self-replicating nanotechnology, created by Clovis Bray to accelerate humanity's colonization effort. Given the right directions, it could create anything imaginable.
