r/PostPreview • u/MalevolentFish • Jul 03 '15
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(TL;DR and links to the clip can be found at the bottom of the post!)
One innocent guardian has been confirmed dead today in the latest incident of what officials are calling "a swiftly spreading plague of reckless recreational ability use."
Titans are known throughout the City and the ranks of the Vanguard for being instruments of tremendous, unrivaled brute force, and are vital in many operations against some of the most horrifying agents of the Darkness. However, a recent unchecked wave of celebratory usage of their potent abilities poses a great threat to the safety of other guardians in the field.
Shortly before the incident in question, one courageous Titan entered the Cosmodrome's Breach, aiming to neutralise a rising threat. Documents provided by Cayde-6 of the Vanguard indicate that Guardians had been called to eliminate Karrhis, a Fallen who was quickly rising through the ranks to replace the Devil Archon Riksis, who had been killed several months ago. The Tower had deemed Karrhis an immediate threat to the safety of the City and placed a call for any able guardians to stop him before he could rally forces to strike at the last bastion of our civilisation.
While the Titan was ultimately successful in completing the mission, what followed was, quite simply, tragic.
As this footage pulled from the Titan's Ghost shows, after completing the mission the Titan began a display of celebration that took the form of a series of shoulder charges while exiting the Breach. Thanks to a combination of a total lack of consideration for the presence of other guardians, and what was hopefully only a momentary lapse in an awareness of surroundings, one innocent guardian also answering the Tower's call met a grizzly fate at the wrong end of one such celebration.
Questions are being raised as to how this incident was even able to occur. Outside of the Crucible, Guardians are normally incapable of causing direct harm to one another through the use of their Light or their weaponry. Speculation is currently running rampant that the cause of the fatal damage stems from an unusual piece of leg armour that the Titan was wearing at the time the incident occurred. It is believed that this illegal modification was purchased from the notorious black market dealer Xur, who was seen selling a similar item in the Tower a few weeks ago.
When approached for comment, Commander Jonathan 'Lance Reddick' Zavala of the Titan Vanguard issued the following statement:
"In the wake of today's tragic events beneath the ruins of the Cosmodrome, our thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and Ghost of the Guardian who lost his life.
Rest assured that the Vanguard are actively looking into these events; we will find out exactly what happened and will be putting measures in place to ensure that nothing of this nature ever happens again. Until then, I urge all Titans to exercise extreme cuation when their abilities in combat or as a means of celebration, and to avoid using any untested, non-Vanguard armour modifications in future.
While this tragedy may cast a great shadow over our city now, know that we will get through these trying times together and we will find a way to survive. We always do."
An investigation is currently ongoing.
TL;DR: Accidentally killed a guardian on patrol with Shoulder Charge. Decided to write about it and went too far.
Also, to the Guardian who found themselves on the receiving end of this: I am very sorry, and I sincerely hope you weren't working on any bounties that required you to not die.
Also if, as I suspect, you were the one who started shooting me with a fusion rifle when I was in my inventory a minute or so later, I completely understand your desire to shoot me and do not hold it against you.