Atlas and Almanac

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Atlas and Almanac
Game:	The Edge of Fate
Quest giver:	Simulant Ansible
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Atlas and Almanac is a Quest associated with completing objectives in the Epic variant of The Desert Perpetual Raid.

Steps[edit]

"And my vanquisher will read that book, seeking the weapon, and they will come to understand me, where I have been and where I was going."The following is a verbatim transcription of an official document for archival reasons. As the original content is transcribed word-for-word, any possible discrepancies and/or errors are included.

Maya Sundaresh: Your work helped Chioma and I to reunite. Now, we work as a combined front.

Chioma Esi: I missed my research assistant.

Maya Sundaresh: Oh, your pardon, Dr. Esi.

Chioma Esi: Not at all, Dr. Sundaresh.

The ansible clicks and crackles before giving way to Maya and Chioma's voices, arriving from the simulation they've dubbed Green Moon Rho.

"The Conductor is out there somewhere. Her Echo is failing, and I am absolutely sure she's looking for some new power to compensate." Maya's voice is grim. She knows her other self better than anyone.

"We think we can find her. Or at least, narrow down the possibility of where in the VexNet she's working," Chioma says, determined. "You helped us find our way to each other—with a small tweak to our methods, I believe we can find her."

She adds with an audible smile for Maya, "I missed my research assistant."

Maya and Chioma sign off, ready for the work ahead. It's time to return to the anchors you've already placed and draw a path on your map.

Step 1[edit]

The Vex network stacks simulation upon simulation in nearly endless layers. If you analyze the anchors already placed at points of overlap, you'll glean meaningful data for Maya and Chioma.

Return to one of the anchors you placed to untangle more data.

"I didn't train in mapmaking, but it's never too late to pick up another specialty."

— 227.50 Chioma Esi

Maya Sundaresh: Well done. That's one coordinate set added to our system.

Chioma Esi: Let me see how you're marking them.

Maya Sundaresh: Do you have feedback for my recording methodology?

Chioma Esi: Not yet, I don't.

Step 2[edit]

Check back in with Maya and Chioma at the Simulant Ansible about your research.

Return to the Simulant Ansible.
- Ansible visited

"We've already amassed petabytes of data. A pattern will form in time."

— 227.87 Maya Sundaresh

Maya and Chioma are pleased with the data you've managed to glean from the Vex thus far.

While all they need for their work is information on the Conductor's whereabouts, that's not all they've managed to collect. They offer you their preliminary research on VexNet matter-conversion formulae with gratitude, in the hopes you'll find something valuable within it.

You can now attune to armor from "The Desert Perpetual." Complete additional steps to unlock attunement for more gear.

Step 3[edit]

Expanding your dataset has uncovered further grounds for research. Continue collaborating with Maya and Chioma to unlock new reward attunement options.

Return to your placed anchors to study the layers of simulations beneath them.
- x/3

"The work is as invigorating as the freedom to pursue it."

— 227.50 Chioma Esi

Maya Sundaresh: Chioma, on my search for you, I kept seeing two men within the network… always from a distance. A small golden figure, accompanied by a knightly one. I don't think they're simulated.

Chioma Esi: People from real space within the VexNet? Trapped here? Or more explorers? We'll need to be cautious. But if we can trust them, I'll take any allies we can get.

Chioma Esi: We lost so many Chiomas when the Conductor started pulling us out of the net. .97's Chioma was handling our population numbers. I'll have to contact her to update her count. Maybe it's selfish, but… I'm relieved to put a number back on the board. Even if it's just me.

Maya Sundaresh: I mourn all our losses. I refuse to regret that we no longer have to mourn yours.

Step 4[edit]

Simulations converge around the anchors driven deep into the network's structure. Study more of them to unlock new reward attunement options.

Return to your placed anchors to study the layers of simulations beneath them.
- x/6

"Thank you for your diligence in fieldwork. I missed this more than I thought."

— 227.50 Chioma Esi, wistful

"She missed having another person to boss around."

— 227.87 Maya Sundaresh, affectionate

Maya Sundaresh: The VexNet coordinate system we've built is not a simple one. I wish we were working in a more limited number of dimensions. Three. Five, even.

Chioma Esi: Our innovations in multidimensional signal processing would win us a grant back home.

Maya Sundaresh: Please, another postdoc for Dr. Esi!

Chioma Esi: I didn't have much sense of the Conductor from my time with her. If I could only have gotten into her data partitions, I could have come out with something useful.

Maya Sundaresh: You came out with your life.

Maya Sundaresh: Huh. I'm impressed at the efficiency of our quiet friend on the ground. Thank you for all the work you do.

Chioma Esi: We die, we're gone. You come back, you're still you. What does that do a person's sense of self, I wonder?

Step 5[edit]

The map is growing along with your collected data. So are Maya and Chioma's refinements to their matter conversion formulae. Bring them more data to unlock new reward attunement options.

Return to your placed anchors to study the layers of simulations beneath them.
- x/10

"I can't hide from myself forever."

— 227.87 Maya Sundaresh

Chioma Esi: I grew apart from the Maya I entered the VexNet with. We became different people over a lifetime. I understand that process. [snorts] I still don't understand the process that turned any Maya into the Conductor.

Maya Sundaresh: I do.

Chioma Esi: Some Chioma out there in the net could have undergone the same process. Become something just as wrong.

Maya Sundaresh: One of you? Impossible.

Chioma Esi: We'll both have to agree to disagree.

Chioma Esi: Other iterations of our exploratory teams voted to try leaving the VexNet. We elected to stay behind. There's work left for us here. Someone has to do it.

Chioma Esi: Mercury recurs in so many of these Vex simulations. Almost always with a strange silhouette, like it lost a great deal of mass.

Maya Sundaresh: Why simulate a half-eaten Mercury?

Chioma Esi: Vex Collectives carve out territories within their shared information network. They run their experiments in isolation. Now we have the current bounds of this collective's simulation space. The edges of the jigsaw puzzle, if you will.

Maya Sundaresh: There will be a clue to the Conductor within its bounds. There must be.

Step 6[edit]

Return to the Simulant Ansible. Maya and Chioma have one last update for you.

Return to the Simulant Ansible.

You've helped Maya and Chioma untangle the secrets of the VexNet's structure. Explorers to the end, they're planning to take their research and use it to track down the Conductor, wherever she is and whatever she's doing.

"We must rally the other exploratory teams, and we must stop the Conductor before she kills again. She may not be me, but I recognize myself in her. I owe it to Chioma to stop her." There's deep pain in Maya's voice. "I owe it to myself."

"So, you're being self-serving," Chioma jokes, in an attempt to lighten the mood.

The Conductor is somewhere out there. The Echo's slow failure hasn't stopped her. Maybe the exploratory teams will find her next; maybe you will. All any of you know is that your work has not yet ended.

Before they set out on their next journey, Maya and Chioma offer you the fruits of your shared labor.

Appearance[edit]

Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate (First appearance)