Commencement
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Commencement is the final mission in The Central Academy Strangelet quest in The Edge of Fate.
Objectives[edit]
- Go to the Laboratory
- Navigate through the Central Academy to the Labratory.
- Defeat the Cyclops
- Access the Aionian Terminal
- The Aionian systems have recorded local telemetry. Access the terminal to narrow down the location of other nearby Vex.
- Track Down More Vex
- The Aionian telemetry indicated a Hydra based in a nearby scrapyard. Hunt it down and thin the Vex presence within.
- Defeat the Hydra
- Head to the Ritual Site
- Work your way through the Central Academy to get to the Aionians' ritual site.
- Destroy the Oracle.
- Head to the Ritual Site
- The way to the ritual site that the dean described is clear. Go there and clear the Vex away from the Aionians' holy site.
- Defeat the Gate Lord
- Collect the Strangelet Capsule
- Approach and collect the strangelet capsule now that it is undefended.
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(Mission begins)
Aionian Campus, Kepler
- Ikora: Orin, can you fight?
- Orin: Persimmon! Oh… yes! Lodi, you can help. Can you see down the valley of time? Two minutes ahead?
- Lodi: I am very sorry ma'am, but I… I do not know what you're saying!
- Ikora: Take your time, Orin. Guardian, draw out Maya's Vex. The Vex signals Dean Rebecca provided are cloaked. Something's not right! Vex outposts are usually interlinked. Take these ones down first, and it will weaken the others in hiding!
- The Guardian uses their Rosseta to access the way to the laboratory, and ascend a vertical area while evading Vex laser traps. After using Matterspark to advance, they encounter Choral Vex forces.
- Ghost: Here's the Vex Ikora was talking about.
- After defeating an Uplifted Cyclops, the Guardian access the terminal it was guarding.
- Ghost: Clear up the signals in the area, and… bam. We have the location on a bigger boss. And we can use that one to get to the biggest boss. Let's go.
- Using Matterspark, the Guardian makes their way through a duct into the Campus courtyard. After fighting some more Vex, they destroy some fallen devices to make their way to the scrapyard.
- Ghost: So, we think there's a strangelet capsule at the ritual site Dean Rebecca told us about. Do you think it was there all along?
- Lodi: It's possible. The way the Aionians talk about dark matter. Like even elementary particles of the universe contain a spirit in their way.
- Orin: The capsule is vetiver this way. It's fading for me, but I hear the singularity as well, in the distance.
- Lodi: Like a groan. You hear it too?
- The Guardian makes their way to the scrapyard, using Matterspark to charge a Vex Pylon to open the way. Once there, they find a Vex force led by a Lynchpin Hydra. After taking out the fallen devices shielding it, the Guardian is able to destroy it.
- Ikora: As we've been speaking to the Aionians and moving through their settlement, I've been constructing a theory. It needs work, but… The nascent form is this: After the Collapse, few people were leaving Earth. More recently, we would notice. And the Aionians are truly Humans. I think… they must have come here during the Golden Age. Maybe even before.
- Lodi: You keep saying that word. "Collapse"? Uh, I've never heard the Aionians say "Golden Age" or anything like it, but they've mentioned a span of time that was… good? Better? C-could be it.
- The Guardian inputs an Aionian command code to open a door and makes their way to the ritual site.
- Ikora: Lodi, you said your vocation was translating. Now that you've added the Aionians' to your repertoire, how many do you speak?
- Lodi: Fluently, four, passably, nine, only written, two. Not many folks to speak them with these days. I grew up speaking three at home. I learned others in… school. Here and there. Anyone who would teach me. Those two written ones… Maybe I can learn how to pronounce them.
- The Guardian uses Matterspark to charge three Vex Pylons to disable to shield of an Oracle. They then destroy it to progress.
- Lodi: Orin, you said you had the dreams too? Before you became Emissary?
- Orin: Languages I didn't understand, my leg turning to bismuth…
- Lodi: Same. Mine was Cadmium though.
- The Guardian continues to the site, eventually spotting several holographic figures of the Conductor surrounded by the bodies of Exile's Dregs.
- Maya Sundaresh: Your continued interference has been noticed.
- Ikora: The Conductor. Even out here, anyone who stands in the way of restoring your Golden Age ends up trampled. You're here to make things worse.
- Maya Sundaresh: Am I? I understand our designs for the future seem mutually exclusive to you, but I have ignored the Guardians since Nessus.
- Orin: What power does this Maya bear? It's hives and nausea. Whatever paracausality she wields is fundamentally rule-breaking.
- Maya Sundaresh: You chase a villain of your own imagination. My goals are not against you. They are ABOVE you. Now, leave us.
- The Guardian approaches the ritual site, where they find a massive Vex Gate surrounded by holograms of Maya and a circle of Vex energy above. As they get close, Choral vex forces are called in and the gate activates, summoning the Gate Lord Phydron.
- Ikora: She's still going to throw everything she has to get us out of the way. Gate Lord incoming!
- Using Matterspark, the Guardian is able to destroy Vex cubes and Oracles maintaining Phydron's immunity shield and destroy the Gate Lord.
- Lodi: So… Maya wants to return us to the Golden Age. The Aionians haven't talked about it. When was the Golden Age?
- Ikora: It ended centuries ago. There's reason to suspect the Aionian ancestors arrived before it began. Imagine… watching the world end from the edge of the system.
- Lodi: Ikora… when was all this? Did the Collapse happen in MY time? Did my family die in an apocalypse, or did they get to grow old and die happy? I need to know… that they live a full life, even if I'm not there to see it.
- The Guardian acquires the Strangelet capsule. Ikora and Lodi transmat before the Guardian.
- Lodi: How long ago? How long? When did the world end?
- Ikora: So many records were wiped out… We don't have an exact number. Hundreds of years ago.
- Lodi: Gone. Are you — are you — are you kidding me? Just like that? There was an apocalypse, and it's ancient history, and that's it? Didn't someone think to — to etch a date in a stone or something helpful? There's no time capsules, there's no bunkers — just gone? [exhales] And I can't undo any of it.
- Ikora: Lodi, that would have never been possible. Surely you know this?
- Lodi: No. [exhales] I don't know!
- Ikora: You're not the first person to wake up lost. I'll tell you what I tell the others. The Golden Age rose and fell, and then so did the Dark Age. There were few of us then, and survival barely eked out. But we did. Humans live. We built a city. In time, there will be more.
- Lodi: There were hundreds.
- Ikora: I know. Can you tell me what you do remember?
- Lodi: What does it matter now? S… I'm sorry. I was… Sorry. It's such a simple question, but I— I know. I… remember stars.
- Ikora and Lodi look to the Kepler sky.
- Lodi: I used to drive out into the country to see them. As bright as they were a hundred years ago. Always used to take my breath away. Just looking up, realizing… all over again how much more was out there that nobody saw. …I guess the stars aren't such a wonder any more. Out here.
- Ikora: There are still mysteries.
- Ikora and Lodi transmat away.
(Mission end)
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Appearance[edit]
- Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate (First appearance)
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