Heliostat

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Heliostat
Game:	Destiny 2
Campaign:	Reclamation
Player(s):	1-3
Recommended Power Level:	280
Location:	Archon's Keep, Plaguelands
Enemy faction(s):	Nessian Schism Red Legion
Hostile race(s):	Vex Cabal
Objective(s):	Investigate the source of a mysterious Taken power - and claim it before anyone else can.
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Heliostat is an Exotic Mission introduced in Reclamation. Completing this activity rewards the Guardian with the Wolfsbane Exotic Sword.

Overview

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Objectives

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Transcript

"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.

{Loading screen}

• Ikora: The Conductor's forces are rampant in the Plaguelands. We're sending you in to investigate and take action. Lodi, our ambassador from Earth's past, will be monitoring communications with me.

• Lodi: The Plaguelands have been interdicted for years thanks to lingering SIVA — tech described to me as "infinitely replicating evil nanomachines." Oh boy. Well, now it's kaput — the last of the SIVA died with the Warmind Rasputin.

• Ikora: Be warned. The danger ahead is an unknown one.

{Mission begins}

The Guardian lands near the Archon's Keep and approaches the Warsat Facility.

• Ikora: You'll be joined on this expedition by a squad of Psions allied with the Forces of the City. They're experts in a wide variety of fields, including manipulation of Quicksilver, a Neomuni nanite technology that may prove useful here. You have command on the ground. Bear it well.

The Guardian encounters a radiation leak. They call upon Decima, Shielding Psion.

• Lodi: Seems like a problem for our Psionic allies. When I was 20, I'd have given my left hand to talk to 'em for an hour. Funny where life takes you.

The Guardian enters Bunker War-6, the Warsat facility.

• Ikora: Lodi, you were curious about SIVA. This is its deactivated form.

• Lodi: Technology gone rogue, poisoning a landscape, destroying the people who touched it… That's… not a threat I thought I'd face twice in a lifetime.

If the Guardian is wielding Outbreak Perfected, the following dialogue plays:

• Ikora: The surrounding SIVA isn't reacting at all to the Guardian wielding a colony of live nanites. No fear, Lodi. This is one threat we're both past.

The Guardian calls Thysaeuc, Quicksilver Psion to dissolve the SIVA barrier. The Guardian finds a way through the dead SIVA to access the bunker. The Guardian accesses Central Observation to activate the Warsat elevators.

• Maya Sundaresh: I will not be stopped. The satellite will launch and spread my legions through this whole barren system. So, the Echo of Command proved itself worthless. Enough. I have better tools. Two choices only remain for you, Ikora Rey: my Golden Age or nothing.

The Guardian finds the override codes to initialise the gravlift.

• Ikora: Get ready for a fight. And watch out! There's something familiar about the signature this time…

The Guardian defeats Value Thunn and stops the Warsat launch.

• Maya Sundaresh: You have chosen nothing! A dead world. An empty future bereft of any meaning.

• Ikora: The future is not yours to shape.

• Maya Sundaresh: When my command is complete, it will be.

The Guardian calls the Psions to the Warsat.

• Ikora: That's the machine. Destroy this, and you destroy the Conductor's ability to bring Red Legionnaires into our timeline.

• Maya Sundaresh: You think you've won. I will return from the network in a strength beyond anything you can imagine.

• Ikora: Go on… run away. We'll ready for you.

The Guardian destroys the satellite.

• Ikora: That's a Quicksilver energy signature — one from another timeline. Take it, Guardian.

The Guardian reaches through time to claim Wolfsbane.

{Mission ends}

First Catalyst

• Ikora: Takeover of local systems holding steady at 60%. The files are signed by an "Astraea" — the AI of Vesper Station, up in Europa orbit. Guardians have encountered this AI before. Lodi, she passed on a distress call from you. About your… "Odysseus Protocol"?

• Lodi: Well, Ms. Astraea, we appreciate having an ally keeping an eye on this place for us. And… personally? Thanks for boosting that signal. I'm real pleased about the people it led to me.

• Ikora: Very ambassadorial of you.

• Lodi: Just doing my job.

Second Catalyst

• Lodi: We've got a Golden Age AI interfacing with this Light technology, but you're saying Light-infused tech wasn't standard in her time?

• Ikora: Not at all, as far as we knew. We didn't have historical records of Light-infused tech like this 'til now. Do you have anything you'd like to share about our former employer's other secret innovations?

• Lodi: No, ma'am.

Third Catalyst

• Lodi: Uh, Astraea's at 87% integration — some structure discrepancies still holding out on us.

• Ikora: There's much to learn here. About the Golden Age, about Warminds… The Owl Sector will be eager to sink their teeth into this one. I won't impose, but… we could use a linguist who's also an expert in historical computer systems.

• Lodi: Ikora, I want in even if the Owl Sector are ACTUAL owls.

• Ikora: I'll make the introductions, Louis.

Fourth Catalyst

• Ikora: Code takeover complete. Astraea is now fully integrated into the facility network. Nobody else should be able to get in. Hold on, Guardian. Something's… activating. Lodi?

• Lodi: "Sister, I will find you no matter how far your ashes have been scattered. We don't have to be alone." AIs with sisters is a new one to me! But… you could call the Nine a family too. Wonder if it's one of those things that comes free with sentience.

• Ikora: Satellites launched — trajectory's locked. It'll take her a long time to get that far, but… Astraea is headed for Neptune.

If the Guardian is wielding Hierarchy of Needs, Lori's dialogue changes to the following:

• Lodi: "Sister, I will find you no matter how far your ashes have been scattered. We don't have to be alone." Says you've got part of her sister with you, actually, Guardian. I don't know how pleased she is about that…

Enemies

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Vex - Nessian Schism

• Choral Goblin
• Choral Harpy
• Choral Hobgoblin
• Imp Swarm
• Radiolaria Nexus
• Uplifted Choral Hydra
• Warden

Cabal - Red Legion

• Legionary
  • Honored Legionary
• Honored Psion
• Honored Phalanx
• Deathwatch
• Honored Incendior
• Honored Gladiator
• Honored Centurion

Bosses

• Deathwatch Commander
• Valus Thunn

Allies

• Decima, Shielding Psion
• Thysaeuc, Quicksilver Psion
• Nuajes, Hacking Psion

Rewards

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• Wolfsbane - Exotic Sword

Appearance

• Destiny 2: Reclamation