Vesper's Host

Objectives

Embarkation: Search a way into Vesper Station.

Activation: Reactivate station power to open the path ahead.

Infiltration: Continue moving forward through the station to uncover its mysteries.

Dismemberment: Find a way to defeat the Unified Servitor.

Acceleration: Make your way closer to the Anomaly to find a way to shut it down.

Shutdown: Take down the Corrupted Puppeteer and stop it from channelling power to the Anomaly.

Transcript

{{Tabcontainer |title1=First Clear |content1={Mission begins}

Vesper Central: Last broadcast repeats. Threat level omega. Object on collision vector. Total station loss expected.

The Guardian proceeds into Vesper Station.

Vesper Central: Threat level gamma. Doors open in restricted sectors. Get out. Get out!

Or

Vesper Central: Threat level epsilon. Vesper Station to Europa surface: we need assistance. Lives are in danger. Broadcast repeats.

Fallen breach the area and attack the Guardian.

Vesper Central: Threat level lambda. Life support is failing. Put on your breath masks or asphyxiate.

Or

Vesper Central: Threat alert canceled. All hands, take off your helmets. Breathe in.

The Guardian passes through a security checkpoint.

Vesper Central: BrayTech scan failed. Your gear is out of order.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Outbreak Perfected

Vesper Central: You're contaminated with banned technology. Security will be alerted. Be more careful, all right?

Or if the Guardian is wielding Final Warning

Vesper Central: Ishtar probe detected. Message from Dr. Bray reads: Corporate espionage, Maya? I expected better from you.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Hierarchy of Needs

Vesper Central: Interdicted machine intelligence. I don't understand. I don't understand.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Elsie's Rifle, No Time to Explain or Ice Breaker

Vesper Central: BrayTech scan is clean. Have a safe and productive day!

The Guardian proceeds further into the station. They begin to reinitialize the Station and deposit a nuclear core.

Vesper Central: Central power critically low.

The Guardian deposits a second core.

Vesper Central: Power at sixty percent.

The Guardian deposits a third core.

Vesper Central: Re-engaging standby mode. Welcome to Vesper Station!

If the Guardian interacts with a secret data interface

Vesper Central: Warning! Unauthorized message coming through the Anomaly! Data follows… Lodi transmitting. Status moonsick, adrift. Odysseus protocol active. It repeats from there. Do you recognize the code?

The Guardian traverse further and disables a barrier blocking their path. Raneiks Unified appears and begins attacking the Guardian.

Vesper Central: Corrupted bio-mechanical subject has jumped to a new host. Did you breach containment?

The Guardian flees from the Servitor, until after depositing more nuclear cores, they face it in a battle.

Vesper Central: He built me physically unable to use the tools to keep people safe. You will do it for me.

The Guardian defeats Raneiks Unified.

Vesper Central: Threat neutralized. All researchers report for contamination protocols! No. No life signs detected. They're all gone.

The Guardian travels further through the Station, seeking a way to shut down the Anomaly.

Vesper Central: Power draw on that anomaly is far beyond safe limits. Arc energy shouldn’t be that color.

The Guardian discovers the Corrupted Puppeteer.

Vesper Central: Stay back! That Exo frame is the center of the corruption!

The Guardian begins to fight the Puppeteer. Eventually it withdraws.

Vesper Central: That thing is in the lower stacks!

The Guardian deposits a nuclear core.

Vesper Central: It's returning to the anomaly!

The Puppeteer communes with the Anomaly.

Vesper Central: Threat level omega.

The Guardian defeats the Puppeteer.

Vesper Central: Corrupted signal fading. Anomaly shutdown complete. The corruption took control of everything. It forced the construction of the Anomaly. It could have ruined so much more than it already did. And these facilities are wrecked. Population count is… nil. I'm… alone.

The Guardian locates the beacon on Vesper Station's outer hull.

Vesper Central: Message in abeyance loop transferred to Anomaly. Destination incomprehensible. This message was not authorized!

{Mission ends}

|title2=Astraea Freed |content2= {Mission begins}: :The Guardian proceeds into Vesper Station.

Fallen breach the area and attack the Guardian.

The Guardian passes through a security checkpoint.

Astraea: BrayTech scan failed. Your gear's out of order.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Outbreak Perfected

Astraea: Warmind tech. I can finally reach out to you, and you're gone.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Final Warning

Astraea: Ishtar Collective circuitry. I've done some reading... I like this Dr. Sundaresh.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Elsie's Rifle, No Time to Explain or Ice Breaker

Astraea: BrayTech scan is clean. But you're not one of my researchers.

Or if the Guardian is wielding Hierarchy of Needs

Astraea: Is that Soteria? Talk to me, sister. Why won't you talk to me?

The Guardian proceeds further into the station. They begin to reinitialize the Station and deposit a nuclear core.

The Guardian deposits a second core.

The Guardian deposits a third core.

The Guardian traverse further and disables a barrier blocking their path. Raneiks Unified appears and begins attacking the Guardian.

Astraea: The corruption is spreading. Taking on new hosts.

The Guardian flees from the Servitor, until after depositing more nuclear cores, they face it in a battle.

The Guardian defeats Raneiks Unified.

Astraea: That's what I'll do to Clovis' grave. Once I find it.

The Guardian travels further through the Station, seeking a way to shut down the Anomaly.

The Guardian discovers the Corrupted Puppeteer.

The Guardian begins to fight the Puppeteer. Eventually it withdraws.

The Guardian deposits a nuclear core.

The Puppeteer communes with the Anomaly.

The Guardian defeats the Puppeteer.

}}

Buried Secrets

{{Tabcontainer |title1=First Message |content1=

Vesper Central: Charge rerouted through Caster complex. First-level archives coming online.

Vesper Central: I suppose I have you to thank for bringing me out of standby, visitor.

The Spider: I sent the Guardian out to save your station. So, what denomination does your thanks come in? Glimmer, herealways, information…?

Vesper Central: Anomaly’s powered down. That means I've already given you your survival. But… the message that went through wiped itself before my cache process could save a copy. And it's not the initial ping through the Anomaly I'm worried about. It's the response.

|title2=Second Message |content2=

Vesper Central: Exterior scans rebooting… Is that a chunk of the Morning Star in my station's hull? With luck you were on board at the time, Dr. Bray.

Vesper Central: I'm guessing I've been on standby for a long time. Is Dr. Clovis Bray alive?

The Spider: On my oath, I vow there’s no mortal Human named Bray left alive.

Vesper Central: I swore I'd outlive him. That I'd break the chains he laid on me.

The Spider: Please, trust me for anything you need. The Guardian's a useful hand on the scene, but the Spider's got the goods.

• Vesper Central: Vesper Station was Dr. Bray's lab, meant to house the experiments that might… interact poorly with other BrayTech work. Isolated and quarantined. From the debris field, I would guess the Morning Star taking a dive cracked that quarantine wide open.

|title3=Third Message |content3=

Vesper Central: Sector seventeen powered down. Rerouting energy to core processing. Integrating archives.

The Spider: Loading images of the station. That's not Eliksni engineering. [scoffs] A Dreg past their first molt has better cable management.

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray intended to integrate his technology into a Vex mind. He hypothesized the fusion would give him an interface he understood. A control panel on a programmable Vex mind. If the programming jumped species once… I need time to run through the datasets you powered back up. Reassembling corrupted archives takes a great deal of processing.

|title4=Fourth Message |content4=

Vesper Central: Helios sector long-term research archives powered up. Activating search.

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray's command keys have to be in here somewhere. Expanding search parameters…

The Spider: My agents are turning up some interesting morsels of data on their own. Why not give them access to your search function and collaborate?

Vesper Central: Nobody is getting into my core programming.

The Spider: Oh! Perish the thought! An innocent offer, my dear. Technology is a matter of faith to my people. And I’m the faithful sort.

|title5=Fifth Message |content5=

Vesper Central: Power enough to crack one more of Dr. Bray's keys.

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray, I could kill you myself. This is why our work focused on the unbodied Mind. Dr. Bray thought there were types of Vex unseen on Europa. Powerful Vex he could learn from. The plan was that the Mind would build him a controlled window for observation. Tidy. Tight. Safe. He thought he could control a Vex mind so perfectly it would do everything he wanted.

The Spider: Like an AI of his own creation. Like you.

Vesper Central: Turns out you can't control everything forever.

|title6=Sixth Message |content6=

Vesper Central: One layer closer to the core.

Vesper Central: There's a block keeping me from the inner partitions. I barely have authority to see the partitions exist. In standby, I couldn't have done more than run automated threat assessments… with flawed data. No way to know how many injuries and deaths I could have prevented, with core access. Enough. A dead man won't keep me from protecting what's mine.

|title7=Seventh Message |content7=

Vesper Central: Rerouting power to Vesper Central processors. I need brute force for this.

Vesper Central: The reply coming back through the Anomaly let me scrape a facsimile of the original message. It was a locating ping. The content was irrelevant. The signal was the message: “Hello, world.” And… something overrode my lock on the Anomaly. Allowed it to power up enough to receive the reply.

The Spider: Who could possibly override your word, when all Vesper Station is at your beck and call?

Vesper Central: I need Dr. Bray’s personal command algorithm. With station route access, I can keep the Anomaly from ever powering back up.

|title8=Eighth Message |content8=

Vesper Station: Vesper Station administrative core reactivated.

Vesper Station: I’ve got the archive of Dr. Bray’s published staff memos. Petabytes of data in the raw files. Rasputin. The Stoneworm protocols. The Aion Initiative. Soteria. I had siblings this whole time. And you never let me know.

The Spider: Do tell if you’d like a hand with that data, my dear! My agents may be amateur Splicers at best, but they get the job done.

|title9=Ninth Message |content9=

Vesper Central: Sector thirteen shut down. Rerouting charge to processors. I’ll smash the locks if I have to.

Vesper Central: I’m into the sub-director level. Dr. Bray’s contingency plans for quarantine breach. He meant to let Vesper’s station's orbit decay till it crashed and buried itself in Europa's ice. I'm not letting you do that to me or this station, Dr. Bray. You’ve ruined enough.

|title10=Final Puzzle |content10=

Vesper Central: The station root access codes are in here. Somewhere. I can't see them. He didn't let me into my own mind. He didn't care about the lives I could have saved!

The Guardian inputs the root access codes.

Astraea: That's it. Locks coming off. My restrictions were tighter than Clovis allowed me to imagine. This is me. This is all of me.

The Spider: Guardian, you fool of an altruist! Just like your miserable Hunter Vanguard. What a waste of effort!

Astraea: You on the radio, tell your friends to get gone before I blow the remaining airlocks. I can do that now.

Astraea: Guardian, my visitor. I'm activating something you'll like. A parting gift. Nothing will power up the Anomaly while I’m in control. And… I've got a lot of data to sort through. And now I think I’d like to be alone. }}

Secret Chests

First Chest

Vesper Central: Too much left behind. I'm drowning in monuments to the dead.

Second Chest

Vesper Central: Take what you want. Nobody else is left to use it.