Heliostat
Heliostat is an Exotic Mission introduced in Reclamation in the Ash & Iron update on October 7. Completing this activity rewards the Guardian with the Wolfsbane Exotic Sword.
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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 initialize the gravlift.
Ikora: Get ready for a fight. And watch out! There's something familiar about the signature this time…
The Guardian defeats Valus 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)
Catalyst — First Run
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.
Catalyst — Second Run
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.
Catalyst — Third Run
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.
Catalyst — Fourth Run
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, Lodi'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…