Battleground: Core
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Battleground: Core is a mission accessible during Episode: Echoes as part of the Battleground: Echoes activity. It can be accessed via the director in the H.E.L.M.
Objectives[edit]
- Descend
- Eliminate the Taken
- Eliminate the Taken Blights
- X of 3
- Navigate the Vex Structures
- Eliminate Vex
- Eliminate Antioptes, Hypogean Sentinel
- Collect Your Rewards
Transcript[edit]
(Mission Begins)
- Failsafe (Depressed): Hey, Captain? You've heading into the deepest parts of the planet. Those nanobots could only tell me so much.
- Failsafe (Depressed): You'll need to get down there yourself if I'm going to get any useful data.
- Saint-14: You are in unknown territory now, Guardian. Be ready.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: We are closer to the Conductor, Guardian. But we must first remove their Vex.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: The Conductor has made her domain deep inside Nessus. We must cut a path through her Vex.
Or alternatively
- Failsafe (Cheery): Greetings, Captain! We are nearing the planet's core. How exciting!
Or alternatively
- Failsafe (Cheery): All of this was hollowed out by the Vex over a period of centuries! I find that quite interesting. (Depressed): And annoying.
Or alternatively
- Osiris: We've made a great deal of progress here, but we aren't finished. Descend further, Guardian. We'll see what awaits us.
Or alternatively
- Osiris: Sundaresh has accelerated the Vex's reclamation of the planet's resources. Delve deeper, and destroy her forces.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: You're deep beneath the planet's crust. There's no telling what's down there. Keep moving, Guardian.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: Exploring the Vex structures beneath Nessus will give us intel on Maya's plans… and destroying her Vex will weaken her hold.
Entering a Vex portal to go deeper into Nessus's core, the Guardians continue further until they encounter Taken forces. Defeating the swarms of Taken and destroying the Blights, the fireteam vanquishes a Taken barrier blocking an entrance. They then enter into a Vex tractor beam which takes them deeper into the structure.
- Osiris: What do the Taken want? Why are they here?
- Ikora: Taken are drawn to paracausal forces and those with immense strength of will, but they're leaderless now.
- Ikora: No King and no Witness… and Xivu Arath either doesn't possess the power, or doesn't have the inclination.
- Ikora: All we can speculate is that they're drawn to the Conductor.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: All this space. All this architecture.
- Ikora: Even Failsafe didn't anticipate Nessus being hollowed out to this extent.
- Osiris: Is it more worrying to consider that this is the Conductor's doing… or the Vex's?
Or alternatively
- Osiris: Radiolarian fluid is alkaline. We have not yet learned how the Vex keep it from reacting to acids in the environment.
- Osiris: Or… chemical reactions could be a tool they use in the terraforming process.
- Osiris: Hmm. I must look into this… Later.
Or alternatively
- Osiris: This vast chamber was once filled with radiolaria. Billions of Vex minds working in concert.
- Saint-14: Now they work in concert under the Conductor's direction.
- Osiris: Not for long.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: This hall has the look of the Infinite Forest. The emptiness, the pillars
- Saint-14: Ah, no matter. It is not worth thinking of. The Guardian will uncover the Vex's plans.
- Osiris: And we will bring these pillars down around them.
Navigating across Vex structures, the Guardian defeats hordes of Vex units to lower the barrier leading further into the planet.
- Failsafe (Cheery): Since you released those nanobots into the radiolaria, I can track their movement through Nessus!
- Failsafe (Depressed): I couldn't have done it without you. Y'know, since I'm all the way up on the planet's surface.
- Failsafe (Depressed): It's fun looking at this place through your eyes, though. Exploring. Sightseeiing.
- Failsafe (Depressed): Even after all these centuries, there's a lot of this planet I haven't seen. Thanks, Captain.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: I am reminded of your reports from within the Pyramidion, Guardian.
- Ikora: I wish I could ask Asher Mir how much of this is familiar to him.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: The Vex don't want you here.
- Saint-14: A signal that you are exactly where you should be.
Or alternatively
- Osiris: Vex defences are increasing in hostility.
- Ikora: We're getting close to whatever it is they most want to protect.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: The Vex will defend their machinery to the end.
- Osiris: An end you will assist them towards, Guardian.
Delving deeper into the planet, the fireteam encounter Antioptes, Hypogean Sentinel.
- Osiris: A Vex Mind has raised a line of defence. Take it down.
Or alternatively
- Failsafe (Cheery): Vex defences halt your progress! Go get 'em, Captain.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: The Vex Mind is mounting a counterattack!
Or alternatively
- Ikora: The Vex have established their defences. Remove them.
Upon destroying the Vex Oracle, the fireteam engage with Antioptes who activates rotating detainment walls.
- Ikora: Use Failsafe's countermeasures to their shielding!
Or alternatively
- Osiris: Failsafe has accessed a network backdoor. Bring down their barrier!
Or alternatively
- Failsafe (Cheery): I have initiated a security bypass! Your welcome!
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: Failsafe has hacked their security. Bring down that Vex, Guardian!
Despite the Cyclops's power and the overwhelming amount of Vex forces, the Guardians destroy Antioptes.
- Saint-14: This was here the whole time? Failsafe did not know?
- Ikora: Failsafe's sensors couldn't reach this far beneath the surface of the planet.
- Failsafe (Cheery): Now they can! Assimilating data…
- Failsafe (Depressed): Wow… wow. WOW.
- Failsafe (Depressed): This was here the whole time?
- Ikora: Maybe. Or it could be something new. Something the Conductor built when they grasped the Echo's power.
- Failsafe (Depressed): So, uh… speaking of? Those nanobots aren't responding to my signals. There's a pretty high chance that the Conductor hijacted them.
- Failsafe (Depressed): It ends here, Captain. Sorry.
- Saint-14: It's all right, Failsafe. We can figure out another plan.
- Ikora: Return to the H.E.L.M., Guardian. Failsafe and I will coordinate and find out our next steps.
Or alternatively
- Osiris: I… I know how you feel, Saint. Being puppeted. I know what that can do to one's mind.
- Saint-14: No, Osiris, it is not the same. It is not how you talked about it before. It was not another presence in my mind. It…
- Saint-14: It was a-a voice in my ear… It made me want to do what it wanted me to do. I was not raging against it, like you told me you raged against Savathûn.
- Saint-14: Inside your head you were still yourself. But I… I don't know if I am as I was.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: I told Geppetto what I saw in my tomb. That together we destroyed many Vex.
- Saint-14: I told her, how she was brave, at the end. As I was… And, when she fell, she was proud that I tried to avenge her.
Saint-14: For a moment I knew, what it was like to lose her, and the Light. It was… lonely.
- Saint-14: I understand now, Osiris. I am sorry.
- Osiris: Sometimes I call for Sagira. I put out my palm and she's... not there. I do it less and less, but…
- Saint-14: I know I'm not alone in my grief. Eris understands, and now she and I can help Zavala through his own loss.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: We have not talked much about your search for me, Osiris. But the Sundial must have been a sight!
- Osiris: Yes. It was. An impossible marvel. But without the Drifter and the Guardian it would not have been able to find you.
- Saint-14: Drifter? Hah! After helping you and Sloane, it seems the basement man is not so basement after all.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: I have two lifetimes of memories now. Twice the man I was, hahaha! So much to be thankful for. So much to look back on with joy.
- Osiris: So now you remember the first time I told you I loved you?
- Saint-14: Ah, yes. It was very... formal.
- Saint-14: That, alongside what I remember before? I am lucky to be so loved, across all simulations.
- Osiris: I count myself lucky, too.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: [sighs] I-Ikora, why do you trust me? After what the Conductor did, how do you know I am who I say I am?
- Ikora: Because we learned from Osiris, and from Eris. We can't be frightened into inaction, or into throwing away our allies.
- Ikora: You aren't comprised, Saint. Your essential. Remember that.
Or alternatively
- Saint-14: Ikora, I am a liability against the Conductor. They could command me again… and, I don't know if I can resist.
- Ikora: No. Whatever obstacles we face, we can't let the Conductor distract or confuse us. You're stronger than that, Saint.
- Ikora: We have a task to complete. We have a mission. And you're critical to our success.
- Ikora: So eyes up, Guardian. The Conductor can't take our purpose away, and I know you won't let this stop you.
- Saint-14: No, Ikora. I will not.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: Our plan in your tomb was a risky one. I almost didn't propose it. I knew Osiris wouldn't like it, and you…
- Saint-14: It had to be done. And I thought, maybe... in that moment, I-I thought that I would become him, instead.
- Saint-14: Be the Saint that our Osiris remembered... Lose who I was.
- Saint-14: I-I hoped for that. But it was a wish that came from my despair. I wanted to be the man Osiris loved. The man he lost.
- Ikora: You always were.
- Saint-14: Yes… I know that now.
Or alternatively
- Ikora: Osiris briefed me on your experience in your tomb. Reliving a lifetime of your own memories… I can't imagine it.
- Saint-14: Ah, was not so bad. Besides my death, it was not unpleasant. I was, who I am. Strong, feared, and loved. I was reminded of this.
- Saint-14: The Conductor cannot make me forget that again.
Or alternatively
- Osiris: We've descended as far as we are able. Still more to tread, but… we are closer to the Conductor, and the plans they have for this place.
- Ikora: A whole Vex city buried beneath Nessus. All built for the Conductor?
- Osiris: Perhaps. Or they have co-opted existing Vex architecture. We can't know without further exploration.
- Ikora: What lies at the heart of this place…
- Osiris: I have no doubt we will soon discover the answer to that question.
(Mission Ends)
Enemies[edit]
- Precursor Goblin
- Choral Goblin
- Choral Hobgoblin
- Uplifted Choral Minotaur
- Copyphaeus Minotaur
- Compelled Aggressor
- Taken Acolyte
- Ravenous Taken Knight
- Servile Knight
- Ravenous Taken Phalanx
- Essence Bearer
- Ravenous Taken Goblin
- Taken Hobgoblin
Boss[edit]
Appearance[edit]
- Destiny 2: Episode: Echoes (First appearance)