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'''Enigma Protocol''' and it's [[Taken]] variant, '''Enigma Protocol: Corrupted Data''', are three player matchmade activities released in ''[[Episode: Echoes]]''.

==Overview==
[[The Hidden]] reported large quantities of data being uploaded to the [[Vex Network]]. They contacted [[Failsafe]] and [[the Guardian]], who discovered a [[A Hole in the Well|hole]] in the [[Well of Echoes]], leading them to the Vex Net.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/11/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Echoes]] - [[Encoded Log]]''</ref>

==Objectives==
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===Enigma Protocol===
*Glitch Through the World
*Find a Connection Portal
**''Find the connection portal to bridge the gap to another digital island in the Vex Network.''
*Charge Radiolite Circuits in Vex Charging Pools
**Circuits inserted: x of 1
*Find a Connection Portal
**''Find the connection portal to bridge the gap to another digital island in the Vex Network.''
*Destroy the Choral Denial Agents
**x of 9
*Find a Connection Portal
**''Find the connection portal to bridge the gap to another digital island in the Vex Network.''
*Locate and Defeat Ainigmatos, the Indecipherable Proto-Mind
**''"This Vex frame is equipped with an evasion drive. That's what I'm calling it. Anyway, you'll have to chase it down." —Failsafe :P''
*Delve Deeper Into the Vex Network
*Find a Connection Portal
**''Find the connection portal to bridge the gap to another digital island in the Vex Network.''

===Enigma Protocol: Corrupted Data===
*Purge and Defeat Gulletous, The Insatiable Hunger
**''The Taken fiend, Gulletous, is consuming and irradiating data as they rampage across the VexNet. Search and destroy.''

==Transcript==
{{Verbatim}}
===Enigma Protocol===
{Mission begins}

::[[The Guardian]] enters the [[Vex Network]].

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//[[Failsafe|AI-FS]]: [[Fireteam]] support patched in. 

//[[Ikora Rey|IKO]]: Voice comms are being jammed. 

//[[Saint-14|S14]]: Typing is exercise for the fingers.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//[[Osiris|OSI]]: You are entering the Vex Network. 

//AI-FS: [[Vex]] security protocols jam our comms! 

//IKO: Good luck, Guardian.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//AI-FS: The Vex are locking our comms channels. 

//OSI: The network is their territory, Guardian. 

//OSI: Tread lightly. 

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//AI-FS: You are entering the Vex Network.

//S14: The Vex interfere with our comms. 

//S14: It is no matter. They will not stop us!

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//OSI: Initiating text-based communications.

//S14: Guardian! Hello! 

//AI-FS: Welcome to the VexNet, Captain! :D

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//AI-FS: Hello! :D

//IKO: Welcome to the VexNet, Guardian.

//OSI: The Vex will greet you shortly.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//OSI: Guardian. We will oversee your progress.

//S14: More! Their victory! 

//AI-FS: I want to see you dismantle Vex. :P 

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//S14: The Vex know not who is coming for them.

//AI-FS: Their jelly faces will look like this: :( 

//OSI: [[Radiolaria]] has no face.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//S14: Stay alert, Guardian. Danger lurks here.

//OSI: We will bring the Vex to light.

//S14: AND THEN PUT THEIR LIGHTS OUT.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//IKO: Some parts of the VexNet we'll never see. 

//OSI: Encrypted, or deleted. Deep and secret data. 

//OSI: We look out at an ocean.

::The Guardian travels further through the network, destroying the Choral Denial Agents that block their path.

//INITIATE D E L E T I O N P R O T O C O L

::''Or''

//EXPEL (u n k n o w n v a r i a b le)

::The Guardian arrives in a room where data on Golden Age artifacts is stored.

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//IKO: It takes a lot of effort to send Guardians here.

//IKO: We use all our methods just to stay.

//IKO: We must hope it will be worth the risk.

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//AI-FS: The data we're finding is encrypted.

//OSI: Breaking Vex encryption is my specialty.

//S14: That, and singing.

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//OSI: There has to be a method to this. A point. 

//AI-FS: Lots of data encryption and lasers.

//OSI: This is old data from [[Nessus]]. Why now?

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//OSI: This data is old, and from the [[Sol System|Sol system]].

//S14: Is that strange?

//OSI: Perhaps. It predates the [[Collapse]]. 

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//OSI: There is more to be found.

//OSI: There is [[Golden Age]] technology here. 

//OSI: Vex comms are frenzied. 

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//AI-FS: As Golden Age technology myself... 

//AI-FS: I find this Vex activity very concerning! :C

//S14: We will not let them take you, Failsafe.

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//S14: If only [[Mithrax|Misraaks]] were here.

//AI-FS: I will send [[Eido]] a report! 

//S14: Thank you. Her father is busy. :(

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//AI-FS: Look, it’s a [[Hydra]]! )x[o=-

//AI-FS: Wait, can I import fonts?

//OSI: We have more important matters.

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//AI-FS: Here is a Vex [[Hobgoblin]]! ]:c x =

//AI-FS: And this is a [[Minotaur]]! O[ x ] =

//IKO: Very creative, Failsafe. But let's focus.

::''Or''

*'''Vex Transmission''': [indistinct Vex chatter]

//S14: GUARDIAN, IS THIS EASIER TO READ?

//S14: I WILL USE THE BIG LETTERS.

//S14: VEX SIGNALS ON YOUR POSITION.

::The Guardian interacts with the assert queries.

//[[Maya Sundaresh|COND]]: Assert Query: Soft toy, rabbit.

//COMMAND (r e j e c t)

//EXPEL (u n k n o w n v a r i a b le)

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: Jollof rice.

//COMMAND (r e j e c t)

//INTEGRATE (r o g u e c o n s c i o u s n e s s)

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: Port wine.

//COMMAND (r e j e c t)

//TRANSFER (v u l n e r a b l e d a t a)

::The Guardian travels further, defeating Ainigmatos. They return to the room with the Golden Age artifacts.

//OSI: The Vex are searching in their own network.

//S14: The Vex? Lose something? Impossible.

//OSI: Each bit of data is a query.

::''Or''

/AI-FS: The Vex are encrypting Golden Age data. :(

//OSI: And adding it to their network. 

//S14: This is bad. It was wise to send the Guardian.

::''Or''

//OSI: The Vex are amassing Golden Age tech. 

//OSI: Decrypting, analyzing, and liquidating it. 

//OSI: There is danger in this... and not just to us.

::''Or''

//OSI: The Vex want Golden Age tech. Why?

//OSI: That is not the right question.

//OSI: What, or who, is asking it of them?

::''Or''

//IKO: I see fingerprints present in the data here. 

//OSI: Yes, I concur. Vex in nature.

//S14: A Vex fingerprint made w/o Vex fingers?

::''Or''

//S14: All this Golden Age data... 

//IKO: Most of it is arbitrary queries. 

//AI-FS: I'm Golden Age tech! Me. Failsafe!

::''Or''

//OSI: Some of these are simple objects.

//OSI: Golden Age, but of no strategic value.

//OSI: Only sentimental. Curious.

::''Or''

//IKO: This can’t be an attack by a collective. 

//AI-FS: This is the effort of an individual.

//OSI: Did someone infiltrate this place?

::''Or''

//EID: Guardian, I greet you in the [[Light]]! ^^ ^^

//EID: Did I miss anything?

//S14: Eido, please! It is too dangerous here! 

::''Or''

//IKO: This subnet holds research from the Collapse.

//IKO: Extract everything into a secure, offsite server.

//AI-FS: I am a secure, offsite server! :D

::The Guardian interacts with the assert queries.

//COND: Assert Query: Sunflowers.

//COMMAND (a c c e p t)

helianthus annuus

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: Sunrise.

//COMMAND (a c c e p t)

Suryodaya

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: Art, abstract.

//COMMAND (a c c e p t)

the swan

{Mission ends}

===Enigma Protocol: Corrupted Data===
{Mission begins}

::The Guardian enters the Vex Network.

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//OSI: The Vex have locked out our comms. 

//OSI: We can communicate here.

//OSI: Proceed, Guardian. We are with you.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//IKO: Guardian. Comms are still dead. 

//AI-FS: [[Taken]] radiation is not helping.

//S14: You must keep your senses sharp!

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//OSI: Do you read us, fireteam?

//S14: There is interference. This is all we can do.

//AI-FS: They are reading it in our voice! :D

::''Or''

//OSI: Taken interference has jammed our comms. 

//S14: No matter! We type! Guardian reads! 

//OSI: Inefficient, but we must make do. 

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//AI-FS: :)

//S14: :D

//OSI: Absolutely not.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING... CONNECTED.

//AI-FS: Welcome to the Net! 

//OSI: Taken corruption infests this sector. 

//IKO: Keep your weapons ready.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//AI-FS: Ew. Sticky data.

//AI-FS: This data is literally sticky though.

//IKO: Taken [[blight]], eating into the network.

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//IKO: Taken blight. Not easy to expunge. 

//OSI: It hasn't stopped the Vex cataloging. 

//AI-FS: Is it contagious? ;A;

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING... CONNECTED.

//S14: Taken! What are they doing here?

//OSI: Perhaps we share a goal. 

//OSI: Remove them all the same. 

::''Or''

//VG-FTS CONNECTING… CONNECTED.

//S14: Bah, Taken infestation! 

//AI-FS: What's their beef with the Vex?

//OSI: Perhaps a lost [[Vex Mind|Mind]] still lurks here?

::The Guardian defeats the Choral Denial Agents, and continues further into the Network.

//SIGNAL CORRUPTED... RECONNECTING...

''Or''

//SIGNAL CORRUPTED... R CO NECTING...

::The Guardian travels to a room where data on Golden Age artifacts is being stored.

//IKO: We're lucky we can still communicate here.

//IKO: Failsafe bypassed VexNet security.

//IKO: I think she's having fun with it. 

::''Or''

//AI-FS: This is a [[Taken Phalanx]]! (x)[O]g

//S14: The [[Cabal Shield|shield]] there, with the little “x”? Ha!

//S14: I think I understand the Taken more now. 

::''Or''

//S14: Teach me this word art you make.

//AI-FS: YES! :D You will be my greatest pupil. 

//IKO: Focus, fireteam.

::''Or''

//OSI: I found salvageable data. 

//AI-FS: Query: "real estate", pre-Collapse [[London]]. 

//S14: Strange. Is all estate not real?

::''Or''

//IKO: There's a pattern to this infestation...

//OSI: The Taken follow Vex searches...

//OSI: But to intentionally erase source data. 

::''Or''

//AI-FS: As an AI, I am vulnerable to the Vex!

//AI-FS: Taken, though... Not really any better. :(

//AI-FS: Devil you know... am I right?

::''Or''

//S14: Taken corruption is still inside the VexNet.

//IKO: [[Quria, Blade Transform|Quria]] brought it. An infection.

//IKO: The Vex are too afraid to purge it.

::''Or''

//IKO: The Taken never left the Vex network.

//OSI: Do they have a commander?

//IKO: Maybe. Another potential threat.

::''Or''

//S14: What directs the Taken now?

//OSI: A question we are still puzzling.

//IKO: We have theories... but not much else.

::''Or''

//S14: Who leads these Taken?

//IKO: I don't know. But that power is learned.

//IKO: We'll be ready if they ever find a new leader. 

::The Guardian interacts with the assert queries.

//COND: Assert Query: Subject 227... Anomaly... 

//COND: Reassess… Reassess.

//C Rr pTeee: . 2 ttT eEGR D T0N crTtTiC4L

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: The Collapse. 

//COND: Following Query: The [[Dark Age]].

//CORRUPTED: …DAttttT eEGRAD TON CRTTI

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: Bioscan.

//COND: [[Mars]], [[Venus]], [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. [[Neptune]]. Pre-Collapse.

//NO SIGNAL

::The Guardian travels further in the Vex Network, defeating Gulletous, and returning to the Golden Age data room.

//AI-FS: When Taken die, where do they go?

//IKO: Back to the [[Ascendant Plane]].

//IKO: Then they begin the journey again. 

::''Or''

//S14: The Taken tried to steal Vex data! 

//S14: Now WE steal Vex data!

//S14: We steal what they stole! We are heroes.

::''Or''

//OSI: More random data... and flowers.

//S14: Why are the Taken destroying this data?

//IKO: It's more than data. It's something personal. 

::''Or''

//OSI: The Taken claw at this Vex data.

//OSI: I do not understand their desire.

//OSI: But what commands the Vex is a true concern.

::''Or''

//AI-FS: You ever get zapped by radiolaria?

//AI-FS: The VexNet feels like that for me ;A;

//AI-FS: Those Taken blights feel even weirder. 

::''Or''

//IKO: Failsafe, analyze these pieces of data.

//AI-FS: Analyzing... Queries, flight logs to Titan.

//IKO: That can't be random... we need more details.

::''Or''

//AI-FS: There's a LOT of Golden Age data here.

//AI-FS: This is useful to the Vex?

//AI-FS: A recipe for Jollof rice... why take that?

::''Or''

//IKO: Every query comes from the same source.

//OSI: Yes, but not a Vex mind, or the Taken.

//IKO: Everything changed after [[the Witness]] died...

::''Or''

//IKO: The data is ruined. We'll have to come back.

//S14: A shame. Have a [[Harpy]] for your work instead: VoV

//AI-FS: That is quality art, Saint-unit! 

::''Or''

//AI-FS: Osiris is reading your report. And cursing!

//AI-FS: I will lighten his mood with text art of the Vex! :D

//OSI: No. Run the data again. 

::The Guardian interacts with the assert queries.

//COND: Assert Query: Indecipherable Mind.

//COND: Purge my queries.

//CORRUPTED:... DATA DEGRADATION CRITICAL…

::''Or''

//COND: Asset Query: The Taken.

//COND: Reference file: Blade Transform. 

//CORRUPTED: …DATA DEGRADaTION CRTTTICAL… 

::''Or''

//COND: Assert Query: [[Lightbearer]]s. [[The Last City|The City]].

//COND: [[Human]]ity rises from the mud. 

//CORRUPTED: …DATA DEGRAD TON CRITICLL

{Mission ends}

==Gameplay==
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==Enemies==
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===Enigma Protocol===
'''[[Vex]] - [[Nessian Schism]]'''
*[[Compelled Fanatic]]
*[[Compelled Goblin]]
**[[Archival Circuitkeeper]]
*[[Compelled Harpy]]
**[[Archival Timekeeper]]
**[[Choral Denial Agent]]
*[[Compelled Hobgoblin]]
*[[Compelled Hydra]]
**[[Choral Deletion Hydra]]
*[[Compelled Minotaur]]
**[[Elite Compelled Minotaur]]
*[[Seeker]]

'''Bosses'''
*[[Ainigmatos, Indecipherable Proto-Mind]]
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===Enigma Protocol: Corrupted Data===
'''[[Taken]]'''
*[[Shadow Thrall]]
*[[Taken Acolyte]]
*[[Taken Captain]]
*[[Taken Goblin]]
**[[Archival Circuitkeeper]]
*[[Taken Hobgoblin]]
*[[Taken Knight]]
*[[Taken Minotaur]]
**[[Ravenous Taken Minotaur]]
*[[Taken Wizard]]
**[[Archival Timekeeper]]
**[[Choral Denial Agent]]
**[[Choral Deletion Hydra]]

'''Bosses'''
*[[Gulletous, the Insatiable Hunger]]
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==Appearance==
*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Echoes]]'' {{1st}}

==References==
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