Lodestar

Lodestar
Production overview
Rarity class:	Exotic
Weapon type:	Trace Rifle
Min-max impact:	6
Min-max stability:	95
Min-max handling:	78
Min-max reload speed:	65
Min-max magazine:	74
Specifications
Ammunition type:	Primary
Fire mode:	Full Automatic
Rate of fire:	1000 RPM
Damage:	Arc
Effective range:	76
Hidden stats
Aim assistance:	90
Zoom:	17
Recoil:	95
Airborne effectiveness:	29

"Potentia ex nihilo."

— Weapon flavor text

Lodestar is an Exotic Trace Rifle introduced in Episode: Heresy. It is acquired from Episode: Heresy Season Pass's premium track when purchased and at rank 35 of the free track.

Gameplay

Perks

• Intrinsic: Starlight Beam - This weapon fires a low-intensity Arc beam with enhanced stability and accuracy.
• Fluted Barrel: Ultra-light barrel.
  • Greatly increases handling speed
  • Slightly increases stability
• Phase Converter: When aiming down sights, the beam is compressed into short, high-energy bursts that interact with targets affected by Arc debuffs, dealing increased damage and causing them to detonate into blinding explosions on final blows.
• Exotic Trait: Arc Alignment - Dealing Arc damage from any source aligns the battery's coils. When alignment is complete, [Alternate Weapon Action] to disengage the safety and enable hip-fired Starlight Beam to apply Jolt to any targets damaged for a short time. Aim down sights to slow the rate at which the battery drains.
• Composite Stock: This weapon has a versatile dual-purpose stock.
  • Slightly increases stability
  • Slightly increases handling speed

Catalyst

The catalyst is obtained after reaching rank 145 on the Episode: Heresy season pass. Upgrading it after defeating 700 targets will grant it the following perk:

• Supercharged Matrix: While amplified, this weapon gains greatly increased reload speed, aim assist, and movement while aiming down sights.

Lore

"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.

Potentia ex nihilo.

Shimizu, Hassan. Private papers under elliptic-curve cryptographic lock.

Discourse on the political realities of the City is suppressed. My last seven papers have been rejected by every major journal on Earth, surely the work of private censors.

Should I try to continue my work on CDM or enter the field of more direct paracausal studies, I'm sure to remain unpublished. Hari-5's unproven speculation that only OWL Sector is allowed to study Darkness among mortal researchers seems increasingly likely to be correct.

Within my lifetime, I have seen cultural shifts among Lightbearers in the Last City. In my youth, the element of Void was seen as closest to the Dark. In my adulthood, Darkness—Stasis, Strand, speculative elements as yet undiscovered—has shifted from taboo to standard toolset. The final stigma among the Tower's Guardians is against rogue Lightbearers who attack Ghosts, the source of their paracausal abilities, directly.

However, the shift in perception of Darkness among Lightbearers has not been equaled by a shift in their perception of mortal researchers.

Arc is a power humanity has harnessed for centuries. Among the Guardians, it stands with Solar Light as an element seen historically as almost entirely positive—salutary, in fact. (See Karn, "Sociobiology of the Immortal," chapters five and six.)

Arc is kindly, and friendly, and unimpeachable. So must I be until more change comes and the censors move on to other fears.

There can be no complaint about my turning to work on matters that Guardians see as nothing but good for them.

Certainly not if I give them the results of that research.

Appearance

• Destiny 2: Episode: Heresy (First appearance)