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Upon loading into the mission itself, you will want to go down the stairs and look over towards a slanted platform to the right. Go up the slanted platform until you reach the top, then look towards a sphere containing a circle of blue lights; jump down into the hole and continue until reach the section where you go down a wall with a red light in the back of the room to the right. At this point, moving platforms will be present. When playing the Concerto variant, [[Harpy]] adds will also be present. Go up on the moving platforms until you reach a room with Vex pistons; head to the center one and ascend. Once they follow the tunnel, look for a hole with a purple light, then go through. There will now be a fork containing 2 different rooms. The left fork takes the players to a [[Ancillary Transit Nexus|room]] containing inactive [[Transfer Gate]]s where players can uncover secrets within the mission only if the NES007 specimen completed from [[Failsafe]]. The straight will get players familiarized with the central mechanic of the Exotic mission: the manipulation of the Vex Module pickups.

When players take the fork straight ahead, they will see a bowl-shaped device used to deposit one of the Vex Module pickups. This pickup is called '''Vex Module//CONNECTION''' and can be identified by a green color with the icon of an arrow pointing up. The pickup will not be there on the bowl when they first enter the area, so they must turn tight from here, go down the hallway, and kill adds until you see a room with 3 octahedrons glowing red when you first enter this room. At this point, an array of bowls will be scattered around the room, but only 1 of them contains the pickup that you need. Interact with the bowl to take the pickup from it and place it on other 3 other bowls. The pickup is used to create platforms when installed on a specific bowl until it is taken out. You will want to create platforms leading to a [[Conflux]] that needs to be interacted with to unseal a room next to the 3 octahedrons. In the process of uncovering the final conflux below from where they entered the room, another pickup is introduced called '''Vex Module//PARTITION'''. This pickup can identified by a yellow color with the icon of blocks reminiscent of Tetris blocks and is used to remove solid walls in the area when installing it into its bowl. To obtain it, players must kill a [[Minotaur]] called [[PARTITION Module Bearer]]. After interacting with all 3 confluxes, the room will be unsealed. Go down the tunnel until you reach a dead end containing the Connection pickup needed to deposit into the bowl where they first saw it. Upon acquiring the Connection pickup, a deletion wall spawns, along with Vex adds and traps when playing the Concerto variant. Octahedrons will also spawn that can temporarily stun Vex units if the NES008 specimen quest was completed. After escaping, plant the pickup where you first used it to traverse the room as only 1 Vex Module pickup can held at a time per player, similar to the '''Operator''', '''Scanner''', and '''Suppressor''' pickups in [[Operation: Seraph's Shield]] and the [[Deep Stone Crypt (raid)|Deep Stone Crypt]] raid. Take the pickup out of the one where you entered the tunnel now blocked a deletion wall, then take it to the bowl that you initially saw was requiring it.

At this point, a rally flag will spawn, and approaching the Access pickup begins the encounter where players must an Omen [[Subjugator]] named [[Eexonios, Pledged to Yirix]] and a [[Tormentor]] named [[Iziira, Pledged to Yirix]] When the Omen reaches two thirds of its health, it flees, and the barrier preventing players from acquiring the Access pickup is lowered; take it and install on the bowl at the top right area. Go through the portal and fight the Tormentor until reaches two thirds of its health. It and the Omen will drop the Access module when they flee from this point onwards; continue fighting them until both bosses have reached one third of their health. When they return to the area where they initially saw the Access pickup blocked by a barrier, they must now face both bosses at once. Killing both bosses ends the encounter, spawns a loot chest, and opens the portal next to the loot chest to continue their way forward. After crossing the portal, crouch through a narrow tube leading to the final traversal section.

Traverse through the area, kill adds and Independent Variables along the way. When they reach the area where they begin to see Golden Age buildings being erected, players will have another opportunity to extract Radiolite samples. After killing all of the Independent Variables and adds, go past the building towards a canyon separated by a chasm of [[Radiolaria]]. Kill the Hydra blocking the portal to that will lead to a pyramid complex that has a portal leading into [[Ishtar Research Facility|the Conductor's lab]]. After entering the lab, a pile of degaussed [[Exo]]minds will be littered in the floor and a conflux containing the second set of secrets will activate once the Ancillary Transit Nexus conflux has been activated after the NES007 specimen quest is completed. The portal containing Vex Countermands within the cavern will introduce players to the final pickup called '''Vex Module//DELETION'''. This pickup by can be identified by a red color with the icon of a lightning bolt. This pickup is used to bypass deletion walls when installed in a specific bowl and area that linger past the deletion become kill zones for players when this pickup is taken out of the bowl. To acquire them, players must kill the [[DELETION Module Bearer]]. In the areas with [[Hexahedric Mind]] secret boss and the radiolaria pods, players must kill the [[ACCESS Module Bearer]] to acquire the Access pickup. Now that players are in the lab area with a surgical table, go past it. In order to open the door leading to the final entrance, you must scan one of the degaussed Exominds and wait for dialogue from the characters to be finished. If the Overture variant of the Exotic mission is played for the first time, you will also acquire the NES007 specimen as well, but you will not to be able to acquire the quest for it until you have progressed far enough into the story where it requires the completion of that quest.