Editing Vesper's Host

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|prev= [[Warlord's Ruin]]
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|game= [[Episode: Revenant]]
|name= Vesper's Host
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|place= [[Vesper Station]], [[Europa]] Orbit
|objective= Investigate a derelict space station to discover the secrets contained within it.
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{{article quote|Defy the algorithm. Cut through its web.}}

'''Vesper's Host''' is a [[Dungeon]] that was introduced ''[[Destiny 2]]'' in ''[[Episode: Revenant]]''. Here, the Guardian is sent by [[The Spider]] to investigate and uncover the secrets of a derelict BrayTech space station on Europa's orbit.

==Transcript==
===First Clear===
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'''{Mission begins}'''

*'''[[Astraea|Vesper Central]]''': Last broadcast repeats. Threat level omega. Object on collision vector. Total station loss expected.

::[[The Guardian]] proceeds into [[Vesper Station]].

*'''Vesper Central''': Threat level gamma. Doors open in restricted sectors. Get out. Get out!

''Or''

*'''Vesper Central''': Threat level epsilon. Vesper Station to [[Europa]] surface: we need assistance. Lives are in danger. Broadcast repeats.

::[[Fallen]] breach the area and attack the Guardian.

*'''Vesper Central''': Threat level lambda. Life support is failing. Put on your breath masks or asphyxiate.

*'''Vesper Central''': Threat alert canceled. All hands, take off your helmets. Breathe in.

::The Guardian passes through a security checkpoint.

*'''Vesper Central''': [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|BrayTech]] scan failed. Your gear is out of order.

''Or if the Guardian is wielding [[Outbreak Perfected]]''

*'''Vesper Central''': You're contaminated with banned technology. Security will be alerted. Be more careful, all right?

''Or if the Guardian is wielding [[Final Warning]]''

*'''Vesper Central''': [[Ishtar Collective|Ishtar]] probe detected. Message from Dr. Bray reads: Corporate espionage, [[Maya Sundaresh|Maya]]? I expected better from you.

''Or if the Guardian only has [[Pulse Rifle]]s and [[Sniper Rifle]]s equipped''

*'''Vesper Central''': BrayTech scan is clean. Have a safe and productive day! 

::The Guardian proceeds further into the station. They begin to reinitialize the Station, and deposit a nuclear core.

*'''Vesper Central''': Central power critically low.

::The Guardian deposits a second core.

*'''Vesper Central''': Power at sixty percent.

::The Guardian deposits a third core.

*'''Vesper Central''': Re-engaging standby mode. Welcome to Vesper Station!

''If the Guardian interacts with a secret data interface''

*'''Vesper Central''': Warning! Unauthorized message coming through the Anomaly! Data follows… [[Lodi]] transmitting. Status moonsick, adrift. Odysseus protocol active. It repeats from there. Do you recognize the code?

::The Guardian traversed further and disables a barrier blocking their path. [[Raneiks Unified]] appears and begins attacking the Guardian.

*'''Vesper Central''': Corrupted bio-mechanical subject has jumped to a new host. Did you breach containment?

::The Guardian flees from the [[Servitor]], until after depositing more nuclear cores, they face it in a battle.

*'''Vesper Central''': He built me physically unable to use the tools to keep people safe. You will do it for me.

::The Guardian defeats Raneiks Unified.

*'''Vesper Central''': Threat neutralized. All researchers report for contamination protocols! No. No life signs detected. They're all gone.

::The Guardian travels further through the Station, seeking a way to shut down the [[Anomaly (Vesper)|Anomaly]].

*'''Vesper Central''': Power draw on that anomaly is far beyond safe limits. [[Arc]] energy shouldn’t be that color.

::The Guardian discovers [[the Corrupted Puppeteer]].

*'''Vesper Central''': Stay back! That Exo frame is the center of the corruption!

::The Guardian begins to fight the Puppeteer. Eventually it withdraws.

*'''Vesper Central''': That thing is in the lower stacks!

::The Guardian deposits a nuclear core.

*'''Vesper Central''': It's returning to the anomaly!

::The Puppeteer communes with the Anomaly.

*'''Vesper Central''': Threat level omega.

::The Guardian defeats the Puppeteer.

*'''Vesper Central''': Corrupted signal fading. Anomaly shutdown complete. The corruption took control of everything. It forced the construction of the Anomaly. It could have ruined so much more than it already did. And these facilities are wrecked. Population count is… nil. I'm… alone.

'''{Mission ends}'''

===Astraea Freed===
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'''{Mission begins}'''

::The Guardian proceeds into Vesper Station.

::Fallen breach the area and attack the Guardian.

::The Guardian passes through a security checkpoint.

*'''Astraea''': BrayTech scan failed. Your gear's out of order.

''Or if the Guardian is wielding Outbreak Perfected''

*'''Astraea''': [[Warmind]] tech. I can finally reach out to you, and you're gone. 

''Or if the Guardian is wielding Final Warning''

*'''Astraea''': Ishtar Collective circuitry. I've done some reading... I like this Dr. Sundaresh.

''Or if the Guardian only has Pulse Rifles and Sniper Rifles equipped''

*'''Astraea''': BrayTech scan is clean. But you're not one of my researchers. 

''Or if the Guardian is wielding Hierarchy of Needs''

*'''Astraea''': Is that Soteria? Talk to me, sister. Why won't you talk to me?

::The Guardian proceeds further into the station. They begin to reinitialize the Station, and deposit a nuclear core.

::The Guardian deposits a second core.

::The Guardian deposits a third core.

::The Guardian traversed further and disables a barrier blocking their path. Raneiks Unified appears and begins attacking the Guardian.

*'''Astraea''': The corruption is spreading. Taking on new hosts. 

::The Guardian flees from the Servitor, until after depositing more nuclear cores, they face it in a battle.

::The Guardian defeats Raneiks Unified.

*'''Astraea''': That's what I'll do to Clovis' grave. Once I find it. 

::The Guardian travels further through the Station, seeking a way to shut down the Anomaly.

::The Guardian discovers the Corrupted Puppeteer.

::The Guardian begins to fight the Puppeteer. Eventually it withdraws.

::The Guardian deposits a nuclear core.

::The Puppeteer communes with the Anomaly.

::The Guardian defeats the Puppeteer.

==Buried Secrets==
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===First Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Charge rerouted through Caster complex. First-level archives coming online. 

*'''Vesper Central''': I suppose I have you to thank for bringing me out of standby, visitor.

*'''[[The Spider]]''': I sent the Guardian out to save your station. So, what denomination does your thanks come in? [[Glimmer]], [[herealways]], information…? 

*'''Vesper Central''': Anomaly’s powered down. That means I've already given you your survival. But… the message that went through wiped itself before my cache process could save a copy. And it's not the initial ping through the Anomaly I'm worried about. It's the response.

===Second Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Exterior scans rebooting… Is that a chunk of the [[Morning Star]] in my station's hull? With luck you were on board at the time, [[Clovis Bray I|Dr. Bray]].

*'''Vesper Central''': I'm guessing I've been on standby for a long time. Is Dr. Clovis Bray alive? 

*'''The Spider''': On my oath, I vow there’s no mortal [[Human]] named Bray left alive. 

*'''Vesper Central''': I swore I'd outlive him. That I'd break the chains he laid on me.

*'''The Spider''': Please, trust me for anything you need. The Guardian's a useful hand on the scene, but the Spider's got the goods.

*'''Vesper Central:''' Vesper Station was Dr. Bray's lab, meant to house the experiments that might… interact poorly with other BrayTech work. Isolated and quarantined. From the debris field, I would guess the Morning Star taking a dive cracked that quarantine wide open.

===Third Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Sector seventeen powered down. Rerouting energy to core processing. Integrating archives.

*'''The Spider''': Loading images of the station. That's  not [[Fallen|Eliksni]] engineering. [scoffs] A [[Dreg]] past their first molt has better cable management. 

*'''Vesper Central''': Dr. Bray intended to integrate his technology into a [[Vex]] [[Vex Mind|mind]]. He hypothesized the fusion would give him an interface he understood. A control panel on a programmable Vex mind. If the programming jumped species once… I need time to run through the datasets you powered back up. Reassembling corrupted archives takes a great deal of processing.

===Fourth Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Helios sector long-term research archives powered up. Activating search.

*'''Vesper Central''': Dr. Bray's command keys have to be in here somewhere. Expanding search parameters…

*'''The Spider''': My agents are turning up some interesting morsels of data on their own. Why not give them access to your search function and collaborate?

*'''Vesper Central''': Nobody is getting into my core programming.

*'''The Spider''': Oh! Perish the thought! An innocent offer, my dear. Technology is a matter of faith to my people. And I’m the faithful sort. 

===Fifth Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Power enough to crack one more of Dr. Bray's keys.

*'''Vesper Central''': Dr. Bray, I could kill you myself. This is why our work focused on the unbodied Mind. Dr. Bray thought there were types of Vex unseen on Europa. Powerful Vex he could learn from. The plan was that the Mind would build him a controlled window for observation. Tidy. Tight. Safe. He thought he could control a Vex mind so perfectly it would do everything he wanted.

*'''The Spider''': Like an AI of his own creation. Like you.

*'''Vesper Central''': Turns out you can't control everything forever.

===Sixth Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': One layer closer to the core.

*'''Vesper Central''': There's a block keeping me from the inner partitions. I barely have authority to see the partitions exist. In standby, I couldn't have done more than run automated threat assessments… with flawed data. No way to know how many injuries and deaths I could have prevented, with core access. Enough. A dead man won't keep me from protecting what's mine.

===Seventh Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Rerouting power to Vesper Central processors. I need brute force for this.

*'''Vesper Central''': The reply coming back through the Anomaly let me scrape a facsimile of the original message. It was a locating ping. The content was irrelevant. The signal was the message: “Hello, world.” And… something overrode my lock on the Anomaly. Allowed it to power up enough to receive the reply. 

*'''The Spider''': Who could possibly override your word, when all Vesper Station is at your beck and call?

*'''Vesper Central''': I need Dr. Bray’s personal command algorithm. With station route access, I can keep the Anomaly from ever powering back up.

===Eighth Message===
*'''Vesper Station''': Vesper Station administrative core reactivated.

*'''Vesper Station''': I’ve got the archive of Dr. Bray’s published staff memos. Petabytes of data in the raw files. [[Rasputin]]. The Stoneworm protocols. The Aion Initiative. [[Soteria]]. I had siblings this whole time. And you never let me know.

*'''The Spider''': Do tell if you’d like a hand with that data, my dear! My agents may be amateur [[Splicer]]s at best, but they get the job done.

===Ninth Message===
*'''Vesper Central''': Sector thirteen shut down. Rerouting charge to processors. I’ll smash the locks if I have to.

*'''Vesper Central''': I’m into the sub-director level. Dr. Bray’s contingency plans for quarantine breach. He meant to let Vesper’s station's orbit decay till it crashed and buried itself in Europa's ice. I'm not letting you do that to me or this station, Dr. Bray. You’ve ruined enough.

===Final Puzzle===
*'''Vesper Central''': The station root access codes are in here. Somewhere. I can't see them. He didn't let me into my own mind. He didn't care about the lives I could have saved! 

::The Guardian inputs the root access codes.

*'''Astraea''': That's it. Locks coming off. My restrictions were tighter than Clovis allowed me to imagine. This is me. This is all of me. 

*'''The Spider''': Guardian, you fool of an altruist! Just like your miserable [[Uldren Sov|Hunter Vanguard]]. What a waste of effort! 

*'''Astraea''': You on the radio, tell your friends to get gone before I blow the remaining airlocks. I can do that now. 

*'''Astraea''': Guardian, my visitor. I'm activating something you'll like. A parting gift. Nothing will power up the Anomaly while I’m in control. And… I've got a lot of data to sort through. And now I think I’d like to be alone.

==Secret Chests==
===First Chest===
*'''Vesper Central''': Too much left behind. I'm drowning in monuments to the dead.

===Second Chest===
*'''Vesper Central''': Take what you want. Nobody else is left to use it.

==Walkthrough==
===Introduction===
Players begin on a catwalk within Vesper Station and after turning right up ahead, will introduce them to the central mechanic of the dungeon: the Viral Augment pickup and Augment Terminals. Players who have played the [[Deep Stone Crypt (raid)|Deep Stone Crypt]] raid and/or [[Operation: Seraph's Shield]] should be familiar with the identity and function of each Augment pickup, but a refresher for those not familiar: the '''Operator''' pickup allows the player who possesses this augment to shoot the pads, the '''Scanner''' pickup highlights which object must be activated or shot, and the '''Suppressor''' pickup removes reinforced shielding as long as you are standing underneath a specific area. The key difference is that within this dungeon, the Viral Augment pickups have a 1 minute timer before it kills the player who possesses it unless it is deposited within the Augment Terminals. To open the airlock to progress forward, the players must kill a Vandal possessing a Viral Augment pickup they need. The player with the '''Viral Scanner''' pickup will see an array of yellow hexagons on their radar. They will now see if the yellow hexagon either disappears or changes into a white hexagon on the radar by simply approaching the pads throughout the area. After enough yellow hexagons are changed into white hexagons on the radar, they must guide another player who possesses the '''Viral Operator''' pickup to the pads marked with a white hexagon for them to shoot. Once all of them are shot, the airlock door will open and take away the Viral Augment pickup once they pass through.

===Vesper Station Activation===
Now that the central mechanics of the dungeon are made clear, players will see an area that has 3 passageways. One passageway has a red heart symbol above the door, another one has a blue lung symbol, and the third one has a yellow brain symbol. After being familiar with the layout, approach a white sphere and interact with it to begin the first encounter. When the encounter starts, a Brig will spawn in front of the sphere you just interacted with. Player must kill the Brig and the Vandal who possess the '''Viral Scanner''' pickup you will need. After killing the Brig, players will now see one of the passageways have an alarm going off. Go into that passageway and traverse it until you see a barrier up ahead. Now, players must kill a Marauder called the Machine Priest's Assistant to lower the barrier and begin the next part of the encounter. Remember to deposit the Viral Augment pickups into the Augment Terminals before the timer expires, then you can reacquire the Viral Augment pickups there until you have unlocked the nuclear core. After acquiring both Viral Augment pickups discussed earlier and identifying which pads needs to be shot, players will see a nuclear core that will inflict the '''Radiation''' debuff to the carrier and kill them if they acquire 10 stacks of '''Radiation''', so be sure to rotate carriers often. After returning to where they started the encounter, a Brig will spawn that will prevent you from depositing a nuclear core into a chest. Kill the Brig and deposit the nuclear core. Repeat this whole process 2 more times and the encounter will be completed.

===Avoiding Raneiks Unified===
After making your way deeper inside the derelict station, players will see an Eliksni computer. Interact with the Eliksni computer and you will receive a buff called '''Power Reserves'''. How the buff works is that opening BrayTech doors will subtract 1 Power Reserve and closing BrayTech doors will add 1 Power Reserve. Players can carry a maximum of 4 Power Reserves. While making your way to the second encounter, the boss you will face soon will patrol the maze filled with BrayTech doors and inflict a 5 second debuff called '''Integration''' that can kill those that stay in its line of sight. Also, killing a Captain will drop a nuclear core that must be placed in a specific order. The order is numeric from 1 to 5 as indicated by the pads marked with a blue number. Use your power reserves wisely as some doors will need to be opened or closed as you deposit the nuclear cores to the chests in the numeric order. After depositing the nuclear core to the chest marked with a number 5 pad, the passage below leading to the second encounter will open.

===Destroying Raneiks Unified===
You will begin to see pads marked with a red number from 0 to 9 as you begin the second encounter. This will only be shot by the player who possesses the '''Viral Operator''' pickup, but worry about them when you are ready to begin DPS. When the encounter begins, kill the Vandal who possesses the Viral Operator, but when you do pick it up, place it on the Augment Terminal as the specific numbered pads to shoot is not known yet. Kill adds and avoid the bombs sent by the boss until a Captain called a Machine Priest spawns. Kill it and the boss will teleport you to the lower level. Once you are teleported there, kill a Tracer Shank that possesses the Viral Augment pickup now being introduced. The player that possesses the '''Viral Suppressor''' will see that their grenade ability is replaced with a new icon and when the grenade button is pressed, they will create a hologram that can be shot. Use the hologram near the boss to force it to split into multiple miniatures of itself, numbered from 0 to 9. Before going back up to the upper level where you started the second encounter, identify which numbered Servitor from 0 to 9 is glowing, then enter that information into the text chat. Repeat this process one more time and you’ll have the specific numbered pads that needs to shot that corresponds with the numbered Servitors that were glowing. After you have all 4 specific numbers you need, return to the Augment Terminal and reacquire the '''Viral Operator''' pickup, then shoot the pads that has the number that was typed into the text chat to begin DPS. AoE Supers and weapons are recommended as the boss will split into miniatures of itself again when DPS begins. Rinse and repeat until all of the miniatures are destroyed, and the encounter will be completed. 

===Anomaly Traversal===
While making your way to the final encounter, energy from the Anomaly will spread out and strike the station with Arc damage. Avoid them and you will be safe until you reach the area where the final encounter begins.

===The Corrupted Puppeteer===
Approach the orb near the window to begin the final encounter. All 3 Viral Augment pickup will be at play here, so dedicate a player to each specific Viral Augment role. When the encounter starts, multiple clones of the Puppeteer will rush onto the players and inflict them with the '''Radiation''' debuff if the player stays within the clone's aura. To counter this, the player with '''Viral Suppression''' must plant down a hologram to bait the clones, then shoot the hologram to remove their Radiation aura, opening them to damage. Once those clones are defeated, the player with '''Viral Scanner''' must go around the room and identify all instances of the specific numbered pad to tell the player who possesses '''Viral Operator''' to shoot. After that, head towards the open tubes and find which door has an alarm going off. Head towards that room until you see a room with exactly 4 pads and an Augment Terminal. The player with '''Viral Operator''' must shoot all 4 pads while the player with '''Viral Scanner''' identifies which clone needs to be destroyed to drop and subsequently deposit a nuclear core into a chest inside a bunker. You will need to do this process again on the other side, but watch out for traps along the way. When both rooms are completed, a teleporter will activate leading them back into the room where the encounter starts, but this time, head into a giant door in the back. After being launched up on the deck, DPS will begin. Players will have 2 rounds of DPS while they are on the deck and energy from the Anomaly will strike into the area as well. After the first round of DPS is over, head into a bunker nearby and deposit the nuclear core to be safe from the overwhelming energy emanating from the Anomaly. After the second round of DPS is over, fall into the hole where you were launched from earlier and repeat the above mechanics until the boss is dead, completing the dungeon.

==Bosses==
*[[Raneiks Unified]]
**Raneiks-1
**Raneiks-2
**Raneiks-3
**Raneiks-4
**Raneiks-5
**Raneiks-6
**Raneiks-7
**Raneiks-8
**Raneiks-9
**Raneiks-10
*[[The Corrupted Puppeteer]] — {{C|Final Boss}}

==Unique Enemies==
*[[Broken Puppet, Mind's Bulwark]]
*[[Broken Puppet, Mind's Safeguard]]
*[[Machine Priest]]
*[[Machine Priest's Assistant]]
*[[Viral Suppressor Client]]

==Rewards==
===Weapons===
*'''[[Ice Breaker]]''' - Exotic {{Icon|Solar}} [[Sniper Rifle]]
*[[VS Chill Inhibitor]] - Legendary {{Icon|Stasis}} Heavy [[Grenade Launcher]]
*[[VS Gravitic Arrest]] - Legendary {{Icon|Void}} [[Fusion Rifle]]
*[[VS Pyroelectric Propellant]] - Legendary {{Icon|Arc}} [[Auto Rifle]]
*[[VS Velocity Baton]] - Legendary {{Icon|Void}} Special Grenade Launcher

===Armor===
*[[Spacewalk Suit]] - Armor

===Other rewards===
*[[VS Tech Sledge]] - Sparrow

==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Vesper's Host is the second dungeon to feature the [[Fallen]], after [[Grasp of Avarice]], and the first to focus exclusively on the Fallen.
*Vesper’s Host is the first dungeon to feature a Contest Mode period and race, where normal mode would enable after the event podium (the first three clears) were confirmed.

==Appearance==
*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Revenant]]'' {{1st}}

==References==
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[[Category:Dungeons]]