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 *'''Osiris:''' No, Saint. Don't apologize. You… you were forgiven from the first.
+|title3= Encore: Coda
+|content3=
+''Returning once again to the core of Nessus, the Guardian walks down the flock of stairs and meets with Osiris.''
+*'''Osiris:''' Guardian, you venture into Sundaresh’s domain once again. But now… I have a word of caution.
+*'''Osiris:''' I know how Saint felt when the Conductor called to him.
+*'''Osiris:''' I recognize it from when Savathûn had her hold over me.
+*'''Osiris:''' Thoughts that are not your own. Flashes of another consciousness encroaching on yours.
+*'''Osiris:''' And soon… rattling against the bars of your own mind.
+*'''Osiris:''' Even as you try to ask forgiveness for what you have been made to do.
+*'''Osiris:''' I feel it again… The Conductor grows more dangerous each passing moment.
+*'''Osiris:''' We cannot know the extent of the Echo’s power until we see it for ourselves.
+*'''Osiris:''' I know it will not end with the Vex or with Saint… It will end with us all.
+*'''Osiris:''' Go, Guardian! We must finish this before we too are compelled.
+''With Osiris transmatting away, the Guardian delves deeper into Nessus once again where they encounter Shadow Legion forces.''
+*'''Osiris:''' Failsafe’s countermeasures will put an end to Sundaresh’s research here.
+*'''Ikora:''' That, and finding the Chioma from Maya’s timeline, will hopefully finish this.
+''The Guardian creates a way forward into a Vex structure using Vex Module//CONNECTION.''
+*'''Osiris:''' Our calibrations on Neomuna will allow us to locate Chioma within the VexNet.
+*'''Osiris:''' But even if we succeed, and find the version of Chioma that Sundaresh is searching for… I-I am not certain it will be enough.
+*'''Osiris:''' We shall see. I can only hope that my fears are unfounded.
+''Using a tractor beam, the Guardian arrives at a laboratory containing Exo frames.''
+:::'''//MSUND12 CONNECTING…'''
+:::'''//CONNECTED'''
+''Making there way back to the Vex Jungle Construct, the Guardian defeats Iziira and Eexonios, Pyramid Remnants once more before continuing further into the jungle.''
+:::'''You know what I am'''
+:::'''What I do'''
+:::'''What I want'''
+:::'''Yet you persist'''
+''Continuing further into the jungle, the Guardian arrives at the rural area accommodated with Ishtar Collective buildings.''
+*'''Osiris:''' Even if Sundaresh fails eternally at her goal, she will eat away at our reality until it is subsumed by her Vex.
+*'''Osiris:''' We learned of her methods with the Veil. Each successive experiment another step towards her own oblivion.
+*'''Ikora:''' We've isolated the signature for Dr. Esi's consciousness from Neomuna. Her Chioma could convince Maya to end this.
+*'''Osiris:''' Her Chioma stood by and watched it happen before.
+''Defeating further Vex forces, the Guardian continues their journey into the jungle.''
+:::'''Why take this from me?'''
+:::'''Why this ruin?'''
+:::'''It yields nothing'''
+:::'''Brings you nothing'''
+:::'''Only Collapse'''
+:::'''Hatred'''
+:::'''Death'''
+''The Guardian arrives at another Ishtar settlement, where they encounter further Vex forces as well as Gretaal, Compelled Colossus.''
+*'''Osiris:''' Sundaresh has brought Cabal under the Echo’s power. Her mastery is growing. This will be our only chance to end the threat and secure the Echo.
+''As the Guardian defeats Gretaal, the portal leading to the laboratory activates.''
+:::'''Stop'''
+:::'''I command you'''
+:::'''Stop'''
+:::'''STOP'''
+''Arriving at the Ishtar Research Facility, the Guardian scans the degaussed Exomind.''
+*'''Ikora:''' Wait, I-I don’t — this is her! Chioma Esi, from our own past… Here. Dead.
+*'''Ikora:''' She's been thrown away, too? Does Maya know what she's done?
+''The final recording between Maya and Chioma plays.''
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Fidelity test. When did you first tell me you loved me?
+*'''Chioma Esi:''' [snorts] I wish I could remember a time I loved you.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Elaborate.
+*'''Chioma Esi:''' I watched the woman I loved whittle herself away, compromise by compromise, and I stood by you in each atrocity.
+*'''Chioma Esi:''' Now all I see in front of me is a monster. Not my sunrise.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' I'm trying to save you. You're not my Chioma. If you were, you would understand. Degauss—
+*'''Chioma Esi:''' I am her. What I am not is your personal delusion.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' You’re like all the others. Scared and shallow-minded. Degaussing Exomind. Emotional fidelity test failed.
+''The recording ends.''
+*'''Ikora:''' She found "her Chioma", and discarded her like all the rest.
+*'''Osiris:''' That was my fear. Maya knows what she’s become. There is no version of her wife who would accept her as she is now!
+''Exiting the laboratory, the Guardian returns to the large Vex cavern where Exodos, Choral Mind is contained within its shield''
+*'''Osiris:''' Sundaresh is so shrouded by her own obsession that she did not even recognize the Chioma from her own simulation.
+*'''Ikora:''' But she'll keep searching. Murdering Chioma again and again, trying to find someone who's already dead.
+*'''Osiris:''' If just for that, she must be stopped.
+*'''[[Failsafe]] (Cheerful):''' Calculating chances of the Vex Mind's survival against our combined efforts…
+*'''Failsafe (Depressed):''' It's donezo, Captain.
+''Depsite it’s powerful weaponry, the Guardian defeats Exodus, Choral Mind.''
+*'''Osiris:''' Guardian, you will have to confront her again. This will end. Saint, do you have the coordinates?
+*'''Saint-14:''' I am here, Osiris! I am ready.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Is that a wise course of action, Osiris?
+*'''Saint-14:''' Sundaresh! You are obsessed! Can't you see that? You already found your Chioma!
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' You’ve destroyed my work, and now you're coming for me? So be it.
+*'''Saint-14:''' Guardian, I will stand with you. I know who I am, she won’t command me again.
+*'''Ikora:''' Maya will never listen to us.
+*'''Saint-14:''' We have to try.
+*'''Osiris:''' There is no walking back from what she’s done to Chioma Esi!
+*'''Saint-14:''' We must give her a choice. She can still surrender.
+*'''Ikora:''' I'll be by your side when she doesn’t.
+'''(Cutscene Begins)'''
+''The Guardian meets up with Ikora and Saint-14 at the Planetary Core, where Maya Sundaresh stands in a waterfall of radiolaria.''
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' [scoffs] You had to drag me down to bleed in the mud with you.
+*'''Saint-14:''' How many died to find the Chioma you call yours? Even then, you cast her aside!
+*'''Maya Sundaresh''' You think that facsimile, that COPY, was my Chioma? With fear behind her eyes? No. Not mine.
+*'''Ikora:''' Splitting hairs, to justify murder? You sound like Clovis.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' [scoffs] An emotional assessment. Life is protocols and iterations - each past "you" relative to you now.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Third-dimensional beings struggle with this concept.
+*'''Saint-14:''' No more words. Surrender!
+''The Guardian, Saint-14, and Ikora ready their weapons.''
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Why? How will you compel me if I refuse?
+''Ikora reloads her shotgun.''
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Put it down, Ikora. Honestly! The rest of you, lay down your arms.
+''Using the power of the Echo of Command, Maya forces Ikora, the Guardian, and then Saint-14 to lower their weapons, with Saint's helmet lining turning cyan in the process.''
+'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Thank you. Now…
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Come. Drink your fill. Let me change your mind.
+''Maya compels the Guardian, Saint-14, and Ikora to walk towards the radiolarian waterfall.''
+*'''Saint-14:''' You can choose to end this differently. Let this obsession go.
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' Choice is the ego, raging against the inevitable.
+*'''Saint-14:''' You may not see a choice… But I make my own fate!
+''Breaking free from the Conductor's control as his helmet's colouring returns to normal, Saint throws a Sentinel Shield at Maya, releasing the Guardian and Ikora from her control in the process.''
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' [pants] I command you…
+*'''Ikora:''' Not this time.
+''Ikora throws a Nova Bomb at the Conductor, knocking her down into the radiolaria. Underneath the lake of radiolaria, Maya looks at the surface.''
+*'''Maya Sundaresh:''' I can only make you look. Perhaps, in time, you will see.
+''Maya dissipates into the radiolaria, fleeing into the Vex Network. Saint-14 walks closer to the radiolarian waterfall.''
+*'''Saint-14:''' She escaped… The Echo with her.
+'''(Cutscene Ends)'''
+'''''{End Mission:Encore: Coda}'''''
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