Qiao's Armor

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Qiao's Armor
Specifications
Name:	Qiao's Armor
Rarity:	Legendary
Class:	Hunter
Defense rating:	5-400
Availability
Vendor:	Tess Everis

Qiao's Armor is a Legendary Hunter armor set that was available from Eververse engrams during Season 3 of Destiny 2.

Qiao's Grin

"Let the outside mirror what is found on the inside."

— Armor description

Perks

• Tier 1
  • Mobile Hunter Armor: Improved mobility.
• Tier 2
  • Plasteel Reinforcement Mod: Increased mobility.
  • Restorative Mod: Increased health recovery.

Lore

Qiao Supplemental
Qiao's Journal
Path to Ares: 18 Days to Launch

Mihaylova and Evie continue to have conflict that is completely unnecessary. It puts a strain on the Clubhouse. I know Jacob is trying to get a handle on it.
The latest is this ridiculous argument about the subroutines of the AI code. Evie wants to get a look at all of Mihaylova's code to make sure it takes into account the gravity measurements she's making to plot the possible movements of the Traveler.
Traveler—yes. Such a perfect name! Go Evie!
Anyway, Mihaylova simply refuses to unlock all of her code. Not outright, of course, she just deflects, underdelivers, won't let Evie into the whole thing.
I'm not interested in this conflict. I have my own ways of unlocking every piece of code in the onboard systems. So I gave Evie access.
I mentioned it afterwards to Mihaylova, and I expected her to react badly—but of course things don't always work out the way you expect. She got very quiet and said, "Well, Qiao. What's done is done."

Qiao's Care

"Always reach for understanding and compassion."

— Armor description

Perks

• Tier 1
  • Mobile Hunter Armor: Improved mobility.
• Tier 2
  • Mobility Enhancement Mod: Increased mobility.
  • Plasteel Reinforcement Mod: Increased resilience.

Lore

Qiao Supplemental
Project Catamaran
Clubhouse Gymnasium
A/V Recording
Path to Ares: 30 Days to Launch

Hardy: What, you don't play basketball?
Qiao: Of course I do.
Hardy: Okay, so me and Mihaylova against you and Evie.
Evie: Oh, we'll wipe the floor with you.
Mihaylova: Don't be so sure.
Hardy: How's the nav coming?
Qiao: All told, beautiful. With Mihay's AI and Evie's theories—
Evie: We don't want to accidentally run into it.
Hardy: It?
Evie: Moon X.
Mihaylova: Agh!
Evie: Too slow.
Hardy: Hey! No traveling.
Evie: Sorry—
Qiao: Got it.
Hardy: Not so fast—
Qiao: Two points. You want to talk about fast.
Evie: Wait. Wait.
Hardy: Huh. Okay. What?
Evie: Traveling. Moon X. Look, we need to stop even thinking of it as a satellite or a false moon. It's big, but it acts alive— this thing moves with purpose. It's a visitor. It's… a Traveler.

Qiao's Heart

"Be aware at all times of what drives those around you."

— Armor description

Perks

• Tier 1
  • Mobile Hunter Armor: Improved mobility.
• Tier 2
  • Plasteel Reinforcement Mod: Increased mobility.
  • Restorative Mod: Increased health recovery.

Lore

Qiao Supplemental
A/V Recording
Path to Ares: Launch Day + 1 (Revised Launch Day)

Centcom: Ares this is Centcom, Radio Check. Radio check, over.
Hardy: Centcom this is Ares One. We read you loud and fairly clearly, over.
C: Roger. Hey, just so you know, the, uh, House of Eternal Travel has sent you its prayers. It was all over the news.
H: That one of those Traveler cults?
C: Roger, this is the one that survived the Traveler-cult rumble a few weeks ago.
H: Oh. Well, okay, tell them thanks.
C: Roger. Next radio check 8 minutes.
H: They'll be quiet for a while. Nav?
Qiao: Steady. We are clear of Earthgrav. Confirming course.
H: Engineering?
Mihaylova: All systems normal.
H: OK. So now it's… a long wait.
Q: Hey. You OK, Jacob?
H: Yeah. A-OK.
Q: Look at the stars.
M: Is there a problem?
Q: Not at all. It's just…
H: Beautiful.
Q: Yes. Like something we are privileged to join but could never deserve.
H: Wonder how the Traveler must feel.

Qiao's Strides

"Walk in peace, and know that there can be no danger in wisdom."

— Armor description

Perks

• Tier 1
  • Mobile Hunter Armor: Improved mobility.
• Tier 2
  • Mobility Enhancement Mod: Increased mobility.
  • Plasteel Reinforcement Mod: Increased resilience.

Lore

File:Qiao, navigator, Ares One
—Supplemental—
Path to Ares: 58 Days to Launch
Beijing University
A/V Record

Student: Dean Qiao, thank you for answering all these questions about Ares One.
Qiao: No, thank you. I love it.
Student: Do you remember where you were when you first heard about the mission?
Qiao: Huh. I do remember where I was when I got the call. It wasn't called Ares then, of course. Until around launch day it was called Project Catamaran. Anyway, my oldest daughter was applying to the university and we had flown in from our home in Sydney, to visit. We had lunch with some professors and afterwards we visited one of the dorms. Just over there. It's not there anymore. Thank god. It was an old dorm.
There were protests all over, that day. The Moon X cults were in full force, calling for all governments to combine.
I took the call in the drone we rented for the day. They wanted me to cut the visit short but I refused. They wanted me to be gone for a year and a half. They could wait until morning.

Qiao's Passing

"Bind yourself with compassion and knowledge."

— Armor description

Lore

Qiao Supplemental
Journal of Ulysses Qiao, son of Dean Qiao of Beijing University, Navigator of the Ares One
Path to Ares: 476 days to launch

We were in the Rathskeller. If you don't know what that is—I didn't at the time, but it's a sort of restaurant and bar underground, not far from the bookstore. Hundreds of years old. This wasn't Beijing, back then we lived in Australia. Sydney. And I had gone to have lunch with my dad at the university where he was teaching.
So I'd brought all this information about looking for colleges. I remember we had holograms floating all around the table while we ate pizza and it was a great time, you know?
Anyway there was this TV playing. And that was the first time we saw it: drone footage from the edge of the solar system. Something had come in that no one had expected. My dad looked up and he just froze, like his mind just flipped on and he was lost. He would get like that.
That was the first time we saw the thing that everyone eventually called the Traveler.

List of appearances

• Destiny 2
  • Warmind (First appearance)