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'''Utopia''' is the seventh [[story]] mission of Destiny 2.
'''Utopia''' is the seventh [[story]] mission of Destiny 2. Completing this mission unlocks the planet [[Nessus]] and the mission ''[[Looped]]'', as well as the [[Adventure]]s ''[[Siren Song]]'' and [[Deathless]]''.
 
== Enemies ==


[[Hive]] - [[Savathûn's Hive]]
During the course of ''Utopia'', [[The Guardian]] descends into the [[New Pacific Arcology]] to search for a Golden Age CPU to crack intercepted Cabal communications. The communications reveal that the [[Cabal|Cabal's]] star killing superweapon, [[The Almighty]] to be in orbit around our Sun, prompting requiring an urgent reunification of the [[Vanguard]] and an assault on the Almighty before it destroys the entire Solar System.
* [[Garmurg]]


==Objectives==
==Objectives==
*Secure a Golden Age CPU to decrypt Red Legion intel - Find a way into the Arcology and locate the Central Processing Unit network


==Transcript==
*Locate the CPU network - Find a New Pacific Arcology OS access terminal


====<center>Gameplay</center>====
*Locate the CPU network - Deploy Ghost to interface with the New Pacific Arcology OS


:Complete mission "Utopia" on Titan
*Secure a Golden Age CPU to decrypt Red Legion intel - Make your way down to the CPU network chamber
::Venture deeep into the heart of the Hive to retrieve a powerful Golden Age CPU - and make it out alive


::Start mission
*Secure a Golden Age CPU t decrypt Red Legion intel - Remove a CPU from the New Pacific Arcology network.


:'''The Rig'''
*Escape the Arcology with the CPU - Find a way outside
:Titan


:Secure a Golden Age CPU to decrypt Red Legion intel
==Transcript==
::Find a way into the Arcology and locate the Central Processing Unit network
'''{Gameplay}'''


:::::The player moves towards the [[New Pacific Arcology]]
''The Guardian moves towards the [[New Pacific Arcology]]''


'''[[Zavala]]: [[Amanda Holliday|Holliday]] has detected an unusual amount of electricity being re-directed into the Arcology
*'''[[Zavala]]: [[Amanda Holliday|Holliday]] has detected an unusual amount of electricity being re-directed into the Arcology


'''[[Amanda Holliday]]''': Yep. Juice like that can only mean one thing: a network of CPU's - powerful ones. Maybe powerful enough to decrypt that Cabal signal we intercepted.
*'''Amanda Holliday''': Yep. Juice like that can only mean one thing: a network of CPU's - powerful ones. Maybe powerful enough to decrypt that Cabal signal we intercepted.


'''Zavala''': Unfortunately we don't know where the network might be located.
*'''Zavala''': Unfortunately we don't know where the network might be located.


'''Holliday''': So you're gonna have to snoop around, not draw too much attention.
*'''Holliday''': So you're gonna have to snoop around, not draw too much attention.


'''Zavala''': Guardian, securing this asset could turn the tide of this "war" with the [[Red Legion]]. Without it... I don't know what comes next.
*'''Zavala''': Guardian, securing this asset could turn the tide of this "war" with the [[Red Legion]]. Without it... I don't know what comes next.


:'''Solarium'''
''The player enters [[Solarium]], fighting a small band of [[Fallen]] outside it which includes a [[Servitor]]. The player defeats these and enters the Solarium proper.''


:::::The player enters [[Solarium]], fighting a small band of [[Fallen]] outside it which includes a [[Servitor]]. The player defeats these and enters the Solarium proper.
*'''Arcology Operating System''': Welcome to [[New Pacific Arcology]], the bright future of space colonization in the shadow of [[Saturn]].


*'''Ghost''': Sound's like the Arcology's operating is back online.


'''Arcology Operating System''': Welcome to [[New Pacific Arcology]], the bright future of space colonisation in the shadow of [[Saturn]].
*'''Holliday''': I knew it! Keep an eye out for an OS access terminal. You can use it to pinpoint the CPU network.


'''Ghost''': Sound's like the Arcology's operating is back online.
''While in the Solarium the Operating System will continue on the loudspeakers, saying:''


'''Holliday''': I knew it! Keep an eye out for an OS access terminal. You can use it to pinpoint the CPU network.
*'''Arcology Operating System''': The New Pacific Academy is proud to offer degrees in Methane-Oceanography and Tidal Engineering


:Locate the CPU network
*'''Arcology Operating System''': Attention science lovers! The [[Ishtar Collective|Collective's]] lecture on the terraforming of Io begins in five minutes in the Cassini Library.
::Find a New Pacific Arcology OS access terminal


:::::While in the Solarium the Operating System will continue on the loudspeakers, saying:
*'''Arcology Operating System''': Thirty four percent of Titan's citizen's hope that the [[Traveler]] will terraform the ocean-moon soon.


'''Arcology Operating System''': Local officials will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any so-called deep-space-anomaly.
*'''Arcology Operating System''': The [[Traveler]]'s sudden departure from [[Io]] was a surprise to many. But experts insist should trust in the Traveler's choices.


'''Arcology Operating System''': The New Pacific Academy is proud to offer degrees in Methane-Oceanography and Tidal Engineering
*'''Arcology Operating System''': Local officials will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any so-called deep-space-anomaly.


'''Arcology Operating System''': Thirty four percent of Titan's citizen's hope that the [[Traveler]] will terraform the ocean-moon soon.
''A [[Ghost Scans|Ghost Scan]] is located in the vicinity
[https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Solarium_1.PNG TM-SOL-1] reading:''
*'''Ghost''': "Screen's dead, but the feed's still running. Ooh, kind of a catchy jingle. '[[New Pacific Arcology]]! The next frontier is you.'"


'''Arcology Operating System''': Attention science lovers! The [[Ishtar Collective|Collective's]] lecture on the terraforming of Io begins in five minutes in the Cassini Library.
''The player continues into the Arcology.''


:::::A [[Ghost Scans|Ghost Scan]] is located in the vicinity, [https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Solarium_1.PNG TM-SOL-1] reading:
*'''Ghost''': Over there. One of the access terminals we're looking for.
::::::'''Ghost''': "Screen's dead, but the feed's still running. Ooh, kind of a catchy jingle. '[[New Pacific Arcology]]! The next frontier is you.'"


:::::The player continues into the Arcology.
*'''Ghost''': The CPU network is deep in the maintenance levels. Amanda, is this what we're looking for?


:'''Festering Halls'''
*'''Holliday''': Bingo! That's the place!


'''Ghost''': Over there. One of the access terminals we're looking for.
*'''Ghost''': OK, I've got the location. Let's find a way down.


:Locate the CPU network
''The terminal display has now changed from its earlier screen reading "Welcome to New Pacific Arcology" in English, Chinese and Russian, to showing a schematic map of the Arcology's "Network Layout" identifying the CPU's location and describing the CPU as a "Quantum Core" in all three languages. In the bottom right of the screen the display identifies the Operating System version as OS 118.16''
::Deploy Ghost to interface with the New Pacific Arcology OS


::Access Arcology Systems
''The player enters the [[Festering Halls]] and is ambushed by the [[Hive]], among them is a yellow bar "Revenant Acolyte". The player kills the Hive. To the right of the area is a defunct monitor [https://www.destinypedia.com/File:Tm_Festering_Halls_3.PNG TM-FH-3]:''
*'''Ghost''': "The [[New Pacific Arcology|Arcology's]] operating system isn't very smart. Nothing even close to an AI. Lots of entries here, different names. It may not have had a personality, but it made living here better for a lot of people."


'''Ghost''': The CPU network is deep in the maintenance levels. Amanda, is this what we're looking for?
''[https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Festering_Halls_2.PNG TM-FH-2] is also nearby, next to the doorway to head further into the Arcology.''
*'''Ghost''': "We saw this rune before, on the [[Dreadnaught]]. It means either 'doorway' or 'treasure' or 'chamber.' Perhaps the [[Hive]] use this rune to tap into their Throne-world dimensions."''


'''Holliday''': Bingo! That's the place!
''The player continues through the door into the hallway beyond where they encounter a Wizard and more Hive exiting a now permanently locked door besides a giant hole in the floor, and Ghost Scan ''[https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Festering_Halls_1.PNG TM-FH-1]:
*'''Ghost''': "These [[Hive]] spawn pods are different from the ones we saw before. Maybe a different brood. Or a different generation. Gross and confusing."


'''Ghost''': OK, I've got the location. Let's find a way down.
''The player kills the Wizard and its compatriots.''


:::::The terminal display has now changed from its earlier screen reading "Welcome to New Pacific Arcology" in English, Chinese and Russian, to showing a schematic map of the Arcology's "Network Layout" identifying the CPU's location and describing the CPU as a "Quantum Core" in all three languages. In the bottom right of the screen the display identifies the Operating System version as OS 118.16
*'''Ghost''': Look's like the Hive dug a shortcut for us. Let's head down that hole in the ground.


:Secure a Golden Age CPU to decrypt Red Legion intel
''The player enters the hole and proceeds through the dark nest below''
::Make your way down to the CPU network chamber


:::::The player enters the [[Festering Halls]] and is ambushed by the [[Hive]], among them is a yellow bar "Revenant Acolyte". The player kills the Hive. To the right of the area is a defunct monitor [https://www.destinypedia.com/File:Tm_Festering_Halls_3.PNG TM-FH-3]:
*'''Ghost''': We're definitely in Hive territory now.
::::::'''Ghost''': "The [[New Pacific Arcology|Arcology's]] operating system isn't very smart. Nothing even close to an AI. Lots of entries here, different names. It may not have had a personality, but it made living here better for a lot of people."


:::::[https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Festering_Halls_2.PNG TM-FH-2] is also nearby, next to the doorway to head further into the Arcology.
*'''Zavala''': Indeed. Keep radio chatter to a minimum. We don't want to draw any... unnecessary attention.
::::::'''Ghost''': "We saw this rune before, on the [[Dreadnaught]]. It means either 'doorway' or 'treasure' or 'chamber.' Perhaps the [[Hive]] use this rune to tap into their Throne-world dimensions."


:::::The player continues through the door into the hallway beyond where they encounter a Wizard and more Hive exiting a now permanently locked door besides a giant hole in the floor, and Ghost Scan [https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Festering_Halls_1.PNG TM-FH-1]:
''The Hive have already heard the player's approach and attack them, led by a regular [[Knight]] equipped with a [[Cleaver]]. The player defeats the Hive, continuing on to where they encounter a [[Shrieker]]. The Shrieker is defeated and the player continues on into another room, where they fight more Hive.''
::::::'''Ghost''': "These [[Hive]] spawn pods are different from the ones we saw before. Maybe a different brood. Or a different generation. Gross and confusing."


:::::The player kills the Wizard and its compatriots.
''The player encounters the [[Ogre]], [[Garmurg]]. The player defeats Garmurg, dropping down the hole he came from, and continues deeper into the Arcology towards the CPU.''


'''Ghost''': Look's like the Hive dug a shortcut for us. Let's head down that hole in the ground.
''The player continues on, jumping through some elevator shafts, and access shafts, with Hive membranes or destructible metal grates blocking their path on occasion. As they continue, the environment becomes darker and more claustrophobic. [[Thrall]]s ambush the player at several locations throughout the tunnels.''


:::::The player enters the hole and proceeds through the dark nest below
''Ultimately the player reaches the CPU room, which they drop down into from an air vent in the ceiling.''


'''Ghost''': We're definitely in Hive territory now.
''The Guardian picks up the CPU''


'''Zavala''': Indeed. Keep radio chatter to a minimum. We don't want to draw any... unnecessary attention.
*'''Arcology Operating System''': Warning. CPU network disrupted.


:::::The Hive have already heard the player's approach and attack them, led by a regular [[Knight]] equipped with a [[Cleaver]]. The player defeats the Hive, continuing on to where they encounter a [[Shrieker]]. The Shrieker is defeated and the player continues on into another room, where they fight more Hive.
*'''Ghost''': Well there's no way the Hive didn't hear that alarm.


:::::The player encounters their first [[Ogre]], [[Garmurg]]. The player defeats Garmurg, dropping down the hole he came from, and continues deeper into the Arcology towards the CPU.
*'''Zavala''': Move it, Guardian!


:::::The player continues on, jumping through some elevator shafts, and access shafts, with Hive membranes or destructible metal grates blocking their path on occasion. As they continue, the environment becomes darker and more claustrophobic. [[Thrall]]s ambush the player at several locations throughout the tunnels.
''The player is ambushed by several dozen Hive on either side shooting at them, forcing them to flee with the CPU. Once picked up the CPU cannot be put down, leaving the player in a third person mode where they cannot shoot back or even melee with the fragile CPU. The player escapes the CPU room.''


:::::Ultimately the player reaches the CPU room, which they drop down into from an air vent in the ceiling.
*'''Ghost''': We got the CPU, but we stirred up the entire Hive colony, and it's a long walk to the surface.


:Secure a Golden Age CPU t decrypt Red Legion intel
*'''Holliday''': They're not gonna make it out of there, Commander
::Remove a CPU from the New Pacific Arcology network.


:::::The player approaches the CPU's Quantum Core
*'''Zavala''': Guardian. Can you make it to the Center of the Arcology? We should be able to send someone to pick you up from there. Holliday?


::Pick up CPU
*'''Holliday''': Yeah... yeah, I'm on it.


'''Arcology Operating System''': Warning. CPU network disrupted.
''In the next room are modified [[Drake Tank|Drake Tanks]] that the player can enter with the CPU and drive. ''


'''Ghost''': Well there's no way the Hive didn't hear that alarm.
''The player then escapes through the Hive colony in the tank, ramming through the numerous Hive secretions, materials and troops in their way as they drive to the center of the Arcology.''


'''Zavala''': Move it, Guardian!
*'''Ghost''': This road leads to the center of the Arcology. We'll need a way out once we get there.


:Escape the Arcology with the CPU
*'''Holliday''': "I'm strapping in and about to take off. I'll be there AY-SAP."
::Find a way outside


:::::The player is ambushed by several dozen Hive on either side shooting at them, forcing them to flee with the CPU. Once picked up the CPU cannot be put down, leaving the player in a third person mode where they cannot shoot back or even melee with the fragile CPU. The player escapes the CPU room.
*'''Zavala''': "Amanda!"


'''Ghost''': We got the CPU, but we stirred up the entire Hive colony, and it's a long walk to the surface.
*'''Holliday''': "Sir?"


'''Holliday''': They're not gonna make it out of there, Commander
*'''Zavala''': Fly fast. Fly safe."


'''Zavala''': Guardian. Can you make it to the Center of the Arcology? We should be able to send someone to pick you up from there. Holliday?
*'''Holliday''': Yes, sir!


'''Holliday''': Yeah... yeah, I'm on it.
''The player reaches the center and proceeds along a long bridge to the landing platform where Holliday's [[Hawk]] jumpjet is waiting for them''


:::::In the next room is a vehicle that the player can enter with the CPU and drive. The vehicle is basically a [[Drake]] tank without its armaments, and serves to train the player in steering this class of vehicle.
*'''Holliday''': Got eyes on ya, pal! Meet you at the end of the road!


::Enter Driver's Seat
*'''Zavala''': Good work - both of you. Let's get that CPU back to Control and decrypt these transmissions.


:::::The player then escapes through the Hive colony in the not-a-Drake-tank tank by ramming it through the numerous Hive secretions, materials and troops in their way as they drive to the center of the Arcology.
*'''Holliday''': Things may finally be looking up for us.


'''Ghost''': This road leads to the center of the Arcology. We'll need a way out once we get there.
''The player reaches Holliday''


'''Holliday''': I'm strapping in and about to take off. I'll be there ASAP.
'''{Mission Ends}'''


'''Zavala''': Amanda!
'''[https://youtu.be/lyLpDSJ7IIg {Cutscene}]'''


'''Holliday''': Sir?
''A planet before a sun. The camera zooms in and comes around slowly while the music's drums beat with dramatically in the background. As the camera draws closer we can see the planet is wrecked, cracked open by gigantic continent spanning fissures through which the planet's molten core can be seen.''  


'''Zavala''': Fly fast. Fly safe.
''The camera passes by the planet and its debris, as [[the Almighty]] comes into sight along with a flotilla of [[Cabal Warship]]s. The Almighty is siphoning planetary material from the one end, and injecting a bright blue stream of ionized plasma into the sun out the other end. The camera focuses in on the beam, tracking it as it burns through the star's photosphere, generating a massive magnetic disturbance visible in the rapidly spreading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot sunpot].''


'''Holliday''': Yes, sir!
''The star destabilizes, the Almighty stops firing its weapon, and teleports out of the way of what comes next.''


:::::The player reaches the center and proceeds along a long bridge to the landing platform where Holliday's [[Hawk]] jumpjet is waiting for them
*'''[[Sloane]]''': They call it..."[[The Almighty]]." The crown jewel of the [[Red Legion]] and life's work of their leader...[[Ghaul|Dominus Ghaul]].


'''Holliday''': Got eyes on ya, pal! Meet you at the end of the road!
''The Almighty vanishes, leaving nothing but a giant black sunspot from the destabilization of the star's magnetic fields. The camera starts moving backwards, back through the planetary debris


'''Zavala''': Good work - both of you. Let's get that CPU back to Control and decrypt these transmissions.
*'''Sloane''': Ghaul has subjugated hundreds of worlds


'''Holliday''': Things may finally be looking up for us.
''The planet is gone, harvested by the Almighty before its departure, with only a few planetismal sized rocks left where it once was.''


:::::The player reaches Holliday
*'''Sloane''': Those that resisted... no longer exist


'''''{End Gameplay}'''''
''The star implodes -


====<center>Cutscene</center>====
*'''Sloane''': You see the Almighty...


:::::A planet before a sun. The camera zooms in and comes around slowly while the music's drums beat with dramatically in the background. As the camera draws closer we can see the planet is wrecked, cracked open by gigantic continent spanning fissures through which the planet's molten core can be seen.
''- and explodes in a supernova.''


:::::The camera passes by the planet and its debris, as the [[Almighty]] comes into sight along with a flotilla of [[Cabal Warship]]s. The Almighty is siphoning planetary material from the one end, and injecting a bright blue stream of ionised plasma into the sun out the other end. The camera focuses in on the beam, tracking it as it burns through the star's photosphere, generating a massive magnetic disturbance visible in the rapidly spreading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot sunpot].
*'''Sloane''': ... annihilates stars.


:::::The star destablised, the Almighty stops firing its weapon, and teleports out of the way of what comes next.
''The supernova explosion spreads, wiping out the first planet, as well as all other planets in the system.''


'''[[Sloane]]''': They call it..."[[The Almighty]]." The crown jewel of the [[Red Legion] and life's work of their leader...[[Ghaul|Dominus Ghaul]].
''The camera zooms out from the distant explosion while a Cabal march picks up in the background. The camera zooms out and begins to shift towards our own Solar System''


:::::The Almighty vanishes, leaving nothing but a giant black sunspot from the destabilisation of the star's magnetic fields. The camera starts moving backwards, back through the planetary debris
*'''Sloane''': Nothing - and no one - survives Ghaul's ambition.


'''Sloane''': Ghaul has subjugated hundreds of worlds
''[[The Moon]], [[Earth]] behind it, and there, floating above the Earth, above the [[City]], the [[Traveler]], as seen through a Red Legion scan''


:::::The planet is gone, harvested by the Almighty before its departure, with only a few planetismal sized rocks left where it once was
*'''Sloane''': What he wants... is the [[Traveler]]


'''Sloane''': Those that resisted... no longer exist
''The scan focuses in on the Traveler.''


:::::The star implodes -
*'''Sloane''': And its Light.


'''Sloane''': You see the Almighty...
''The camera passes by Earth to look at the Sun in the distance''


:::::- and then explodes in a supernova
*'''Sloane''': As for the Almighty... it's now pointed at our sun.


'''Sloane''': ... annihilates stars.
*'''Sloane''': In short, sir...the war's over. And we've lost.


:::::The supernova explosion spreads, wiping out the first planet, as well as all other planets in the system.
''Fade to black''


:::::The camera zooms out from the distant explosion while a Cabal march picks up in the background. The camera zooms out and begins to shift towards our own Solar System
'''{Cutscene}'''


'''Sloane''': Nothing - and no one - survives Ghaul's ambition.
''Zavala, Sloane, and the Guardian are gathered around table in the Control Center at Siren's Watch, Titan. A close up of Zavala hunched over the table, struggling to come to terms with his failure.''


:::::[[The Moon]], [[Earth]] behind it, and there, floating above the Earth, above the [[City]], the [[Traveler]], as seen through a Red Legion scan or visor of some kind
*'''[[Zavala]]''': We built our home under the protection of the [[Traveler]]. When our enemies attacked, we built a wall that stood for centuries. But now walls mean nothing.


'''Sloane''': What he wants... is the [[Traveler]]
''Zavala stands up straight.''


:::::The scan focuses in on the Traveler.
*'''Zavala''': This enemy has taken our home. Taken our [[Light]]. And now they threaten our very existence!


'''Sloane''': And its Light.
''Anger and determination building as Zavala looks at both Sloane and the Guardian''


:::::The camera passes by Earth to look at the Sun in the distance
*'''Zavala''': We're going all in on this... "[[the Almighty|Almighty]]". How long before the fleet's combat ready?


'''Sloane''': As for the Almighty... it's now pointed at our sun.
*'''Sloane''': Zavala, wait -


'''Sloane''': In short, sir...the war's over. And we've lost.
''Zavala punches the table.''


'''''{End Cutscene}'''''
*'''Zavala''': If we wait, we die. But if we attack together, we can take back our home, our Light... our hope. Or we die trying.


====<center>Cutscene</center>====
*'''Zavala''': "Now. I need my fireteam. I need [[Ikora Rey|Ikora]] and [[Cayde-6|Cayde]]."


:::::Zavala, Sloane, and the Guardian are gathered around table in the Control Center at Siren's Watch, Titan. A close up of Zavala hunched over the table, struggling to come to terms with his failure.
'''{Cutscene ends}'''


'''[[Zavala]]''': We built our home under the protection of the [[Traveler]]. When our enemies attacked, we built a wall that stood for centuries. But now walls mean nothing.
==Enemies==
;[[Fallen]] - [[House of Dusk]]
*[[Dreg]]
*[[Captain]]
*[[Servitor]]


:::::Zavala stands up straight.
;[[Hive]] - [[Savathûn's Brood]]
*[[Thrall]]
*[[Acolyte]]
*[[Knight]]
*[[Ogre]]
*[[Shrieker]]


'''Zavala''': This enemy has taken our home. Taken our [[Light]]. And now they threaten our very existence!
===Boss===
 
*[[Garmurg]]
:::::Anger and determination building as Zavala looks at both Sloane and the Guardian
 
'''Zavala''': We're going all in on this... "[[Almighty]]". How long before the fleet's combat ready?
 
'''Sloane''': Zavala, wait -
 
:::::Zavala punches the table.
 
'''Zavala''': If we wait, we die. But if we attack together, we can take back our home, our Light... our hope. Or we die trying.
 
'''Zavala''': Now. I need my fireteam. I need [[Ikora Rey|Ikora]] and [[Cayde-6|Cayde]].
 
'''''{End Cutscene}'''''
 
'''''{End Mission}'''''


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*In the room with the golden age CPU, a giant sea monster will appear in the window if you wait instead of grabbing the CPU.
*In the room with the golden age CPU, a giant sea monster resembling a gigantic [[Worm]] will appear in the window if you wait instead of grabbing the CPU.
**This was later revealed to be [[Ahsa]], who first appeared in [[Season of the Deep]]
*Ghost Scan [https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Solarium_1.PNG TM-SOL-1], available in the Solarium after player's first visit it during this mission is likely a homage to former Bungie employee and Composer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_O%27Donnell Marty O'Donnell] and his earlier career as a jingle writer.
*Ghost Scan [https://www.destinypedia.com/File:TM_Solarium_1.PNG TM-SOL-1], available in the Solarium after player's first visit it during this mission is likely a homage to former Bungie employee and Composer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_O%27Donnell Marty O'Donnell] and his earlier career as a jingle writer.
==Gallery==


==References==
==References==
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Game:

Destiny 2

Player(s):

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Recommended Power Level:

+60

Location:

The Rig, Titan

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"Venture deeep into the heart of the Hive to retrieve a powerful Golden Age CPU - and make it out alive"
— In game description

Utopia is the seventh story mission of Destiny 2. Completing this mission unlocks the planet Nessus and the mission Looped, as well as the Adventures Siren Song and Deathless.

During the course of Utopia, The Guardian descends into the New Pacific Arcology to search for a Golden Age CPU to crack intercepted Cabal communications. The communications reveal that the Cabal's star killing superweapon, The Almighty to be in orbit around our Sun, prompting requiring an urgent reunification of the Vanguard and an assault on the Almighty before it destroys the entire Solar System.

Objectives[edit]

  • Secure a Golden Age CPU to decrypt Red Legion intel - Find a way into the Arcology and locate the Central Processing Unit network
  • Locate the CPU network - Find a New Pacific Arcology OS access terminal
  • Locate the CPU network - Deploy Ghost to interface with the New Pacific Arcology OS
  • Secure a Golden Age CPU to decrypt Red Legion intel - Make your way down to the CPU network chamber
  • Secure a Golden Age CPU t decrypt Red Legion intel - Remove a CPU from the New Pacific Arcology network.
  • Escape the Arcology with the CPU - Find a way outside

Transcript[edit]

{Gameplay}

The Guardian moves towards the New Pacific Arcology

  • Zavala: Holliday has detected an unusual amount of electricity being re-directed into the Arcology
  • Amanda Holliday: Yep. Juice like that can only mean one thing: a network of CPU's - powerful ones. Maybe powerful enough to decrypt that Cabal signal we intercepted.
  • Zavala: Unfortunately we don't know where the network might be located.
  • Holliday: So you're gonna have to snoop around, not draw too much attention.
  • Zavala: Guardian, securing this asset could turn the tide of this "war" with the Red Legion. Without it... I don't know what comes next.

The player enters Solarium, fighting a small band of Fallen outside it which includes a Servitor. The player defeats these and enters the Solarium proper.

  • Ghost: Sound's like the Arcology's operating is back online.
  • Holliday: I knew it! Keep an eye out for an OS access terminal. You can use it to pinpoint the CPU network.

While in the Solarium the Operating System will continue on the loudspeakers, saying:

  • Arcology Operating System: The New Pacific Academy is proud to offer degrees in Methane-Oceanography and Tidal Engineering
  • Arcology Operating System: Attention science lovers! The Collective's lecture on the terraforming of Io begins in five minutes in the Cassini Library.
  • Arcology Operating System: Thirty four percent of Titan's citizen's hope that the Traveler will terraform the ocean-moon soon.
  • Arcology Operating System: The Traveler's sudden departure from Io was a surprise to many. But experts insist should trust in the Traveler's choices.
  • Arcology Operating System: Local officials will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any so-called deep-space-anomaly.

A Ghost Scan is located in the vicinity TM-SOL-1 reading:

  • Ghost: "Screen's dead, but the feed's still running. Ooh, kind of a catchy jingle. 'New Pacific Arcology! The next frontier is you.'"

The player continues into the Arcology.

  • Ghost: Over there. One of the access terminals we're looking for.
  • Ghost: The CPU network is deep in the maintenance levels. Amanda, is this what we're looking for?
  • Holliday: Bingo! That's the place!
  • Ghost: OK, I've got the location. Let's find a way down.

The terminal display has now changed from its earlier screen reading "Welcome to New Pacific Arcology" in English, Chinese and Russian, to showing a schematic map of the Arcology's "Network Layout" identifying the CPU's location and describing the CPU as a "Quantum Core" in all three languages. In the bottom right of the screen the display identifies the Operating System version as OS 118.16

The player enters the Festering Halls and is ambushed by the Hive, among them is a yellow bar "Revenant Acolyte". The player kills the Hive. To the right of the area is a defunct monitor TM-FH-3:

  • Ghost: "The Arcology's operating system isn't very smart. Nothing even close to an AI. Lots of entries here, different names. It may not have had a personality, but it made living here better for a lot of people."

TM-FH-2 is also nearby, next to the doorway to head further into the Arcology.

  • Ghost: "We saw this rune before, on the Dreadnaught. It means either 'doorway' or 'treasure' or 'chamber.' Perhaps the Hive use this rune to tap into their Throne-world dimensions."

The player continues through the door into the hallway beyond where they encounter a Wizard and more Hive exiting a now permanently locked door besides a giant hole in the floor, and Ghost Scan TM-FH-1:

  • Ghost: "These Hive spawn pods are different from the ones we saw before. Maybe a different brood. Or a different generation. Gross and confusing."

The player kills the Wizard and its compatriots.

  • Ghost: Look's like the Hive dug a shortcut for us. Let's head down that hole in the ground.

The player enters the hole and proceeds through the dark nest below

  • Ghost: We're definitely in Hive territory now.
  • Zavala: Indeed. Keep radio chatter to a minimum. We don't want to draw any... unnecessary attention.

The Hive have already heard the player's approach and attack them, led by a regular Knight equipped with a Cleaver. The player defeats the Hive, continuing on to where they encounter a Shrieker. The Shrieker is defeated and the player continues on into another room, where they fight more Hive.

The player encounters the Ogre, Garmurg. The player defeats Garmurg, dropping down the hole he came from, and continues deeper into the Arcology towards the CPU.

The player continues on, jumping through some elevator shafts, and access shafts, with Hive membranes or destructible metal grates blocking their path on occasion. As they continue, the environment becomes darker and more claustrophobic. Thralls ambush the player at several locations throughout the tunnels.

Ultimately the player reaches the CPU room, which they drop down into from an air vent in the ceiling.

The Guardian picks up the CPU

  • Arcology Operating System: Warning. CPU network disrupted.
  • Ghost: Well there's no way the Hive didn't hear that alarm.
  • Zavala: Move it, Guardian!

The player is ambushed by several dozen Hive on either side shooting at them, forcing them to flee with the CPU. Once picked up the CPU cannot be put down, leaving the player in a third person mode where they cannot shoot back or even melee with the fragile CPU. The player escapes the CPU room.

  • Ghost: We got the CPU, but we stirred up the entire Hive colony, and it's a long walk to the surface.
  • Holliday: They're not gonna make it out of there, Commander
  • Zavala: Guardian. Can you make it to the Center of the Arcology? We should be able to send someone to pick you up from there. Holliday?
  • Holliday: Yeah... yeah, I'm on it.

In the next room are modified Drake Tanks that the player can enter with the CPU and drive.

The player then escapes through the Hive colony in the tank, ramming through the numerous Hive secretions, materials and troops in their way as they drive to the center of the Arcology.

  • Ghost: This road leads to the center of the Arcology. We'll need a way out once we get there.
  • Holliday: "I'm strapping in and about to take off. I'll be there AY-SAP."
  • Zavala: "Amanda!"
  • Holliday: "Sir?"
  • Zavala: Fly fast. Fly safe."
  • Holliday: Yes, sir!

The player reaches the center and proceeds along a long bridge to the landing platform where Holliday's Hawk jumpjet is waiting for them

  • Holliday: Got eyes on ya, pal! Meet you at the end of the road!
  • Zavala: Good work - both of you. Let's get that CPU back to Control and decrypt these transmissions.
  • Holliday: Things may finally be looking up for us.

The player reaches Holliday

{Mission Ends}

{Cutscene}

A planet before a sun. The camera zooms in and comes around slowly while the music's drums beat with dramatically in the background. As the camera draws closer we can see the planet is wrecked, cracked open by gigantic continent spanning fissures through which the planet's molten core can be seen.

The camera passes by the planet and its debris, as the Almighty comes into sight along with a flotilla of Cabal Warships. The Almighty is siphoning planetary material from the one end, and injecting a bright blue stream of ionized plasma into the sun out the other end. The camera focuses in on the beam, tracking it as it burns through the star's photosphere, generating a massive magnetic disturbance visible in the rapidly spreading sunpot.

The star destabilizes, the Almighty stops firing its weapon, and teleports out of the way of what comes next.

The Almighty vanishes, leaving nothing but a giant black sunspot from the destabilization of the star's magnetic fields. The camera starts moving backwards, back through the planetary debris

  • Sloane: Ghaul has subjugated hundreds of worlds

The planet is gone, harvested by the Almighty before its departure, with only a few planetismal sized rocks left where it once was.

  • Sloane: Those that resisted... no longer exist

The star implodes -

  • Sloane: You see the Almighty...

- and explodes in a supernova.

  • Sloane: ... annihilates stars.

The supernova explosion spreads, wiping out the first planet, as well as all other planets in the system.

The camera zooms out from the distant explosion while a Cabal march picks up in the background. The camera zooms out and begins to shift towards our own Solar System

  • Sloane: Nothing - and no one - survives Ghaul's ambition.

The Moon, Earth behind it, and there, floating above the Earth, above the City, the Traveler, as seen through a Red Legion scan

  • Sloane: What he wants... is the Traveler

The scan focuses in on the Traveler.

  • Sloane: And its Light.

The camera passes by Earth to look at the Sun in the distance

  • Sloane: As for the Almighty... it's now pointed at our sun.
  • Sloane: In short, sir...the war's over. And we've lost.

Fade to black

{Cutscene}

Zavala, Sloane, and the Guardian are gathered around table in the Control Center at Siren's Watch, Titan. A close up of Zavala hunched over the table, struggling to come to terms with his failure.

  • Zavala: We built our home under the protection of the Traveler. When our enemies attacked, we built a wall that stood for centuries. But now walls mean nothing.

Zavala stands up straight.

  • Zavala: This enemy has taken our home. Taken our Light. And now they threaten our very existence!

Anger and determination building as Zavala looks at both Sloane and the Guardian

  • Zavala: We're going all in on this... "Almighty". How long before the fleet's combat ready?
  • Sloane: Zavala, wait -

Zavala punches the table.

  • Zavala: If we wait, we die. But if we attack together, we can take back our home, our Light... our hope. Or we die trying.
  • Zavala: "Now. I need my fireteam. I need Ikora and Cayde."

{Cutscene ends}

Enemies[edit]

Fallen - House of Dusk
Hive - Savathûn's Brood

Boss[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • In the room with the golden age CPU, a giant sea monster resembling a gigantic Worm will appear in the window if you wait instead of grabbing the CPU.
  • Ghost Scan TM-SOL-1, available in the Solarium after player's first visit it during this mission is likely a homage to former Bungie employee and Composer, Marty O'Donnell and his earlier career as a jingle writer.

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