Microcosm

Microcosm
Production overview
Manufacturer:	The Traveler
Rarity class:	Exotic
Weapon type:	Trace Rifle
Min-max impact:	6
Min-max stability:	80
Min-max handling:	58
Min-max reload speed:	25
Min-max magazine:	100
Specifications
Ammunition type:	Heavy
Rate of fire:	1000
Damage:	Kinetic
Effective range:	68
Hidden stats
Aim assistance:	100
Inventory size:	47
Zoom:	16
Recoil:	98
Bounce direction:	Tends Vertical
Airborne effectiveness:	10
Service history
In service:	Guardians
Affiliation:	The Traveler

"We all owe our existence to one singular moment, long ago."

Microcosm is a Exotic Kinetic Trace Rifle introduced in Destiny 2: The Final Shape. It is acquired as from the quest Convalescence: Budding.

Gameplay

Perks

• Intrinsic: Paracausal Beam - Fires a beam of Kinetic light, dealing massive bonus damage to shields.
• Hammer-Forged Rifling: Durable ranged barrel.
  • Increases range.
• Enhanced Battery: Strong battery life.
  • Increases magazine size.
• Exotic Trait: Paracausal Imbuement - Final blows with this weapon grant Super energy. This weapon gains bonus damage once your Super expires.
• Hand-Laid Stock: This weapon is optimized for recoil control.
  • Increases stability.

Lore

"And my vanquisher will read that book, seeking the weapon, and they will come to understand me, where I have been and where I was going."The following is a verbatim transcription of an official document for archival reasons. As the original content is transcribed word-for-word, any possible discrepancies and/or errors are included.

"WE ALL OWE OUR EXISTENCE TO ONE SINGULAR MOMENT, LONG AGO."

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Temperature: -65° C Weather: Dust storm Precipitation: 0% Humidity: 67% Wind: 25 mph Carbon Dioxide: 95%

Time passes. Metal corrodes. Dust jams. Decay. Decay. Decay.

Temperature: -100° C Weather: Clear Precipitation: 0% Humidity: 108% Wind: 30 mph Carbon Dioxide: 94%

To alter the nature of an entire world is no small thing. Mortal hands struggle to affect it. Cyanobacteria, little toilers of the deep seas, take millions of years of the sun's light to make the simplest and most necessary of changes: oxidation.

Temperature: -54° C Weather: Fog Precipitation: 0% Humidity: 98% Wind: 0 mph Carbon Dioxide: 95%

But there is a tipping point. A great explosion. Once achieved, there is a moment of balance. The rest flows freely and easily, faster and faster, as that which is built mounts and mounts and mounts. Atmosphere condenses, heat no longer escapes, rain falls, and bacteria born in a single lightning strike become multi-celled organisms, and on and on and on. Green and bright, and growing, growing, growing…

Temperature: -10° C Weather: Cloudy Precipitation: 26% Humidity: 67% Wind: 7 mph Carbon Dioxide: 50% and dropping rapidly

That is what it is for. That is the purpose—that moment of transformation and creation, of opening what was closed, of the first rain falling on untouched dirt. In that split second there is potential, there is the beginning of every life that will ever call this place home. From the singularity of the tipping point, a magnitude of futures spiraling outward forever, forever, forever.

Temperature: 17° C Weather: Rainy Precipitation: 86% Humidity: 78% Wind: 14 mph Atmosphere: 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen, trace amounts of other elements

What a privilege to witness you, at that time and at that place, as you turn your shielded faces up to the falling rain.

Appearance

• Destiny 2: The Final Shape (First appearance)