Looped

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Looped
Game:	Destiny 2
Player(s):	1
Recommended Power Level:	+80
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"No one's heard from Cayde-6 since the Hunter took off for an uncharted world. Track him down."

— In game description

Looped is the eighth story mission of Destiny 2.

Enemies

• Vex
  • Hapax, The Convergent Mind

Transcript

Reach level 7 and complete mission “Looped” on Nessus.

Complete world activities or Crucible matches to level up

No one's heard from Cayde-6 since the Hunter took off for an uncharted world. Track him down.

Start Mission

Loading Screen

Ghost: Commander Zavala needs the Vanguard united again. While he prepares for the assault on the Almighty, we're going to find Cayde and Ikora. Luckily we picked up an odd signal from Cayde's Ghost. It's being boosted somehow from a centaur called Nessus.

Ghost: Which is strange. Centaurs are really just big rocks in the outer reaches of the solar system. There should be nothing there.

{End Loading Screen}

Cutscene

A series of panning shots introducing the Vexified environment of Nessus, with mysterious Vex structures and alien flora.

A large tower jutting into the sky. The Wanderwing flies into the scene, circling around the tower.

Ghost: So much for nothing being here. Let's get to high ground so I can pin down Cayde's location.

The camera levels with the top of the spire just as the Wanderwing flies overhead once more, dropping off the Guardian.

{End Cutscene}

Gameplay

Artefact's Edge

Nessus, Unstable Centaur

The player spawns in at the top of the tower, with the option to either jump down directly, or utilise the gravity lift immediately in front of them for a controlled descent.

Ghost: Here we go. Tracking Cayde's signal now. I think I'm getting something.

Cayde-6: In over my head... Vex trap... Failsafe?

Ghost: VEX TRAP?! What is Cayde getting us into this time?

Ghost: Something around here is blasting that signal into space. We find that something, we'll find Cayde.

Find Cayde-6

Investigate the source of Cayde-6's signal

The player sees a crashed Jumpship in the corner of the map and approaches

Ghost: There! The signal's coming from that wrecked ship!

Scan Signal

The player interacts with a terminal on the hull of the ship.

Failsafe (Cheery): Hello! Are you here to rescue the Cayde-6 unit?

Ghost: Whoa! You're not Cayde!

Failsafe (Cheery): The Cayde-6 is currently caught in a teleportation loop. He's over there. (Voop!). Now he's over THERE. Oop!

Ghost: He's moving? Well that's... complicated.

Failsafe (Cheery): I can help you. (Depressed): But I'm going to be super unpleasant about it.

Ghost: I'm sorry - what?

Failsafe (Cheery): I have uploaded his new coordinates to you. (Depressed): Against my better judgement.

Ghost: Uh... OK...?

Find Cayde-6

Investigate the source of Cayde-6's signal

In the area immediately surrounding this crashed ship is Ghost Scan NE-AE-1

Ghost: "This is like a... cornerstone of Nessus. Put here by the Vex to mark linear time. It's been 127 of our years since Nessus last travelled through our system. I don't know how many Vex years that is."

The player heads off towards the new coordinates in Hallows

Failsafe (Cheery): May I help you with anything else?

Ghost: Yeah... are you OK? You sound a little... off

Failsafe (Cheery): I am the Exodus Black's failsafe. Call me Failsafe! I boosted the Cayde-6's signal in hopes he would be rescued. And look! Here you are!

Ghost: Oh, I see! She's just an AI. A malfunctioning AI.

Failsafe (Depressed): I heard that. (Cheery): At your service!

Ghost: Centaurs are supposed to be just giant icy rocks. How did all this happen?

Failsafe: A robotic alien entity called the Vex have achieved 92.014 percent conversion of the Centaur Nessus

Hallows

The player enters the underground cavern in the Hallows, finding Cayde trapped, levitating above the ground and unable to escape from a transparent Vex...thing

'Ghost: Cayde!

Cayde-6: Someone there? Listen, don't ask me how this happened - I don't have time to explain what I don't have time to understand.

Cayde and the Vex thing/cage in which he is trapped vanish as Vex units start arriving to commence battle with the player

Failsafe (Cheery): Warning! The Vex will vaporize you!

A group of Goblins spawn in, attacking the player, introducing the new player to this basic unit as well as the two modes of Vex reinforcements: Vex teleportation and Vex Gates located around this area. With the first wave defeated a Minotaur appears, introducing the player to these enemies. The final wave is a mix of Goblins and Minotaurs now the player has mastered the basics of fighting Vex. The Vex are defeated.

Ghost: So, Failsafe. What exactly happened here?

Failsafe (Cheery): The Cayde-6 attempted to manipulate the Vex portal system. He is now trapped in a non-linear loop. In my defense, I tried to warn him. (Depressed): He's, like, not that smart.

Ghost: This is NOT going well.

Trivia

• The display on the crashed ship when interacted with during this mission will show the emblem and Chinese Characters of the First Light Lunar Installation which may identify a relationship between the now wrecked spaceship and the Chinese lunar colony and/or the Aeronautics of China. more likely however is this i

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