Name: The Inverted Spire
URL: https://youtu.be/SWbMtuRKQ3E?t=9s
Recorded: 2017.07.19
Transcript:
The Cistern, Unstable Centaur, Nessus
Failsafe A friendly warning: I am detecting seismic events all along the planet’s crust. I believe the Red Legion is to blame.
Failsafe #2 Hey, who wants to bet the Vex will tear us apart trying to fix it?
Zavala Agreed. Be careful, Guardian. There’s no one out there to back you up.
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Zavala Welcome to Nessus. This planet is crawling with Vex. The Red Legion have sent in crews, and we need to know why. Failsafe, are you online?
Failsafe Commander, your favorite AI is primed and ready. I have prepared back doors into several key Vex systems. We have detected a series of seismic disruptions. The Cabal may be responsible.
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Failsafe Commander, your favorite AI is ready to go! I’m tapped into the Vex network. According to their data, the Cabal have set off a series of quakes at the Nessus core.
Failsafe #2 As if my life wasn’t hard enough already.
Zavala We need to know what we’re dealing with. Yours are the boots on the ground, Guardian. Good luck.
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Failsafe A friendly note: the Red Legion appear to have torn apart the planet’s surface.
Ghost That sounds like a job for us!
Failsafe #2 Like, are you sure you can handle it?
Ghost Quiet, you.
Ghost scans the Conflux
Ghost On your right: a waterfall of Vex… milk. Yes, Vex milk.
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Ghost Oh, look! Look! It’s a Vex milk waterfall, can we stop and – aww…
The Anchor, Unstable Centaur, Nessus
Ghost Is it weird when I look at that light, and I think, “Wow. That is one big Ghost.”
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Ghost Oh. We’re walking into the light. I think there’s a metaphor here, and I don’t like it.
Failsafe Hey friends: I’m detecting seismic activity past the barrier ahead.
Failsafe #2 It’s giving me a headache.
Zavala Let’s see how the Red Legion plans to kill you today, Guardian.
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Ghost Hey, Failsafe! You’re all cozy in your data core. Any advice on an energy shield?
Failsafe I believe the nearby Vex constructs maintain that barrier.
Ghost Well, I could’ve – OK, we’ll shoot them.
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Ghost Oh, a barrier. This planet loves barriers. Zavala, I think they’re trying to contain the Red Legion.
Zavala They have bigger problems. Namely you, Guardian.
Guardian defeats the Vex and Cabal in the area then the barrier deactivates
Ghost What could the Red Legion possibly be drilling for?
Failsafe According to radio chatter, they want to build more guns.
Failsafe #2 Who could have guessed?
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Ghost Zavala: giant drills. Apparently, Cabal research equals giant drills. ZAVALA!
Zavala Preparation win any fight, Ghost. Should they deploy the drills on Earth, we’ll need your expertise.
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Ghost Look at those drills. Even the Vex can’t stop a Cabal invasion.
Zavala Survival is a temporary condition. For all of us.
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Ghost What could the Red Legion possibly be drilling for?
Failsafe Friendly query: what have you done to attract such hostile species to my planet?
Guardian joins the fight between Vex and Cabal near the drill site
Ghost Zavala! Looks like the drills are manned by a full battalion of Cabal!
Zavala A full battalion? What is that to you, who have slain gods in the heart of the Black Garden?
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Ghost And of course the drills have armed crews.
Failsafe Friendly suggestion:
Failsafe #2 Drop them first, Cap.
The two Cabal Drill Officers Centurions are defeated
Ghost Research team? More like research army. There’s so many of them.
Zavala Indeed. But we still need to know what they’re looking for. Brace yourselves.
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Failsafe Just so you know: I have detected a massive Vex energy signature.
Ghost And the only way to reach it is down past those giant, pointy drill bits? Good!
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Ghost You know, Cayde got stuck stealing from the Vex. Why didn’t that happen to the Red Legion?
Failsafe Calculating Red Legion similarity to the Cayde-6: .0001%
Failsafe #2 Plus, you know, Cayde’s dumb.
Ghost You’re both depressing and unhelpful
Guardian waits around the terminal
Ghost That thing won’t activate itself. I’d do it, but this shell doesn’t have arms.
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Ghost About that lever…
Zavala There’s a lever? Is that the holdup? Why don’t you just pull it?
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Ghost There must be a button we can push. Right?
Ghost scans the terminal
Ghost I think they want their drill back!
Ghost I hope this is safe. The Cabal don’t need to stick the landing. We do.
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Ghost Let’s hope this thing launches in the right direction! Or it’s going to be a short trip.
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Ghost I think it’s lined up. Right?
Guardian jumps into the Man Cannon
Ghost Are you sure about this?
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Ghost I’ll be honest. I don’t like this one bit.
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Ghost Zavala’s gonna owe us big for this.
Legion Dig Site, Unstable Centaur, Nessus
Ghost Oh, no. Please. Nonononono. Please. Please. No!
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Ghost Aaaahhhhhhhh!
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Ghost This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is just fine.
The Inverted Spire, Unstable Centaur, Nessus
Ghost Hey, Zavala? We found it. Big Vex. Bigger guns.
Zavala Good hunting, Guardian.
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Ghost This must be what the Cabal were looking for.
Failsafe No! Really?
Failsafe #2 What gave it away?
Ghost How dare you.
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Ghost Uh, guys? We’ve encountered a massive Vex Mind.
Failsafe Watch your back, friend! I’m detecting multiple ordnance types.
Ghost You’re not helping!
Protheon, Modular Mind appears
Ghost Uh, hey… what’s happening to the floor?
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Ghost It’s taking the floor out!
The first floor disappears
Protheon changes to Solar with an Arc weapon
Ghost: It’s switching guns!
The second floor disappears
Ghost Watch your feet!
Protheon changes to Arc
Protheon is badly damaged
Ghost Oh! Good Shot!
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Ghost Don’t lose your head!
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Ghost In your face!
Protheon, Modular Mind is defeated
Ghost: That did it! Modular Mind is down!
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Ghost Zavala. Modular Mind neutralized.
Zavala Well done. Failsafe, what’s your assessment of this incident?
Failsafe Vex records indicate the Cabal discovered the Mind, and dug into this world to capture it. Had the Red Legion achieved their goal, I estimate a 60% chance this planetoid would have been destroyed in the ensuring battles. Luckily, the captain stepped in.
Ghost Huzzah!
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Zavala Vex weapons would have been a nightmare in Red Legion’s hands. you won us an entire theater of this war. I would say you deserve a rest, but we need you elsewhere. Something tell me that suits you just fine.
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Ghost It’s not getting up from that! Zavala, we’re good.
Failsafe #2 So… Cabal scientists can take a punch, but they’re not very smart. I guess they cracked open the planet and that Mind cam crawling out?
Ghost Golden Age computer core and that’s all she came up with? I could’ve said that.
Failsafe If you like my insight, I’ve filed an after-action report complete with four-hundred and thirty-three tactical notes. I win.
Ghost Sigh.
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Ghost Hey. Hey, failsafe.
Failsafe Yes, friendly Ghost?
Ghost We did it. We did a great job. Admit it.
Failsafe #2 Technically, the captain did it. You live in his backpack.
Ghost Ugh! Switch off.