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Mission 10: Rapid Descent
First you speak to Zavala
"With the Intel gathered by your Ghost and signals collected by the New Monarchy, we now know what the Kings want with Fleetbase Korus. Speak to Executor Hideo for a briefing."
You go over to the New Monarchy Rep.
"We do not have much time. I will explain everything on the way there. It is urgent."- Hideo
So you take the quest and go to the mission Rapid Descent on Phobos.
"Your Ghost's Intel gathered from the Cerberus Vae III combined with scattered radio signals the New Monarchy has picked up, we now have a complete picture of the King's next move. They plan on taking control of Fleetbase Korus. From there they will... crash Phobos into Mars. Doing this will officially end the Cabal power in this system, but also loose hundreds of years of lost Golden Age Technology. We cannot stand for this. Stop them."- Hideo
You spawn in the same place you did in the The Coming War.
"The Cabal used Flayers to move Phobos closer to Mars. The Cabal apparently wanted to use it as a weapon. The Insurgents are now using it against them."- Hideo
"My reads are picking up most of the energy inside the base. That is where we find our Flayer."- Ghost
You fight your way into and through the base until you reach the room where you met Elevator Cabal.
"Oh when was the last time something bad happened when you jumped down into a dark pit?"- Ghost
You jump down the dark shaft until you reach the very bottom floor and land on a crushed elevator. On top is a dead Cabal (Elevator Cabal) he is scanable. Your Ghost just holds back laughter when you scan him though.
"Guardian, Phobos is descending more rapidly. If you do not stop this now it will be irreversible. All those treasures, lost forever."- Rahool
You continue down a hallway until you come across a door, too small to get through.
"Whatever is doing this is on the other side of that door. We have to get through. Let's try the other way."- Ghost
So you backtrack to the elivator and keep going until you reach a room of Insurgents working on something. You kill them and scan the weapon.
"What is this thing? Rahool, I'm sending the data back to you, see if you can figure it out."- Ghost
"Yes. mmmm. Indeed, this is a Hellenic Conversion Apparatus. Most call it the Hellraiser. It is a device used by Psions. Very rarely do Cabal deploy it, for they cannot use it. Only Psions can wield it, and they do not trust them."- Rahool
"Is it that complex?"- Ghost
"No. The Cabal just have fat fingers."- Rahool
"Oh..."- ghost
"No matter, that should solve your door problems."- Rahool
You can now pick it up (It says "pick up relic")
It it is sort of like a chestplate that goes over your head. It has something like a Scotch Cannon, but more Psion esq and there are two, one on each shoulder attached to it.
It has 3 "attacks". The first is with the melee button. It creates a shield in front of you. It is sort of like the WoD but it is only in front of you and shaped almost like a contact lens. The second is the grenade button. It is a simple full auto blast from both shoulder gun. It has no cooldown and does considerable, damage, but nothing godly. The third is with the super button(s). You have to hold it/ them down until the super meter goes to zero. While this is happening, the two guns fire beams of energy that intersect in front of you. As it charges a ball at the vertex of these beams slowly grows larger and larger. Once the super energy is gone, it fires the energy ball. It becomes a slow moving circular wall (about the size of the shield) of destruction. Anything in it's path is quite litterally obliterated, including some walls and floors.
So you go over to the door, and, using that super attack, blow it open.
"What the...?"- Hideo
Floating in the center of a very large room, once an underground hanger, is Zurenk, Insurgent Apostasy.
"That thing is not a creation of light. It must be stopped before Mars is lost."- Rahaool
Zurenk is a very large Psion, he is the size of a Fallen Captin and is totally gold with only a few touches of black. He is surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable shield, the size of a van. He is well guarded by Insurgents and Kings, and there is even a skipp in the back of the room shooting at you.
Zurenk's shield can only be damaged by the Hellraiser's super. It blows a hole through it and damages him. You can then shoot through the hole at him for a short time while he mends it. Periodically he will detach a part of his shield (which is instantly replaced) and sends it flying towards you. It is unavoidable and will instantly kill you and anybody nearbye... unless you use the Hellraiser's shield. Even then it knocks you a good distance back.
Once he reaches half health, there will be a debuff called, "The universe bends to the Apostacy's will." and, in a fashion not too different from that in the Absolute Zero strike, the room turns inverted colors. His shield starts rotating and he shoots faster. Once you hit the shield, it turns red in that area, and you have to hit that spot again to break through it.
Once Zurenk is killed, his shield shatters to a million pieces and the adds despawn. He shouts "DOWN WITH THE EMPIRE!" in garbled English and falls to the ground, dead.
"Guardian, thanks to you the dream of a new Golden Age lives on. Thank you."- Hideo
There is some static and Zavala gets on.
"I'm done with this bullshit! The Insurgents will stop at nothing to get revenge at the Cabal. The Kings claw for power. They almost destroyed Mars! For what? A petty grudge?! We end this and we end it now!"- Zavala
The mission ends
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