Intro

10 > Eudico

Nef has the entire Vallis locked down with his Orb Mothers. They watch over the central lakes… patrol the eastern grids… It's next to impossible for Ticker to get families out of Fortuna or smuggle in supplies.

20 > Eudico

Questions?

30 > Eudico

Sparky. Right. We're all here, let's get started.

650 > TheBusiness

The Mothers are a product of Corpus breakthroughs using salvaged Sentient technology. Traditional weapons are ineffective against them. Their command and control systems have, thus far, proven impenetrable.

IntProfitTaker

40 > Eudico

From her perch above Enrichment Labs, Profit-Taker has a perfect vantage to bombard anything she doesn't like. That's a huge problem for us. So we're taking her down. Biz?

50 > Eudico

Successful elimination proceeds in three stages: first we knock out the orbital overcharger. Second: decoding Profit-Taker's Sentient shielding to ensure the Tenno can land fire on her directly. Third: providing the weaponry needed to penetrate that heavy duty carapace. Little Duck's chasing a lead on something with a lot more grunt than your usual hand weapons. But, first things first.

60 > Eudico

Gear up. Hit the field. Once you're topside we'll provide directions to your meeting with the Quill.

660 > TheBusiness

Profit-Taker is an autonomous battle platform piloted by hybrid AI, with Sentient adaptive shielding, reinforced by an overcharger satellite in geosynchronous orbit. Beneath that her armor is a composite carapace usually reserved for Corpus warships.

670 > TheBusiness

Phase One: With the overcharger online Profit-Taker is, as far as our little group is concerned, invulnerable. The satellite overcharges the Orb's shield. We knock the overcharger on the head, and she's down to regular shielding. Here's how we do that. Little Duck?

980 > LittleDuck

Satellite behaves according to protocols. We control the protocols, we control the satellite. That's where my weirdy-beardy Quill mate comes in. Almost as if he knew we'd need this he's got himself perfectly placed to provide. We're meeting him today for the handoff.

BntyOneCave

70 > Eudico

Not an option. Comms just lit up. The Taxmen are on to your Quill. Sparky, get your team over there. Now.

80 > Eudico

This is the place. Eliminate those Corpus teams before they find the Quill.

BntyOneElim

90 > Eudico

Another wafer, jammed in the intake. Coordinates, definitely. Pointing to somewhere on the Vallis. You can keep fishing to be certain, but it seems to be pointing toward a taxmen base.

680 > TheBusiness

Dead? What kind of Quill walks into an ambush? Search the body, though I suspect the Corpus will have already snatched up our protocols.

690 > TheBusiness

No protocols, just… fish bait. This is a bust.

700 > TheBusiness

Hmm… something lodged in that servofish's intake. A digital wafer?

1000 > LittleDuck

Quills are always one step ahead. Never seen one take a hit. He'll be around, hidin' somewhere.

1010 > LittleDuck

Nah. For everything a Quill does there's a reason. Tenno: got a shock spear handy?

1020 > LittleDuck

Hand etched, with numbers. Coordinates maybe. We'll need the rest, try to- Guts! Raknoids! Tenno, getcha fists up!

1040 > LittleDuck

Sequence complete. Coordinates to this taxmen base. Time for a degree of violence. We need the codes to that satellite or this whole plan is beached.

BntyOneBaseCapt

100 > Eudico

Sparky, you and your team know what to do. Take that base.

110 > Eudico

Wait. Show me that. Drone patrol route, custom programmed, in the middle of nowhere. Why would the Taxmen send this out there? Get after it, Sparky.

1050 > LittleDuck

Stand by. Guts… looks like they wiped the grid before we could lock the place down.

BntyOneDroneCapt

120 > Eudico

Sparky! Drone, dead ahead. LD, when that thing's down, I need you to...

1060 > LittleDuck

Way ahead of you. Quill-encrypted data bloc. Working. Tenno: get between the drone and those Moas.

1070 > LittleDuck

Satellite protocols are in the bag. Right: next steps. I'm comin' out. Meet me on the field.

BntyTwoBrief

130 > Eudico

We have to move fast. Little Duck's waiting for you in the field. Gear up and get out there.

1080 > LittleDuck

It's pretty and all but I find it hard to give two-tenths of a paramecium's crap for a place this cold. Right, so: the satellite's sorted but the Orb's shields are gonna adapt to your attacks. Enrichment Labs holds the harmonic schema of Profit-Taker's shields. With it Biz thinks he can slow the adaptation long enough for your crew to inflict some real damage. Raid the place. I'll cover the entrance. And be quick about it, I don't want you having to blowtorch me off whatever I froze to.

BntyTwoInfilLab

140 > Eudico

The taxman cares more about self-profit than self-preservation. Watch this.

141 > VoxSolaris

With your Directors shaking within their panic rooms we come to claim what is ours: the profit of our suffering. We will not leave until every, last, credit has been taken from this facility.

710 > TheBusiness

Each passkey is held by a Corpus Director. They're skin-scored passkeys, high-value, and the directors have orders to self-preserve. They're not coming out unless you leave them no choice.

1090 > LittleDuck

Profit-Taker's designs are in a triple-locked data vault. Probably a late model Hangvuun-Mercer if I know the Corpus. That means you need three passkeys and you gotta get them quick as those suckers expire if they're not reauthorized on the regular.

BntyTwoPassKey

150 > Eudico

You're on the clock, Sparky. The directors carry passkeys for the data vault. Take the directors down before the keys expire and we lose our chance. Your first target is the Armaments Director.

160 > Eudico

Armaments research? How much blood was on that muckers hands?

180 > Eudico

The pass keys just expired. Time's up. We'll never get Profit-Taker now. Guts.

720 > TheBusiness

Vivisect Director? Animal experimentation. He deserved his fate. One target remains.

1100 > LittleDuck

Can't believe they fell for that. Well we got the directors' attention. Comin' out for a nosey. Heavily armed and all, with security.

1110 > LittleDuck

Scratch one.

1120 > LittleDuck

Nighty-night.

1130 > LittleDuck

How many more of you are there?

1140 > LittleDuck

Better you than me.

1150 > LittleDuck

Scratch another.

1160 > LittleDuck

Another one down. You Outworlders can thank me later.

1220 > LittleDuck

Sentient Research Director? So that's what you get for messin' with things you don't understand.

BntyTwoEntKey

190 > Eudico

Right, listen up. Take those passkeys to the data vault outside Enrichment Labs. With the directors taken care of you shouldn't meet much resistance.

BntyTwoDataMass

200 > Eudico

Ah guts. Nothing's ever easy.

210 > Eudico

Two up, two down. That wasn't so bad. Now crack open the data vault and grab that datamass.

220 > Eudico

Got it. Now get out of there!

1240 > LittleDuck

What. The. Balls.

1410 > ProfitTaker

Squishy-pretties come out to play

My two friends, it's you they'll slay.

BntyTwoLoseCrp

230 > Eudico

Reinforcements! Kill 'em or lose 'em. Just don't let 'em see you entering Fortuna.

240 > Eudico

Can't let you in until you deal with those taxmen. I've got families down here to think of.

250 > Eudico

All right. Get your crew back to Fortuna. But do it quietly.

1411 > ProfitTaker

[3.5]

I am patient

I am still

[7.0]

When I descend

It's you I'll kill.

BntyTreBrief

260 > Eudico

So, the good news is LD found those big guns we promised you.

270 > Eudico

Profit-Taker moves, you engage the Orb…

280 > Eudico

We'll update you on the rest as you go.

290 > Eudico

Enrichment Labs has gone into full lockdown, Boon?

300 > Eudico

The plan, if you would?

320 > Eudico

You get all that? I think he said… Intake/outtake vent C7A, rear of Enrichment Labs… though most of that Ventkid jargon sounds like a Kavat coughing up fur-clots.

740 > TheBusiness

Leave that to me. First things first, the overcharger satellite. Get into the Labs, locate the controls, inject our recoded protocols, and shut that satellite down.

750 > TheBusiness

Meanwhile I'll gather data to develop a weakness in her shields using that stolen harmonic schema. The longer you keep her engaged the more observable data I can gather.

1250 > LittleDuck

Bad news is my info places that firepower in a vault directly beneath the building-sized slaughtermatic horror show we're trying to kill. We need her shifted.

1260 > LittleDuck

…and while you take her dancin' I slip in and nick the weapon schematics.

1270 > LittleDuck

And the less likely she'll wander back and squat on top of my only way out.

1510 > ProfitTaker

Good… night… sweet… heart… good... night...

1520 > Boon

Howzit, lady-matey.

1530 > Boon

Right, Kubrodons got all the tricks, chek? Been taxin' lab parts since we was sprogs. Primo electromags, that place. Anyways: intake/outtake vent C7A, innit? Back a the place. Blocked, but your ol' mucker Boon here's rigged it askew, just for you! chek chek!

BntyTreInfilLab

330 > Eudico

First things first: disable the shield overcharger satellite so Biz can knock her of her perch.

BntyTreHackCon

340 > Eudico

Deploying satellite protocols.

350 > Eudico

Rejected. Guts, I was afraid of this. You'll need to reboot the antenna array, from outside, at the same time as satellite protocols are uploaded. Outworlders, split up.

BntyTreSatel

360 > Eudico

Team: somebody has to stay with the console while the others head outside to reboot the antenna array.

370 > Eudico

Remember. You need to do this at the same time.

380 > Eudico

Execute. Now.

390 > Eudico

That's it. Protocol injection is taking. The satellite is going down.

400 > Eudico

Huh. High-Impact Mortars. That takes me back.

410 > Eudico

Biz, they're throwing everything they've got at her and it's barely making a scratch.

420 > Eudico

LD, what's your situation.

430 > Eudico

Biz, tell me you have enough data!

440 > Eudico

They're sending in heavy reinforcements.

450 > Eudico

Biz!

460 > Eudico

Alright, I've got enough! Outworlders! Get ready to run in 3… 2… 1… !

760 > TheBusiness

This is a little something I've been saving for a rainy day.

770 > TheBusiness

From that cache we put aside after the Reclamation uprising?

780 > TheBusiness

Just... keep shooting. I'm getting excellent data from all this.

790 > TheBusiness

Need… just… a little more… data.

800 > TheBusiness

Not yet, we need to be sure! Cycle your damage!

1280 > LittleDuck

Biz: get her down, if you would.

1290 > LittleDuck

I hate to interrupt this flashback but I'm goin' in now.

1300 > LittleDuck

I'm inside. Security is thicker than anticipated. I need more time.

1310 > LittleDuck

Got it. The Gravimag. I'm coming out. Can't wait to introduce that Orb to your archwing weapons.

1420 > ProfitTaker

[4.5]

Who comes hither

Salty wrigglers spitting stones

[8.0]

Foulness. Wetness.

Far from home.

1430 > ProfitTaker

THIEFLINGS! THIEFLINGS! GIVE IT BACK! FIND YOU! CATCH YOU! CRACK CRACK CRACK!

1440 > ProfitTaker

[3.5]

Stones on bones

Hurt not me

[7.5]

Stingers fly nastily

Damn you damn you dollies cry

[10.5]

Catch you crush you die die die.

1450 > ProfitTaker

[4.0]

A hundred soldiers hi

a hundred soldiers ho

[7.5]

I'm having fun

your days are done

[10.0]

run little dollies run.

BntyTreLeave

470 > Eudico

Good work, all of you. Everyone: we've got all we need. The time is now. Get back to Fortuna and arm up. It's time to finish off Profit-Taker.

BntyFourBrief

480 > Eudico

Final phase. Thanks to that data you gathered, Biz can slow Profit-Taker's sentient shield adaptation long enough for you to do some real damage. Then, once the shields are gone use your Gravimag-modified Archwing weaponry to punch through her carapace and end this.

490 > Eudico

So… if Profit-Taker makes it to those new coordinates...?

500 > Eudico

Sparky, to the Vallis, now!

520 > Eudico

Leg it. Once that mother hits the overcharge radius we're done for. No second chances.

810 > TheBusiness

Eudi. The Profit-Taker… she's moving. Looks like she's headed for… the middle of nowhere? Why?

820 > TheBusiness

Little. Duck.

830 > TheBusiness

Her shields will be impenetrable and we're done for.

1320 > LittleDuck

So we gonna pull the trigger on this thing? I got a card game to get to.

1330 > LittleDuck

Uh…

1340 > LittleDuck

All right, look. It might be that it turned out those satellite protocols didn't shut the overcharger down, just… realigned it. And it might be that you sounded so pleased about the whole thing that I didn't tell you.

BntyFourInterPrTk

530 > Eudico

Heads up, Sparky.

540 > Eudico

You're making progress, Sparky, keep hitting those pylons.

550 > Eudico

Guts. Pylons back up. Wreck 'em.

560 > Eudico

Not again. Take out those pylons!

590 > Eudico

D? What is it?

840 > TheBusiness

Duds? No… look. They're syncing with the Orb. Shields going back up. Outworlder, deal with those pylons.

850 > TheBusiness

Those things are nearly as strong as the Orb. They must have some tactical weakness!

860 > TheBusiness

Shields are waning, whatever you're doing, it's working.

870 > TheBusiness

Her shields are vulnerable.

880 > TheBusiness

That did it. She's vulnerable. Aim true, Outworlders.

890 > TheBusiness

Heads up, bombardment in-bound. This should confuse her adaptation system!

920 > TheBusiness

That's it. Focus your Archwing weapons on the Orb. Compromise the exoskeleton at the legs and then work your way to the torso.

1350 > LittleDuck

There she is.

1360 > LittleDuck

Uh. Is this a bad time?

1370 > LittleDuck

Satellite just moved. Nef's crew must have figured out our bypass. It's realigning.

1460 > ProfitTaker

[3.0]

Pretties circle

murderous dolls

[6.0]

doom infernal

watch them fall.

1470 > ProfitTaker

[3.5]

Dolly, dolly I'm a giant

Big and bad as Hunhow's heart

[6.5]

Salty squishies are my diet

Death and murder are my art.

1480 > ProfitTaker

[4.5]

Salty squishy, dancing doll

I pin you to the Vallis floor

[8.5]

Limb from limb at once I'll tear you

Dancing dolly nevermore.

1490 > ProfitTaker

[4.5]

Sky-Eye shift!

Save me from the Void!

[9.0]

Salty squishies come a-dancing

To see my soul destroyed!

BntyFourSatelReal

600 > Eudico

Sparky! You're running out time. You have to kill her now. We won't get another chance at this.

601 > Eudico

Is... is it… ? Did…? Holy crap. We did it. WE DID IT!

610 > Eudico

Get in there Tenno, rip out anything you think might help our cause.

620 > Eudico

Biz? What's that sound?

630 > Eudico

Still too close, Sparky. LEG IT!

930 > TheBusiness

I've only got a few mortars left. Firing them all.

940 > TheBusiness

The satellite it's… continuing to overcharge the Orb. At this rate, in a matter of seconds, it will…

950 > TheBusiness

Outworlders… ruuUUUUUN!

1380 > LittleDuck

Suppressing fire!

1500 > ProfitTaker

[5.5]

Dollies should not move. 

Dollies should not bound. Bounce. 

[10.0]

Dollies should… shouldn't. 

Dollies should… 

[14]

Dollies should

DIE AND BE SMASHED BAGS OF SALT AND FLUID YOU CANNOT BRING MY RUIN!

BntyFourPfTkEnd

640 > Eudico

LD, I still think it's strange: Why would your contact just… let himself get killed? Quills don't make mistakes.

970 > TheBusiness

That's what I'm afraid of. Superlative work, as always, Outworlder. Thank you. See you back in Fortuna. LD, Eudi? How about that drink?

1390 > LittleDuck

I need a drink. Let's never do that again.

1400 > LittleDuck

Quills don't make mistakes, and there's always an agenda. Always.

BntyOneVallis

990 > LittleDuck

Your rendezvous point is a cave. Coordinates marked. Lots of Corpus traffic so you'll wanna do this softly-softly.