A fireteam of Guardians investigates gravimetric disturbances on the newly discovered planetoid Kepler, encountering dangerous dark matter phenomena, a mysterious distress signal, and previously unknown inhabitants. The team unlocks new powers, uncovers potential involvement from the Nine, and makes contact with local characters while working to aid the settlement under threat.

Arrival and Investigation

• Guardians receive an invitation and track gravimetric distortions from Earth to Kepler.

• Kepler, previously thought inert, is found stabilized by a singularity and surrounded by hazardous dark matter.

• The singularity poses a major threat if destabilized, potentially endangering the Solar System.

• Team navigates train systems and ancient ruins while investigating the source of the distress call.

New Mechanics and Discoveries

• Guardians gain and utilize a new dark matter power, enabling transformation and interaction with the environment.

• Activating pylons and collecting materials are required to progress through the area and unlock rewards.

• Encounters with modified Eliksni enemies introduce new combat challenges and vertical movement.

The Nine and Local Lore

• Evidence accumulates that the mysterious Nine are involved, with extra-dimensional manipulations and cryptic communications.

• The area contains time distortions, and some characters speculate about the link between dark matter and local phenomena.

• Guardians encounter Lodi, a visitor living with local Ionians, who provides information but arouses both interest and suspicion.

Settlement and Objectives

• The Ionians have partially stabilized their planet using advanced technology but need outside help.

• Guardians agree to assist the settlement in exchange for further guidance regarding the invitation and the ongoing disturbances.

• The planetoid's cloaking properties and time issues complicate navigation and communication.

Gameplay and Equipment Notes

• Players discuss new gear, shaders, weapon perks, and inventory management strategies.

• Completion of objectives grants access to chests and new weapon drops.

• Legendary difficulty presents increased challenges but rewards with exotic items.

Decisions

• Assist the Ionians: The fireteam agrees to help the settlement in exchange for information and local support.

Action Items

• TBD – Guardians: Locate and assist the source of the original distress signal.

• TBD – Guardians: Investigate the cause of time distortions and the true nature of dark matter on Kepler.

• TBD – Guardians: Continue to explore and secure the region against threats from exiled Eliksni and potential singularity destabilization.

Questions / Follow-Ups

• Who sent the original invitation, and what is their motivation?

• What is the full extent of the Nine’s involvement on Kepler?

• How can the singularity be stabilized or neutralized to ensure safety for the settlement and the system?

Guardians' Kepler Mission

What follows light and shadow is silence. That silence breaks. I am summoning you as a new age begins.

I see sapient life turn to each other. They remember how to look to the stars. They remember curiosity.

They remember how to... They forgot we were here long before the Traveler. They forgot that they need us.

they are fated to remember i'm sure you will but not through me find someone else there goes our feet man my will is my own all right all this edging baby has brought us to this moment a dd back gravity manipulation i think it's safe to say this is what's disrupting our beacons our course sounds a little different i've seen primitive trains like this in old ruins Never liked the look of them. These readings have a bearing. Gravimetric distortions heading out past orbit.

Like footprints. Like a trail we're meant to follow. Guardian, I'm sending coordinates your way.

It appears we have an invitation. Oh, here we go, baby. Okay, so you have your brave version of the campaign, which is fine.

You can do that if you want. Or you got the legendary version, which has got the exotic armor as a guaranteed drop. Welcome to Kepler, as the Vanguard Archive calls it. The gravimetric distortions we tracked from the EDZ are tangled in an excess of dark matter.

In our records, this planetoid was confirmed to be unoccupied and inert. But these readings indicate a singularity. - Something's keeping this planetoid stable and our matter intact, but Guardian, there's a black hole here on Kepler. This is dangerous. If at any point this singularity destabilizes, it could swallow us and take the entire Sol system with it.

We need to find whoever sent our invitation. They need our help. - I-Core sounds off because that's not I-Core's original VA. Yeah, it's not the original VA. All right.

We'll play. We'll try and quiet and then we'll probably jump into Tommy in a second. God, look at Benny's character.

Benny, you look so lit up. - It is so bright. - Okay, the game was brighter for you guys too, right?

When you guys got in the game? - I'm talking about my shader. - I'm talking about his shader.

• What the hell? - What the hell? - All right, let's go. Devil's Ruins, are you meta or not? Oh, I can still scroll.

We all scared. - It had some primitive decryption on it. Should only take me a moment.

All right, baby. We're on the new destination, everybody. Oh! New enemy time! I've never seen a Lixney move like this.

Mind their vertical, Guardian. Oh, baby. Let me put this down.

Let me put this down. They're falling, but different. This is falling with jetpacks, baby. The dangers.

Oh, this guy. Where are they coming from? Oh, okay. They're just up in there. They're just flying.

Flying in. Look at that deterministic ammo drop right there. That's so hot. Mm-hmm.

Singularity opening your local AGI and NHI podcourt. I can't tell when this mayday was sent. Whoever made it understands the dangers of... Alright, chat.

We've got lore. We've got story. I'm gonna keep some things muted in here.

That way we can focus up. A Singularity, a distress call, and now another ancient train. But how do they all connect?

More importantly, how can we help? The status of the singularity will worsen with time. We can't do anything about that right this moment.

But discovering a locking mechanism this complex and a radio transmission that sounds human means we could be on the precipice of encountering another pocket of civilization. By my triage, the most effective thing we can do right now is find the source of the distress signal. The trail we're following leads past the train and scatters.

We'll need to get through to find who called for help. The mechanism here appears to be missing some pieces. I've tracked materials nearby that closely match the frequency of the device. Find them, Guardian.

New actor, new vehicle. Well, it's Stavothoon's voice actor. There's the train right here.

Green. All right, so hold on. Stavothoon. Mystery nearby.

Oh, there's a loadout. Adrift. Odysseus Protocol active.

Odysseus Protocol. We've heard that before. Wait, there's a backlog. You have to come back when you have something else on the line.

Keep moving, Guardian. I'm going to see if these transmissions can give us any more information. Not a ball yet. Not a baller.

Not a baller. Dark matter spiking your vicinity. Could be one of the gravimetric distortions Drifter was talking about.

Guardian, you all right? Oh, the nine is dirty talking to us right now. What Will has done in trust. All right, all right. You're vital stabilized.

I'm ready. Give me the powers. Must be a fluke. I will kill everyone on this fire team if necessary, nine.

You got the red darkness subclass. I'll do it. I'll blast less right now.

Use dark matter? Aw, shit. It's going down.

Oh, we're a ball, baby. Hell yeah. Oh my god.

We have reached peak form right now, dude. It's even better than I thought. Guardian, this energy pattern is distinct from your expected paracausal signature. It matches the dark matter readings from when we landed. It appears you've managed to somehow fuse with dark matter.

Yes. Dash jump. You could dash jump at the same time. Oh my God. Dash jump.

All right. With this newfound power, what can we do with it? Attack while I'm out of sport can also be used to charge certain pylons. Okay.

i need a ball down there oh i just got taken out of ball form what happened did i run out of time yeah there we go oh there we go there we go look at this baby look at this oh i love it i love it confused what are you supposed to do here hold on what's this thing doing hey are we stuck what is our rally oh is that i think that might was that my first time peak gameplay well we're done we're just rolling around Oh, sht. Oh, sht. I don't have a lot of time.

Okay, here we go. I'm trying to boss. This guy's rolling around. There's another matter spark on me if you want to grab it.

I'm out of spark right now. Yes, yes. Oh, oh, oh. Hold on. I'm going in this hole.

I'm doing things. I'm charging things. Oh, my God.

The ammo consistency is so good. All right. There should be probably another place in which we could turn into a ball, I believe. I'm going to get it. all right activate again oh here we go i charged it nice nice oh he should have dropped his shoulders drop how do i exit ball mode uh oh i guess whatever your interact is oh okay gotcha gotcha big damage guys big damage brig nice nice big damage beautifully done Why send a train to invite us to a black hole?

Oh, we got new gear. Oh man, okay. It seems whoever sent our invitation values consistency and catastrophic interference.

About that. I got info, but you're not gonna like it. Try me.

The gravimetric distortions. The dark matter. The weird train. An invitation? There's only one group of jokers I know who get up to those kinds of theatrics.

Mystery nearby. Ooooooh, I'm getting s*** on them ball form. Oh my lord. Can't remember how you open this. Turns out that...

Odd. I have an adjust back here. I got a ball form. Oh, I should.

You can grab this. I got tier two weapon. There's a chest back there across.

Drops tier two. I'll come back. Is that one of the mystery chests? Oh, I probably should put that on my ghost.

Does the ghost track it or no? I don't know. It's just a mystery nearby and I remember doing this one before.

Like you go up as a ball and charge this and it opens this chest. Why is your character glowing like that? Is that a shader? That's a shader, dude.

Me? No, no, no. Cross's armor is like... I got RGB, baby.

RGB. Oh, yeah. That new RGB one is cool too.

Yes. It's recording rank 11 though. That's the 90 RGB right there. That's the 50-90 RGB. The 50-90 RGB.

Are you guys putting your new gear on? Am I supposed to be wearing this or can I just keep it in my inventory? Just keep it in your inventory. I have like a full build from the farming that I did so I'll probably run with that for a while until I get better pieces.

Is there more enemies somewhere? I need the material. Oh, is this... This is a place that the ball could go if I was in both...

There's blue engrams. I haven't seen a blue engram in so long. Okay, hold on.

I found a spot. There's a chest right here. Oh, we need a... Oh, just a familiar.

It's the same Eliksni combatants from earlier. Yeah, it'll be the Malfi-Malfi and all the cannons. Stay vigilant and don't let them come back again.

Ooh, my super regeneration is rough. I thought I recognized those symbols. This is the House of Exile.

Ow, I got frozen. I'm down like no ammo right now. I know, Evie. There we go. Huge.

Nice, nice, nice. Dude, that ignition on the laser beam kill is actually pretty good. Is there an ammo generation mod I can put on that's new? Yeah. Like I said, pylons.

We got to charge three pylons. We need to get matter sparked in, don't we? Yeah. I'm leaving this to you. You got this.

Matter spark on me. Go solve it. I think I see most of them. Do you? Yeah.

You'll get that one up top. All right. You got it, Les?

Yeah, I got this one. I'm messing up the shank over here. I'm messing him up.

Nevermind, I'm actually getting messed up. I'm getting pretty f***ed up right now. You don't figure out how to get out of the ball form when you're down. Yeah, interact. Hit your interact button.

Interact, yeah. Oh, gotcha. There we go. Massive damage. Huge.

Oh, wow. We got to turn into a ball to get in there and get the loot. We got to turn into a ball.

That's hilarious. That's hilarious. That's the last of them.

And we've got what we need. Let's head back to the train and see if we can't get past that blockade. No more transmissions on the backlog.

And the timestamps are all off. Keep heading for the train. Maybe we can triangulate a location. Okay, so right now to upgrade is just literally a single enhancement core.

That's pretty nice. New perk on this though. Okay. I also got an auto rifle that is a rapid fire with kinetic trimmers, which is pretty sexy. oh oh and and some materials as well okay so i need to take off this i need to put on this let's see melee weapons grenade super let's do this one chat maybe you can grab the uh exotic scout from season pass too oh yeah that's right for god we had that oh oh incoming message everybody Distorted sound waves.

You are dead. Remember, every nine talks to you a little differently. This is the guy that does the weird run-on sentences. You're right, Drifter, and we are dealing with the nine.

You have the most experience with them. What did you observe in your interactions? Rumor has it the nine are extra-dimensional. Caught in the gravity of souls' heaviest hitters.

You know, planets, moons, stuff like that. - There are aliens and there are aliens. And these guys, liens, they don't live in this dimension, which means they can mess with you. - The nine can scheme all they like, but until they affect the real world, let's not give them more power than they actually possess.

• Oh, we have a rally barricade. Rally barricade, I mean, guys. And then I'm turning into a ball for whatever reason. - Did you get that chest crosser? - Was there another one?

• Yeah, there was a chest right here. To the chest our tier 2 stuff and then just a regular story stuff is a tier 1 teams Or he's got a shield around him I'm gonna guess we're gonna need a matter spark. Now we can do damage to him now.

Oh, he's a pushover. Easy, easy, brother. All that to get f***ed up.

That's interesting. That elixir was an Archon. I wonder what that was all about. You don't wake up destruction. Never mind, he's back.

One exile for us, and three more rise. New Bane. Oh, interesting.

This Archon's voice is coming from another elixir. I'm not sure what's going on. The Grand Design! It appears I misjudged this guy. ...

bring death to the deathless! Fulfill the destiny of the House of Exile! Strengthen the singularity!

Okay, I'm up for this. I still don't understand how that voice jumped from one exile to another. The witness could possess, but that required a civilization's worth of darkness.

Could something have drawn them here? Maybe the high concentration of dark matter is boosting this Archon connection to darkness. Darkness is about connection of memory, but it doesn't work like that.

And dark matter, in spite of the name, has nothing to do with darkness. So this is something else entirely. Oh, nope, didn't want to do that.

We're not going to collect this unusual vessel. Okay. One of the Archon's lackeys dropped something.

Ophiuchus's energy readings are spiking. This is a container of dark matter. The same connected to the Singularity. Don't let that go.

Hold it. Who do you work for and what's your business here? Telemetry originates at this location, but the signal is weak. What are you doing here?

We're Guardians from Earth's Vanguard. Circumstances suggest we were invited, but we don't know who sent the invitation. Earth? Have you been here a while?

Alright. I hate his character already. I like Lodi. Something's wrong with time. I'm curious as to how our contact intends to fix it.

But his observations seem to be correct. And we just got here. There's probably a whole mess of time nonsense just around the corner. I'm talking like a badass. This train's temporal presence is concerning.

That's the least of our worries. The real head-scratcher is our new friend saying the people here. Ikora did say she suspected sentient life.

Are we sure we're not missing anything else from here or no? I have no idea. But again, it seems like there is... We'll run through, we'll play, and then of course we'll hit the harder difficulty.

So if anything we miss, we can always come back and do it. Oh my god. This is the hard difficulty, right?

Yeah, we're on legendary. Okay, because we're kind of on everything right now. Well, there's mythic available. That is true.

Something over here. All right, loadout. Sorry for all that earlier. My name's Lodi. My introductions aren't usually that rude.

Us and our RGB shaders. Come on, let me show you around. Your companion gave me a debrief about your mission before she insisted on meeting the scientists here. Scientists? Oh yeah, the Ionians are brilliant.

They've been great hosts since I showed up here a few weeks back. Objects from a different time were sent to us, like we were called or invited. Did you get one too? Of sorts.

I got a call of my own. I hope your ride was smoother than mine. Are you headed back to Earth after? Are you asking for a ride? It was just conversation.

Appreciate the offer. I'm staying with the locals for a while. Time distortion's all over this place. The Eliksni make it hard to traverse further out.

Fascinating, aren't they? You know the language structure's similar to Finnish? Alright. He's sketch. I don't think he's sketch.

I like I don't know what it is, man. I like his character I just really like his character. No, he's not a villain. Oh, baby.

This is the social hub Ionians were able to temporarily They prevented their planet from splitting until someone could help I'm as surprised as you they've eluded us for so long, but this place is shrouded in dark matter. I Cloaked the presence of sentient life from the outside. Ghost, did you find the source of the distress signal? We've made contact with Lodi, here in the settlement.

He's offered to help us look into our invitation, if we help the people here. He seems trustworthy, but his presence here feels very... convenient. Yeah, by the look of him, I'd say he's as out of place as we are.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly, dude. Drifters don't think he's sus. I'm not going to think he's sus. Slap that like button like your mama told you, right?

The Edge of Fate is FINALLY HERE!!! We're diving right into the Legendary campaign to see exactly what secrets Kepler has in store for us. Here's our playthrough of the first mission of The Edge of Fate.

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Opening Cutscene 1:55 Second Cut Scene 3:51 The Invitation (First Mission) 25:10 Final Cutscene