greetings guardians my name is bife here so last time we talked about the potential story beats
emerging from the nephili stronghold rasputin law whilst that law is some of the most important
stuff that might pertain to next season i think we've got to talk about some other aspects of the
war mine's current state to really understand how the future might pan out for rasputin
in the last video i already went over some of the stuff to do with rasputin's current state
if you did see that video then feel free to go ahead and skip over the next few minutes as i
briefly explain what's going on suffice to say the short version is that he's not completely there
the long version for those of you who didn't watch that last video is this rasputin was in a greater
operative state than he'd been in a long time at the end of the season of the worthy the hubs
throughout the system that contained his influence were now reconnected to his main installation
in the hellish basin on mars several new series of warsats had been launched
some from hellis basin on mars and others from specially designated launch platforms that were
used to counter the almighty more of rasputin's bunkers were being reconnected to his network
and as a result rasputin was aware of the incoming black fleet and was committed to working with anna
bray and the vanguard to oppose its forces and then calamity struck the start of the season of
arrivals saw rasputin being defeated in a matter that was nothing short of calamitous for us
in an instant his course systems were instantly taken offline and functionally he was destroyed
or deleted it's worth noting that the nature of all of this is well a little terrifying as far as
the spectacle of power is concerned remember that rasputin is mighty enough to fight against the vex
an enemy that has such incredible causal power that its mathematics are sometimes strong enough
to defeat a guardian rasputin is easily able to best them but when facing against the forces of
the witness a supreme paracorsal force the effort seemingly displayed in dismantling the war mind
and its rejection of the witness was nothing more than a hand wave as one might see in metaphor
they dismantled rasputin in the same way that we might accidentally step on an ant it was nothing
to the black fleet his hardware was left empty and his software was decimated however he was not
completely destroyed thanks to some clever work by anna bray and her ghost jinju he was saved this
moment is recorded in the law book jurassic egress under the entry anna frayed it reads as follows
she had tried everything the great bray a lineage that promised to save them for all her genius and
moxie this was beyond her rasputin lay dying and a dozen empty screens splayed out around ana's
command station she could visualize the bleeding code running through her fingers zavala's voice
was in her ear as ambient haze relegated to the background of her mind like distant gunfire
the image of the pyramid's distortion wave was still raw this wasn't an attack it was a command
a lazy dismissal of all their best laid plans there were no explosions no blaring sirens or
sparks of dramatic electricity nothing to combat or fix just a guardian walled in silent black
glass and disbelief she had been so sure anna's eyes tracked jinju as the ghost sped from console
to console attaching strings of light to each they slowed her as she went buried under some load anna
jinju's voice was strained under crushing distortion i think i've got him most of him
but not for long the words cutting through the distant gunfire what anna asked her voice came
softly at first unsure what form to take is the information processed what jinju groaned
and whispered and exasperated hillary engram it's not ready anna now he'll go insane i can't
the light tethers attached to jinju began to pop one by one it's this or nothing the prospect sent
anna tearing across the room she belted a command into the air and a floor safe opened in response
anna snatched the dodecahedron enclosure from the safe and braced it in front of jinju jinju do it
the ghost's shell reformed to forge a directed structure before her core erupting with light and
data a stream of pure information beamed into the engram filling it with spiraling wisps of light
did you as much as i could outside the windows bolts of atmospheric friction dragged flames
through the sky as war sats plummeted from low orbit defensive positions their impacts were
distant rasputin barely survived this affair it's a testament to everyone involved really that we
stand here in the first place though a testament to the ingenuity of jinju and anna bray that they
could have even recovered a fractured portion of what remained of the war mind and also a testament
to rasputin's resilience that he was able to at least partially withstand an attack of this nature
from such a deadly paracausal foe i made such a clear point about how easily the witness seemed
to dismiss rasputin and yet withstanding a degree of power from a paracausal force such as this one
makes rasputin well unique it may be the case that he is one of the only causal beings of any kind
to have truly withstood a full assault from the darkness but again we don't know that for sure
because it's hard to speculate on such things when the darkness has left us no history with which to
compare either way i think it's fair to say that the war mind is stronger than we thought following
on from this moment anna bray and jinju would depart mars at the end of the season of arrivals
but they would not be alone they would bring the war mind with them and a chassis in which
it would soon hopefully be able to be returned to life take a listen to the law entry in question
as annabre watched the guardian's sparrow rocket across hell's basin for the last time
she saw a confidante who had believed in her when no one else would
that faith zavala had reminded her was a bond with more power than all the mined weapons in
the system it was a promise to go on an agreement that there was still a future jinju had called
it reverse salvage she knew a thing or two about building something from the wreckage of their past
the building was nearly empty she had sent as much tech to the tower as they could handle
an entire freight vessel's worth packed to bursting she turned to the large glass window
overlooking silent warsat cannons there were no cabal the death beneath mars had quieted
valkyrie subroutines that could be maintained remotely remained active
just in case jinju ran final checks on the jump ship a dark pyramid loomed overhead
an experimental exo chassis was secured in the ship's cargo hold one foot in front of the other
anna evacuated with this experimental exo chassis and the pilry engram containing rasputin
and took both of them to the tower and from there she began working on the experimental exo-frame as
a solution to recover rasputin it's been well over a year since then and anna bray has made
middling progress at best her latest attempts to recover the war might however were only possible
due to the assistance of our new coalition allies that have been newly welcomed to the tower we
previously welcomed the elixiny splicers in the season of the splicer but now anna's efforts have
been reinforced not only by their technology but by the powers of the scion optuses as well
with a combination of braytech technology of the scions and splice attack from the elixi
and his efforts are now born anew in particular the scion optics's ability to create
a mindscape or a similar space within the minds of those that they touched was a tool that anna could
use to further search for signs of life within the war mind we see the results of such an experiment
in the grand overture exotic weapon lore tab from this season a lore tab which reads as follows
so you're the new guy anna bray cracks a half smile can't be worse than the last cyan that
red and i dealt with she impatiently taps her heel on her work bench as the
scion hurriedly checks linkages and nodes on the neural coupling device around her head
words and images skip across anna's mind like stones remain calm even though you are defenseless
i do not possess a starship a sound resembling laughter follows for those of you who didn't
catch the intricacies of this joke there's two folds to it first of all yes i do not possess a
starship as a reference to how amtec a scion tried to drop the almighty on the tower and basically
nuke the last city with it so yes it's little dry humor made with the dark undertones that happened
in the story the last scions that red and anna encountered though is another side to all of this
and for those of you who do remember the last time there was a serious interaction between rasputin
and scions and anna bray was an adventure that you could do on mars before the planet was sunset in
destiny 2 and that was a moment at which the scions were basically trying to steal and use
rasputin's tech in order to convert its energy and ascend into scion flares we swiftly dealt
with them and killed any flares that did emerge but still there's a little bit of a sour taste
and i think it's good that the scion in question is well trying at very least to smooth things over
anyway back to the law funny anna chuckles impatiently okay i've been setting this up for
months are you done with the safety checks jinju flies by anna and runs a scan over the engram
be nice a digital timepiece drains towards zero while the scion inundates her mind with questions
my light splicertech brain tubes yeah i got it anna says plug my brain into red already and
let's do this her voice quickens with excitement the scion finishes linking cables to a splice
attack receptacle housing rasputin's engram and gives anna an awkward thumb pointing up
the scion forms an interlocking image in her mind a tangle of wires slowly her perspective shifts
through them and stops at a radiant center she hears the words forgotten vestige made remembered
that's the plan for stan anna exclaims drop me in i can already hear the tchaikovsky
she stares down at the ticking timer three two one anna blinks she stands in a vast thicket of thorn
and rot a warmth radiates from deep within the thicket ana blinks she presses through bramble as
barbs draw blood her sense of self wavers she finds her grip on a searing hot spike shifting her
senses red like an adrenal rush anna blinks she kneels at the spike and rips it from the ground
a valkyrie javelin is in her grasp anna blinks the thorned vines around her recoil and wither
in the heat she feels something within the javelin faint and weak but alive
so it's not clear what the thicket of brambles that is drawing blood from manner in this is
but considering that it's a vast thicket of rot and thorn i think that it's potentially something
that has been left over from the influence of the darkness when it killed rasputin
although that is questionable considering that the valkyrie is then able to cleanse away some
of this seemingly it's something which causes the thorn and vines to recoil and wither in the heat
and if we are to believe that one of these powers is causal and the other is paracausal
this doesn't necessarily make all the sense either way it's still something which leads
us to an ultimate conclusion which is that rasputin the war mind is still alive and
that thanks to her new allies anna might soon be able to make progress in resurrecting him all of
this is dependent on time and resources i think we know one good thing about this and one bad thing
the good thing is that the efforts to revive the war mind are bearing fruit because of the new
allies of the coalition it gives me hope to know that rasputin might stand as physical progress
of the improvement to all our standing that can be done when we as a coalition work together thanks
to the intervention of psions and elixir splices rasputin will be able to defend all the coalition
allies if he's revived and this strengthens our position generally this is a point at which we
can sit there and start to more easily associate with the cabal ascendancy and the house of light
and this is something we need desperately but the bad thing about all of this is that from here
on out we know that the war mine's revival is a matter of our most precious resource
time every day the black fleet pushes a little deeper into the system and every day
it becomes more and more likely that they will discover something crucial to our survival
the resources of the differing factions within our alliance are surely soon going to wane if and
when they do it may not be possible to fully revive rasputin or to obtain any reasonable
use from what remains of him we need more time to awaken the war mind but unfortunately time
is running out that's all from me for today though if you enjoyed this video and you enjoyed the law
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