Profit-Taker Orb

""I am patient, I am still. When I descend, it's you I'll kill.""

- Profit-Taker's introduction

""Squishy pretties come out to play. My two friends, it's you they'll slay.""

- Profit-Taker introducing the Terra Ambulas

Profit-Taker Orb is a Raknoid creature found in Enrichment Labs in the Orb Vallis on top of the building. The orb incorporates Sentient technology within its shields which is put into overcharge by satellites and is protected by an extremely durable carapace, making it seemingly invulnerable.

While fighting Corpus in the courtyard in front of the Enrichment Labs on the third alarm level and onwards, it will bombard Tenno with a fireball artillery shot. This will do medium damage on impact, has a large AoE, and will apply knockdown on hit. Outside of specific quests, the Profit-Taker Orb does not move to engage enemy Tenno in other ways, and remains on top of the Enrichment Labs at all times.

The gargantuan creature can only be engaged during the Heist with Vox Solaris, requiring the rank of Old Mate rank within Solaris United.

Phase 1
Acknowledging the Orbs being a threat to Solaris United's operations, Eudico, The Business, and Little Duck coordinate a plan to destroy the Profit-Taker Orb. The Business explains that Profit-Taker is an autonomous battle platform with a hybrid AI whose commands and controls have been proven impenetrable, armed with Sentient adaptive shielding that is reinforced by a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, and a heavy armor plating that is used in Corpus warships which renders traditional weaponry ineffective. The group plans out steps to prepare to combat Profit-Taker:


 * 1) Knock out the orbital overcharger.
 * 2) Decode and bypass the Sentient shielding.
 * 3) Obtaining weaponry to penetrate the heavy duty carapace.

Little Duck has an informant in The Quills waiting to meet within a Vallis cave. However, the Tenno arrives too late to find the informant dead from a Corpus ambush, his body carrying fishing bait. Realizing this as a sign, the Tenno must fish in the cave to find three digital manifests attached to servofish.

The manifests point to a random Corpus-controlled base in the Vallis, which must be taken over. One of the Corpus will possess a datamass that will allow overriding a terminal, which must then be defended as Eudico hacks its system to take control.

Once the base is controlled, Vox Solaris discovers that the base wiped their data clean, but sent a drone out in the middle of nowhere. The Tenno must locate the drone, shoot it down, and then kill Corpus reinforcements to secure the drone.

With the drone secured and its contents containing the satellite protocols, Little Duck heads topside for the next part of the operation.

Phase 2
Players can initiate Phase 2 by talking to Little Duck outside of Fortuna's elevator in the Orb Vallis after they've completed Phase 1 without having to return inside to Fortuna. Alternatively, players already inside Fortuna can initiate Phase 2 by talking to Eudico at the Backroom.

The harmonic schema of Profit-Taker's shields are located within the Enrichment Labs, so Little Duck will keep the entrance occupied as the Tenno raids the area. The designs are locked within a triple-locked data vault whose passkeys expire if not reauthorized regularly. Each passkey is guarded by a Corpus Director, all who have been ordered to self-preserve. However, knowing that the Corpus take self-profit above all else, Vox declares a credit raid on the labs, forcing the directors out of hiding.

Within four to five minutes, the Tenno must kill the Armaments Director, Vivisect Director, and the Sentient Research Director inside the Enrichment Labs, then exit and raid the data vault just outside. Profit-Taker proceeds to taunt the Tenno as two Terra Ambulas appear outside the vault, which must be killed before claiming the datamass within and taken back to Fortuna.

Phase 3
Little Duck has discovered that the weaponry needed to kill Profit-Taker is right beneath her, so a distraction is needed to lure her off her pedestal. The Business plans to upload the recoded protocols to disable the satellite and use the schema to gather data for the Orb's weakness, while Little Duck steals the weaponry.

The Enrichment Labs have gone into full lockdown, but Boon had rigged open a backdoor vent, leading to a terminal to upload the protocols. However, the upload fails, as an antennae outside requires reboot. Both objects must be hacked within less than one minute of each other.

With the satellite disabled, The Business bombards Profit-Taker with mortars, forcing her off the roof. Enraged, Profit-Taker engages the Tenno, attacking with volleys of missiles, powerful laser beams, explosive mortars, energy barriers that fly outward, and discharges. For The Business to analyze the Orb, its shields must be damaged. However, the shield's Sentient adapation makes it immune to all but the damage type displayed on its forehead. Furthermore, the Orb's weakness can change through various means.
 * When enough time passes: the shield will naturally cycle to another element.
 * If the Orb takes too much damage from its current element, the shield will quickly cycle to another element as a countermeasure.
 * If the Orb is struck with damage, the shield will adopt another weakness. Note that when the shield changes weaknesses, it cannot change again for another ten seconds.
 * Before you reach aproximately two thirds (66.66%) of the "Data Gathered" meter, at which point the Business will ask the players to cycle their damage, any hit on the Profit-Taker will make the meter go up. This means that adapting to the Orb's current weakness is unnecessary until that point.

In this stage, the player is not expected to deplete Profit-Taker's shields entirely; The Buisness will have his data long before that. Once enough data is gathered, the Tenno must quickly return to Fortuna. The first time this stage is completed they will receive a Gravimag, and an inbox message containing an Archweapon Deployer with instructions on how to use it. The Gravimag must be applyed to an Archgun that is equipped with an Orokin Catalyst, and the Deployer must be equipped in the Tenno's gear arsenal.

Phase 4
With the Gravimag and the shielding data, the Tenno are now ready to destroy Profit-Taker. However, The Business discovers that the Orb is heading to what appears to be the middle of nowhere, to which Little Duck confesses that the Orb Mother's satellite shielding didn't shut down but simply changed aligntment, and that the Orb is attempting to reallign it at this location.

The Profit-Taker Orb will be found wandering in the Vallis until it is engaged, with massive Corpus reinforcements at the ready. The battle can be divided in a number of phases.
 * 1) The Orb's shielding behaves the same way as in Stage 3 and must be taken down fully.
 * 2) Once the Tenno successfully take down the Orb's shield layer, its main body will become invulnerable to damage, but its four legs become vulnerable. The legs must then be destroyed using Archgun fire by calling down the Archweapon Deployer to disable the Orb, at which point its main body becomes vulnerable to damage.
 * 3) *The Deployer has a cooldown of 5 minutes, but resets on looting Heavy Weapon Ammo pickups dropped from spawning Corpus enemies.
 * 4) At 75% health, the Orb will launch 4 pylons that will land around the area and become invulnerable in an attempt to restore its shielding. The Tenno must destroy those pylons to continue the fight. The pylons are protected by a spherical barrier that nullifies gunfire, but can be physically passed through.
 * 5) At 50% health, the Orb's shields will fully regenerate, requiring it to be taken down again. The Orb's attacks will become stronger.
 * 6) At 25% health, the Orb will launch 6 pylons instead of 4.
 * 7) Once the 6 pylons are destroyed, the Orb's shields will regenerate again. However, Little Duck warns the Tenno that the Corpus have seen through her plan and are manually attempting to restore the Orb's satellite shielding. The squad is given 4 to 5 minutes to defeat the Orb once and for all. The Orb becomes desperate, which is reflected in her attacks, more powerful than ever.
 * 8) The Orb, finally defeated, will release her drops for the Tenno to retrieve and clear the Heist. However, this victory is short-lived as the Orb, in a last ditch attempt to wipe out the Tenno, continues to receive overcharge from the satellite and prepares to self-destruct. The Business urges the squad to run for their lives as the Orb goes out in a monstruous explosion, instantly downing anything within its 300 meter radius, only then is the battle finally over. Her drops can be collected before or after the explosion.

Rewards
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