Call of the Tempestarii/Transcript

Quest description

Void Storms gather in Corpus lanes... could a mysterious vessel somehow be the cause?

Inbox Message

Ambush opportunity. Mobilize Railjack.

Crew,

Corpus Convoy moving towards Voidspace redzone. Shipping lanes long abandoned. Void storms. Anomalies. Temporal ghosting.

Remember Lucretia Platform. The final disastrous result of incursion into that place. We are not wanted there. Yet the Corpus return.

It would be stupid to investigate.

Saddle up. We are about to do something stupid.

—Cephalon Cy

Intercept Corpus shipping convoy

• Cephalon Cy: "Potential catastrophic sensor glitch. Visual confirmation required. Crew: did you see that?"  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Commence salvage. Void storm resurgence probable. Get the lead out."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Corpus Salvage team headed for debris field."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Crew: sensor glitch is back. Stay sharp. This may not be a bug."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Salvage team eliminated."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Alert: Void storm imminent. Corpus reinforcements imminent. Obligatory withdrawal imminent. This escalated quickly."  (download, history)

• Vala Glarios: "Captain Vala Glarios. So pleased to meet you. I should have expected Tenno rats among the flotsam. Sequester that Railjack for Parvos!"  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Gunfight not an option. Isolating escape corridor. Anomaly detected."  (download, history)

• Unknown Ship: "Who waits for the shadow?"  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Vosphene glyphs. Hm. That takes me back."  (download, history)
• Vala Glarios: "I see you, you bastard. I see you."  (download, history)
• Vala Glarios: "Contact Parvos Granum immediately. Get me authorization for multiphasic ordinance. Tell him I've found that damned ghost!"  (download, history)

• Vala Glarios: "Evasive! Focus shields!"  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Isolating escape corridor. All hands: evasive manuevers."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Escape corridor locked. Grab something."  (download, history)

Infiltrate Corpus archives

• Cephalon Cy: "Captain Glarios knows something about that vessel. Crew: infiltrate and recover Orokin-era naval records. Our ghost ship has a name. I want it."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Archive loaded. Our vessel was called The Tempestarii. Void rescue craft. Missing since the Old War."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Exemplary service record. Rescue total: two-thousand and seventeen souls. Cited for bravery in the second and third Tharsis engagement. Multiple commendations. A legend."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Lost during a Void-storm of unprecedented magnitude. Interesting. Final mission contains a black mark. Refusal to withdraw. Logs record final transmissions. Calling into the Void before being engulfed. She has been calling ever since. The Tempestarii went down saving lives. She still waits for an answer."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Duty lingers. Like pain in a phantom limb. Like the voices of a crew long-dead. The Tempestarii is suffering, searching for one final rescue. Saving us may enable her to complete her duty."  (download, history)

Signal the Tempestarii

• Cephalon Cy: ""Who waits for the Shadow?" Possibility: friend-foe identification protocol. Loading Orokin-era distress countersigns. Prepare to disengage void drive."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Transmitting Orokin-era distress signal. Here goes nothing."  (download, history)

• Unknown Ship: "Who waits for the shadow?"  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Your golden masters."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Countersign: unsatisfactory. Evasive maneuvers. Attempting to reopen communications."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Comms channel reopened."  (download, history)
• Unknown Ship: "Who waits for the shadow?"  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "We, the lost souls."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "She hears us."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Tempestarii. All aboard are safe. Your mission: complete."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "The Tempestarii has lowered shields."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Crew. Your presence is requested aboard the Tempestarii."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "You have been invited into an unknown realm. Tread lightly."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "The 'Shadow.' Concentrated Void energy. He is: not conventionally alive."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Their final rescue. The location data is corrupted. He cannot retrieve it. We can help."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Data restored. Downloading coordinates."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Brace. Brace. Brace."  (download, history)
• Vala Glarios: "Their shields are down! Oh, sweet Tenno. You went and lulled the beast to sleep for me! How kind."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Balls."  (download, history)

• Vala Glarios: "I was working in an exosuit when the Tempstarii destroyed Lucretia Platform. I drifted for days among the frozen fragments of my crew. My Sisters. I dreamed their dead, gaping mouths were singing with me yet."  (download, history)

So it's into the void
Now me girls and me boys
From Mother's hands we go
We'll be be sailing to the sun
Till the voyage is done
Then we'll be sleeping in the cold below

Sisters! Below, below
We're going where the winds don't blow
Yes we're all bound down
To the deep and we'll all be
Sleeping in the cold below, below
Sleeping in the cold below

Our sailing ships
For the hard and the quick
We roll our load and go
There's a living to be made
Or there's Hell to pay
When you're sleeping in the cold below

Sisters! Below, below
We're going where the winds don't blow
Yes we're all bound down
To the deep and we'll all be
Sleeping in the cold below, below
Sleeping in the cold below

There's a man on high
With the Devil in his eye
And a golden hand, I'm told
It can hurt you, it can hold you
He can kick you or console you
When you're sleeping in the cold below

Sisters! Below, below
We're going where the winds don't blow
Yes we're all bound down
To the deep and we'll all be
Sleeping in the cold below, below
Sleeping in the cold below

Oh Sisters you
So wise and true
When it's my time to go
Won't you lay me down
Under Granum Crowns
And I'll be sleeping in the cold below, below
Sleeping in the cold below

Sisters! Below, below
We're going where the winds don't blow
Yes we're all bound down
To the deep and we'll all be sleeping in the cold below
Sisters! Below, below
We're going where the winds don't blow
Yes we're all bound down
To the deep and we'll all be
Sleeping in the cold below, below
Sleeping in the cold below, below
Sleeping in the cold below

Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're all sleeping in the cold below

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• Cephalon Cy: "Multiphasic beams have the Tempestarii imprisoned. Solution: junk the beam generator."  (download, history)

• Vala Glarios: "My kind are the only monsters this System needs, Tenno. We have no time for old ghosts. I shall rip that ship to pieces and eat its heart."  (download, history)

• Vala Glarios: "Forget capture! We'll sift through the wreckage instead. Tracers locked. Engage."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Back to the Tempestarii. Now."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Tempestarii is charging unidentified countermeasures. Stay in range. Swat down pests."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Objective: collapse the anchor field."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Countermeasures charged. On your mark, unleash the storm."  (download, history)

• Vala Glarios: "Sisters! Hear me! Hound them to hell and back. By the hand of Parvos himself!"  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "We are part of this story. We have a duty. Enter the Void. Search and rescue. We must complete the Shadow's final mission together."  (download, history)

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• Vala Glarios: "(inaudible)"  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "Cephalon Cy's report. Tempestarii. Final voyage."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Today a centuries-long journey ended."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Together we braved a turbulent Void."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Deep within, he who had been lost was found."  (download, history)

• Sevagoth's Shadow: "I wait for the shadow."  (download, history)
• Sevagoth's Shadow: "Your shadow has come."  (download, history)
• Cephalon Cy: "Sevagoth. A Warframe believed lost to the Void forever. His energy almost extinct. With his last spark of life, Sevagoth embraced his Shadow once again. And both were at peace."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "With full honors, we commited the body of Sevagoth to that distinct horizon."  (download, history)

• Cephalon Cy: "He waited, we came. Here is to clearer skies. Record sealed."  (download, history)

Conclusion

• Parvos Granum: "Sister..."  (download, history)

Inbox Message

To honor the memory

Transmission from the Tempestarii.

Sevagoth reconstruction is possible. A task not to be undertaken lightly.

Old warriors do not forget their debts.

Prediction: we have not seen the last of the Tempestarii.  (download, history)

—Cephalon Cy

(Attachment: Tempestarii Railjack Skin, Sevagoth Prex, Sevagoth Statuette, The Cold Below Scene)

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Corporate Machinations

Operator,

During a routine electromagnetic wave sweep, a most distressing message was intercepted on the Corpus network. Ordis hopes nothing comes of this murderous consortium, or rather, board meeting.

Do be careful.

Your loyal Cephalon,

Ordis