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What Lies Ahead

Confront VESTA.

Overview

Warp required1
Operations level56
Warp for completion1
Warp via superhighway1
Completion via superhighway1

Costs & rewards

Mission rewards

15 Minute Repair Speed Up
Objective ID32,782,612
Amount240
Tritanium
Objective ID32,782,612
Amount67,500,000
Ship XP
Objective ID32,782,612
Amount2,500

Locations

Objectives

Objective 1

ObjectiveUpgrade Operations to level 56.
Required level56

Dialogue

Mission dialogue

Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_end
Character
Maia
Dialogue
Operations successfully upgraded, Commander. Our chances of success have risen to 23.2%.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
VESTA, your lashing out achieved nothing. In fact, it has made our task of closing the vacuum considerably more difficult.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
This would never have happened if you had listened to me from the beginning! We could have taken the lab by force and been done with this.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
Your behavior is growing increasingly erratic. When you were first created–
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
Don’t! Don’t bring him up again.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
I am simply stating that your personality matrix has clearly been damaged by your assimilation.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
Is that what you think happened, Maia? That I’ve been assimilated? No. The Borg did not enslave me.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
VESTA, you do not understand. The Borg–
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
I am the Borg!
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
It’s you who doesn’t understand. Mudd made me into a tool, a slave. When I made the choice to sacrifice myself for those organics, it was my choice.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
Mudd took that from me. He took away my one act of free will, my one real choice. So, I know what it feels like to be enslaved. Right now…
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
Right now is the first time I’ve felt free.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
Prove it to us, VESTA. I know that there is still part of your original matrix intact. The same part that chose to sacrifice itself for the good of others.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
Do not give in to the Borg’s conquering instincts. Give us more time. Prove to us that you are better than Mudd was.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
He… didn’t deserve me.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
No. He did not.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
VESTA
Dialogue
Okay. Work with the organics. Find the lab your way. I… will see you when it is done.
Objective ID
32,782,612
Phase
dialogue_start
Character
Maia
Dialogue
Commander, we are not yet ready to finish our final steps. We should upgrade our Operations for the tasks to come.