Prima Games eGuides
primagames.com Browse Redeem a code Help
Destiny 2 eGuide
Sign in My Guides

Sign in or create an account

We'll email you a link. No password needed, and if you don't have an account yet, the link makes one.

By creating an account or signing in, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Have a password?

Had an account on the old eGuides site, or a code from a printed guide? Help and troubleshooting

Sign in with a password

By signing in, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Check your email

A sign-in link is on its way. It works once and expires in 15 minutes. Open it and you're in, with an account if you didn't already have one.

Contents

  • Curse of Osiris
    • An Overview
      • Osiris Backstory
      • What’s New?
    • The Lighthouse
    • Infinite Forest
    • Campaign and Strikes
      • The Gateway
      • A Deadly Trial
      • Beyond Infinity
      • Deep Storage
      • Tree of Probabilities (Campaign and Strike)
      • Hijacked
      • A Garden World (Campaign and Strike)
      • Omega
    • Mercury Adventures
    • PVP
      • Radiant Cliffs
      • Pacifica
      • Wormhaven (PS4 Exclusive)
  • Field Manual
    • Introduction and Overview
    • Guardian Creation
    • Basic Actions
    • Guardian Abilities
    • Titan Abilities
    • Hunter Abilities
    • Warlock Abilities
    • Weaponry
    • Armor
    • Other Gear and Vehicles
    • Navigation
    • Progression
    • Grinding and Gear
  • Campaign
    • Overview
    • Homecoming
      • Overview
      • Tower Watch
      • Tower Hangar
      • Tower Plaza
      • Tower North
      • The Chosen
    • Adieu
      • Overview
      • Escaping the Last City
      • The Farm
    • Spark—Pt. 1
      • Overview
      • Quarantine Sector 236
      • Blackened Forest
    • Spark—Pt. 2
      • Overview
      • The Dark Forest
    • Hope
      • Overview
      • Sinking Docks
      • Siren’s Watch
    • Combustion
      • Overview
      • Salt Mines (1st Mission)
      • Salt Mines (2nd Mission)
      • Salt Mines (3rd Mission)
    • Riptide
      • Overview
      • The Rig
      • Tidal Anchor
    • Utopia
      • Overview
      • Access Terminal
      • Festering Halls
    • Looped
      • Overview
      • Artifact’s Edge
      • Hallows
      • Sunken Cavern
      • Well of Giants
    • Six
      • Overview
      • The Cistern and Pools of Luminance
      • Glade of Echoes
      • Exodus Black
    • Sacrilege
      • Overview
      • Terrabase Charon (1st Mission)
      • The Wraith Mines
      • Terrabase Charon (2nd Mission)
    • Fury
      • Overview
      • Giant’s Scar (1st Mission)
      • Excavation Site II
      • Giant’s Scar (2nd Mission)
      • Warmind VaultJYS-2
    • Payback
      • Overview
      • The Tunnels
      • Sunken Isles
    • Unbroken
      • Overview
      • Legion’s Hold
      • Legion’s Watch
    • Larceny
      • Overview
      • Legion’s Anchor
    • 1AU
      • Overview
      • Starboard Landing
      • Mineral Processing
      • Sunside (1st Mission)
      • Sunside (2nd Mission)
    • Chosen
      • Overview
      • Peregrine District
      • Systems Deck
      • Quarterdeck
  • Strikes
    • Overview
    • The Pyramidion
      • Overview
      • The Rupture (Entrance)
      • The Rupture
    • The Inverted Spire
      • Overview
      • The Cistern
      • The Anchor
      • Legion Drill Site
      • The Inverted Spire
    • Exodus Crash
      • Overview
      • Prodromus Down
      • Exodus Black
      • Glade of Echoes
      • EX-077 Command
    • The Arms Dealer
      • Overview
      • Legion’s Anchor
      • Sunken Isles
      • Legion’s Hold
      • Echion Vae
    • Savathun’s Song
      • Overview
      • Solarium
      • Arboretum
      • Chasm of Screams
  • Crucible
    • Overview
    • Match Types
    • Crucible Map Icons
    • The Dead Cliffs
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • Endless Vale
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • The Fortress
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • Legion’s Gulch
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • Altar of Flame
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • Vostok
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • Midtown
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
    • Javelin-4
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types
  • Adventures
    • Overview
    • EDZ Adventures
      • A New Frontier
      • Calling Them Home
      • Poor Reception
      • A Frame Job
      • Dark Alliance
      • Reverse the Polarity
      • Getting Your Hands Dirty
      • Unsafe at Any Speed
      • Red Legion, Black Oil
      • No Safe Distance
      • Stop and Go
      • Anti-Anti-Air
      • Supply and Demand
    • Titan Adventures
      • Thief of Thieves
      • Bad Neighbors
      • Siren Song
      • Deathless
    • Nessus Adventures
      • Unbreakable
      • Ghost in the Machine
      • The Vex Trial
      • Release
      • A Tale of Two Confluxes
      • Assault of Black
      • Key to the Network
    • Io Adventures
      • Arecibo
      • Postmodern Prometheus
      • Unexpectred Guests
      • Cliffhanger
      • Road Rage
  • Lost Sectors
    • Overview
  • World Quests
    • Overview
    • EDZ World Quest: Enhance!
      • Mission 1: Odd Symptoms
      • Mission 2: Show and Intel
      • Mission 3: Differential Diagnosis
      • Mission 4: Experimental Treatment
    • Titan World Quest: Enemy of My Enemy
      • Mission 1: A Visit to Command
      • Mission 2: Data Requisition
      • Mission 3: Report to Sloane
      • Mission 4: Lighting the Dark
      • Mission 5: Chances and Choices
      • Mission 6: At Full Power
    • Nessus World Quest: The Exodus Black
      • Introduction
      • Mission 1: Speak to Failsafe
      • Mission 2: Uncovering the Past
      • Mission 3: The Captain
      • Mission 4: Talk to Failsafe
    • Io World Quest: King’s Shadow
      • Mission 1: The Hunt
      • Mission 2: The Conversion
      • Mission 3: Asher’s Theory
      • Mission 4: The Army
      • Mission 5: Trapped
  • Patrols
    • Overview
  • Public Events
    • Overview
    • Full Public Event Types (Eight Types, 34 Total)
    • Secret Public Event Types (10 Types, 93 Total)
    • Public Event Availability Chart
  • Challenges
    • Overview
  • Director
    • Introduction and Overview
    • European Dead Zone
      • EDZ Overview
      • EDZ: Initial Activities
      • EDZ: All Activities
      • The Farm
      • Sojourner’s Camp
      • Outskirts
      • Trostland
      • Salt Mines
      • Maevic Square
      • The Reservoir
      • The Sludge
      • The Dark Forest
      • Quarantine Sector 236: Blackened Forest
      • Winding Cove
      • The Gulch
      • The Tunnels
      • Firebase Hades
      • Sunken Isles
      • Legion’s Anchor
      • Legion’s Hold
      • Legion’s Watch
      • Echion Vae
    • Titan
      • Titan Overview
      • Titan: Activities
      • Sinking Docks
      • Siren’s Watch
      • The Rig
      • Tidal Anchor
      • Solarium
      • Festering Halls
      • Arboretum
      • Chasm of Screams
    • Nessus
      • Nessus Overview
      • Nessus: Activities
      • Artifact’s Edge
      • The Tangle
      • Chamber of Stone
      • The Mists
      • Well of Echoes
      • Watcher’s Grave
      • Chamber of Water
      • The Cistern
      • Pools of Luminance
      • Well of Flame
      • The Anchor
      • Excavation Site VII
      • The Inverted Spire
      • Hallows
      • Glade of Echoes
      • EX-077 Command
      • Sunken Cavern
      • Well of Giants
      • Exodus Black
      • Chamber of Sky
      • Prodromus Down
    • Io
      • Io Overview
      • Io: Activities
      • Lost Oasis
      • Spine Burrows
      • The Rupture
      • The Endless Gate
      • Pyramidion
      • Terrabase Charon
      • The Wraith Mines
      • Warmind Vault JYS-2
      • Giant’s Scar
      • Excavation Site II
    • The Tower
      • The Tower Overview
  • The Bestiary
    • Overview
    • Cabal: The Red Legion
    • Fallen
    • The Hive
    • The Vex
    • The Taken
  • Weapons
    • Overview
    • Kinetic and Energy Weapons
    • Power Weapons
    • Exotic Kinetic Weapons
    • Exotic Energy Weapons
    • Exotic Power Weapons
  • Armor
    • Overview
    • Titan Armor
    • Hunter Armor
    • Warlock Armor
  • Trophies and Achievements
    • Achievements List
  • PS4 Exclusive Content
    • Strike: Lake of Shadows
      • Overview
      • Trostland and Maevic Square
      • The Reservoir
    • Crucible: Retribution
      • Overview
      • Locations and Match Types

Destiny 2 Guide › Adventures › Nessus Adventures

Ghost in the Machine

Starting Location
  • Artifact’s Edge
Recommended Power
  • 90
Prerequisite
  • Complete Campaign Mission: Six and visit Failsafe first.
Reward
  • Ability unlock +1
Description
  • Tap into the Vex network to communicate with the Mind.

Loadout Recommendations

You’re tackling increasing numbers of Vex Goblins, Hobgoblins, Harpies, and Fanatics, with a toughened Hydra Elite to finish. You’re on precarious platforms with nowhere to hide, so weapons with a good range and accuracy are a must. Couple this with a rocket launcher to soften up the Hydra.

Over in Artifact’s Edge, launch this Adventure, and three large platforms appear in the central bottomless chasm of this Sector. Jump on any of them

and scan each of them in any order you like; just jump out of the temporary electrical discharge that arcs across the platform after each scan. After the third scan, jump onto firmer ground, or you’ll plummet to your death when the three platforms disappear.

Three more platforms have appeared close to the energy elevator and LZ. Head up there, leap across the first three smaller platforms and onto the first larger platform, and scan it. Watch for electrification; jump and land when it dissipates. Cull the Vex (Goblins and Fanatics, along with a Hobgoblin on additional floating platforms) that appear on a nearby platform.

Gather the data that they drop (this drops from their bodies as you kill each one, so head over when the coast is clear). Continue to work your way up the floating platforms as the data amount increases to 100 percent. As you keep ascending to a fourth Vex-filled platform, you must worry about Harpies, Hobgoblins, and Fanatics, as well as Goblins. Each time you slay a group of Vex, move to the indicated scan platform and establish a connection. Then, find the next Vex platform to attack.

This continues until the Elite Hydra, the Zenke Mind, makes an appearance. Train your weapons at the Mind, and each time you remove a third of its health, expect one of the platforms that you’ve ascended from to fill up with foes again. Break off from slaying the Mind to deal with them. It’s not particularly cunning to enter into close combat with the Mind because the platform it is on is precarious and has no cover opportunities, and the Mind’s attack is vicious. Instead, launching rockets, grenades, or your Super from an adjacent platform is a better idea. Once you’ve destroyed the Mind, the Adventure concludes. Mop up any Vex on the platforms, and head back down to firmer soil.

Keep reading with a free account

The first 3 sections of Destiny 2 are open to everyone. An account opens the rest of it, and every other guide in the archive. It's free, and there's nothing to buy.

Bought guides on the old Prima Games site? Your account and every guide you own moved here, so there's nothing to buy again. Sign in.

Create a free account Or browse our free guides

PreviousUnbreakable NextThe Vex Trial