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Contents

  • Essentials
    • INTRODUCTION
      • Humanity's Ascension
    • TRAINING
      • Introduction
      • Mission Computer & HUD
      • Character Creation
      • Character Classes
      • Character Management
      • Transportation and Commerce
      • Combat
      • Weapons and Armor
      • Powers
      • Enemies
    • CAST OF CHARACTERS
      • Squad Members
      • Dossiers
    • UPGRADES AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
      • Upgrading Technology
      • Weapon Upgrades
      • Cybernetics and Shield Upgrades
      • Medical/Health Upgrades
      • Bio-Amp and Omni-Tool (Tech) Upgrades
      • Squad Member Upgrades
      • Normandy Upgrades
    • PLANETARY DATABASE
      • Explorers of the 24th Century
      • Planets by Clusters
      • Cluster: Caleston Rift
      • Cluster: Crescent Nebula
      • Cluster: Eagle Nebula
      • Cluster: Far Rim
      • Cluster: Hades Nexus
      • Cluster: Hawking Eta
      • Cluster: Hourglass Nebula
      • Cluster: Ismar Frontier
      • Cluster: Krogan DMZ
      • Cluster: Local Cluster (Solar System)
      • Cluster: Minos Wasteland
      • Cluster: Nubian Expanse
      • Cluster: Omega Nebula
      • Cluster: The Phoenix Massing
      • Cluster: Pylos Nebula
      • Cluster: Rosetta Nebula
      • Cluster: Serpent Nebula
      • Cluster: Shadow Sea
      • Cluster: The Shrike Abyssal
      • Cluster: Sigurd's Cradle
      • Cluster: Titan Nebula
      • Cluster: Valhallan Threshold
    • APPENDIX
      • Achievements & Trophies
      • Shop Inventories
  • Walkthrough
    • WALKTHROUGH
      • Prologue: Normandy Lost
      • Prologue: Awakening
      • Freedom's Progress
      • Normandy SR-2
      • Citadel and Dossier: The Master Thief
      • Omega and Dossier: The Veteran
      • Dossier: The Professor
      • Dossier: Archangel
      • Dossier: The Convict
      • Dossier: The Warlord
      • Horizon
      • Dossiers, Part 2
      • Dossier: The Engineer
      • Illium
      • Dossier: The Justicar
      • Dossier: The Assassin
      • The Collector Ship
      • Loyalty: Dedication Before Bravery
      • Jacob's Loyalty: The Gift of Greatness
      • Miranda's Loyalty: The Prodigal
      • Kasumi's Loyalty: Stealing Memory
      • Zaeed's Loyalty: The Price of Revenge
      • Jack's Loyalty: Subject Zero
      • Tuchanka
      • Mordin's Loyalty: Old Blood
      • Grunt's Loyalty: Rite of Passage
      • Garrus's Loyalty: Eye for an Eye
      • Tali's Loyalty: Treason
      • Samara's Loyalty: The Ardat-Yakshi
      • Thane's Loyalty: Sins of the Farther
      • Derelict Reaper: Acquire Reaper IFF
      • Normandy Attacked
      • Legion's Loyalty: A House Divided
      • Endgame
      • Endgame: Collector Station
    • SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS
      • Overview
      • Firewalker: MSV Rosalie
      • Firewalker: Artifact Collection
      • Firewalker: Geth Incursion
      • Firewalker: Recover Research Data
      • Firewalker: Prothean Ruin
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Learning Liara's Information
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Dracon Trade Center
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Azure Hotel
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Shadow Broker's Ship
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Shadow Broker's Ship (Interior)
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Defeating the Shadowbroker
      • Lair of the Shadowbroker: Aftermath
      • Overlord: Hermes Station
      • Overlord: Vulcan Station
      • Overlord: Prometheus Station
      • Overlord: Atlas Station
      • Hub World Assignments: Normandy
      • Hub World Assignments: Citadel
      • Hub World Assignments: Illium
      • Hub World Assignments: Tuchanka
    • N7 ASSIGNMENTS
      • Introduction
      • N7: Abandoned Mine
      • N7: Anomalous Weather Detected
      • N7: Blood Pack
      • N7: Blue Suns
      • N7: Eclipse
      • N7: Endangered Research Station
      • N7: Hahne-Kedar Mechs
      • N7: Imminent Ship Crash
      • N7: Javelin Missiles
      • N7: Lost Operative
      • N7: Mining the Canyon
      • N7: MSV Estevanico
      • N7: Normandy Crash Site
      • N7: Quarian Crash Site

Mass Effect 2 Guide › Walkthrough › SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS

Firewalker: MSV Rosalie

A survey ship with ties to Cerberus, called the MSV Rosalie, has disappeared somewhere near planet Zeona, in the Ismar Frontier.

As the team aboard the ship was testing a new prototype exploration rover named the Hammerhead, it is imperative that contact is re-established.

There are two doctors, Dr. Manuel Cayce and Dr. Robert O’Loy, aboard the MSV Rosalie. The ship, survey team, and doctors all must be recovered.

Mission Data

Location:

Milky Way > Ismar Frontier > Elysta > Zeona

Experience Available:

125/156
  • Spoils of War > Total Credits: 15,000
  • Cerberus Funding: 7,500
  • Credits: 7,500

[001]

Plot a course to MSV Rosalie by locating the planet Zeona, starting the scanner, and launching a probe. Scan the planet’s surface until an anomaly is detected.

Only then can you land on the planet’s surface [001] , which proves to be inhospitable; deep fissures of lava and craggy rock formations dominate the volcanic landscape.

Part 1: Project Firewalker: Search for Data

[002]

Shepard inspects some fuselage and other wreckage on a rocky precipice and down below, on the lava flows.

As you reach a large cargo container [002] , a message plays from Dr. Cayce, describing an encounter with the geth; the team appears to have moved to a different location, and may still be alive.

Access the cargo computer control, bypassing the lock. The container opens, revealing the Hammerhead inside.

Welcome to the M-44 Hammerhead Infantry Fighting Vehicle

Your Hammerhead has important features you must become aware of:

You can obviously turn left and right, but be sure to strafe left and right too.

Boost to accelerate, which jets you forward. Note the blue exhaust flames.

Remember the vertical lift (the turbines turn orange) allowing you to climb or “jump.”

The Hammerhead’s missile guidance system is fully operational.

Finally, research-collecting (a.k.a. mining) is important; note the yellow lights indicating how close to completing the collecting you are.

For exact commands, consult the in-game menu.

Traversing the Zeonan Landscape

[003]

Boost off the edge of the precipice, in the direction of the glowing blue tower of light [003] .

Your Hammerhead’s scanners have picked up research packages left by the crew of the MSV Rosalie.

The vehicle moves a little while scooping the data up; you may need to maneuver the Hammerhead slightly, so it doesn’t float off the circle.

If this occurs, collect again.

[004]

Hover over the yellow circle and “mine” it until the research is recovered [004] .

You receive a credits bonus for each package you pick up during this research-gathering mission.

Spoils of War > Research Package >
Collect > 900 Credits

Check for the second blue tower, using the vertical lift to reach the research on a curved rock ledge [005] .

[005]

Spoils of War > Research Package >
Collect > 1,200 Credits

[006]

At the top of the ledge is a section of fuselage, an obstruction that must be destroyed using your craft’s missiles [006] .

Then boost through the flaming wreckage.

[007]

Enter a gigantic canyon, but drop to ground level and look to the left [007] . The next research package is available at the foot of a giant fissure.

Spoils of War > Research Package >
Collect > 1,650 Credits

[008]

Continue along the left side of the canyon tunnel until it opens up, but remain on the left and use the vertical lift to ascend the stepping stones to the next package [008] .

Spoils of War > Research Package > Collect > 750 Credits

Spin the craft around to look toward the sun. Use the natural rock ramp to boost from, landing on a large rock island [009] with a package inside the skeleton of a piece of fuselage.

[009]

Spoils of War > Research Package > Collect > 1,050 Credits

[010]

Boost and vertically lift off the far end of the island to a smaller, lower island [010] with research to collect, and spin your craft to the right.

Spoils of War > Research Package > Collect > 750 Credits

[011]

Boost across to a third island, and over to land close to a piece of flaming debris, on a ledge. Drive along the ledge to the final package [011] . At this point, your inspection of Zeona is complete. The Hammerhead docks with the Normandy.

Spoils of War > Research Package > Collect > 1,200 Credits

All Research Collected!

The following additional missions are now available, and can be attempted in any order:

Firewalker > Artifact Collection (Hawking Eta)

Firewalker > Geth Incursion (The Phoenix Massing)

Firewalker > Recover Research
Data (Caleston Rift)

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