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Contents

  • Architect Encounters
    • Overview
    • General Phase Flowchart
    • Eos Architect Details
    • Voeld Architect Details
    • Kadara Architect Details
    • Elaaden Architect Details
  • Changelog
    • Updates
  • Developer Interviews and Concept Art
    • John Ebenger (Cinematic Designer)
    • Jessica Hara Campbell (Level Designer)
    • Jill Harrington (Technical Animator)
    • Joanna Erbach (Technical Artist)
    • Blair Brown (Associate Producer)
    • Colin Campbell (Level Designer)
    • Jason Richardson (Gameplay Designer)
    • Alec Antrim (Chief Architect)
    • Billy Buskel (Associate Producer on MP)
    • Charles Adcock (Development Director)
    • Jos Hendriks (Level Designer)
    • Daniel Torres (Graphics Programmer)
    • Dean Andersen (Studio Creative Manager)
    • Karine Marecki (Quality Assurance Team Lead)
    • Skyler Dawson (Software Developer)
  • Inventory
    • Weapons
      • Research & Development
      • Guns Overview
      • Assault Rifles
      • Pistols
      • Shotguns
      • Sniper Rifles
      • Melee Weapons
    • Armor
      • Overview
      • Helmet
      • Chest
      • Legs
      • Arms
    • Augmentations and Resources
      • Augmentations
      • Consumables
      • Resources
  • Introduction
    • Foreword
    • Welcome to Mass Effect
    • Milky Way Species
    • Mass Effect Trilogy and Andromeda Timeline
    • Ryder Family History
    • Andromeda Initiative
    • The Squad
      • Liam Kosta
      • Lieutenant Cora Harper
      • Vetra Nyx
      • Pelessaria B’Sayle (Peebee)
      • Nakmor Drack
      • Jaal
  • Game Mechanics
    • Basics
    • Game Mechanics Glossary
      • About the Glossary
      • AVP (Andromeda Viability Points)
      • APEX & Strike Teams
      • Augmentations
      • Codex
      • Containers
      • Credits
      • Crew Info Board
      • Cryo Pod Perks (AVP Status Control)
      • Deconstruction
      • Emails
      • Forward Stations
      • Fusion Mods
      • Galaxy Map
      • Hazards (Global)
      • Hazards (Local)
      • Heleus News Service
      • Journal
      • Level (Player Level)
      • Mining
      • New Game+
      • Nexus Level
      • Nomad
      • Outposts
      • Peripheral Information (Datapads, Information Walls, Terminals)
      • Remnant Decryption Puzzles (“Remdoku”)
      • Research and Development System
      • Re-Spec Station
      • Scanner
      • Tempest Trophies
      • Uncharted World (UNC)
      • Vendors
      • Viability
    • Combat Concepts
      • About Combat
      • Armor
      • Consumables
      • Difficulty (Single-Player Setting)
      • Enemy Defenses
      • Formulas and Calculations
      • Health and Shields
      • Miscellaneous Combat Tips
      • Weapon Mods
      • Powers
      • Profiles
      • Relative Difficulty (“Enemy Level Scaling”)
      • Ryder “Builds”
      • Squadmate Orders
      • Stats (Clarification of Terms)
      • Supply Crates (Ammo, Powers, Health)
      • Targeting
      • Weapons
    • Enemies
      • Enemy Categories
      • Kett
      • Remnant
      • Outlaws
      • Wildlife
  • Multiplayer
    • Multiplayer Basics
      • Overview
      • The HUD
      • Character Selection
      • Leveling Your Character
      • Skills/Powers
      • Character Customization
      • Enemy Groups
      • Combat
      • Strike Teams
      • Waves and Objectives
      • Store
    • Multiplayer Characters
      • Overview
      • Asari Multiplayer Characters
      • Human Multiplayer Characters
      • Krogan Multiplayer Characters
      • Salarian Multiplayer Characters
      • Turian Multiplayer Characters
    • Anagara Multiplayer Characters
    • Multiplayer Atlas
      • Overview
      • Firebase Zero
      • Firebase Sandstorm
      • Firebase Icebreaker
      • Firebase Derelict
      • Firebase Magma
    • Multiplayer Enemies
      • Overview
      • Kett
      • Outlaws
      • Remnant
    • Multiplayer Weapons
      • Overview
      • MP Assault Rifles
      • MP Pistols
      • MP Shotguns
      • MP Sniper Rifles
    • Multiplayer Skills and Powers
      • Overview
      • Biotic
      • Combat
      • Tech
    • Multiplayer Challenges
      • Multiplayer Challenges
      • General
      • Weapons
      • Enemies
    • Strike Team & APEX Missions
  • Interactive Maps
    • Heleus Cluster Map
    • UNC Maps
      • EOS
      • Voeld
      • Kadara
      • Elaaden
  • Secondary Ops
    • Overview
    • A Dying Planet
    • A Lost Sister
    • A Packaged Deal
    • A People Divided
    • Aid APEX
    • Architect on Elaaden
    • Aspirations
    • Behind Enemy Lines
    • Bridge Sabotage
    • Brought to Light
    • Conflict in the Colony
    • Contagion
    • Cora Harper: A Foundation
    • Cora Harper: Asari Ark
    • Cora Harper: At Duty’s Edge
    • Cora Harper: Duty Calls
    • Counting Bodies
    • Crisis Response
    • Cross-Cultural Alliances
    • Defeating the Kett
    • Dismantled
    • Dissension in the Ranks
    • Doesn’t Add Up
    • Elaaden: A New World
    • Emergency S.O.S.
    • End of Watch
    • Excess Baggage
    • Eyes on the Ground/On the Front Lines
    • Fact or Fiction
    • First Murderer
    • First Strike
    • Forgotten History
    • Forgotten Stars
    • Frequency
    • From the Dust
    • Gil Brodie: A Game of Poker
    • Gil Brodie: The Friend
    • Gone with the Wind
    • Gray Matter
    • H-047C: A New World
    • Hard Luck
    • Healing Kadara’s Heart/The Outlaw Monolith
    • Helping Havarl’s Scientists
    • High Noon
    • Intercepted
    • Investigate the Remnant Derelict
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Angaran Affection
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Runs in the Family
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Flesh and Blood
    • Kett’s Bane
    • Know Your Enemy
    • Lexi T’Perro: Bottom of a Bottle
    • Liam Kosta: All In
    • Liam Kosta: Armor Diplomacy
    • Liam Kosta: Community
    • Liam Kosta: Day Out on Aya
    • Liam Kosta: Outpost Worlds
    • Liam Kosta: Something for Us
    • Life on the Frontier
    • Making an Impression
    • Medical Caches
    • Meet the Family
    • Meet the Resistance
    • Mind Games
    • Missing Arks
    • Missing Science Crew
    • Mixed Messages
    • Modern Medicine
    • Movie Night: Better Snacks
    • Movie Night: Getting Started
    • Movie Night: Raise a Glass
    • Movie Night: Snacks
    • Movie Night: The Final Piece
    • Movie Night: The Right Setup
    • Murder in Kadara Port
    • Nakmor Drack: A Future for Our People
    • Nakmor Drack: Clutch Moment
    • Nakmor Drack: Firebreathing Thresher Maws
    • Nakmor Drack: How to Act Tough
    • Nakmor Drack: Knock ’Em Down
    • Nakmor Drack: Krogan Betrayal
    • Night on the Town
    • Old Skinner
    • Out of Gas
    • Out of the Frying Pan
    • Overgrown
    • Parlay with the Krogan
    • Peebee: A Mysterious Remnant Signal
    • Peebee: Reclaiming Poc
    • Peebee: Spirits
    • Peebee: The Museum Trip
    • Peebee’s Remnant Scanner
    • Peebee’s Secret Project
    • Precious Cargo
    • Recovering the Past
    • Reformation
    • Remove the Heart
    • Resistance Trap
    • Restoring a World
    • Rising Tensions
    • Ryder Family Secrets
    • Search for the Stolen Remnant Drive Core
    • Settling Elaaden
    • Settling Kadara
    • Settling Voeld
    • Shock Treatment
    • Sleeping Dragons
    • Something in the Water
    • Something Personnel
    • Stage a Rescue
    • Station Sabotage
    • Suvi Anwar: New Discoveries
    • Taming a Desert/Making This Dust Bowl Livable
    • Task: A Flower for Kesh
    • Task: An Exile Raid
    • Task: Beer Run
    • Task: Better Crafting
    • Task: Boosting the Signal
    • Task: Broken Family
    • Task: Broken Wires
    • Task: Cache Flow
    • Task: Catch and Release
    • Task: Clearing the Air
    • Task: Cold Hard Cache
    • Task: Comparatively Alien
    • Task: Cultivation
    • Task: Data Trail
    • Task: Drone Recovery
    • Task: Getting to Know the Nexus
    • Task: Gone Dark
    • Task: Herbal Entrepreneurs
    • Task: Hitting Rocks for Science
    • Task: Infection
    • Task: Investigating Embezzlement
    • Task: Kadara’s Ransom
    • Task: Laws and Customs
    • Task: Little Mouse
    • Task: Local Cuisine
    • Task: Lost Brother
    • Task: Messages to the Nexus
    • Task: Missing Scientists
    • Task: Naming the Dead
    • Task: Nomad Shield Crafting
    • Task: Outlaw Weapon Crafting
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Elaaden
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Eos
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Kadara
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Voeld
    • Task: Past, Present, and Future
    • Task: Path of a Hero
    • Task: Pathfinder Armor Crafting
    • Task: Programming a Pathfinder
    • Task: Remnant Data Cores
    • Task: Research Center Development
    • Task: Roekaar Manifestos
    • Task: Running a Fever
    • Task: Save Dr. Okeer’s Krogan Research
    • Task: Safe Journeys
    • Task: Searching for Morga
    • Task: Subjugation
    • Task: Supply Loss and Recovery
    • Task: Test Subject
    • Task: The Angaran Initiative
    • Task: The Ghost of Promise
    • Task: The Model of the Spheres
    • Task: The Nexus Exchange
    • Task: The Witnesses
    • Task: Traitor or Victim?
    • Task: Turian Salvage
    • Task: Unearthed
    • Task: Volatile
    • Task: Waking Up to the Future
    • Task: Watchers
    • Task: What He Would Have Wanted
    • The Baryte Rush
    • The Charlatan’s Charlatan
    • The Collective Base
    • The Firefighters
    • The Flophouse
    • The Little Things That Matter
    • The Lost Scout
    • The Lost Song
    • The Mind of an Exile
    • The Rebel
    • The Remnant Tiller
    • The Search for Ljeta
    • The Secret Project
    • The Vanished
    • The Vesaal
    • The Visitor
    • Trading Favors
    • Truth and Trespass
    • Turian Ark: Lost But Not Forgotten
    • Turian Ark: Not Dead Yet
    • Uncovering the Past
    • Vetra Nyx: A Moment Planetside
    • Vetra Nyx: Means and Ends
    • Water Supply
    • White Death
  • Achievements
    • Achievements and Trophies
  • Relationship Guide
    • Romance Options
    • Cora Harper
    • Peebee
    • Vetra
    • Liam
    • Jaal
    • Gil
    • Suvi
    • Avela
    • Reyes Vidal
    • Keri
  • Priority Ops
    • Starting the Game
    • Prologue: Hyperion
    • Mission 1: Planetside
    • Mission 2: A Better Beginning
    • Mission 3: A Trail of Hope
    • Mission 4: Hunting the Archon
    • Mission 5: The Journey to Meridian
    • Mission 6: Meridian–The Way Home
    • Summary of Key Choices
  • Exploring the Heleus Cluster
    • The Heleus Cluster
    • Heleus Cluster Navigation Tables
    • UNC Maps
      • Eos
      • Voeld
      • Kadara
      • Elaaden

Mass Effect: Andromeda Collector's Edition Guide › Secondary Ops

Task: Remnant Data Cores

Mission Type: Additional Task

Prerequisite: Activate the Vault on Eos

Start Location: Any of the Remnant data core locations

Unlocking: Pick up a Remnant data core

Eos

Activate the Vault

The task begins once you leave the purification vault on Eos. Peebee will find the first data core, which will automatically be added to your quest inventory.

Defeat the Architect on Eos

You receive the second data core from the Remnant Architect on Eos. In order to defeat the Architect on Eos you will first need to access the secondary operation Making An Impression. Go and talk to Hainly Abrams to access this operation which requires the placement of three seismic hammers to disrupt the seismic activity on Eos. The placement of the the third and final hammer will begin the fight with the Remnant Architect. For more details see the Eos Architect Details section. All the Remnant Architects you defeat will provide one data core. Although you won’t see the actual data core, it will automatically be added to your inventory.

Voeld

Activate the Vault

The next data core is in the Voeld purification vault. Note that you can only acquire it the first time you enter the vault. Interact with the remnant consoles to get it.

Kett Output Devices

The fourth data core is part of Task: Subjugation. You don’t necessarily have to perform the task; you can go here at any time.

Defeat the Architect on Voeld

The fifth data core is part of the Voeld Remnant Architect. Get the Task: Missing Scientists from Priya Blake at the Voeld AI outpost. Follow the trail of evidence to discover what happened to the missing scientists. As you uncover clues about their disappearance you will also follow the path of their untimely deaths leading to an encounter with the Architect on Voeld. Defeat the architect to get this data core. For more details see the Voeld Architect Details section.

Kadara

Activate the Vault

The next data core is in the Kadara purification vault. This one is in the north section of the vault.

Defeat the Architect on Kadara

The seventh data core involves defeating the Remnant Architect is Kadara. The Architect is located in the far western portion of the map. For more details see the Kadara Architect Details section.

Elaaden

Activate the Vault

The eighth data core is in the Elaaden purification vault. From the starting location, go to the room to the east. Just solve the remnant console puzzle to get the data core.

Locate the Optional Vault

The ninth data core is part of the Elaaden optional vault, located in the southwest portion of the map.

Defeat the Architect on Elaaden

The tenth data core involves the Remnant Architect on Elaaden. To trigger this, you must find the remnant drive core and give it to Morda. After doing so, she will let you create an outpost on the planet. Defeat the Remnant Architect to get this data core. For more details see the Elaaden Architect Details section.

Khi Tasira

The last data core is in Khi Tasira. Visit the research tower and interact with the console. After the blue walls drop, look to the right of the console to see another one on a different platform. Interact with it to open the door.

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