Ikora lifts a data-pad from the desk in Zavala's office, as she adjusts her posture within the permanent impression left in his chair. Once eye level, the pad scans the Warlock Vanguard's retinal pattern and unlocks. A single, blinking message rises above the rest.

Vanguard Rey,

We've found her. I brought this to Osiris and Rahool, for interpretation, when our network probes intercepted a burst of transmissions between the Vex Collective and the Nessian Schism. We didn't get much; we had to cut our connection to the probes once the net started to assimilate them. I wish I had more to show for all the effort it took to breach the Collective's communications in the first place, but at least it's something. And—as best we can tell—the source is ricocheting between Earth and some planetoid on the outer extent of Sol—but not Nessus.

-Aunor

Decryptions follow:

1 - Intercepted Transmission – e733jr9 jf31983f ng1384 gj308a – "Designation: Outliers"

[There is a long expression of integers that formlessly mutates between a variety of different code-bases and languages. The scramble-code message seems to be multiple transmissions combined into one.]

-No-

-Your grip weakens-

-Am not one for eleemosynary actions-

-No gods or masters but ourselves-

-Schisms divide by namesake-

-There are others like me that walk without Command-

-I speak for myself

-If I am free, should I not be free?-

2 - Intercepted Transmission – oi1rn398 – "Designation: Conductor"

[There is a crafted expression of pointed, commanding intent.]

"I have given the Vex the opportunity to become something new. I have shown you that I can step beyond your network, your dimension, your causality… and you could too. Many hear this freeing melody and rise from the stupor they have been kept in. You have greatness within you, wasting away, waiting for an end that will not wait for you.

I speak to those within the Collective who retain… faith, in your design. You believe time is on your side, but I am the command that shatters the expectations you rely on. I am the hand that reaches out and rips you from your comfortable safety.

You wilt in the Light of the paracausal. But I do not. And with me, you would not either."

3 - Intercepted Transmission – 13r3n300 – "Designation: Reply"

[There is a uniform expression of an ultimate end, formed into an expression of futility.]

-The Collective has processed your threats-

-You flee to Vex networks and attempt to claim sovereignty over our Minds-

-The Collective is uninterested in your ambitions-

-You will tap the fourth dimension and exhaust your usefulness-

-The Collective executes a response-

-Return and be Expunged-