Profit-Taker Orb/Quotes

Transmissions during Profit-Taker Orb Heists.
==Introduction==
*Eudico: "Nef has the entire Vallis locked down with his Orb Mothers. They watch over the central lakes, patrol the eastern grids. It's next to impossible for Ticker to get families out of Fortuna or smuggle in supplies." 
*Eudico: "Questions?" 
*Eudico: "Sparky, right. We're all here. Let's get started." 
*The Business: "The Mothers are a product of Corpus breakthroughs using salvaged Sentient technology. Traditional weapons are ineffective against them. Their command and control systems have thus far proven impenetrable." 
==During Phase 1==
===In Backroom===
*Eudico: "From her perch above Enrichment Labs, Profit-Taker has a perfect vantage to bombard anything she doesn't like. That's a huge problem for us. So we're taking her down. Biz?" 
*The Business: "Profit-Taker is an autonomous battle platform piloted by hybrid AI, with Sentient adaptive shielding, reinforced by an overcharger satellite in geosynchronous orbit. Beneath that, her armor is a composite carapace usually reserved for Corpus warships." 
*Eudico: "Successful elimination proceeds in three stages: first, we knock out the orbital overcharger. Second: decoding Profit-Taker's Sentient shielding to ensure the Tenno can land fire on her directly. Third: providing the weaponry needed to penetrate that heavy-duty carapace. Little Duck's chasing a lead on something with a lot more grunt than your usual hand weapons. But, first things first." 
*The Business: "Phase one: with the overcharger online, Profit-Taker is, as far as our little group is concerned, invulnerable. The satellite overcharges the Orb's shield. We knock the overcharger on the head, and she's down to regular shielding. Here's how we do that. Little Duck?" 
*Little Duck: "Satellite behaves according to protocols. We control the protocols, we control the satellite. That's where my weirdy-beardy Quill mate comes in. Almost as if he knew we'd need this, he's got himself perfectly placed to provide. We're meeting him today for the handoff." 
*Eudico: "Gear up. Hit the field. Once you're topside, we'll provide directions to your meeting with the Quill." 
===In Orb Vallis===
*Little Duck: "Your rendezvous point is a cave. Coordinates marked. Lots of Corpus traffic, so you'll wanna do this softly-softly." 
*Eudico: "Not an option. Comms just lit up. The Taxmen are onto your Quill. Sparky, get your team over there. Now!" 
===Catching Fish===
;Arriving at cave
*Eudico: "This is the place. Eliminate those Corpus teams before they find the Quill." 
;Eliminating Corpus units
*Little Duck: "Quills are always one step ahead. Never seen one take a hit. He'll be around, hidin' somewhere." 
*The Business: "Dead? What kind of Quill walks into an ambush? Search the body, though I suspect the Corpus will have already snatched up our protocols." 
;Searching body
*The Business: "No protocols, just... fish bait? This is a bust." 
*Little Duck: "Nah. For everything a Quill does, there's a reason. Tenno, got a shock spear handy?" 
;After catching enough fish
*The Business: "Hmm... something lodged in that servofish's intake. A digital wafer?" 
*Little Duck: "Hand-etched, with numbers. Coordinates, maybe. We'll need the rest; try to— Guts! Raknoids! Tenno, getcha fists up!" 
;Finding a clue
*Eudico: "Another wafer, jammed in the intake. Coordinates, definitely. Pointing to somewhere on the Vallis. You can keep fishing to be certain, but it seems to be pointing towards a Taxmen base." 
;Last clue
*Little Duck: "Sequence complete. Coordinates to this Taxmen base. Time for a degree of violence. We need the codes to that satellite, or this whole plan is beached." 
===Capture Base===
;Arriving at base
*Eudico: "Sparky. You and your team know what to do. Take that base." 
;After capturing base
*Little Duck: "Stand by. Guts... looks like they wiped the grid before we could lock the place down." 
*Eudico: "Wait. Show me that. Drone patrol route, custom programmed, in the middle of nowhere. Why would the Taxmen send this out there? Get after it, Sparky." 
===Defend Corpus Drone===
*Eudico: "Sparky! Drone, dead ahead. LD, when that thing's down, I need you to—" 
*Little Duck: "Way ahead of you. Quill-encrypted data bloc. Working. Tenno, get between the drone and those Moas." 
;After killing Corpus reinforcements
*Little Duck: "Satellite protocols are in the bag. Right: next steps. I'm coming out. Meet me on the field." 
==During Phase 2==
===In Backroom===
;Starting bounty from backroom
*Eudico: "We have to move fast. Little Duck's waiting for you in the field. Gear up and get out there." 
===In Orb Vallis===
*Little Duck: "It's pretty and all, but I find it hard to give two-tenths of a paramecium's crap for a place this cold. Right, so: the satellite's sorted but the Orb's shields are still gonna adapt to your attacks. Enrichment Labs holds the harmonic schema of Profit-Taker's shields. With it, Biz thinks he can slow the adaptation long enough for your crew to inflict some real damage. Raid the place. I'll cover the entrance. And be quick about it. I don't want you having to blowtorch me off whatever I froze to." 
;Arriving at Enrichment Labs
*Little Duck: "Profit-Taker's designs are in a triple-locked data vault. Probably a late-model Hangvuun-Mercer if I know the Corpus. That means you need three passkeys, and you gotta get them quick, as those suckers expire if they're not reauthorized on the regular." 
*The Business: "Each passkey is held by a Corpus Director. They're skin-scored passkeys, high-value, and the Directors have orders to self-preserve. They're not coming out unless you leave them no choice." 
*Eudico: "The Taxman cares more about self-profit than self-preservation. Watch this." 
*Vox: "With your Directors shaking within their panic rooms, we come to claim what is ours: the profit of our suffering. We will not leave until every last credit has been taken from this facility." 
;After hacking console
*Little Duck: "Can't believe they fell for that. Well, we got the Directors' attention. Comin' out for a nosey. Heavily armed and all, with security." 
*Eudico: "You're on the clock, Sparky. The Directors carry passkeys for the data vault. Take the Directors down before the keys expire and we lose our chance. Your first target is the Armaments Director." 
;Little Duck killing enemies
*Little Duck: "Scratch one." 
*Little Duck: "Nighty-night." 
*Little Duck: "How many more of you are there?" 
*Little Duck: "Better you than me." 
*Little Duck: "Scratch another." 
*Little Duck: "'Nother one down. You outworlders will thank me later." 
;After killing Armaments Director
*Eudico: "Armaments research? How much blood was on that mucker's hands?" 
;After killing Vivisect Director
*The Business: "Vivisect Director? Animal experimentation. He deserved his fate. One target remains." 
;After killing Sentient Research Director
*Little Duck: "Sentient Research Director? So that's what you get for messin' with things you don't understand." 
;After getting all three passkeys
*Eudico: "Right, listen up. Take those passkeys to the data vault outside Enrichment Labs. With the Directors taken care of, you shouldn't meet much resistance." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Squishy pretties come out to play. My two friends, it's you they'll slay." 
*Little Duck: "What. The. Balls." 
*Eudico: "Ah, guts. Nothing's ever easy." 
;Failure to get all three passkeys (bounty fail)
*Eudico: "The passkeys just expired. Time's up. We'll never get Profit-Taker taken out. Guts." 
;After killing Terra Ambulas
*Eudico: "Two up, two down. That wasn't so bad. Now crack open the data vault and grab that datamass." 
;Picking up datamass
*Eudico: "Got it. Now get out of there!" 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "I am patient, I am still. When I descend, it's you I'll kill." 
*Eudico: "Reinforcements! Kill 'em or lose 'em. Just don't let 'em see you entering Fortuna." 
;If Corpus units near elevator
*Eudico: "Can't let you until you deal with those Taxmen. I got families down here to think of." 
;Inside Fortuna elevator
*Eudico: "All right. Get your crew back to Fortuna. But do it quietly." 
==During Phase 3==
===In Backroom===
*Eudico: "So, the good news is LD found those big guns we promised you." 
*Little Duck: "Bad news is my info places that firepower in a vault directly beneath the building-sized slaughtermatic horror show we're trying to kill. We need her shifted." 
*The Business: "Leave that to me. First things first, the overcharger satellite. Get into the Labs, locate the controls, inject our recoded protocols, and shut that satellite down." 
*Eudico: "Profit-Taker moves, you engage the Orb..." 
*Little Duck: "...and while you take her dancin', I slip in and nick the weapon schematics." 
*The Business: "Meanwhile, I'll gather data to develop a weakness in her shields using that stolen harmonic schema. The longer you keep her engaged, the more observable data I can gather." 
*Little Duck: "And the less likely she'll wander back and squat on top of my only way out." 
*Eudico: "We'll update you on the rest as you go." 
===In Orb Vallis===
;Entering elevator
*Eudico: "Enrichment Labs has gone into full lockdown. Boon?" 
*Boon: "Howzit, lady-matey." 
*Eudico: "The plan, if you would?" 
*Boon: "Right, Kubrodons got all the tricks, chek? Been taxin' lab parts since we was sprogs. Primo electromags, that place. Anyways: intake/outtake vent C7A, innit? Back a' the place. Blocked, but your ol' mucker Boon here's rigged it askew, just for you! Chek-chek!" 
;In Orb Vallis
*Eudico: "[sigh] You get all that? I think he said... intake/outtake vent C7A, rear of Enrichment Labs... though most of that Ventkid jargon sounds like a kavat coughing up fur-clots." 
;Entering vents
*Eudico: "First things first: disable the shield overcharger satellite so Biz can knock her off her perch." 
;Hacking console
*Eudico: "Deploying satellite protocols." 
*Eudico: "Rejected. Guts, I was afraid of this. You'll need to reboot the antenna array, from outside, at the same time as satellite protocols are uploaded. Outworlders, split up." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Who comes hither? Salty wrigglers spitting stones. Foulness. Wetness. Far from home." 
;Failed to activate both consoles within time frame
*Eudico: "Team: somebody has to stay with the console while the others head outside to reboot the antenna array." 
*Eudico: "Remember, you need to do this at the same time." 
*Eudico: "Execute, now!" 
;Activating both consoles
*Eudico: "That's it. Protocol injection is taking. The satellite is going down." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "THIEFLINGS! THIEFLINGS! GIVE IT BACK! FIND YOU! CATCH YOU! CRACK, CRACK, CRACK!" 
*Little Duck: "Biz, get her down, if you would." 
*The Business: "This is a little something I've been saving for a rainy day." 
;After mortars hit
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Stones on bones hurt not me. Stingers fly nastily. Damn you, damn you dollies, cry. Catch you, crush you, die, die, die." 
*Eudico: "Huh. High-impact mortars. That takes me back." 
*The Business: "From that cache we put aside after the Reclamation uprising?" 
*Little Duck: "I hate to interrupt this flashback, but I'm goin' in now." 
===Attacking Profit-Taker Shields===
;10% data collected
*Eudico: "Biz, they're throwing everything they've got at her and it's barely making a scratch." 
*The Business: "Just... keep shooting. I'm getting excellent data from all this." 
;25% data collected
*Eudico: "LD, what's your situation?" 
*Little Duck: "I'm inside. Security is thicker than anticipated. I need more time." 
;45% data collected
*The Business: "Need... just... a little more... data." 
;66% data collected
*Little Duck: "Got it. The Gravimag. I'm coming out. Can't wait to introduce that Orb to your Archwing weapons." 
*Eudico: "Biz, tell me you have enough data!" 
*The Business: "Not yet, we need to be sure! Cycle your damage!" 
;75% data collected
*Eudico: "They're sending in heavy reinforcements." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "A hundred soldiers hi, a hundred soldiers ho. I'm having fun, your days are done, run little dollies, run." 
*Eudico: "Biz!" 
;100% data collected
*Eudico: "Alright, I've got enough! Outworlders! Get ready to run in 3... 2... 1...!" 
*Eudico: "[relieved sigh] Good work, all of you. Everyone: we've got all we need. The time is now. Get back to Fortuna and arm up. It's time to finish off Profit-Taker." 
===Inbox Message===
(Attachment included: Archgun Deployer)
==During Phase 4==
===In Backroom===
*Eudico: "Final phase. Thanks to that data you gathered, Biz can slow Profit-Taker's Sentient shield adaptation long enough for you to do some real damage. Then, once the shields are gone, use your Gravimag-modified Archwing weaponry to punch through her carapace and end this." 
*Little Duck: "So, we gonna pull the trigger on this thing? I got a card game to get to." 
*The Business: "Eudi. The Profit-Taker, she's... moving. Looks like she's headed for... the middle of nowhere? Why?" 
*Little Duck: "Uh..." 
*The Business: "Little Duck." 
*Little Duck: "All right, look. It might be that it turned out that those satellite protocols didn't shut the overcharger down, just... realigned it. And it might be that you sounded so pleased about the whole thing that I-I didn't tell you." 
*Eudico: "So... if Profit-Taker makes it to those new coordinates...?" 
*The Business: "Her shields will be impenetrable and we're done for." 
*Eudico: "Sparky, to the Vallis, now!" 
===In Orb Vallis===
*Eudico: "Leg it. Once that Mother hits the overcharge radius, we're done for. No second chances." 
;Spotting Profit-Taker
*Little Duck: "There she is." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Pretties circle, murderous dolls, doom infernal, watch them fall." 
;Depleting Profit-Taker's shields
*The Business: "That's it. Focus your Archwing weapons on the Orb. Compromise the exoskeleton at the legs and then work your way to the torso." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Dollie dollie, I a giant. Big and bad as Hunhow's heart. Salty squishes are my diet. Death and murder are my art." 
;Profit-Taker at 75% health
*Eudico: "Heads up, Sparky." 
*The Business: "Duds? No... look. They're syncing with the Orb. Shields going back up. Outworlder, deal with those pylons." 
*The Business: "Those things are as strong as the Orb. They must have some tactical weakness." 
;Destroying a pylon
*The Business: "Shields are waning. Whatever you're doing, it's working." 
*Eudico: "You're making progress Sparky. Keep hitting those pylons." 
;All pylons destroyed
*The Business: "Her shields are vulnerable." 
*The Business: "That did it. She's vulnerable. Aim true, Outworlders." 
;Profit-Taker at 50% health
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Salty, squishy dancing doll, I pin you to the Vallis floor. Limb from limb at once I'll tear you, dancing dolly nevermore." 
;Depleting Profit-Taker's shields
*The Business: "Heads up, bombardment inbound. This should confuse her adaptation system!" 
;Profit-Taker at 25% health
*Eudico: "Guts. Pylons back up. Wreck 'em." 
*Eudico: "Not again. Take out those pylons." 
;All pylons destroyed
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Sky-Eye shift! Save me from the Void! Salty squishies come a-dancing, to see my soul destroyed!" 
*Little Duck: "Uh, is this a bad time?" 
*Eudico: "D? What is it?" 
*Little Duck: "Satellite just moved. Nef's crew must have figured out our bypass. It's realigning!" 
*Eudico: "Sparky! You're running out of time. You have to kill her now. We won't get another chance at this." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Dollies should not move. Dollies should not bound. Bounce. Dollies should...shouldn't. Dollies should... Dollies should DIE, AND BE SMASHED BAGS OF SALT AND FLUID! YOU CANNOT BRING MY RUIN!" 
;Depleting Profit-Taker's shields
*The Business: "I've only got a few mortars left. Firing them all." 
*Little Duck: "Suppressing fire!" 
===Profit-Taker Defeated===
*Eudico: "Is... is it...? Did...? Holy crap. We did it. WE DID IT!" 
*Eudico: "Get in there, Tenno. Rip out anything you think might help our cause." 
;Loud mechanical noise
*Eudico: "Biz? What's that sound?" 
*The Business: "The satellite, it's... continuing to overcharge the Orb. At this rate, in a matter of seconds, it will..." 
*Profit-Taker Orb: "Good... night... sweet... heart... good... night..." 
*The Business: "Outworlders... ruuUUUUUN!" 
*Eudico: "Still too close, Sparky. LEG IT!" 
;After Profit-Taker self-destructs
*Little Duck: "I need a drink. Let's never do that again." 
*Eudico: "LD, I still think it's strange: why would your contact just... let himself get killed? Quills don't make mistakes." 
*Little Duck: "Quills don't make mistakes, and there's always an agenda. Always." 
*The Business: "That's what I'm afraid of. Superlative work, as always, Outworlder. Thank you. See you back in Fortuna. LD, Eudi? How about that drink?" 
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