A Better Beginning

**A Better Beginning** is the fourth priority ops mission. It is acquired automatically while speaking with Jarun Tann during Nexus Reunion in Tann's Office on the Nexus.

## Description

The Nexus needs a resource-producing outpost, but Eos is the only planet in range. As the only Pathfinder, you have been asked to achieve the impossible: find a way to settle Eos and give the Initiative the foothold it needs. Director Tann has committed the resources for a last ditch effort, including a ship and support team for the Pathfinder.

Eos colonization effort failed because of radiation in its atmosphere. But you recognized a signal like you found on Habitat 7. If similar alien technology is here, you may be able to create the conditions to place an outpost. Find the signal, make Eos viable, and give the Initiative the foothold it needs.

The search for a way to activate Eos' atmosphere processor has led underground to a mysterious Remnant vault. Most of its systems appear to be locked down. Explore the vault and find a way to lift the system lockdown.

Prodromos is founded. The radiation will be slow to clear, but Mayor Bradley will ensure the outpost thrives. Return to the Nexus and speak with Director Tann.

## Objectives

* Speak with SAM on the Hyperion
* Go to your ship
* Go to the bridge
* Go to Eos in the Pytheas system
* Land on Eos
* Clear atmospheric radiation
* Search Site 1's main control building
* Restore power to Site 1
* Find a code to access locked buildings
* Investigate the power relay station
* Activate the generators
* Scan the power pylons to find an interface
* Activate power pylons (0/2)
* Defeat the kett
* Reactivate the power relay station
* Scan containers to find a vehicle
* Call down a forward station
* Unlock the Nomad container
* Get in the Nomad
* Investigate the strange signal
* Search for a glyph to scan
* Use the strange console
* Defeat the hostile bots
* Activate Remnant monoliths (0/3)
* Investigate the entrance
* Explore the Remnant vault
* Follow the conduit into the vault
* Activate the gravity well
* Follow the conduit farther into the vault
* Repair the conduit flow
* Find a way through the caverns
* Follow the conduit to the source
* Escape the vault
* Optional: Retrieve the unsealed item
* Establish an outpost at an appropriate site
* Speak with Tann at the Nexus Pathfinder HQ
* Give Eos radiation time to clear

### Kett Research Center

* Clear the kett
* Find and disable the generator powering the shields to access the monolith

### The Monolith

* Scan for glyphs (0/2)
* Use the console

## Notes

The objective *Find a code to access locked buildings* can be completed by finding one of two datapads in Site 1 or by scanning Theo J. Harwell's dead body which also can start the mission Task: Naming the Dead.

Even though Ryder can drive around Eos after completing the mission, many areas are inaccessible due to lethal radiation levels. It is recommended that Ryder returns once the radiation has cleared. Eos will be cleared and the radiation gone after Ryder has visited Aya for the first time during A Trail of Hope. Just go to Aya directly after "A Better Beginning" has completed, and then return to Eos.

There is no AVP reward for calling down the first forward station, but the first landing on Eos provides the same reward.

The road from the northern monolith to the western monolith passes a forward station drop point; it is possible to gain 2 AVP and 2% Eos viability by pausing long enough to activate the drop. The drive from the southern monolith to the vault also passes a forward station drop point. Again, pausing for the drop will add another 2 AVP and 2% Eos viability.

A forward station is established on the vault's island after the vault is activated, but no additional AVP is awarded.

Glyphs must be scanned at all monoliths, one at the northern monolith (closest to Site 1), two at the western monolith, and two at the southern monolith (Kett Research Center is located here), but only the western monolith requires solving a Remnant decryption puzzle.

The northern monolith must be activated first; the glyphs at the western and southern monoliths are inaccessible until that happens.

**The Monolith** sub-mission appears upon approaching the western and southern monoliths. The northern monolith doesn't have this mission.

Collecting the unsealed item on the way out of the vault counts as an encounter. XP is earned and the amount can be increased by wearing Initiative armor, Deep Space Explorer armor, or the Andromeda Elite Helmet.

## Research Opportunities

There are a lot of items that can be scanned for Research Data (RD) on this mission. +290 Milky Way RD, +380 Heleus RD, +540 Remnant RD. Additional small amounts of RD from explosive canisters can also be acquired but these items are found throughout the game so that RD isn't listed here.

### Site 1: Promise

There are three items that have to be scanned during the mission, awarding +30 Milky Way RD. Taking the time to walk around Site 1 and look for additional items yields another +210 Milky Way RD and +20 Heleus RD.

*For a detailed RD list with images, see: Site 1: Promise Research Data.*

### Northern Monolith

* +10 Heleus RD - Element Zero Node
* +10 Milky Way RD - Initiative monitor x2 (+20 Milky Way RD Total)
* +10 Milky Way RD - Initiative Shuttle
* +10 Heleus RD - Platinum Mineral Node
* +10 Heleus RD - Scourge Tendril Anomaly

* Element Zero Node
* E.Z.N. Scan
* Initiative monitor 1
* I.m. 1 Scan
* Initiative monitor 2
* I.m. 2 Scan
* Initiative Shuttle
* I.S. Scan
* Platinum Mineral Node
* P.M.N. Scan
* Scourge Tendril Anomaly
* S.T.A. Scan

### Western Monolith

* +10 Remnant RD - Unknown Resonant Device

* Unknown Resonant Device
* U.R.D. Scan

### Kett Research Center

* +10 Heleus RD - Artifact Crate x2 (+20 Heleus RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Artifact Crate
* +100 Heleus RD - Kett Core Encryption Tech x3 (+300 Heleus RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Technology Fragments

* Artifact Crate 1
* A.C. 1 Scan
* Artifact Crate 2
* A.C. 2 Scan
* Artifact Crate 3
* A.C. 3 Scan
* KCET 1
* KCET 1 Scan
* KCET 2
* KCET 2 Scan
* KCET 3
* KCET 3 Scan
* Technology Fragments
* T.F. Scan

### Southern Monolith

* +10 Milky Way RD - Nexus-Issued Scanner x2 (+20 Milky Way RD Total)
* +10 Heleus RD - Titanium Oxide Node

* Nexus-Issued Scanner 1
* N-I.S. 1 Scan
* Nexus-Issued Scanner 2
* N-I.S. 2 Scan
* Titanium Oxide Node
* T.O.N. Scan

### Inside the Remnant Vault

* +10 Remnant RD - Remnant Object x2 (+20 Remnant RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Data Pattern x10 (+100 Remnant RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Barrier
* +10 Remnant RD - Mechanical Arm
* +10 Remnant RD - Unknown Ferrofluid
* +100 Remnant RD - Adaptive Remnant Core Device x3 (+300 Remnant RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Inactive Assembler
* +50 Remnant RD - Remnant Turret
* +10 Remnant RD - Observer
* +10 Remnant RD - Ferrofluid Leak
* +10 Remnant RD - Unknown Plant

* +10 Remnant RD - Remnant Object x2 (+20 Remnant RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Data Pattern x10 (+100 Remnant RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Barrier
* +10 Remnant RD - Mechanical Arm
* +10 Remnant RD - Unknown Ferrofluid
* +100 Remnant RD - Adaptive Remnant Core Device x3 (+300 Remnant RD Total)
* +10 Remnant RD - Inactive Assembler
* +50 Remnant RD - Remnant Turret
* +10 Remnant RD - Observer
* +10 Remnant RD - Ferrofluid Leak
* +10 Remnant RD - Unknown Plant

* ARCD 1
* ARCD 1 Scan
* ARCD 2
* ARCD 2 Scan
* ARCD 3
* ARCD 3 Scan
* Barrier
* B. Scan
* Data Pattern 1
* D.P. 1 Scan
* Data Pattern 2
* D.P. 2 Scan
* Data Pattern 3
* D.P. 3 Scan
* Data Pattern 4
* D.P. 4 Scan
* Data Pattern 5
* D.P. 5 Scan
* Data Pattern 6
* D.P. 6 Scan
* Data Pattern 7
* D.P. 7 Scan
* Data Pattern 8
* D.P. 8 Scan
* Data Pattern 9
* D.P. 9 Scan
* Data Pattern 10
* D.P. 10 Scan
* Ferrofluid Leak
* F.L. Scan
* Inactive Assembler
* I.A. Scan
* Mechanical Arm
* M.A. Scan
* Observer
* O. Scan
* Remnant Object 1
* R.O. 1 Scan
* Remnant Object 2
* R.O. 2 Scan
* Remnant Turret
* R.T. Scan
* Unknown Ferrofluid
* U.F. Scan
* Unknown Plant
* U.P. Scan

## Rewards

Board Tempest:

* +270 XP

Land on Eos:

* +2 AVP
* +2% Eos viability

Restore power at Site 1:

* +73 AVP
* +5% Eos viability

Scan reconstructed images of Wilcox and Farthingale at Site 1:

* +540 XP
	+ +270 XP for first conversation
	+ +270 XP for second conversation

Activate 2nd monolith:

* +270 XP

Activate 3rd monolith:

* +73 AVP
* +5% Eos viability
* +270 XP

Activate vault:

* +1150 AVP
* +50% Eos viability
* +1330 XP
* Fusion Mod of Shielding
* +Encounter XP for collecting unsealed item

Establish outpost:

* +300 AVP
* +10% Eos viability

Talk to Tann to finish:

* +1400 XP

## Achievements and trophies

The following achievements and trophies can be earned during this mission:

* Initiated
* World-Shaper

## Remnant Decryption Puzzle Solutions

* Western Monolith
* Vault Container