Operation: Death Engine

**Operation: Death Engine** is the final DLC mission and final mission overall in *I Expect You To Die*.

## Mission info

### Characters

* Agent
* The Handler
* Commander Solaris
* Doctor Zor (indistinct voice)
* Prof. X-Ray (mentioned)
* Death Engine Workers (mentioned)

## Synopsis

The Handler's mission briefing is as follows:

> The data reel you retrieved from Madrid revealed that the "Death Engine" is a weapon that appears to be... well, in Earth's orbit. You must infiltrate Zoraxis Space Corporation. We don't know where the weapon is aiming, but we must stop it before it fires. You took a pass/fail elective in Astronomy, yes? Well, I hope you passed.
>
>

The mission opens up to the player in a space shuttle docking onto the Death Engine. The player's mission is to interfere with the mechanisms of the Death Engine and destroy it.

## Walkthrough

After a few seconds of the Death Engine firing, a small hole will appear to your left. You can plug it with multiple things, including the meat can and the cigar, but using the cigar is recommended since you can use the meat can as a second fuse. Look to the right and behind you and open the door and grab the bolt driver. Unbolt the panel on the right and take the panel off. If the panel hasn't busted any of the broken fuses, then you must turn off the power box with the lever next to it and interact with the fuses to break them. Move the fuse to the line that corresponds with Airlocks on the back of the panel. This will enable the doors. You can press the bottom square button to your left and grab the space helmet, but it is not required for completion. Keeping the door closest to you closed and having the top square button on so that the farther door is open, switch the fuse to Gravity Control. The order for the green/red/blue buttons to the lever position is: Green up, Red stagnant until you hear a thunk, Green down, Red stagnant, Blue stagnant, Blue up, Red stagnant. That should bring the box to you (Alternatively, the order for the gravity to go in is: Up, forward, down, back, left, right, forward, if that is any less confusing).

Switch the fuse to Airlocks again and close the far door and open the near door. The device's password correlates to the current time of your console, but you can avoid that by short-circuiting the device to open with the orange drink. Grab the control arm from inside and place it in the receptor to your right. Quickly switch the fuse to Auxiliary and wait for the lady's word for when she throws the radioactive box. She will throw a maximum of 4 boxes over the rest of the mission time limit. Look to the panel outside the Death Engine to the left. Press the button on the control arm to activate the magnet and pull the panel off the side of the Death Engine. Let it float away and wait for the lady to throw another radioactive box. Keep the magnet on so that you can actually catch the box. This will take some maneuvering to catch it.

After you've caught it, move the arm to the open reactor and drop the radioactive box inside. It is also possible to eject the gravity crystal contained below the gravity control panel out of the toilet, grab it with the arm, and drop it into the reactor. This simply changes the color of the power overload from green to purple, having no other effects on the destruction of the machine.

## Souvenirs

### Thanks for the Assist

Destroy the Death Engine with one of the radioactive boxes.

### Orange Picking

Short-circuit the security box with the orange drink.

### Oxygen is for the Weak

Instead of plugging the hole in the machine, quickly grab the helmet by opening the front door. Then do not plug the hole and wear the helmet the entire level.

### Stop and Go Potty

Eject the gravity crystal, the meat can, the orange drink, and the cigar out of the toilet.

## Debriefing

The Handler's debriefing is as follows:

> Agent! Are you there? Come in, Agent! Hang in there if you can hear me, we're closing in on the crash site.
>
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## Trivia

* See Operation: Death Engine (Developer Commentary).
* Evident of the Handler tuning out once the Death Engine fires and the fire outside of your office building, it can be deduced that the Death Engine was aimed at the Agency building. In some of the Handler's reaction lines, he loses his accent.
* When in development, the cover panel for the fuses originally didn't have any instructions.
* The Death Engine's internal Zoraxis name is "Zor's Orbital Space Laser".
* See Operation: Death Engine (Developer Commentary).
* If you get the impact crate (box with the manipulator) in your airlock before Solaris gets the camera feed on, you she won't call Dr. Zor and know something's up