Chase into the Antarctic Remains

*Chase into the Antarctic Remains* is the twelfth campaign mission of Spriggan: Lunar Verse. After attacking the ARCAM institute vault, Leticia Dale has fled into the Antarctic ruins. Tatsuki must follow her and recover the stolen heritages of an ancient civilization.

## Briefing

Graham has received word that Trident's Dr. Leticia Dale has been spotted entering in the same ruins of Antarctica where Tatsuki previously investigated at. Her purpose remains unclear, but it is still imperative to take back what was stolen from the ARCAM institute vault. Otherwise, it is going to hinder their future activities. and the possibility of losing to Trident has been increased. Graham desires to show ARCAM that Dr. Dale is not going to get away with this. He then orders Tatsuki to take care of this opportunity.

## Mission Overview

Tatsuki is seen walking towards the entrance to the Antarctic ruins. Behind him once again appears a Mysterious Girl who states a question to him, where he appears to ignore it as he continuously walked to the entrance. Eventually, he drops down to a long corridor and proceeds to explore the ruins. Inside this particular ruins consists of transparent, electromagnetic gate. Intruders who attempt to bypass them without deactivating them would receive excruciating pain of electric shock. In addition, fixed and patrolling security robots attack any intruders on sight. Tatsuki disables the first electromagnetic gate he comes across with the panel on the wall next to it. He heads to the scaffolding that brings him up to the upper level where he encounters two patrol types robots guarding the pink-colored electromagnetic gate. He destroys both of them which permanently disables the gate, and he then proceeds to the passage. He shortly comes across another aisle where he must eliminate the same two patrolling robots to deactivate the electromagnetic gate on this floor. Afterwards, he defeats another patrol type and activates the panel that unlocks the fall passage.

Tatsuki falls to the passage and finds himself on two left and right pathways of downstairs. Regardless of the path he chooses, he reaches a room where the bottom section is filled with sulfuric acid. In addition, the "Spirits of Moonlight" attacks Tatsuki at range with their beam attacks. He overcomes them and reaches to the other side of the room. The next area has the electromagnetic gate that contains a panel leading to the next passage behind it. He activates another panel to temporary disable the gate, and quickly interacts with the blocked panel to unlock a room leading to another fall passage.

Upon falling to it, Tatsuki arrives to the room with two horizontal pathways: the one on the left leads to the gate where he is able to be transported to the moon passage room, but is blocked by the barrier, and unless he has the "Breaking Stone" from earlier, he is not able to break it with his fists. In that case, he must press the deactivation panel near the barrier to remove the electromagnetic gate on the path to the right. The room he arrives at to his right consists of spiral stepping stones staircase where he must carefully jump on each of them, in addition to dodging the attacks from the "Spirits of Moonlight" and the "Spirits of the Ancients". Eventually, he comes across a room where he has to activate the "Gate Control Stone" to remove the barrier that is guarded by a patrolling security robot. Once it is activated, he heads back to the gate to transport to the passage room.

The arrival to the room has Tatsuki immediately encountering two Moon Gate Guardians with brown and black variants, respectively. Both challenge him to show his credentials to be worthy of bypassing to the Moon Gate. He proves his worth by defeating both of them, and both of the guardians questions Tatsuki for his purpose of his journey. They advise him to think carefully before announcing their role is done and gradually fading away. The upper stairs leading to the Moon Gate has been opened, and Tatsuki wastes no time heading to it. There, he finds Leticia examining the Moon Gate, in which she eventually notices him spying on her. She states that she has activated the Moon Gate where she is able to go through it, but won't allow him to enter as well and is willing to fight him for it. However, she was interrupted by the Mysterious Girl, who randomly appears, and suddenly pushes Leticia to the gate.

## Debriefing

Graham was surprised to see that the "Moon Gate", according from what Dr. Dale calls it, actually works. However, it also means that Dr. Dale's theory of the moon being a man-made structure is becoming more credible. Assuming her hypothesis is true, he wonders what is her purpose, and what is she risking so much for.