"There you are! You've been gone for weeks! What have you been up to?"
"I've been helping out on Mars at the Bray facility."
"Oh right. Wasn't there some sort of Hive shakeup out there?"
"If by 'Hive shakeup' you mean the awakening of one of their Worm Gods, then yeah."
"How did you stop it?"
"We borrowed some firepower from Rasputin."
"Rasputin? As in the legendary Warmind? I thought he was supposed to be stuck on Earth or something."
"His main facility is on Mars."
"But what about when we re-established the Array? And all the times we worked with him on missions?"
"Must have been some fragment of his mind or something. I don't know. Ask Ana. She's supposed to be the AI expert."
"Can't be an expert on something you don't remember… But if Rasputin was on Mars all along, then all the times the Vanguard was trying to talk to him back on Earth...were pointless, right?"
"Again, I have no clue how Warminds work."
"If that's true, it'd be kinda funny. They had it in their heads that he was in the Cosmodrome when really he was on Mars the whole time."
"Well, this time Zavala didn't seem as interested in talking. He didn't want Rasputin involved at all."
"Trying to keep a super-powerful intelligent AI from getting involved… that's a lost battle right there. Wasn't he the one who was all gung-ho about talking to Rasputin in the first place? What changed?"
"Don't tell me you've forgotten the SIVA crisis already."
"Oh yeah. Can't blame me, though. These past few years have been crazy."
"Well, I think Zavala's justified in not wanting Rasputin's input given what happened to the Iron Lords. Not that I agree with him. We never would've beaten Xol without Rasputin."
"Maybe Zavala's giving him the cold shoulder 'cause he thought Rasputin was on Earth and he wasn't."
"...In any case, the crisis has been averted. You're welcome."
"Hah. You're starting to sound like Sagira."
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