After I recovered from my hangover (in the process discovering that, if I wanted to forgot something, I would now have to delete the file from my Commander, and that was still unlikely to work, as my knew body came with near perfect memory), I promptly got to work trying to see what else I could learn about the Vitruvian.

Immediately, I contact Kathikon, Synais, and Fide to see what, if anything they had learned. Fide, for all her devotion, had come up dry, mostly because she had decided to feed the Grineer and Corpus crap data to keep them off my tail. Kathi had been better at locating information, though so far, most of it was vague and consisted of symbols I had seen in the Vitruvian, but without any context to define them. Alas, I was forced to reprimand her for her (rather vicious) response to Synais making a mocking pass at her - yes, he deserved to be hit, but shattering his shin was still unnecessarily rough. Also, I probably needed to do something to get Synais to avoid getting himself harmed from stupidity in the future. Perhaps I should take him out more often? Introducing him to some female friends might be a good idea - truly, he's nowhere near as charming as he thinks, so maybe letting him see that will curb his ego.

Oh, an apparently he had found something I could work with. Who would have thought that was possible?

Mocking comedy aside, his intel was this: apparently, the Grineer had more intel related to what they had been excavating on the Plains. It appeared that they had acquired the location of the Artifact on one of the moons of Uranus. Specifically, they'd found it one of the Orokin Vaults stored there. Apparently, the Queens had been snooping around for a different way to stave off death, and they had hoped the data within would reveal what they were looking for. All that they found, though, was information related to the Vitruvian, as well as coordinates for another location relating to the machine. Hence, they had sent the Night Watch Grineer to examine the second location, while the Tusk had been focusing on acquiring the Vitruvian.

For a moment, I pondered my next course of action - attack the Night Watch Group? Raid the Lab on Uranus? Both?

Ultimately, I was forced to go with option two - the Grineer had only told high ranking individuals where the Night Watch had been sent, while also stepping up their cyberwarfare systems, and while I could probably hack the transmissions to find out the location of the core, I would definitely get noticed. I would've been surprised by this had I arrived in the Warframe universe as my first destination, but given the fact the Orokin knew who the Progenitors were, I wasn't surprised at all. Maybe the queens had pulled out some tricks they still had left from the dying days of the empire?

No time for pondering, time to steal stuff.

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The infiltration of the moon wasn't too hard - my stealth systems easily evaded the Grineer sensors, allowing me to land a force on one of their labs. Shutting down the alarms had been even easier - apparently, the Grineer hadn't extended their super cyberwarfare protection to the Uranus lab. Or maybe I had just been lucky enough to arrive before it had come online. Either way, my arrive happened without a hitch. This time, I went in alone, but made sure to bring in a big distraction - a Makara carefully bred to survive in the moon's oceans. I gave it orders to attack one of the nearby labs so that my assault on this one would go unnoticed. I was under no assumptions that the Grineer would be able to repel it.

Once I was inside, I began searching for the lab. Along the way, I also pocketed a trio of spy vaults they had lying around, and made sure one of Tyl Regor's Manic Bombards never saw the light of day. Careless, wasn't he, leaving his stuff at an obvious target? As I approached the main sight, I wondered, did he really mean to save his research by hiding it near a more obvious target? Or was it the reverse?

Well, I was at the research point, so evidently he had fail-IT'S EMPTY? THE HELL?!

WHERE WAS THE DIGSITE I WAS LOOKING FOR?

…...What is on this terminal?

….…..You're kidding me, right? The excavation sight is in a different lab?ON ANOTHER MOON ENTIRELY!?

….Okay, well played misdirection, you stupid sacks of cloned flesh. Well played.

As I prepared to exit the lab, though, I gave the Makara new orders: destroy all labs in a ten mile radius from the one it was currently targeting. This lab would be among those, and while I had no doubt the Grineer could replace it, wrecking the place would make me feel a lot happier.

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A few hours later, Regor found his labs a pile of ruins at the bottom of the ocean. All troops inside had been killed, while those outside had been found torn apart by eel like predators not native to the planet. Additionally, all research pertaining to the Vitruvian had been stolen, and someone had also written 'Regor is a stupid anemone' on one of the wrecks.

Sighing, Regor opened up a channel with the Queens. Hopefully, he'd get away with a minor mauling from some Drakks.

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