The Remnant City and Strife Among the Kett
Exploring Aya’s vault will give new information on the Remnant and their network of vaults and terminals. They’re all linked to a central control world, a machine city of sorts called Meridian. Ryder, for good reason, believes that reaching this world will help him to clean all of the planets with Remnant technology on them, making the Heleus Cluster, and eventually Andromeda, safe for his people.
The Archon also wants control of this world. At first it’s thought that he would try to splice the makeup of synthetic beings with the Kett as has been done with the Angaran and countless other races, but he wants control for complete domination. With the power of Meridian, and essentially all of the vaults, he’d be able to control every planet and take what he pleases.
However, the rest of the Kett don’t necessarily agree. You see, the Archon isn’t the actually leader of all the Kett, he’s just head honcho within the Heleus Cluster. More interesting is that not all of the Kett agree with his motivations and methods. They couldn’t care less about the Remnant, and would rather finish their work and head back home (turns out that the Kett do have a home). Most brazen is the Primus, the Archon’s second-in-command. Primus reaches out to you to strike a deal to take down the Archon (though we declined since we make no agreements with monsters such as these).
Yet regardless of what the Kett as a whole think about the Remnant world, the Andromeda Initiative needs it. Without it, all hope is lost. And, if the Kett capture it, everything already built is doomed. Before Ryder can make any moves, though, the location must be sought out. To do that, it’s time to get uncomfortably close to the Archon. Doing so sheds light on an ongoing mystery, the missing Arks.
