WARFRAME: Ghouls #3

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It's so quiet.
No Grineer that I can see. I think they've left town.
Our new friend here must have scared them off.
Ai yo. I spent my whole life hearing legends about the Tenno, I meet two in less than a week... and yet I miss seeing them by a matter of hours.
By The Unum, the universe has a sense of humor.
Mitsuki, please. You must guide us to the Void Gate. Your "Golden Door."
Lotus. You sent the Tenno here. Don't you want us to save Excalibur?

I have pulled Transference. Reclaiming Excalibur is important, but Vor entering the Gate could have dire consequences.
Rightio. Then you'd best follow me.
North of the village. Into the caves there. Don't sweat, I could get us there blindfolded.
So is a Void Gate as terrifying as it sounds?
Guess The Lotus doesn't always chime in.
We're told they lead to old Orokin ships and stations. full of salvage components... tech.
Stuff that would be dangerours in the Grineer's hands.
Like... the kind of Orokin tech we scavenge for? Once we found a machine that reduced even solid rock to slag.
They were within arm's reach of godhood. There was almost nothing they couldn't do.
Do you think, in the gate, there might be some kind of medical --

What?
Apologies for not... "chiming in," but I've been monitoring Grineer transmissions across the sector.
Vor has gone radio silent. I believe he's preparing a final push.
But, we're safe now. Your Tenno defeated the Grineer.
They merely retreated-- Vor isn't willing to risk losing this fight.
I believe he's waiting for us to open The Gate for him.
No way. My shot was one in a million--he didn't let me get this Void Key-- he was angry.
Vor is a master tactician. He's adapted every time his plans have been thwarted here.
We have to be careful, but we need to hurry.
Then let's not waste more time waiting.
There are likely still patrols nearby. Possibly in the caves, unaware of the Gate's location but waiting just the same.

No kidding.
I know that you have harbored some doubts about my campaign here on Earth.
But I have never doubted your faith in me. I would die before I allowed myself to fail you.
I have maintained morale among even the lowest levels of infantry.
I have field-tested the new Ghoul units against our greatest enemy, and I have not found them wanting.
And, yes, there have been sacrifices.
I have... felt loss.

My brothers and I have bled for this campaign, but a small loss leads to a greater victory!
Do you still have doubts, my Queens? Do you not see my plan at work?
To train a wild Kubrow can take years, and inevitably, the feral beast will betray even the most patient master.
But give it a long enough leash?
It will lead you straight back to its burrow.
Watch, as they reveal what they once fought tooth and nail to keep from me.
My Queens, your resources are not wasted here. We shall triumph, and bring home spoils unimaginable.
And why is that, Brothers and Sisters?!
FOR THE GLORY OF THE QUEENS!

Your empire will stretch beyond the Void itself. The mysteries of the Orokin will be yours for the taking.
No longer will the Warframes serve the meaningless tasks set forth by the Lotus and her Tenno.
Once the secrets within that Gate are unlocked, this technology -- and all like it -- will be yours to control.
The scanners are ready.
The troops are ready.
I am ready.
The Golden Age of the Grineer will begin on this planet.
The moment those fools open that Void Gate... the moment those fools open that Void Gate...

"We will come for them."
I can remember what it looks like. We called it the "Golden Door."
A Void Gate connecting two points in space.
And a very old one, at that.
We have no way of knowing where it could lead.
Solaris United has as much right to what's on the other side of that thing as you do.
There are dangers beyond that gate that you've never dreamed of.
Mitsuki --
Khanung!
When everyone is dead, and you live, it is you who has become the ghost.
I would aid the living.

It smells wrong here.
I cannot tell where you are, but from Mag's readings, you're on a deep space vessel.
Always thought Orokin ships would be a bit more... expensive.
In the old days, they were more... elegant.
The most beautiful and brilliant technologies ever made.
Reduced to this.
Nobody but us, and ghosts.

You need treatment.
What's the plan here, Lotus?
From the command deck, it's possible to shut down the Gate, at Earthside, so that Vor and his troops won't be able to follow. As for Mitsuki --
Hold on. Tenno, this vessel contains an Arogya Medica -- impossible. I believed they were all destroyed.
Sounds valuable.
Wait, "Medica?" Could we use that to help Mitsuki?
I don't trust anything on this ship.
SWSH SWSH SWSH
You cannot let Vor get his hands on The Medica.
As for Mitsuki, I do not think--KSSSHHH-- Ostron -- KSSSSHHH-- the risk --
She's gone. How is she gone?!
KLANG KLANG
Wait, do you hear that?