DESOLATION — Mission Posting

What it is

A contract card visible on the mission board when the player launches from the DESOLATION hub. It pairs the planet’s identity with a hiring faction, a positively-framed objective, a difficulty tier, and an in-fiction payout line. Selecting the card commits the player to a run on DESOLATION with the posting’s objective-tuning and extraction-timer applied.

Card text

FieldValue
PlanetDESOLATION
Planet ID36
Hiring factionVoidstar Research Div.
Objective labelExplore
FlavorEnter the anomaly zone and document all observable phenomena. Specimen collection is secondary — data is primary.
Payout line2× Artifact Cache + VRD Research Credit
Posted byPrincipal Investigator Dr. Y. Nakamura
Difficulty tierCritical

Objective + tuning

Enemy-count multiplier and weapon-box count are derived from the objective type and stack multiplicatively on top of planet and rarity multipliers.

LeverSourceValue
Enemy-count multiplierObjective: Explore1.0×
Weapon boxes placed at run startObjective: Explore0

Reference: all objective tunings

ObjectiveEnemy-count multWeapon boxes
Explore1.0×0
Find0.85×2
Protect1.15×1
Battle1.4×0

Hiring faction + difficulty

FieldValue
Hiring factionVoidstar Research Div.
Difficulty tierCritical
Extraction timer (s)360
Extraction timer (mm:ss)6:00

Reference: all difficulty tiers

TierExtraction timer (s)
Routine180
Standard240
Hazardous300
Critical360
Black Flag420

Reward shape

FieldValue
Payout line2× Artifact Cache + VRD Research Credit
Artifact Cache count2
Additional rewardVRD Research Credit