How to set up for the Escalation Protocol: The first one is an obvious one, all you need to do is level up through regular progression. Find a fireteam using LFG and get 6 additional players. You are the 7th and the the other two blueberries for a total of 9. Okay so to actually start this off though, have yourself find two blueberries actually ON MARS and message them to join your party. Get them both to invite two of the people that are already in your party to Mars and you invite two people to Mars. You now have 9 people to run escalation protocol. Side note: if the blueberries don't actually want to do the event just ask them to invite party to game and make one of the people they invited to be fire team leader and then they can just leave if they want. If this happens obviously thank them for their time and effort...just be polite. Hope this helps, everything else is on you guys. Good luck Guardians. Edit: if this helps please leave a comment to bump up for others to see.