Europa – 1
Lore
"You're not going to make fun of him, are you?" the administrator asked with a raise of her eyebrow. "He's been through enough already." "Just the opposite," Glint assured her. "I'm one of the few people who actually believes him!" "Huh," the administrator replied. She tapped her datapad and brought up the requested Hidden reports. Glint transmitted the authorization code Ikora had given him, and he received the decrypted upload seconds later. "Robots who believe in the Headless Ones." She shook her head. "It boggles the mind." "Ghost, actually," Glint corrected. You believe in ghosts too?" The administrator tut-tutted. "I never figured the Traveler would have made you lot so gullible. Thought you little guys were supposed to be super smart. I mean, you're basically living computers, right?" "I think we're sentient energy signatures, housed in a cybernetic construct," Glint said, trying not to be offended. "But I do have an internal database, if that's what you mean." The administrator turned back to her workstation. "Well, good luck on your wild goose chase, Mister Energy Signature."
Europa – 2
Lore
The following audio imprint was recovered by Glint, the Ghost, during scans of an Exo production facility on Europa. Its origin remains a mystery. "We all saw it: the machine tower, buried in ice. "At first, we thought it was a glitch. Some kind of psychological artifacting, created by the transfer of our consciousnesses into a digital format. The bio-mind just trying to adapt to life in a machine body. Inconsistencies like that are pretty common, especially right after a reboot. "What isn't common is for a whole group of us to experience the exact same vision at the same time. If it's a glitch, it must be a subroutine buried further down than any of us have diagnosed before. Something we all have in common, from before the reboot. "But if it's not a glitch, then… what the hell is it?"
Europa – 3
Lore
"Well, Glint, I wouldn't classify that as evidence per se," Cryptarch Matsuo hedged. "The spontaneous creation of similar legends in disparate cultures is a well-documented phenomenon. Even in the absence of direct communication. Some scholars call it 'simultaneous invention.'" "For instance," he continued, "the Yetis of Himalayan folklore and the Lumbering Jacks of North American legend. Both reclusive ape-like creatures said to populate the wilderness. Or the Centaur of Greek mythology and the Sheepdog of Northern Europe. Both mythical creatures said to be hybrids of other species. Etcetera." "So, yes. It is interesting that so many cultures have stories of the 'Headless Ones,' but that doesn't prove they exist. If anything, it suggests that simultaneous invention is much more universal than previously thought," Matsuo concluded.
Europa – 4
Lore
ACCESS: RESTRICTED DECRYPTION KEY: 34JM4P4PXQMM1-018 HIDDEN AGENT(S): [REDACTED] RE: Europan Vex Activity Skirmishes are common in the noted sectors. Neither side seems committed to territorial expansion. I'm reluctant to report that I had another sighting in the glacial cave near Cadmus Ridge. This time, I managed to get a good look at the creature with my rangefinder. The body was unmistakably that of a Hive Knight, while the helmet (or head?) appeared to be that of a… pumpkin. The pumpkin appeared to have a face carved into it. Three eyes and a big smiling mouth. With… flames shooting out. Bright. Purple. Flames. I know how that sounds, so I'm submitting myself to [REDACTED] for a full psychological battery. I've instructed her to alert Ikora Rey of the results, whatever the outcome.