[quote]If you die with the scanner buff to get the drones, you loss it for good... I died when I had 2 out of 3 and accidentally fell off an edge. It doesn't stay with you... you can't get it back or pick up another thing from variks to finish it. So hyperthenically if you pick up the scanner buff(using the consumable) and accidentally die from say... a random enemy... or anything... you just wasted that entire week to get an augment done... I hate bungie for doing that, who thought that was a good idea? It already takes 9 weeks to do it and if you keep messing up, it'll take forever... come on bungie. Come. On. I closed out the game today because of this, that is extremely stupid.[/quote] So the buff that you get lasts for a week, if tou die with it then you can just go back to the area where the scanner vandal is ad kill it again. It will have X scanner buff amounts left based on how many terminals you activated.