Just chucking this out there, an idea for a Cabal strike following the storyline re: the Cabal sending a distress signal from the Dreadnaught. Zavala: [i]Guardian, our intel informs us that a legion of Cabal led by one of the emperor's most trusted generals has just landed outside the Cosmodrome walls. Apparently the Cabal leadership were looking forward to the Bond Brothers destroying the Dreadnaught and they're planning a full scale retaliation against us for stopping them. If they're even thinking about attacking this city, we've got to strike first. You're our front line, guardian. Find them, and wipe them out.[/i] You spawn in The Divide, and as you do you are ambushed by a wave of legionaries, phalanxes, psions, and a few major centurions that spawn out of the Breach. After you kill them (or run past lol) you go inside through the Breach, as you do you encounter more adds until you get outside to the Gateway (area where Ghost first revives you/Silent Fang mission) When you get here the first main fight happens. You come outside and there is an enormous Cabal ship parked in the distance. There will be a Cabal team of adds here fighting Fallen. Ghost will prompt you to kill a major Colossus, telling you that the Colossus will have the codes to open the ship. After you kill him Ghost will ask to search his body, and he'll say the Colossus security pass is encrypted, so he'll need to break it, shouldn't take long, etc. When he starts decrypting it enemies will begin deploying from the ship. There will be three waves of enemies: legionaries, phalanxes, centurions, and major psions will make up the first wave. The second wave will add two major centurions, and a major colossus. The third wave will add a third major centurion and a second major colossus. Also, while you're fighting the adds the Cabal ship will be firing a cannon at you, similar to a Goliath tank. Ghost finally decrypts the security code and the ship opens, coincidentally as soon as the last Cabal dies lol. You start running towards the ship while avoiding the cannon blasts. Ghost: [i]The ship is taking off. Hurry![/i] Once you get within a certain distance of the ship it begins taking off. You have to run and jump up on the open platform as the ship begins flying away. If you don't make it you start the encounter over. As long as one fireteam member makes it you will progress. Ghost: [i]When i was decrypting that Colossus i found a rather odd bit of information: apparently this team is here just to test our defenses, see what our weaknesses are.[/i] Zavala:[i] Weakness isn't a word the Vanguard accepts, Guardian. Complete your mission. [/i] We enter the ship and run down some hallways. We open up into a small room where adds ambush. Clear past them and continue. Ghost:[i] I think the general's quarters are just past this corridor.[/i] We turn a corner and are met with a large door. Ghost prompts for scan. Ghost: [i]I should be able to unlock this do-[/i] It opens on it's own. Ghost: [i]Oh. [/i] The door opens on a large arena, with the room layout similar (but bigger) to the Shade of Oryx fight from Fear's Embrace quest: circular, with the boss in the middle standing at a control terminal, and there will be raised platforms that go along the outer circumference with cover. The boss will be an enormous Colossus named Valus Pa'aurn. But he will be a 'reverse' Colossus, holding his rocket launcher like a Centurion and having a machine gun mounted to each shoulder, with the ability to lock onto Guardians or multiple Guardians (aka if his back is turned to you, his gun will still spin around and lock on to you). He will be mobile like a Centurion, jumping up to the raised platforms to chase Guardians around. There will also be four mounted turrets placed above the arena on the outer circumference, manned by legionaries firing down on Guardians that will need to be killed. Legionaries, phalanxes, and centurion adds will spawn throughout the fight. When the boss gets to half health, you'll hear a sort of alarm go off: Ghost: [i]He's ordering the Psions to blow the ship! Keep them off the control terminal![/i] At this point, four psions will spawn with a major centurion every 30 seconds that attempt to reach the control terminal in the middle of the arena. If they get there, you have 5 seconds to wipe them out or they detonate the ship. The boss and the rest of the adds will also become more aggressive. Continue damaging the boss, the turrets, the psions and the adds until all are dead. Go to the control terminal and scan to commandeer the ship and end the mission. Zavala: [i]Guardian, today you stopped a direct threat on this city and it's people. We all owe you our lives. The Cabal will not take this defeat well. We must expect them back soon, and hit them even harder. [/i] TL;DR: Go to earth, pew pew pew, booosh boooommm, pew pew, the end.