OKAY - Enough Mourning - it's time for THE BUCKET LIST

[Logan Darklighter]

Well - good news on my end. 

Yesterday I lucked into a Seed of Hamidon Raid in First Ward with Cyberman 8 and got the Germinator Terminator and Full Spectrum badges. 

And last night I finally was able with the help of the SD Paragon folks, complete a successful Minds of Mayhem Incarnate Trial.
That completes ALL of them for Cyberman 8. I don't know if I'll be able to get Kara all of them in the time remaining. But C8 is my main and my main badger, so at least on one character, I've completed ALL the content and lore, at least from the perspective of a Primal Hero.
If we'd had more time, like a few months more, I would've loved to have run Sassinak through the iTrials and even role-played out those events. Alas it was not to be.
I've also gone onto Beta and run the final Praetorian Arc there with C8 where you fight the Hamidon forces and save the Last Bastion.
The very first mission has a really cool cutscene.
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Anyway - through various missions, you protect this "Last Bastion" of Praetoria against the Hamidon and lay the smack down. At the end, proving your incarnate powers are up to the task by taking down 3 Hamidon Avatars (similar to the one at the end of the Underground Trial) by yourself! (Or if you'd done this with friends, as a team.) It is possible to solo it, but you'd better be incarnate!
Anyway - at the end, the grateful citizens of the former Praetoria activate a holographic statue of you in your honor.


And after the end of the arc proper, you find out what happened to Antimatter. Which I thought was poignant enough to deserve it's own post. (Warning - Image heavy and spoilers!)