Following on from the completion ofThe Key Ingredient, in which the plans for Project Dominion are finally transferred to Ryujin,Starfieldplayers will have to complete a small errand for Benjamin Bayu, the mayor of Neon, as a form of reparation for the actions taken during Directive Theta, which was part of the Background Checks mission. As part ofManaging Assets, players will be sent to a new location previously not visited during the faction questline, allowing them to explore a new planet as well as engage with apretty sizable settlementwhile they are there.
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Traveling To Paradiso
Upon speaking with Masako, players are informed that Administrator Bayu has ordered a rival operative to be dealt with in Paradiso. For someStarfieldplayers, this may be the first time that they have been required to travel to Paradiso. For those unfamiliar, the resort is located on the planetPorrima IIin thePorrima star systemand is host to manyinteresting quests and activities. Players are also able to rent a room in the luxury hotel should they so choose, and it is also the location whereplayers can get married.
Having arrived in the resort area, players must head past the main hotel building andturn left on the beach. From here they can follow the beach along to another small enclosure with further buildings dotted around it. TheRival Operativewill be standing in plain sight near thebeach-side entranceway, near the small wooden shacks. Players can simply attack him on sight to complete the mission without having to ever speak with him, but there can be advantages to talking to him, which are of much greater benefit.
Dealing With The Operative
Players cantake a bribefrom the Rival Operative to progress the quest. The starting amount will be5,000 credits, but this can be negotiated up to8,000bymaking a successful persuasion attempt. He is not an especially stalwart character, so he shouldn’t be too difficult to convince. If the persuasion attempt fails, players can still take a sum of money from him or proceed to use the Attack option.
Once the Rival Operative has been dealt with one way or another, players will be free toreturn to Neonand report the task as successful to Dalton Fiennes. Dalton will then introduce the next mission of the Ryujin faction quest line, “Sabotage,” which will see players experimentingwith a prototype Neuroampfor the first time.
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