Severance

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Severance
"The side effects on the environment were... less than desirable."
Mission in Just Cause 3
Type	Sky Fortress DLC
Previous	Taking Control
To unlock	Complete eDEN Extraction Site Alpha and eDEN Extraction Site Bravo
Starting location	On one of the southern hover platforms near the airship.
Reward	None

Severance is the third and final mission in the Sky Fortress DLC of Just Cause 3.

Introduction

Mission briefing on the map: "As Rico puts an end to the Bavarium extraction operations on Medici, Sheldon discovers that the eDEN Corporation has a deadly surprise in store. Rico needs to stop Eden from destroying Medici in her hunt for Bavarium once and for all."

Tom calls Rico right after the bavarium extraction sites are destroyed and informs him that "it's very, very bad. As in "Trust me on this, son." And "Medici's in huge trouble."" Tom wants Rico to get back to the eDEN Airship immediately.

Walkthrough

Tom explains that "Over 20 years ago, the Agency - via yours truly - went into business with the eDEN Corporation. Now, they were developing this project, a powerful fragmentation device. A way to draw an energy source from the ground. No overhead and huge profit margins. The side effects on the environment were... less than desirable. I did not want to believe this at first, but with everything that's been going down... I think it's back on." Rico is concerned about the "death ray", but he is soon interrupted by Eden who tells him that he "can not stop the march of progress" and to be quiet, because it has already begun.

At that point large doors open at the bottom of the Bow Section and a large mechanical arm extends downward. At the end of the arm is a large weapon-like object that makes noise and light. The whole arm is protected by a Bavarium shield. Tom says that if it's what he thinks it is, "Medici is about to go Atlantis on us."

At this point, the player regains control of Rico. The next objective is to destroy 3-4 power sources of the Bavarium shield near the back of the ship. Heavier weapons, or vehicle mounted weapons on an armed helicopter, will definitely make things easier as drone swarms populate the whole area.

Eden is surprised to learn that the shield is off, but still sounds confident in her victory and announces that she's "Initiating large-scale Bavarium fragmentation operation. Device is armed, loading sequence in progress."

Now Rico must destroy the "stabilizers" (rotating antennas on the large mechanical arm), then some vents near the back of the weapon and then finally the arm itself. Most heavy weapons might not be effective due to range issues, so resort to using an armed helicopter or the Final Argument sniper rifle for the task while ignoring Eden's complaints. Once it is destroyed, the device explodes in a big blue fireball. This leaves a hole into the bottom of the airship. Go there and explore.

The first room is empty, but there's two rooms separated by glass. Both of them contain laboratories with several dead people. Between the labs is a short corridor that leads to an altar-like place.

There Rico learns that Eden is "just a computer program" and that Eden likes to consider itself the first and only self aware AI. It continues to explain that it killed the humans on the ship, by lowering the temperature to -50 degrees, when they threatened to cut her power. It believes that Bavarium makes it smarter and more powerful, so Medici was the only option. Rico rips a part of the computer with the AI inside and throws it off the ship, into the sea below, where it quickly sinks.

The eDEN Airship computers are then reset, triggering the last message from the ship computers: "Good afternoon. Welcome to the eDEN corporation, on behalf of our founder and CEO, Ms. Callaghan. I am your AI assistant for all operations on the eDEN Airship."

Trivia

• "Fragmentation" is a relatively wide term that could mean just about anything. Tom probably called the mining beam device a "fragmentation device" in reference to "hydraulic fracturing".
• Tom probably sent the picture slides to Rico's CommLink, because Tom didn't mention anything about beams, but Rico mentioned a "death ray" after that.
• The large beam device was pointed at north-west Insula Fonte, which is known to contain few (if any) Bavarium in comparison to Insula Striate. The reason for this is unknown.
• Eden did not specify the temperature unit during this mission, which would be later revealed as Celsius degrees in Eden Callaghan tapes found in the Bavarium Sea Heist DLC. Temperatures this low are enough to easily kill unprotected humans through hypothermia.
• The scene where the triangular doors begin to open is very similar to and probably inspired by the alien superweapons in the 1996 movie "Independence Day".
• The quote "I've seen and learned things you couldn't imagine, Rico. And all of those things will now be lost. Time to finish this.", heard when Rico meets Eden, is a reference to Roy Batty's death monologue in the movie Blade Runner. The original speech is "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. [...] All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Both Eden and Batty are sentient AIs.
• There is a song heard during the part between the fragmentation device being destroyed and Rico meeting eDEN. Unless this mission was done before A Long and Dangerous Road and Son of Medici, it cannot be heard again.

Gallery

Tom making a deal over 20 years ago. Notice the old Agency logo.

Testing the beam with less than desirable side effects.

Doors opening at the bottom of the ship.

The mechanical arm and weapon fully extended.

One of the blue shield devices.

Destroying stabilizers.

Destroying vents.

The big room where the arm came from.

Old laboratory.

About to meet Eden.

Eden killing the humans.

Rico confronts Eden.

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