Astra Malorum

Astra Malorum — "The Stars of Evil" — takes the hunt for the second Shadowsmith to a mysterious early-twentieth-century observatory drifting in the rings of Saturn. Its interiors carry named set-pieces like the Luminarium and Stargazor’s Courtyard, defended by Essence-fee traps with names to match: the Stellar Dissector and the Apogee Annihilator.

Wonder weapon

The LGM-1 — officially the "Little Green Menace" — launches autonomous saucer projectiles that strafe the horde with lasers. The elite guarding the halls is O.S.C.A.R., the Observation System and Carnifex Adjudicator Robot, a hovering sentinel fielding a drone shield, a Tesla field and an attack-drone hologram.

Main quest

The main quest went live with the map, its rewards a classified operator skin, a calling card and 10,000 XP; Cursed mode shipped day one with Directed following mid-season. The map’s boss arena — an ancient temple beneath the sands of Mars — later became a survival map in its own right.