Absolute Power is a mission in Starfield.
Summary[]
Travel to Neon to get the Conduction Grid technology from GenoDyne.
Quick Walkthrough[]
- Travel to Neon
- Proceed to Madame Sauvage’s place. (Neon Upper Platform, Ebbside.)
- Speak to Estelle Vincent
- Ask Myka about Ayumi Komiko’s whereabouts.
- (optional) Locate evidence to extort Ayumi Komiko.
- Ayumi gives you a passkey to GenoDyne storage room entrance (Neon’ Underbelly)
- Enter GenoDyne through the storage entrance
- Proceed to GenoDyne’s power Core.
- Obtain the power grid data
- Locate Breyson Bayu
- Decrypt the Conduction Grid data
- Upload Estelle’s virus
- Return to Estelle
- Speak to Benjamin Bayu
- Locate Estelle at Madame Sauvage’s Place.
- Speak to Estelle
- Return to The Key
- Speak to Naeva
Detailed Walkthrough[]
To get the Conduction Grid technology, you need to talk to Estelle Vincent. Go to Neon and find her at Madame Sauvage’s Place. Estelle asks you to upload a virus into the GenoDyne database. She can put you in touch with Myka, at Euporika. Myka will connect you with Ayumi Komiko in the Members’ Lounge. She will give you the passkey to the GenoDyne storage room entrance. If you managed to get some dirt on her first, you can save a bit of cash here. GenoDyne is in Neon’s Underbelly.
Make your way to the Power Core, where you locate Chief Technician Breyson Bayu, who is being placed in charge of the GenoDyne facility by his half-brother, Benjamin Bayu. Using an encryption cipher obtained from Breyson, you can decrypt the Conduction Grid data and Upload Estelle’s virus. You can leave by an elevator. You will note that Benjamin's offices are accessible by that elevator. You also have the option to help Breyson in his unfortunate situation by talking to him about his career in GenoDyne and selecting [Crimson Fleet] option to tip him on Conduction Grid device. This seems to be purely optional and there isn't any apparent effect except lifting his mood.
You are supposed to meet Estelle at the Astral Lounge. When you arrive there, Estelle is not to be found, and the exit doesn't work. Instead, you find Benjamin Bayu in one of the private viewing rooms. You are asked who put you up to taking the Conduction Grid data. After talking to Benjamin, you may leave the Astral Lounge.
In order for him to let you go, however, you must first snitch on the virus source; you'll have three options:
- Tell the truth, it was Estelle. She will get killed as a result, preventing you from recruiting her help for the Fleet or getting her arrested.
- Frame Breyson, also getting him killed. Constellation members react negatively to this option if present.
- Take the blame yourself. Bayu will threaten you with a bounty (10,000) and warns you that you have one hour to leave Neon. If you leave the planet quickly, however, the bounty will not appear until you return or possibly ever, depending on unknown circumstances.
You finally find Estelle at Madame Sauvage’s place. After speaking with her, you can return to the Key, where Naeva tells you there is some sort of crisis and Delgado wants to talk to you immediately. If you had Estelle killed or refused to pay her anything, you can get scorned for costing Crimson Fleet a valuable contact.