#mida mini-tool

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

MIDA Multi-Tool

Select application: Ballistic engagement. Entrenching tool. Avionics trawl. Troll smasher. Stellar sextant. List continues.

Type: Scout Rifle

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Kinetic | Stasis | Strand

Perk: MIDA Multi-Tool - This weapon boosts move speed.

Trait: MIDA Radar - Radar stays active while aiming down sights.

Masterworked Trait: No Distractions - Aiming this weapon for a short period reduces flinch.

Ornaments: MIDA Tactical, Desert Camo, Titanium Alloy, Digital Ops, MARA Multi-Tool

Origin & Description: The paired MIDA weapons are a deep cut for Bungie fans: their description and the acronym “MIDA”, like the perk name of Jade Rabbit, reference the world of Marathon, Bungie’s second FPS and a story sometimes considered the unofficial prequel to Halo. In Marathon's timeline, MIDA was a political party on Mars that sought power through increasingly violent means, finally achieving a coup and a brief yet remarkably vicious reign during which fully 10% of Mars' population was killed. After being deposed they retreated underground and continued to plague the solar system as its most well-funded and stable terrorist organization. The MIDA weapons were made for the operative on the go, and thus in theory their onboard AI could fulfill any function said operatives needed to survive in the Martian wilds. It's implied in Multi-Tool's lore tab that these examples of MIDA tech somehow crossed over from a separate timeline into ours ("therefore they're outside your jurisdiction to ban," as Shaxx told a concerned Zavala.)

MIDA is a pair of weapons, one exotic and one legendary, allowing both to be equipped at once. MIDA Multi-Tool is the exotic; MIDA Mini-Tool is the legendary. While either can be used on its own, the Mini-Tool grants additional speed bonuses when both are equipped, and their weapon archetypes synergize well - Multi-Tool is a long-range scout rifle while Mini-Tool is a short-range submachine gun good for finishing off opponents.

You can use the MIDA weapons however you want, but they're built for PvP; so much so that getting the Multi-tool's catalyst requires not just playing in the competitive PvP playlist but winning a significant amount of the time. You can get the catalyst from any match after reaching Mythic rank in Glory, with the chance increasing until it becomes a guaranteed drop at the vaunted heights of Legend. For reference? That is not an easy rank to hit.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

[ Ace of Spades | Ager's Scepter | Anarchy | Arbalest | Bad Juju | Bastion | Black Talon | Borealis | Cerberus+1 | The Chaperone | Cloudstrike | Coldheart | Collective Obligation | The Colony | Crimson | Cryosthesia 77K | DARCI | Dead Man's Tale | Deathbringer | Dead Messenger | Devil's Ruin | Divinity | Duality | Edge of Action/Concurrence/Intent | Eriana’s Vow | Eyes of Tomorrow | Fighting Lion | The Fourth Horseman | Forerunner | Gjallarhorn | Grand Overture | Graviton Lance | Hard Light | Hawkmoon | Heartshadow | Heir Apparent | The Huckleberry | Izanagi’s Burden | The Jade Rabbit | Jötunn | The Lament | The Last Word | Legend of Acrius | Leviathan’s Breath | Lord of Wolves | Lorentz Driver | Lumina | Malfeasance | Merciless | MIDA Multi-Tool | Le Monarque | Monte Carlo | No Time to Explain | One Thousand Voices | Osteo Striga | Outbreak Perfected | Parasite | Polaris Lance | Prometheus Lens | The Prospector | Queenbreaker | Rat King | Riskrunner | Ruinous Effigy | Salvation's Grip | Skyburner’s Oath | Sleeper Simulant | Sturm | Sunshot | SUROS Regime | Sweet Business | Symmetry | Tarrabah | Telesto | Thorn | Thunderlord | Ticuu's Divination | Tommy's Matchbook | Tractor Cannon | Traveler's Chosen | Trespasser | Trinity Ghoul | Truth | Two-Tailed Fox | Vex Mythoclast | Vigilance Wing | The Wardcliff Coil | Wavesplitter | Whisper of the Worm | Wish-Ender | Witherhoard | Worldline Zero | Xenophage ]

[screaming-skvll]

“Still puzzling over that weird little thing?”

“That’s just it: it is weird. Never seen the like. Doesn’t resemble anything any of our foundries made, nor any Golden Age stuff we’ve seen. And of course, no record of anything called MIDA.”

“Records are incomplete, especially from pre-Collapse. I mean, look at the Black Armory, right? A whole ultra-high-end foundry operating under our noses since before the City was even the City, and we had no idea. Their weapons aren’t like anything else we’d ever seen, either. Maybe this is a similar sort of deal.”

“Maybe, but there just seems to be something different about this thing.”

“Different like what?”

“Well, like it has an onboard encyclopedia, for one thing.”

“Huh. So, setting aside why a gun needs an encyclopedia—isn’t there anything in there that gives you a clue where it came from?”

“Well, yes and no. It has a bunch of information about what must’ve been Golden Age events, and the metadata is pretty thorough. Thing is, none of it matches up with existing records, and a lot of things either aren’t mentioned in anything else the Cryptarchy says is in its archives, or they even contradict our records of the same period.”

“Data corrupted, maybe?”

“No, it’s all intact—and even if there was loss of integrity, what’s there is too coherent. It’s not like it’s messed up; it’s almost like someone wrote a different history book.”

(MIDA Mini-Tool)