Hunting the Archon Mass Effect: Andromeda Mission
Type: Priority Ops
The Moshae says the Archon has a Remnant map that may point the way to Meridian. But you don't know where his ship is. You must first track down the angaran traitor, Vehn Terev, on Kadara Port, and learn what you can from him.
Related points of interest
Resistance Contact
Kadara
Sloane Kelly
Kadara
Reyes Vidal
Kadara
Maintenance Shaft
Kadara
Vehn Terev
Kadara
Kett Transponder
Kadara
Prior missions
To begin Hunting the Archon you must first complete A Trail of Hope.
Mission objectives of Hunting the Archon
1. Go to Kadara Port in the Govorkam system
2. Speak to the Resistance contact at Kralla's Song
Go to Kralla's Song bar and wait for your contact.
3. Meet Sloane Kelly in the Outcast headquarters on Kadara Port
Choosing "I'll be honest with you." and "Done." will grant you a direct access to the prison but Vehn Terev will be executed. Otherwise, you'll have to find another way to get to the prisoner but Vehn Terev will be transferred to the angaran Resistance.
4. Speak to Reyes Vidal
This objective will be available if you don't have a direct access to the prisoner.
4.1. Enter the holding cells through the maintenance shaft
5. Interrogate Vehn Terev
He will tell you how to find the Archon's ship.
6. Retrieve the kett transponder from the badlands
Go back to docks and use the transit console to get to the Kadara slums / main surface of the planet Kadara. Go to the navpoint.
7. Speak to Gil in Tempest engineering
When you get back to the ship, you will receive two new primary missions - Elaaden: A New World and H-047c: A New World.
8. Locate the kett flagship in the Tafeno system
You will find kett flagship and salarian ark Paarchero - objective of Missing Arks.
9. Patch SAM into the ark's systems
Having learned the Archon has a Remnant artifact believed to contain a map that will locate Meridian, you've found a way to invade the kett leader's flagship in search of his private chamber where the artifact is kept.
10. Locate the salarian Pathfinder, Zevin Raeka
Use the console.
11. Identify the dead salarian
Scan the body ...
... then use the nearby medical terminal.
12. Locate the dead salarian's stasis pod
Scan the pods.
13. Revive the salarian Pathfinder
14. Infiltrate the kett ship
Kill all kett enemies and go upstairs.
15. Patch SAM into the kett ship's systems
Use the console.
16. Send the salarian Pathfinder team on their way
To do this, you should use another console and open the door for them.
17. Make your way to the Archon's private chamber
Go throught the Docks to the Gun Battery. When you approach the door, they will be blocked. It's an ambush.
17.1. Survive the ambush
Kill kett soldiers and then Ascendant. He has a protecting orb (Ascendant's Orb) so it should be your first target.
SAM will find an alternative way to the Archon's private chamber.
On your way, you have to use a console to open the door for salarian Pathfinder team.
17.2. Bypass kett security
Scan and use the security access panel.
Continue your way through a kett lab, etc. You will eventually reach the room where Archon is waiting for you.
To make you free, SAM has to kill and then resuscitate you.
18. Escape the trap
Use the maintenance hatch controls ...
... then find the entrance to the maintenance corridor.
19. Make your way to the Archon's private chamber
Continue your way through the maintenance corridor, etc.
20. Find the relic
21. Kill the exalted krogan and the kett
22. Escape the kett ship
When you leave the room, you have to choose whether you are going to save Drack's scouts or Pathfinder Raeka.
"Save krogan scouts." or "Save Pathfinder Raeka."
22.1. Option #1: Rescue the captive krogan
Kill all ketts on your way and activate the console to free Drack's scouts.
22.2. Option #2: Rescue the captive salarians
Kill all ketts on your way and activate the console to free salarians.
After completing Hunting the Archon you will get or will be able to get The Journey to Meridian.