History of Hellas Basin

Hellas Basin is a frozen region of Mars introduced in the Warmind expansion.

Overview

Abandoned for centuries after the Collapse, the basin froze when Rasputin used the Siberian Entropy Protocol against the invading Hive, including the Worm god Xol. When the Traveler awoke the ice thawed, revealing a Golden Age facility that Tyra Karn suggests may be where the Warmind was born. Enemies: the Hive's Grasp of Nokris, the Cabal's Red Legion, the Taken, and Xivu Arath's Horde in Season of the Seraph (Destinypedia).

Getting there

Complete the Pilgrimage mission to unlock it. There are two landing zones: BrayTech Futurescape (a Golden Age exoscience hub) and Glacial Drift. Locations include Rasputin's Warmind core (Mindlab: Rasputin).

Vendors and NPCs

Ana Bray offers quests and bounties and takes Seraphite for Cradle Engrams (Destiny Game Wiki).

Activities

• Campaign and story missions: Ice and Shadow, Pilgrimage, Strange Terrain and Will of the Thousands (the last two are also strikes).
• Lost Sectors: Core Terminus (Hive, BrayTech Futurescape) and Ma'adim Subterrane (Cabal, Glacial Drift).
• Public events: Injection Rig, Warsat Down, Witches' Ritual and Escalation Protocol.
• Sleeper Nodes and Latent Memories: collecting 35 Latent Memories unlocks the exotic sword Worldline Zero, and all 45 the sparrow G-335 Anseris Overdrive.
• Battlegrounds in later seasons.

History

Introduced in Warmind. Hellas Basin was vaulted when Beyond Light launched (10 November 2020), when Titan, Io, Mars, Mercury and the Leviathan were moved to the Destiny Content Vault (Wikipedia). Destiny 2: Renegades later returned Mars locations in the Lawless Frontier (Freehold Outskirts, Hellas Fortitude); the sources opened do not say Hellas Basin itself returned as a patrol destination. See Mars.