The Renegades campaign thrusts Guardians into a covert war where stealth, strategy, and cunning outweigh brute force, as the Imperium exploits fractured realities and hidden threats emerge.
With the Drifter captured and alliances unstable, you infiltrate enemy strongholds, dismantle defenses, and navigate hostile territory, facing both Pikers and Imperium forces with high stakes.
Each mission escalates the danger, revealing a disciplined enemy guided by the Nine, forcing difficult choices while the Last City’s survival hangs in the balance.
Previously in Destiny 2
After the chaos of The Edge of Fate, the universe reels from fractured realities, leaving the balance between Light, Dark, and unknown forces dangerously unstable.
The Drifter, once a guiding presence in the shadows, has been captured by mysterious powers, forcing Guardians into a desperate struggle to uncover his fate.
Factions like the Imperium and Pikers exploit the instability, consolidating power and sowing chaos, leaving the Guardian to act alone to prevent catastrophe and reclaim control.
All Renegades Campaign Missions
Mission 1: Imperium
After The Edge of Fate fractures reality, the Drifter is seized by Imperium forces, frozen in stasis as a calculated asset rather than collateral.
Your pursuit through stolen cruisers reveals an enemy built on control and endurance, using machines and ablative armor to dominate without chaos.
Though the Drifter is rescued, the Imperium’s restraint and The Nine’s influence suggest the encounter was allowed, marking the opening move of a larger design.
Mission 2: Fearsome Retainer
To breach the Imperium’s sealed networks, you strike a bargain with Spider, escorting a Splicer Shank into hostile territory while trusting criminals whose loyalty is temporary.
As the outpost falls, the Pikers reveal their betrayal, turning the operation into a violent scramble through failing infrastructure, exposed generators, and collapsing alliances.
You escape under fire as the Imperium responds with overwhelming force, leaving Spider gone, enemies dead, and trust further eroded in the Renegades’ war.
Mission 3: Out in the Cold
Alone and unseen, you infiltrate an Imperium Firebase, planting sensors across frozen terrain to expose a hidden stronghold guarding assets meant for conquest.
The Imperium responds with overwhelming force, but you dismantle their defenses and commanders while carving a path through tanks and heavily armored combatants.
By stealing the shuttle and escaping the ruins, you secure a critical piece of Drifter’s plan, signaling that the Imperium’s control is already cracking.
Mission 4: Fire and Ice (Exotic Mission)
Recognized by Aunor for mastering the balance between Light and Dark, you are summoned to the Praxic Temple to claim a blade worthy of that rare equilibrium.
Within fractured vaults and inverted planes, you confront trials of balance and belief, proving control over opposing forces while Imperium and Taken attempt interference.
By defeating the Disciple of Harrow and claiming the Praxic Blade, you emerge not merely armed, but affirmed as a living convergence of fire and ice.
Mission 5: The Long Con
Disguised and embedded within Imperium territory, you execute Drifter’s long con, sabotaging defenses to stop Bael from unleashing a weapon capable of erasing the Last City.
The operation reveals how deeply Bael anticipates resistance, manipulating access and timing while using the Drifter as leverage to maintain control of the battlefield.
Though the shields fall, the cost is personal, as Drifter is wounded and Bael escapes, pushing the war toward an unavoidable final confrontation.
Mission 6: Glory Beyond
With the Imperium’s defenses broken, you assault Nightfall Station alone, carrying the final burden of stopping a weapon meant to erase the Last City.
You tear through commanders, sabotage firing systems, and destabilize the station’s core, turning the Imperium’s ultimate platform into its own undoing.
Pulled from the wreckage by the Drifter as the station dies behind you, victory is secured, though Bael’s survival promises an unfinished war.
Summary
Renegades follows the Guardian’s descent into Imperium-controlled territory, where deception, infiltration, and sacrifice replace open warfare as survival becomes increasingly uncertain.
Across stolen ships, frozen firebases, and shattered stations, alliances fracture while the Drifter’s plan slowly exposes a disciplined enemy guided by unseen hands.
Each mission escalates the conflict, revealing Bael’s foresight, the Nine’s quiet influence, and a war shaped less by chaos than calculated inevitability.
Verdict
Renegades delivers a grounded, character-driven campaign that emphasizes espionage, moral ambiguity, and strategic restraint rather than traditional large-scale Guardian heroics.
The Imperium stands apart as a chilling adversary, defined by preparation and control, forcing victories that feel earned, costly, and deliberately incomplete.
Though Nightfall Station falls, Bael’s escape ensures the story ends not with closure, but with momentum toward a darker, unresolved future.
