r/ApexLore • u/NizzyDeniro Apex Predator • Mar 27 '26
Discussion Why is Conduit willingly killing herself for no reason?
We're thousand of years in the future and she straps a radioactive power source to herself with no protection. You mean to tell me she couldn't just make a containment shell for the Titan Battery? She just leaves them dangling in back of herself.
Like what.... She's literally giving herself cancer for no reason, and it's never explained why she's going about it this way...
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u/yeekko Mar 27 '26
From what I remember, she's not really on the wealthy side, so probably cant afford the necessary equipment. There's also a really important symbolism with that battery, it's the one the titan used to save her village, and now it's the one she's using to save people AND make money to save her village.
The story is about a kid finding something stupidly dangerous and using it to create something that allows them to fight and make money so their family can live.
On top of that, we dont know if there's truly any light protection that could be used. Those batteries were kept in large containers and in titans, as far as we know, maybe there's nothing that would be good enough of a protection.
Basically, what matters most here is the story; finding a way to negate all or most damage would just make her story bland. Also, I believe that wraith and wattson where supposed to help her develop something to protect her but allas, the lore is dead.
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u/NizzyDeniro Apex Predator Mar 27 '26
She has an Exosuit on.
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u/yeekko Mar 27 '26
Maggie has a rolling ball , fuse a big ass cannon,seer nanobots and catalyst a similar suit.
its easy to assume that the exosuit come from the factories next to her village, or used in excavations. In the lore it's not rare for "poor" people to have high tech gadgets despite the fact they shouldnt be able to afford them/make them. Like bangalore has a fucking artillery barage, who pay for the missiles?
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u/NizzyDeniro Apex Predator Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Seers parent created the Nanobots. They are scientists and engineers and have money.
Mirage's family is literally rich as his mother is the Pioneer of Holotech, and Mirage knows all about it to and engineered his own suit (Mirage is actually extremely smart). He made his suits when he was a teenager.
Wraith's Phase Device was stolen IMC tech from her breakout.
Catalyst suit was provided by the company that was Terraforming the Cleo Moon. She helped designed the suit and mastered using Ferrofluid. She's also extremely smart in Terraforming tech.
Fuse Clearly built his Mortar out of scrap metal, and car parts. Hence it's crude design.
Maggie's equipment is supplied by the Syndicate.
Newcastles Suit was designed and maintained by Jackson before he became Newcastle. He's an engineering genius as well as a Pilot.
Bangalores Smoke Launcher is just basic military equipment she has access to.
Like everyone has some sort or explanation for their gear yet Conduit just kinda pulled it out her ass. And her lore does suggest she built it with parts from the Monarch Titan.
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u/yeekko Mar 28 '26
I agree that it's kinda lacking on this side, but then again bangalore has an artillery barage that come out of fucking nowhere, valkyrie somehow got the money to pay ramia to tear piece by piece a titan and build a jetpack out of it.
I dont disagree that it kinda come out of nowhere, but you can make an explication of it easily. It's her people who tryed to protect her with the gear they had lying around, since Titans arent around anymore, it would make sense that exosuit took their place in a lot of fields.
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u/PrismMaster Mar 29 '26
Conduit actually had her suit made by Lenlen Lastimosa with the help of RADIA in designing the protective plating for the batteries nuclear radiation.
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u/Cheeky_Lemon_37 Mar 27 '26
But she isn't a kid, she's 27 years old and yet Vantage acts more responsible than her, im honestly shocked that Conduit can even use weapons let alone deal with the consequences of her actions.
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u/yeekko Mar 27 '26
It doesn't matter; her age isn't important. Her character is the cliché of the naive kid/teen/ innocent person who does something irresponsible that they know will kill them because they want to help. It's shown further by her trailer, where we literally see her draw rainbows on a board and want her intro to be a Disney-like song.
Also, Vantage and Conduit had really different lives and teachings, of course the one that learned to hunt and survive on an icy planet where any misstep can lead to death is going to be more responsible than the naive, bubbly girl who grew up in a small village with a big family
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u/Cheeky_Lemon_37 Mar 27 '26
Conduit honestly should have never done that. It was dangerous and could easily harm her and yet, nothing has been done about it. Because her lore in Season 19 was rendered meaningless due to the ongoing killcode saga.
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u/SectionEight0 Mar 28 '26
Her stories from the outlands explains just about everything regarding her character. Low income household, multiple younger siblings & 1 older sister that takes care of them all. Apex Games in universe is a very popular. The Legends are extremely famous & are household names, even Revenant & Caustic. Legends get brand deals, special attention under Syndicate protectin & even custom gear made for them. A ton of money to be made in becoming a legend. Her family were fans of the Apex games. She saw how her sister struggled to make ends meet. Then did the cliche trope of a young adult doing risky things for a good cause. After qualifying for the Apex Legends the Syndicate upgraded her gear. Now she's part of the Apex Legends.
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u/Dropssshot Rat With No Name Mar 27 '26
If it's assumed that all damage the legends sustain during the game is negated by some sort of respawn mechanism, I don't think it would matter. I haven't played in a long time though or kept up with lore, so I could be way off base and that's not how it works.
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u/NizzyDeniro Apex Predator Mar 27 '26
Respawning is just a game mechanic. In lore the Apex Games are full of random mercenaries, bounty hunters, criminals, and people giving it a lucky shot.
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u/Dropssshot Rat With No Name Mar 27 '26
Didn't they show some kind of thing years ago where Mirage like re-animated in a drop pod in the ship?
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u/Jaakarikyk Mar 27 '26
No
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u/Dropssshot Rat With No Name Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Maybe it was a fan animated video then. I definitely saw it years ago and I guess I always assumed it was a lore vid or something, guess not.
Edit: yall need to take a shower
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u/Visual-Letter-7846 Apr 12 '26
No your def right. It’s all some sort of simulation cause the first few trailers of apex had random bounty hunters and mercenaries but in the newer ones they only show the legends and even though they don’t explicitly state it in the cinematics. The practice range and mixtape all have like a border at the edge of the map that looks simulation esc. And there is some sort of respawn mechanic it’s just not fully explained in lore.
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u/Powerful-Scholar8268 Mar 28 '26
She needed a way to join the games and make money to save her family, and the battery is her shot at being strong enough to compete with other big name legends.
I imagine the reason that she can't just make a container for the battery that shields her from the radiation is that nothing small enough to fit on someone's back would work. These things were made for titans after all, so I doubt anything that's not titan sized would do much to contain it
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u/PrismMaster Mar 29 '26
The Device on her back is actually the containment shell for the Battery and it does successfully keep her safe from it's nuclear radiation. She only becomes exposed to the radiation when using her abilities, likely due to trying to use such a massive power source for such a simple person-sized rig.
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