Now run back to the closed door, turn into Matterspark, and shock the generator. The door will open, exposing the quest marker. Trigger the quest and you’ll get the next quest steps.

You actually don’t need to go anywhere else to progress the quest all the way to the end. Some of us have encountered issues with completing the next few steps if you do not wait for each piece of dialogue to fully complete, so to be safe, we recommend waiting for the discussions between Ikora and Ghost to fully play out before triggering the next step.

Try to follow this specific cadence: After beginning the quest, wait for the dialogue to finish. Then, trigger “scan remains” first (do not activate the pillar yet). Wait for the subsequent dialogue to wrap up. Only then, activate the shrine at the back of the room. The game will let you trigger these in any order, but we have experienced sequence-breaking issues if they are not done in this order.

If you do happen to run into issues completing the quest, try to go finish a different task in the meantime. We have had some luck in “resetting” Dark Academia by doing this.

After successfully navigating these steps, you’ll acquire an artifact that you just need to take back to the Caldera and Dean Rebecca. Complete that and enjoy your Kepler gear for finishing the Dark Academia quest!