get money

Looking around you, you don't really see any way to make money. Unless you wanna sell your shovel or something.
complain about how they changed the crystal/mist energy stuff or whatever and it's all confusing now

You start complaining about how they changed the Mist and Crystal Energy system and turned it into the mess it is today. Also how expensive it is, geez, 10k+ Crowns just for 100 Energy? What the hell happened?

This gets the attention of the Spy that's hanging out in the gun shop, for some reason.

He starts with a "Here, go buy yourself some talent."

He then throws a sum of $100 at you. Okay. I guess that works.
Press C to open the context menu

You don't know what a context menu is.
Smash the box open

You decide to use your Slime Slasher to smash the box open. Hey, you gotta use the shovel for something, right?

You pass the Slime Slasher to your sword hand, aaaand...

You smash the crate open, revealing that there was a small health kit inside.

+1 Small Health Kit.
realise the only way was powering cradle that means opening tehe core and that means the swarm is released NUU it will infect us all (the swarm is from the last vanguard mission)

Naw man, I'm pretty sure someone built speed up for 12 hours with a 0.5 A press or something and then talked about parallel universes... and then you got here. Also, have you ever heard about SPOILERS?
By the way, the sounds of a vehicle can be faintly heard in the background...
Your current objective is to find your squadmates.
STATS
HELMET: Cobalt Helm (2*) | ARMOR: Cobalt Armor (2*)
WEAPONS: Calibur (2*), Slime Slasher (0*), none, none
HEALTH: lllll (100%)
SHIELD: (none)
MONEY: $100
ITEMS
1x Emergency Revive
10x Spark of Life
1x Small Health Kit