ARC Raiders: How to Enter the Fallen Emperor (Emperor Gateway Conduit)

The Emperor Gateway Conduit is a legendary key for unlocking the sealed hatch beneath the Fallen Emperor on Pendola Pass. This downed ARC walker contains one of the game’s earliest dungeon-style runs. The hatch remains shut until you craft the conduit and fit it into the hull’s socket. One map activity supplies both the blueprint and crafting materials.

Quick answer: Find the Emperor Gateway Conduit Blueprint during the Redirection condition on Pendola Pass, gather one each of the ARC Conductive, ARC Insulated, and ARC Plated Coupler, then craft the key at Workbench I.

Materials and items you need

The recipe takes one of each of the three ARC Couplers. They are separate materials, so you need all three types for a single key. The Emperor Beacon is the quick-use item you deploy to call down the payload that carries those parts.

Item	Rarity	Weight	Max stack
Emperor Beacon	Epic	2	3
ARC Conductive Coupler	Epic	0.5	—
ARC Insulated Coupler	Epic	0.5	—
ARC Plated Coupler	Epic	0.25	—

All three couplers together have a weight of 1.25, making them easy to fit into a loaded kit. Couplers are common drops, with several often found in one run; the blueprint is much rarer and may take multiple raids to find.

Farm the blueprint and couplers during Redirection

On Pendola Pass, Harvester Payloads during the Redirection map condition can yield the blueprint and each of the three couplers. Since Redirection is absent from some matches, wait to queue until it is active.

Enter Pendola Pass while Redirection is active, then check your map. The map has 10 Damaged Emperor Relays at set locations that never move. Each begins inactive; at about 25 minutes remaining, they start activating, generally one or two at a time.

Map selection — Pick Pendola Pass from the destination screen and confirm Redirection is the active condition before you drop in. Shown at 00:20 in Quick Tips’s video. Image: Embark Studios

Look for an active relay. A red beam from it stretches vertically into the sky, visible at long range, and its map symbol shows a countdown once lit. Since every player can see the beam, move fast to reach the relay ahead of other raiders.

Search the relay’s container for an Emperor Beacon. Carry it to an open area with clear space overhead, deploy it, and step back about 10 to 15 meters. A deployed beacon is visible to the whole map by its beam, so pick a spot you can defend or hide near.

First, shelter from the falling debris. It tears through health and shields, so let it pass while you’re beneath a roof or inside a wreck.

Once the debris has cleared, breach the big, upright container at the payload’s center and search it. The couplers and blueprint are inside that container; the scattered smaller wreckage yields ARC parts alone.

As soon as you get the blueprint, stash it in your safe pocket, followed by one coupler of every type. If you die afterward, you’ll still retain the full set and the rarest item.

A payload may not drop the blueprint, and its odds are low. Plan on opening several payloads, keeping extra beacons on hand so a single relay can supply multiple drops. During Redirection, Fireballs and Fireflies appear only on Pendola Pass, drawing in ARC as well as other raiders.

You do not need all three couplers in one raid. Store each one in your stash and keep farming until the recipe is complete, since couplers come easily while the blueprint lags behind.

Other places the blueprint can drop

Redirection offers the most dependable method, though payloads aren’t the only source of the blueprint. Destroyed Surveyors leave a Surveyor Vault core that may contain it, making Surveyors along your route worth fighting on any map. Players have found the blueprint in Surveyors on Dam Battlegrounds, Blue Gate, and Spaceport, even when Pendola Pass’s condition was not active.

Emperor key blueprint drops from Surveyor cores!
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For an option that doesn’t depend on drops, reach Level 60 in the Frozen Trail Reward Pass to receive a completed Emperor Gateway Conduit. This reward is the key, not its blueprint; Redirection remains preferable if you want to craft additional conduits for repeated runs.

Reward passes track with a Grappling Hook Blueprint, a folded sheet of blue plans, shown in the center preview. — The REWARD PASSES screen shows the level 12 reward Grappling Hook Blueprint, with 1,800 more needed to collect it.

Craft the conduit at Workbench I

Use a basic Workbench I to craft the conduit; there’s no need to upgrade it. Crafting isn’t possible during a raid, and couplers can’t be shared among teammates, meaning each raider must collect a complete set.

Get out with the blueprint and return to Speranza. Use it there to unlock the Emperor Gateway Conduit recipe in your crafting list.

Open the Workbench, select the Emperor Gateway Conduit from the recipe list, and confirm you have one each of the ARC Plated, ARC Conductive, and ARC Insulated Coupler in your stash.

Blueprint and recipe requirements — The Workbench recipe for the conduit, showing the three ARC couplers each marked 1/1. Shown at 00:46 in Quick Tips’s video. Image: Embark Studios

Press Craft. The finished Emperor Gateway Conduit drops into your inventory, ready to carry into a fresh raid.

Open the Fallen Emperor on Pendola Pass

Load into a new Pendola Pass match carrying the crafted key. The Fallen Emperor sits toward the western part of the map, west of Piazza della Rupe and north of Old Town, between Old Town and Almatera Station.

Make your way beneath the walker to its base, passing through the ruined buildings under its leg until you reach the hull’s large, circular hatch.

Approach the flat panel beside the hatch. It displays the prompt Unlock 0/1 Emperor Gateway Conduit.

Interacting with the lock — The circular panel on the hull beside the sealed hatch, where the conduit slots in. Image: Embark Studios / via @QuickTipshow

Use interact on the key in your inventory and hold it. The circular hatch will open; one conduit is enough, and the opening hatch shows that it worked.

Re-verifying the conduit terminal — The unlock prompt at the round door confirms the conduit is being accepted. Image: Embark Studios / via @QuickTipshow

The ground level and the final loot hangar remain unchanged, but the trials connecting them get rearranged each session. Amplification Modules are available here and, outside this location, only on the Frigate; an Emperor Modulator allows the Gunsmith to reach Level 4. Because the run is lengthy and its trials and ARC make a light kit risky, bring a full loadout and a safe pocket. Afterward, the nearest exit is the Reckless Transceiver, a gondola point beneath the Emperor that is also the most exposed escape route.