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The Moon Pyramid Device in the Power Room of Moon, Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies

Moon:
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Richtofen's Grand Scheme on Moon in Black Ops Zombies, step by step: Simon Says, the Laboratory hacks, the Vril Sphere and the Wave Gun, the 25 souls, Cryogenic Slumber Party, the plates and wire, the soul swap and the three rockets of Big Bang Theory.

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Richtofen’s Grand Scheme

The main quest of Moon ends the story of Black Ops. Richtofen takes Samantha’s place in the pyramid of the Power Room and gains control of the zombies; Maxis then asks the rest of the crew to free him, and fires three rockets at the Earth. It comes in two achievements: Cryogenic Slumber Party for the first half, Big Bang Theory for the whole quest.

Tools

The Wave Gun and the Hacker for the first half; the QED and the Gersh Device for the second.

Black Ops conditions

The first half can be done in solo. The second needs two players or more online, and at least one of them must have completed the Easter eggs of Call of the Dead (Ensemble Cast) and Shangri-La (Time Travel Will Tell).

Order

Several steps can be done in a different order, or at the same time, as soon as their conditions are met.

Part 1: opening the pyramid

The Moon Pyramid Device seen from the side in the Power Room of Moon, Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies
  1. Turn on the power.
  2. Simon Says: outside the Receiving Bay, on the Olympia side in front of Tunnel 6, four computers stand near the cliff: red, green, blue and yellow. When they light up, press them in the order shown, up to five colours. They flash green when it is done.
  3. On the second floor of the Laboratories, hack one of the four dim switches left of the stairs to the top floor (500 points). Four of the eight white panels of the Laboratories then light up green; hack all four within 60 seconds. The Vril Interface on the front of the pyramid becomes hollow.
  4. Let excavator Pi breach Tunnel 6, then hack its panel in the Receiving Bay. The Vril Sphere now lies in Tunnel 6, near the M16.
  5. Knife or shoot the Sphere: it floats to a satellite dish on top of the Receiving Bay. Shoot it there with the Wave Gun, the only step that needs it. It rolls towards Tunnel 11 and gets stuck in the ceiling above the barrier next to Stamin-Up; free it with a grenade or splash damage, and it reaches the pyramid.
  6. A glass tube rises at the front right of the pyramid. Kill 25 zombies right next to it; Astronaut Zombies and Nukes count.
  7. Pull the switch on the right wall that looks like a power switch. The pyramid opens on Samantha, every player gets a Death Machine for 90 seconds, and Cryogenic Slumber Party unlocks.

Powering the Vril Device

These steps can be done at any time before Part 2.

  1. In Area 51, knock the hexagonal plates off the beam right of the teleporter with a grenade, then throw a Gersh Device so they come along on the teleporter.
  2. Back on the Moon, the plates lie near Quick Revive in the Receiving Bay. Throw a QED on them: whatever its effect, they stand up in two brackets next to a computer on the right of the room.
  3. Find the curved wire, usually somewhere in the Laboratories, more rarely outside near the teleporter or by the excavator panels of the Receiving Bay.
  4. Place the Vril Device between the plates and connect the wire. The player who is Richtofen keeps pressing the computer on the left until a voice line plays; let it finish, and the screen flashes red, green, red, green. Take back the glowing Vril Device.

Part 2: switching souls

Back at the open pyramid, four tubes appear: kill 25 zombies by each while Samantha screams and the screen shakes. Then put the Vril Device into the slot at the front. Samantha and Richtofen swap souls, and the player who was Richtofen gets all eight perks for the rest of the game. From now on, Samantha plays in Richtofen’s body and Richtofen is the announcer.

Part 3: Maxis’ revenge

  1. Play Simon Says three more times, starting with three colours, then four, then five. A rocket rises out of the trench each time.
  2. Throw a QED on the Vril Interface of the pyramid: the Sphere jumps over to the Simon Says computers.
  3. Throw a Gersh Device next to the Sphere to teleport it.
  4. Maxis speaks and a countdown starts. The three rockets fly to the Earth and burn it 30 to 40 seconds later. The other players now get all eight perks too, and Big Bang Theory unlocks.

Afterwards, Area 51 shows a red sky, then open space. On Xbox 360, the quest also gave two gamer pictures, Samantha and a teddy bear holding a Bowie Knife.

First Room

The quest cannot be played with the doors closed: it starts with the power, and goes through the tunnels, the Laboratories and the Power Room.