History of Dead-Ender

Overview

Dead-Ender is a Legendary Arc Linear Fusion Rifle from the Dead Orbit faction, built on the VEIST foundry and sitting in the Power (heavy) slot. Its intrinsic is Precision Frame, a long-range precision energy bolt with a more predictably vertical recoil pattern. The curated roll offers Chambered Compensator, Extended Barrel or Smallbore on the barrel, Particle Repeater or Projection Fuse in the battery column, and Outlaw as its trait, so precision kills greatly cut reload time. The in-game stats are modest (impact 41, range 41, charge time 533 ms, 5-round magazine). Its quote, "I question the wisdom of our current trajectory," is from Arach Jalaal.

Acquisition

Dead-Ender is a Year 1 faction weapon, listed as Season 2 (Curse of Osiris). It dropped from a Dead Orbit Engram when you ranked up with the faction during a Faction Rally and handed tokens to Arach Jalaal in the Tower. It was not a roll-your-own random-perk drop; the wiki records only the single curated set of perks. Faction Rallies were removed from the game, so this is a legacy source, and Destinypedia describes the rifle in the past tense (it "could be acquired" from Jalaal). Check current availability before chasing it.