Letter to a Dim Star in Honkai Star Rail: How to Get There and What to Choose

Letter to a Dim Star in Honkai Star Rail - an adventure mission at the station "Gerta", which will begin after receiving a personal message from Rocky about his beloved Leslie. In the process of completing the quest, you will have to find and repair the repeater, then identify the criminal, and also make the final choice: give the red or blue magazine to the young researcher.

In the guide, we will tell you how to find old parts, how to identify a criminal using surveillance cameras, and what to tell a young man: truth or lie, in order to unlock the Diamond and Rust secret achievement in Honkai Star Rail.

How to start the quest Letter to a Dim Star

The quest will start automatically after answering Rocky's message, which will come to the Pathfinder's phone after completing two key missions:

• «Long wait for the edge of the blade» in location «Kamnegrad».
• «rebirth road» in location «base zone».

Choosing an answer in the chat does not affect the acceptance of the task in any way. If at the end of these quests the message from Rocky has not yet arrived, then continue to level up Development.

Walkthrough for Letter to a Dim Star in Honkai Star Rail

All phases of the mission are carried out on the space station"Greta”, and you can talk with key characters even before taking the quest: in this way, you can find out the story of Rocky and Leslie in advance, but you can complete the task only after the start of the mission.

Listen to the experience of a young researcher from the Department of Galactic Geography

Rocky is in the location "Main Control Zone”, not far from the room with Herta's office. Talk to the young scientist, and then choose the answer option "I will help you". You can additionally talk with his mentor named Bernard to find out more plot information.

Locate the repeater in the Storage Area

The repeater is located in the location "Storage Area". When attempting to interact with the terminal, a shortage of ultra-nickel parts will be detected.

Collect old parts near repulsed bridges

To repair the repeater, you will need two ultra-nickel parts. They can be found nearby, in the location "Storage Area". Previously, you had to interact with these repulsive bridges in order to get an access card for three-level authentication.

Old part #1

Entering the room, go down the stairs to the left, defeating opponents along the way. If there is no bridge in front of the Pathfinder, interact with the controller to create a bridge. After going further and going down another ladder, deal with the enemy on the platform. On it, activate another controller. Walk up the rise to the round platform.

At the far end of the platform is a part, and behind the boxes is a controller that needs to be activated to create a new bridge.

Old part #2

Climbing to the next tier, run across two bridges and get to old part number 2. the orange and gray bridge, and then reach the edge, on the box is the desired item.

Repair the repeater with spare parts

Return to the teleport at the outer compartment and get to the relay. Place the necessary items in the device and it will work.

Scroll the list of available archives to the second page and from the entire list select the option "Month 56 - Present". From the record it will be possible to understand that it broke off. The only option left is to watch video from surveillance cameras.

Go to the observation room to find out everything

Move to the Observation Room, which is located in the Base Zone. Go to the for viewing recordings from surveillance cameras, then open the second page of zones, there select the option "Elimination Plot". The cameras managed to notice the elderly mentor Rocky.

Identify the criminal using surveillance cameras

Interact with the terminal, and then study the recording from the camera with the caption "Elimination Plot". The rest of the videos are optional. Having identified Rocky's teacher Bernard in the attacker, you will have to find him in the location "Main Control Zone". The mentor will be standing near the teleportation point at the top of the platform.

Red truth or blue lies: which magazine to choose

After receiving a red and blue magazine from the old man, head to Rocky, he is in the same place.

Having started the dialogue, the question arises what to choose: the Red Truth or the Blue Lie. The decision does not affect the receipt of rewards, but in the end you will receive two quest items from the teacher:

• Red magazine (true) - the true version of the correspondence with Leslie. If you tell Rocky the truth, he will quit his studies and go in search of his beloved.
• blue magazine (lie) - a false version of the correspondence with Leslie. If you lie, you will break the guy's heart and he will go headlong into science.

This will end the task, but later it will be possible return to Bernand twice: once for the achievement, the second time to find out what happened to Rocky after the quest.

How to get the Diamond or Rust achievement in Honkai Star Rail

After completing the quest Letter to a Dim Star, there will be one unused magazine left in your inventory. You can return it back to Bernard and get the achievement "Diamond or Rust" from the section "Our memories". An elderly mentor can be found in the old place in the same location.

Awards

For completing the mission "Letter to a Dim Star" you can receive the following reward:

• 250 master experience;
• 40 star jade;
• 50 hertariums;
• 12 rarefied ether;
• 12 credits.

We hope that the guide helped you complete the quest Letter to a Dim Star and get the achievement Diamond and Rust in Honkai Star Rail. If you have any questions, write them in comments - The author of the article will try to help. Read game guides in a special section of our website.