However, mutated and adapted lifeforms have been surging back. These seem to be reforming healthy ecosystems, including impressive and hardy forests. Working in Orb Vallis is thus a bit like working in a sub-Arctic facility – say, in Siberia. Keeping all this protective equipment running to make the surface accessible is hard, precise work.Įarth was thoroughly devastated in the distant past. It was once so battered that the Orokin had to move their seat of power to the Moon. One such terraformed area, Orb Vallis, can be visited in-game. It is an odd mix of small mountains and plateaux, with liquid coolant forming rivers and lakes. There’s an ecology, and there’s a weather of sort. The orbital terraforming equipment has the protected area go through cycles of warmer or colder temperatures. Venus had large terraformed areas, with Orokin technological remains keeping the heat down. These were colonised using arcologies carved into mountains.

Mercury doesn’t seem to have been terraformed, given the heat. But it is orbited by numerous large mining bases. Perhaps they mine graphite ? Venus

Since moons and planetoids can be visited, the good old “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nougat” mnemonic isn’t sufficient anymore to place planets in order. So, from the Sun : Mercury Planets and planetoids are equipped with orbital stations, called Junctions. These can link with each other using an energy beam called the Rail. The Rail allows for quick travel from junction to junction, as long as your ship can reach a high orbit. This was presumably done by the Orokin, a now-fallen future Human empire.

The game takes place in the Solar System, usually called the “Origin System”. All planets, and various large celestial bodies, have been colonised. Several were terraformed and given a 1G gravity field. Where that’s not possible (say, the gas giants) there are huge bases with an adjusted gravity field. In the grim darkness of the future there is, I am sorry to report, only war.

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