Endako

Endako is a location in Going Commando, with cameos in Up Your Arsenal, Size Matters, and Secret Agent Clank. It is an urban planet home to the immense city of Megapolis, the apparent capital city of the Bogon Galaxy and a hub for Megacorp. Megapolis is notable for its large skyline of pristine looking buildings circling around a huge central structure with two towers, robotic cleaners, and lack of vegetation. Clank had an apartment in Megapolis while working as Megacorp's head accountant.

Clank first moved to Megapolis while Ratchet was recruited as Megacorp commando. Later, he was kidnapped by Angela Cross, known then as the Unknown Thief, in an attempt to intimidate and trap Ratchet. Ratchet then visited Endako himself in order to rescue Clank. He also defeated the Thug Leader, who attempted to assassinate Ratchet after his own employees had failed to defeat him. Ratchet and Clank then lived in their apartment on Endako during many years.

Going Commando
The first glimpse of Endako was right at the beginning, when Captain Qwark, disguised as Abercrombie Fizzwidget, phoned his deputy, Miss Noodlebottom, while watching an episode of Behind the Hero featuring an interview with Ratchet and Clank. Ratchet and Clank were then teleported onto a spaceship, where Fizzwidget recruited Ratchet as his commando, while Clank was given a job as Megacorp's head accountant, with a luxury penthouse apartment on Megapolis, complete with state of the art robotic masseuse.

While staying in the apartment in Megapolis, Clank was visited by his admirer, who knocked on his door bringing him flowers. Shortly after, Angela Cross scared away his admirer and knocked again. When Clank answered the door, she abducted him and took him to a room. Angela then filmed a transmission, in which she electrocuted Clank, warning Ratchet that further harm would come to him if he did not return to the Solana Galaxy. She delivered the message to Ratchet in the Maktar Resort through a photo booth.

Ratchet traveled to Endako to rescue Clank. When he arrived, he found the worker bots Megacorp Sweeper Bots, Laser Bots, and Rivet Bots, normally used for cleaning and construction, had malfunctioned, and became hostile to Ratchet. In "Rescue Clank from the thief", Ratchet traveled through a series of buildings, activating their cranes using the Electrolyzer, in order to find the room where Clank was held. After finding him, Angela kicked him down into the room, leaving him with no escape aside from an air duct that only Clank could fit through. Ratchet repaired Clank with the Electrolyzer, and Clank identified the air duct as the only escape, commencing "Free Ratchet". Clank commanded microbots to navigate to a switch, allowing them to escape the room.

In "Visit Clank's apartment", Ratchet visited Clank's apartment, suspecting that the rent had still been paid off and that there may be useful items left behind. On the way, the Thug Leader, in his helicopter, confronted Ratchet, disappointed in his own's failure to eliminate Ratchet. After shooting down his helicopter, Ratchet found his old Swingshot and Grind Boots still in the room.

Ratchet later returned to the same path he had taken to Clank's apartment, and used the Grind Boots to grind across rails on the city. This led him to a button, used to call Slim Cognito, who offered him weapon mods.

After curing the Protopet menace, Ratchet, Clank, his admirer, and Angela Cross hung out in Clank's apartment.

Post-Going Commando
Ratchet and Clank continued to live in the apartment for a while. In Up Your Arsenal, the two played Galactic Chess, watched holovision (including the series Secret Agent Clank, in which Clank was a star), while Ratchet continued to build as a mechanic, building a gravimetric warp drive from blargian scrap metal, which he did not test. After seeing a Channel 64 News Broadcast showing that Veldin, Ratchet's hometown in the Solana Galaxy, was under attack by an army of tyhrranoids led by Dr. Nefarious, Ratchet then fitted the warp drive to his ship, the Star Explorer, and the two returned to Solana.

During Size Matters, Ratchet saw Clank's apartment as part of his dreamtime sequence.

Ratchet and Clank hung out in their apartment at the end of both Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank. In the former, the two returned after defeating Otto Destruct, seeing that the Ratchet clones had been given a new purpose sold as an action figure. In the latter, the two used the defeated Klunk as a vacuum cleaner.

Several critters in All 4 One were mentioned as hailing from Endako, including the Blue Horned Drakocktor, Raging Purple Drakocktor, Hot Lava Drakocktor, Sea Foam Drakgoon, Creeping Willow Drakgoon, and the Rare Golden Drakgoon.

Overview
Planet Endako's surface appears to be almost or entirely urbanized, as its structures are visible from space. This would suggest the planet resembles an ecumenopolis, or at least home to a large megalopolis on its largest continent. More evidence of this is the lack of flora on Endako. However, in spite of this, and in spite of a large amount of traffic, its air seems entirely clean.

Megapolis is an enormous cityscape with tall skyscrapers and dense skyway traffic. The city has a very consistent and clean aesthetic, as all of its skyscrapers have a consistent white, green, yellow, and grey color scheme, trims of red, and all skyscrapers have a similar appearance. These skyscrapers are all maintained by Megacorp cleaning bots, including its Sweeper Bots and Laser Bots. The skyscrapers are traversed using walkways and floating platforms. Megapolis uses a unique form of teleporter called translocators, which are larger pads that transport a user from one area to another.

The city's walkway streets are largely filled with robot workers, including the cleaner bots, Rivet Bots aiding in construction, and also floating camera robots that hover above the air. The Megacorp logo is prominent throughout the city, as floating billboards are seen throughout, the logo is seen painted on doors, and the Megacorp logo is sometimes engraved into the ground, suggesting Megacorp was responsible for their construction. These streets are lit by street lamps, suggesting they are public walkways.

The interiors to many of the buildings are dark grey, with heavy machinery lit by red lights. The floors often have a metal grating, with red tubes below them that emit great heat, presumably a power source for the buildings.

Ratchet's ship lands on a landing pad that is connected to a walkway, with a fork leading to two other paths: one path on the left through construction buildings, and one on the right through a more generic.

Clank's apartment
Clank's apartment is a luxury penthouse suite with state of the art robotic masseuse, rented by Clank.

Society
Endako is apparently an important planet for Megacorp. Despite the Megacorp Headquarters being based on Yeedil, Fizzwidget's office is on Megapolis, possibly in the large central structure. When Clank worked as the head accountant, he was given a penthouse apartment on Endako rather than on Yeedil, suggesting he commuted to a location on Endako. Endako is also where Megacorp armor is designed.

Despite high traffic and a complete lack of vegetation, Endako is perfectly breathable for organic lifeforms, suggesting artificial air is somehow created. However, the city still remained hostile to organic life forms, as during Ratchet's visit, cleaner bots had malfunctioned and were incapable of distinguishing between organic life forms and garbage. It is likely that much of the population are robot civilians, similar to the ones seen throughout Bogon.

Behind the scenes
Early footage of the Megapolis level shows that it originally took place at night time.

Megapolis is the only city that features translocators.

According to ex-Insomniac employees Mike Stout and Tony Garcia, the Game Pyramid in Clank's apartment was originally a PlayStation 2, but had to be removed due to Sony Computer Entertainment guidelines during the game's development. It was then changed to an Xbox and was also removed for similar reasons. Therefore, the Game Pyramid was created as a result.