Maktar Resort

The Maktar Resort is a location in Going Commando, with a cameo in Up Your Arsenal and Going Mobile. It is a Megacorp space station and a holiday resort in the Maktar Nebula in the Bogon Galaxy, home to casino gambling, and an arena hosting the annual Galactic Gladiators event, an annual event featuring the popular gladiators Chainblade and the B2 Brawler. The station's attractions are spread across both its large interior and on green, glass walkways outside the station outside, with breathable air but a view of space. Ratchet visited the Maktar Resort after being sent by Abercrombie Fizzwidget, since Angela Cross (at the time the Unknown Thief) had been identified at the resort, and the Thugs-4-Less, under her employ, had towed a jamming array to the resort's orbit, interrupting the Galactic Gladiators broadcast.

The Maktar Resort was later a setting in the Secret Agent Clank holovision series.

Going Commando
Around the time Ratchet was working for Megacorp, the Maktar Resort was preparing for its next Galactic Gladiators tournament, an annual event broadcast around the galaxy on Mega-View. Angela Cross was identified at the resort shortly after robbing the Megacorp Outlet on Oozla, and the Thugs-4-Less towed a moon-sized jamming array into the station's orbit, interrupting the annual Galactic Gladiators broadcast. It is unknown why Angela visited the resort.

Abercrombie Fizzwidget sent Ratchet to the resort to stop the jamming array. Ratchet also decided to participate in Galactic Gladiators, as he was intrigued by the sport and was not intimidated by the gladiators in the commercials. On the way, Ratchet was ambushed by Thugs-4-Less fighters in the Wupash Nebula. After destroying them, he proceeded to the Maktar Resort, where the Thugs-4-Less sent brutes, as well as Megacorp Chickenbots, to eliminate him, with no tourists in sight.

In "Win the Arena Battle", Ratchet reached the arena after fighting through the Thugs, and participated in the Mega Battle. The announcer was completely unimpressed by him at first, referring to him as "this guy" from "nowhere in particular", until Ratchet surprised him and became the first and only winner of the games. Ratchet won the Electrolyzer as a prize. He also competed in additional battles earning him prizes in bolts, in which he competed against Chainblade and the B2 Bralwer multiple times. After leaving the tournament, Ratchet used his Electrolyzer to repair the bridges allowing him to return to his ship. On the way out, he found a photo booth, and used it to take a photo of himself as a souvenir for Clank. As soon as he took one, however, the screen was replaced with a transmission from Angela Cross, who had kidnapped Clank. In it, she electrocuted Clank, and warned him that if he did not return to the Solana Galaxy, he too would come under harm. Ratchet then received coordinates for Megapolis, Endako, in order to rescue Clank, though he was running into a trap.

In "Find a way to the Thugs-4-Less Jamming Array", Ratchet searched for a way to reach the Thugs-4-Less jamming array from the Maktar Resort. To his fortune, an Inspector Bot was inspecting the resort, and by manipulating it with the Tractor Beam, Ratchet was able to gain clearance to otherwise locked out areas. This allowed him to reach a space limo which took him directly to the jamming array. After destroying the array's signal transponders, Abercrombie Fizzwidget gave him a new assignment to infiltrate the Thugs' operations, by presenting a commercial for the Desert Riders, a hoverbike gang affiliated with the Thugs-4-Less based on Barlow.

Up Your Arsenal
The episode of Secret Agent Clank that Ratchet and Clank saw in the intro movie was set in the Maktar Casino. In this movie, Secret Agent Clank, with an entourage of hotbots, competed with Maxmillian, his adversary, in a gambling game. Agent Clank won, but Maxmillian had him ambushed by robot ninjas. Agent Clank defeated them and subdued Maxmillian, then left, with a hotbot, as his chauffeur, Jeeves (played by Ratchet), escorted him back in a limo.

The scene may have been filmed in Holostar Studios, instead of in the Maktar Resort itself.

Going Mobile
When transported to a Secret Agent Clank holovision episode, Ratchet and Clank were taken to the Maktar Casino.

Geography
The Maktar Resort is an enormous space station organized around a central rotating dome, in which the arena is located. The rest of the resort is comprised of green, translucent, glass walkways located outside, with a view of space but still within breathable air and with artificial gravity, as well as several buildings scattered around.

Throughout the resort, large, bright lights light up the walkways, including beaming spotlights rotating up and down, and floating building screens hover around the resorts, showing both the Megacorp logo, and the Galactic Gladiators logo. Flying, driverless limos provide transport throughout parts of the station, entirely free of charge. While no tourists are seen on the walkways that Ratchet visits, space ships are seen flying from the resort, with traffic originating from the central dome, and a large audience appears within the arena.

Surrounding the resort are several floating, rotating satellites, many of which are small glass satellites while others are much larger and appear more solid. Seven astronomical bodies, likely either planets or moons, can be seen from the resort, most of which are blue and appear to be cold or aquatic worlds, with one standing out as a dark red world. The Maktar Nebula is a light blue nebula appearing to the right of the resort from where Ratchet's ship lands.

Maktar Casino
The Maktar Casino is seen in an episode of Secret Agent Clank in Up Your Arsenal. This is a room surrounded by red slot machines, with a green table in the middle in which a gambling game is played with dice and tokens. Blue, electric chandeliers hang from the ceiling to light the room, and the room has a patterned carpet. Outside the entrance to the casino is a large blue door, with two giant lit red dice on top of the building. The casino is visited by hotbots and robot civilians.

Behind the scenes
The Maktar Resort was originally referred to as "Space Vegas", but Insomniac Games found that the name "Las Vegas" name was trademarked, so the name was changed. The Resort appears to be inspired by Las Vegas, evident in the casino gambling.

The floating billboards around the resort have a hidden image of Jak and Daxter that can only be seen by breaking them and looking at the debris. The image is hidden on the third slide of the triangular prisms used to switch between the Megacorp and Galactic Gladiator logos.

In the HD re-release on PlayStation 3 for the Ratchet & Clank Collection, the Maktar Resort's dome does not rotate.