Template:Appearances Boldan is a planet in the Bogon Galaxy featured in Going Commando. It has yellow skies, a fair amount of vegetation, as well as tall mountains close to its islands. It is home to Silver City, one of the busiest cities in the galaxy, with a high skyline, built across an archipelago of islands and mountains.
Silver City was the first planet which the Protopet was sold, with Abercrombie Fizzwidget filming their first commercial on the planet and giving the first samples away for free. Ratchet and Clank, having learned that the Protopet was actually a killer, decided to travel to the planet in the hopes of finding Fizzwidget and warning him.
The Insomniac Museum can be accessed on the planet.
History
A commercial for the Protopet was first filmed on Boldan, titled "Why is Billy Sad?". The commercial featured Billy, depicted as a lonely child, in which the Protopet was supposed to comfort him and provide company. However, in the commercial, the Protopet instead attacked Billy, even throwing him around and tossing him into a tree. Boldan was to be the first planet where Protopets would be sold, and Fizzwidget would give the first Protopets for free.[1] This advertisement was misleading, as Fizzwidget did not appear himself, but rather a robot replica of Fizzwidget gave out the samples.[2]
Angela Cross obtained the commercial, and showed it to Ratchet and Clank, while they were searching the rocket silo on Todano. Ratchet and Clank resolved to travel to Boldan to find Fizzwidget and warn him that the Protopet is dangerous, believing it was their last chance to get through to him before the Protopet was distributed around the galaxy. Angela disapproved of their plan as she felt Fizzwidget would not be convinced, but gave them coordinates to Boldan to try.[1] As they traveled to the planet, the Thug Leader sent a message to the rest of the Thugs-4-Less about their new employer, Megacorp, telling the Thugs to be on the lookout for Ratchet and Clank, offering a free pizza party to any squad that captured them.[3]
When Ratchet and Clank landed, they found themselves unable to enter the city as the main entrance was blocked. In "Open the main entrance", the two used the Levitator through the aircraft tunnels that ran underneath the city, and opened it from within. Later, in "Ride the power lines", the two used the Grind Boots across the power lines through construction works, and found another Slim Cognito weapon mod store.
In "Find Mr. Fizzwidget", the two traveled through the main city, fighting through Thugs-4-Less garrisons, to find Fizzwidget and speak to him. When they finally reached the plaza of a shopping mall where Fizzwidget would sell the Protopets, they instead found a robot replica of Fizzwidget giving out the Protopets. This angered Ratchet, who tried to interrogate the robot for Fizzwidget's location. At that point, the Thug Leader ambushed and arrested them, claiming they were "attempting to bump off Mr. Fizzwidget",[2] and taking them to their prison on Aranos, found at Angela's old flying lab.
Geography
Overview
Map layout of Silver City
Boldan has a yellow atmosphere, with several islands around the vast ocean. Most of these islands consist entirely of tall, rocky mountains, some of which as high as Silver City's tall skyline. Other islands also have cliffs with a fair amount of vegetation on, while some smaller islands are much more passable. The vegetation includes trees four times Ratchet's height with a thin, bending trunk and large palm tree-like leaves, as well as small plants in the soil.
Silver City is one of the busiest cities in Bogon.[4] It is built on an archipalego of islands, and has a towering skyline, made up of skyscrapers shaped like spires, which normally have concrete yellow, dark green, or dark blue coloration, as well as light blue and yellow windows. Though many skyscrapers are concentrated in what appears to be a downtown area, some are found in the distance built atop islands. The city also has a construction site that the power lines pass through. Though the skies from a glance appear to be less busy than Megapolis and Canal City's, the air traffic in the hyper-expressway below is very heavy, filling the space entirely. One of the skyscrapers is a large clock tower, with the time matching the player's internal PlayStation 2 (or other platform) clock. The city is characteristic for its glass roofs with a purple tint, as well as fountains dotted around. It is traversed by skybridges, as well as concrete streets on top of cliffs the island's cliffs, and by air traffic tunnels.
The Star Explorer lands on a tower built over rocky islands, in front of the main entrance to the Silver City. The main entrance, initially blocked by an electric forcefield when Ratchet landed, is a set of stairs surrounded by a tunnel-like glass roof. A taxi also travels to the entrance to the hyper-expressway.
Hyper-expressway
The hyper-expressway[5] is visited during "Open the main entrance". It is a series of large tunnels underneath the water through which bustling air traffic passes through. It is entered from a tower built on top of an island a fair distance from the city (out to the left of the main entrance), with a flat surface on top with street lamps on each corner, and an elevator shaft in the middle that leads down to a platform in a tunnel connected to the hyper-expressway. The wide tunnel entered is filled with machinery, with rotating cogs surrounding the room and in the middle of it. A Levitator pad on the platform allows Ratchet to reach the end of the tunnel, pass an exit that opens and closes periodically, and land on a floating platform with a Levitator pad in the expressway.
The first part of the expressway is a a wide open room serving as an intersection between two tunnels, with traffic passing one way from a tunnel on the left to a smaller tunnel blocked by a forcefield on the right. On the ceiling are several large red screens directing traffic, and at the bottom is a hole to another tunnel (which the player cannot reach, as descending there leads to death). The left, passable tunnel has large red pipes on the bottom and is otherwise surrounded by plain walls. At the end of this tunnel is an intersection between two tunnels left and right that are blocked by forcefields, and one short tunnel in the middle half way up the wall that is not used by air traffic, with a Levitator pad on its entrance. This tunnel is an electrified path, with large electric cables across it and power generators on the ceiling, and more cogs and machinery at the bottom. At the end of the tunnel is a ledge, with an elevator on the left that leads up inside Silver City in one of the paths adjacent to the main entrance.
Silver City main area
Power lines
The power lines are visisted during "Ride the power lines", and are thick power cables that pass through several parts of the city including a construction site, which the Grind Boots can grind across. Pink electrical transponders will electrify the cables, presenting a hazard. They are reached from a tower reached directly past the main entrance, after taking an elevator shaft most of the way up the tower, and using a ladder to reach the top.
The power lines begin with three from the top of the tower, and bend to the left to one of the city's buildings. The power lines stop briefly, though two yellow railings on the balcony of the building can be grinded across to reach another set of power lines, which bend left and then head straight to a construction site, where they end. The beams in the construction site can be traversed straight, at the end of which another set of power lines can be reached. These power lines bend left around an island and then right into a tunnel, lit by pink and surrounded by cogs and machinery, which goes through the island and then bends right to a lower part of the same construction site, at the end of which is a final short set of power lines bending left to an island. The island contains a single storey building, with the entrance to a room with a teleporter inside back to the main entrance path, and a button for Slim Cognito's weapon mods shop.
Insomniac Museum garage
Behind the scenes
It is possible to access the Insomniac Museum garage and reach the teleporter through a glitch. To do this, the player must ride the power lines, and at the construction site, jump onto the left power line, then deliberately git hit, and glide left off the power line, towards the garage. Though the garage has no entrance, the concrete around it is not solid, so it is possible to fall through it, walk right, and then jump up into the room and reach the inside of the garage, and thus, the teleporter.