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 several orange roofs, and 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 streets contain concrete paths used by pedestrians, with trees and street lamps along them. 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, connected to a shopping mall with a round dome above it. The city is characteristic for its glass roofs with a purple tint, circular entrances to buildings, 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
The main area of Silver City is visited during "Find Mr. Fizzwidget". It begins with the main entrance, a set up stairs underneath a glass roof which is initially closed off. Past the stairs, there are three paths; the path straight ahead leads to a tower where the power lines are reached, the path right leads to an elevator down to the hyper-expressway below (Ratchet entered the Silver City through this entrance to deactivate the switch), and the path left leads to a building built on one of the cliffs. This left path has a short flight of stairs, followed by a stretch with some metal plates used for cover.
The first building is a single storey building, with a glass wall just past the entrance, which has a door that is opened by standing on a switch. The room has two stairways in the back. The left stairway leads to an open area outside with a fountain, on top of which the teleporter to the Insomniac Museum appears when the player's internal clock is set between 3:00am and 4:00am, as well as trees dotted around, and a glass wall on the right, with a platinum bolt behind it, and a small gap at the bottom which the Spiderbot Glove can reach to activate the switch and open the wall on the other side. The right area leads to a larger street.
The street has a glass wall on one end, with another street behind it, and the edge of the cliff on the other. Along this street on the left side are several houses, as well as a glass wall connected to the glass wall on the other side (with the platinum bolt behind it). On the right side of the street, a fountain is found in between the buildings (with a nanotech boost on top), and an elevator shaft up to an open roof on one of the buildings can be found. This roof has large glass walls as railings, a door on the right to a small room with crates, and a path left along the roof leading to another elevator shaft on the left down to a short street connected to first street, blocked off by the glass wall. This street has five buildings, two either side, and one larger one on the end with stairs into its entrance. The building has only one room containing little inside, with stairs at the end leading upwards to a small area outside with an elevator leading up to a room within a large skyscraper, near the top.
The room in the skyscraper has both a weapons and an armor vendor, a shop counter (which is empty), an open balcony on the left with a taxi that returns to the ship, and another small balcony at the back-right corner leading out. Stepping on this balcony causes it to retract into the walls, meaning that the Gravity Boots must be used to walk along the wall downwards. Below the wall is water and some rocks, and there are several windows along the wall with more retractable balconies. The bottom-right window on the right side leads to a short tunnel bending right, with a grav-ramp on all sides of it, that leads to a corkscrew-shaped grav-ramp across to a large, open area by the cliff edge on an island, with a slanted glass ceiling and glass walls around it. This area has four towers, two tall ones holding up the higher ceiling, and two short ones, one which is connected to the corkscrew grav-ramp, and another the same height but stretching along to an elevator up to the top of the area. Close to the top of the two tall towers and near the mid pont between them is a floating round platform with a platinum bolt. The ground at the bottom is mostly vegetated, with grass and a few trees, as well as large stashes of crates. A grav-ramp on the island leads up to the short tower on the right end, which in turn leads to an elevator up to the taller tower on the right, and using the Swingshot across leads to the taller tower on the left.
On this tower, a larger corkscrew-like grav-ramp, with a round glass ceiling above it, leads across to a building on the right side of the clock tower. This leads onto a lower roof of a building joined just to the right of the clock tower, and an elevator here leads up to a higher roof. Along the roof, a very narrow bridge, and two grav-ramps along the sides with glass walls behind them are joined to a floor on the outside of the clock tower building, near the roof
Shopping mall and clock tower
Thw shopping mall is a wide building connected directly to the clock tower above it. The mall is signified by a glass dome roof, while the clock tower is among the tallest in Silver City, and its time matches the player's internal PlayStation 2 (or other platform) clock. These joined buildings are easily visible from the top of the skyscraper visited during the first area in "Find Mr. Fizzwidget", as well as from the platform where the hyper-expressway is visited. Both buildings are visited at the end of "Find Mr. Fizzwidget", and are where a Fizzwidget bot gave out free samples of the Protopets.
The clock tower is reached from a building joined to it on the right side as seen in the main Silver City area, which leads to a floor near the very top of the tower. On this floor is a door leading to out to a balcony on the left, which retracts to create a path down along its left wall, which has windows with retractable balconies. A window on the left at the bottom leads to a grav-ramp inside the shopping mall. The shopping mall is a wide, empty area, with four large red screens around the outer area, and a a versa-target at the back that allows the Swingshot to reach the outer edges of the glass dome roof.
Power lines
The power lines are visited 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
The garage containing the teleporter to the Insomniac Museum is built on the cliff on top of an island a distance away from the streets in the main city, and connected by a concrete bridge from the main city to the garage. The island of which it is built has a tunnel with power lines through it (seen in "Ride the power lines"), and the garage and island are visible during "Find Mr. Fizzwidget" shortly after the first corcscrew-shaped grav-ramp
The garage is a large garage signified by a tall green door with a blue circle directly above it. Concrete floors on the island surround all floors of the garage. Inside, the building has one room consisting of two corridors, one straight, and one off to the right found half-way through the first corridor room. The room has yellow lights of various shapes across the walls, but is otherwise empty aside from two teleporters on either end of the main corridor (with the teleporter on the end going to the Museum).
The garage is accessed through the teleporter on a fountain in the main Silver City area (found in the area left of the first building entered), only when the player's internal clock is between 3:00am and 4:00am of their timezone. It cannot otherwise be accessed through normal means, as the street and bridge from which it is reached are outside of the playable area, and even if it were to be reached, the door is shut.[a]
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