The Apogee Space Station is a location in Tools of Destruction and the comic series. It is located in the Nundac Asteroid Ring, in the Cerullean Sector of the Polaris Galaxy. The base is the home of Talwyn Apogee, Cronk, and Zephyr. The station was used by Max Apogee as a research and testing facility before he disappeared. The base is defended by large Apogee Defense Turrets on the outside. The ring was formerly under the control of the Great Cragmite Empire.
Ratchet and Clank came to the Apogee Space Station after Captain Qwark revealed to them that Emperor Tachyon targeted it as a potential location of the Lombax Secret. When Ratchet was recognized as a lombax, he befriended Talwyn and her war bots. The station later became a base of operations when Artemis Zogg abducted planets throughout the universe.
History[]
Before Tools of Destruction[]
The Nundac Asteroid Ring was cragmite territory during the Great War.[1]
At some point, Max Apogee built a space fortress amongst the asteroid belt.[2]
Years prior to Tools of Destruction, space pirates raided the Apogee Space Station, taking the Lombax artifact containing directions to the hiding place of the Dimensionator. Max Apogee followed them, but did not return,[3] instead leaving the dimension with Angela Cross.[4]
Tools of Destruction[]
Ratchet and Clank being greeted by the Smuggler.
Emperor Tachyon's spies identified the Apogee Space Station as a potential location of the Dimensionator. Tachyon filmed a recruiting video involving Captain Qwark, which Qwark passed onto Ratchet and Clank via an infobot after they participated in the Imperial Fight Festival on Mukow.[5]
Upon getting to the station, Ratchet and Clank found the Smuggler, who had come in search of leviathan souls to sell to the pirates on Ardolis. With no place to land on the station from the asteroid belt, the Smuggler issued "Make a Trade with the Smuggler": he agreed to give them the launch code to a shuttle that could reach it in exchange for three souls.[6] The two returned with three and used the shuttle to reach the Sigma-3 Maintenance Hub, where they navigated the gravity cube below the station to enter.[7] They also sold additional souls to the Smuggler in "Sell Your Souls".
Ratchet and Clank meeting Talwyn, Cronk, and Zephyr.
Inside, in "Search the Station" Cronk and Zephyr identified Ratchet and Clank as threats, deploying defenses to stop them. After breaching the defenses, the Zoni appeared to Clank to provide him the Geo-Laser, allowing them to break through a wall to the inner sanctum. There, the two met the war bots along with Talwyn. The group then resolved to travel to Ardolis in search of the Dimensionator.[3]
Ratchet after Clank is taken away.
After Emperor Tachyon was defeated, Ratchet, Clank, Talwyn, Cronk, Zephyr, Rusty Pete, and Qwark celebrated at the Apogee Space Station. Their celebration was cut short when the Zoni appeared and took Clank away.[8]
Comic series[]
Location[]
The Nundac Asteroid Ring is a collection of large and small asteroids surrounding the Apogee Space Station. It is a basilisk breeding ground with Cerullean wildlife that is also seen in the swamps of Cobalia. It has many smaller raritanium crystals spread around various asteroids, and some small gel sources on the Delta asteroids. It is navigated using teleporter cannons.
Structure[]
The Apogee Space Station is a vast complex that serves both as an oasis and a fortress. The station has multiple terrariums inside containing various vegetation. The primary one where Talwyn lives is located in the center, with an aqueduct resembling a lake leading into it. Other areas seen through windows include a grassland with ancient statues and buildings, a tropical forest with buildings in the trees, a forest with red vegetation and a lake, a mountainous waterfall area, a desert with a large building, and an underwater base.
The interior of the station is guarded by Thermosplitters and Fusion Turrets.
Below Apogee Space Station is the Sigma-3 Maintenance Hub. The primary maintenance grid for the station, it is a gravity cube that powers a Sigma-3 Gravity Simulator with protomorphic ionization synthesizers.[3]
Citations[]
- ↑ Tools of Destruction script § "Make a Trade with the Smuggler (gameplay)"
- ↑ Tools of Destruction menu § "Nundac Asteroid Ring"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tools of Destruction script § "Search the Station (gameplay)"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Angela Cross"
- ↑ Tools of Destruction script § "All That and Travel Too?"
- ↑ Tools of Destruction script § "Get to the Space Station (gameplay)"
- ↑ Tools of Destruction script § "Navigate the Gravity Cube (gameplay)"
- ↑ Tools of Destruction script § "I'm Gonna Need More Grog"