Zaurik is a planet in the Ratchet & Clank comic series, mentioned in Tools of Destruction and A Crack in Time. Located in the Polaris Galaxy, it is the homeworld of the drophyds,[1] who served as the primary force of the Imperial Army led by Emperor Tachyon. Zaurik has reserves of trillium under its surface, and several trillium mines were therefore set up to harvest this durable metal. The part of the planet near the trillium mines was dry and rocky, much like Fastoon or Veldin, although still had water, but it was contaminated and swampy.
Zaurik was the site of a war against the terraklons, in which the terraklons lost. Lord Vorselon fought in the battle with the other terraklons, and his defeat cost him has body.[2][3][a] Dr. Nefarious promised to use the Great Clock to reverse the battle and give Vorselon his body back.[5]
During the comics, President Phyronix came to Polaris for a good will trip, but was banished to the trillium mines of Zaurik by Artemis Zogg. The planet had been transported to the Artemis Galaxy and Zogg took jurisdiction over the world and its denizens. After Zogg was defeated, Zaurik was returned to its original orbit in Polaris.
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- ↑ It is possible that the terraklons' defeat at Zaurik is what led to both their imprisonment and their fighting in Zordoom Prison. Because Zordoom Prison was where Emperor Tachyon sent captured enemies and forced them to fight to their death for the amusement of his most elite drophyd troops,[4] it is possible that terraklon battle at Zaurik where Lord Vorselon was defeated was a defeat at the hands of the Imperial Army, and that Tachyon forced them to fight for the drophyds' entertainment.