Luna
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Luna, often referred to as the Moon, is the only natural satellite of Earth.[1] Luna is home to a large human population and the renowned Luna OCS Academy.[4] Luna houses a number of skyhook defense complexes suspended in its low orbit.[5]
Overview[edit]
Nomenclature[edit]
Luna is also the name generally used to refer to the populated colonies across the moon.[6][7]
Environmental features[edit]
Luna has a barren surface and is atmospherically devoid. Its gravity is low, which has prevented large-scale terraforming.[8][9] Day and night run in a month-long pattern of two weeks of darkness and two weeks of light.[7]
Luna has a "near side"/"front face" and a "far side". The far side of Luna faces out into space while the near side faces Earth. The far side contains more and deeper impact craters than the near side since the near side is protected by Earth itself. Daedalus Crater was in the middle of the far side while Mare Cognitum is on the near side and visible from Earth without a telescope.[7]
Locations[edit]
- Naniwa
- Daedalus Crater
- Delambre
- Lake Autolycus
- Mare Cognitum
- Mare Nubium
- Mare Insularum
- Mare Imbrium
- Mare Frigoris
- Procellarum basin
- Tycho Observation Facility[12]
- UNSC Transit Dock L22[13]
- UNSC Naval Archives
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Rise of humanity[edit]
Human beings took their first steps on Luna in 1969.[14] By 1971, US Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell was the 6th human to have walked on the moon.[15]
Humans began settling on Luna during the First Diaspora, c.2080.[2][3] During the Interplanetary War, Vladimir Koslov and his family were killed in a bombing at Lake Autolycus on Luna.[16]