Moon

The Moon, also known as Luna, is the Earth's only natural satellite. A Lunar "day" takes approximately 2 Earth weeks.

Background
Fueled by a collapsing Earth ecosystem and degenerating society, the Moon was first colonized in 1997, with the foundation of the Euro Space Agency (ESA) colony Tycho. Luna has since become colonized with various permanent bases, founded and maintained by allied nations of the ESA. With the existence of gravity and ability to soft-land machinery, along with heat drills to form glass-like tunnels, Luna was far easier to colonize than open space. Buried ice was mined for air and water, plants were brought in to create viable ecosystems, and the Tycho mass driver was modularly dropped and reassembled to construct and later utilize to catapult raw materials towards the Crystal Palace construction at the time. While the original bases were simple pressure domes and workshacks planted by Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTV), by 2020, they expanded via nuclear and solar laser drill-created subterranean tunnel networks. Water is mined through lunar ice, and recycled heavily, while air comes through underground hydroponic gardens lit by large surface shutters.

The Moon is mined heavily for raw materials utilized in orbital colony constructions at the Lagrange points. Three mass drivers allow a stream of Lunar material to Earth's orbit.

By 2077, both Arasaka and Militech have mining operations over the Moon's surface.

Locations

 * Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds)
 * Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms)

Major Cities
Two permanent cities exist on the Moon: Tycho and Copernicus, both controlled by the Euro Space Agency. As both cities were built underground, their construction required blasting and nuclear-powered heat smelters to form park-like caverns, eventually being topped with smelted lunar sand pressure domes to provide air and recycling.