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Locations

29 entries tagged Locations. Every entry is sourced from the Mass Effect games, their in-game lore, or the official reference material.

Arcturus StationArcturus Station was a five kilometer space station that served as the military and political capital of the Systems Alliance from the First Contact War onward, guarding the mass relay to Earth. During the Reaper War it was abandoned and destroyed, becoming a grave for the 45,000 people aboard.
BekensteinBekenstein was an early human colony founded as Earth's off-planet manufacturing base, which prospered by producing high quality luxury goods for nearby markets and became known as the humans' Illium. It was bombarded from orbit by the Reapers late in the war.
CitadelThe Citadel was a colossal deep-space station in the Serpent Nebula that served as the political and cultural heart of Citadel space and the seat of the Council. Long believed to be a Prothean relic, it was in truth a Reaper construction and a dormant trap at the center of galactic civilization.
Eden PrimeEden Prime was one of the first human colonies founded beyond the Charon mass relay, an idyllic agrarian paradise whose Prothean ruins made it the opening battleground of the war against the Reapers.
Elaaden: Desert Moon of the Heleus ClusterElaaden was a scorching, tidally locked desert moon in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. Brutally hot and starved of water, it nonetheless became home to the krogan colony of New Tuchanka and to scavengers and exiles living on its sands.
Eos: Desert World of Radiation StormsEos was a resource-rich desert world in the Heleus Cluster, long catalogued as unsettleable because of the lethal radiation storms that scoured its surface. After two colonies failed, the reactivation of its Remnant vault drove back the radiation and allowed the Andromeda Initiative's first lasting outpost to take root there.
FerosFeros was a dust-choked world buried under Prothean ruins, home to the ExoGeni colony of Zhu's Hope and the ancient plant intelligence called the Thorian, the target of a geth assault in 2183.
Grissom AcademyThe Jon Grissom Academy was a Systems Alliance space station and elite school for gifted human students, best known for the Ascension Project that trained young biotics. During the Reaper War it became the target of a Cerberus raid to capture its biotic students.
Heleus Cluster: The Initiative's New FrontierThe Heleus Cluster was a resource-rich region of star systems on the outskirts of the Andromeda galaxy, chosen by the Andromeda Initiative as its foothold in the new galaxy. Centered on a massive black hole and seeded with abundant Element Zero, it held the worlds the Initiative hoped to settle.
HorizonHorizon was a temperate human colony on the galactic frontier that suffered a devastating Collector raid in 2185 and later became the site of the secret Cerberus husk facility known as Sanctuary.
IlliumIllium was a hot garden world colonized by asari corporate interests as a trade hub between the Terminus Systems and the Asari Republics, where relaxed customs laws made almost any good available. During the Reaper War its wealthy, well armed leaders mounted a fierce defense that slowed the invaders.
IlosIlos was a ruined Prothean colony hidden behind the secret Mu Relay, home to the Conduit and the buried truth of the Reaper cycle, reached by Commander Shepard in the race to stop Saren Arterius.
Kadara: Haven of Exiles and PiratesKadara was a mountainous world in the Heleus Cluster, first settled by the angara and later overrun by exiles and pirates who fled the Nexus. Its waters ran toxic with sulphides until a Remnant vault was reactivated, after which the Andromeda Initiative was able to plant an outpost there.
Khar'shan: The Batarian HomeworldKhar'shan was the homeworld of the batarians, the center of an empire whose boastful propaganda masked a state hollowed out by Citadel sanctions. The Reapers struck it early in their invasion, severing its communications and likely dealing the empire a death blow.
Nexus: Heart of the Andromeda InitiativeThe Nexus was the headquarters of the Andromeda Initiative, a vast space station built to anchor the arriving arks, process resources, and shelter colonists in the Heleus Cluster. Modeled on the Citadel, it survived disaster and rebellion to become the seat of the colonization effort.
NoveriaNoveria was a frozen world chartered for research too dangerous to perform elsewhere, where Commander Shepard tracked Matriarch Benezia, uncovered a revived rachni queen, and recovered the lost Mu Relay coordinates.
OmegaOmega was a sprawling space station built in the hollowed husk of an asteroid in the Terminus Systems, a haven for criminals and outcasts ruled by the asari warlord Aria T'Loak. Often called the dark counterpart to the Citadel, it had no central government and changed hands only through violence.
PalavenPalaven was the homeworld of the turians, a silver-hued world whose martial culture shaped everything from its architecture to its politics. Long unconquered, it endured its first invasion when the Reapers brought overwhelming force against it in the war of 2186.
ProdromosProdromos was the first lasting outpost the Andromeda Initiative established in the Heleus Cluster, founded on the world of Eos after two earlier settlements failed. It became possible only once a Remnant terraforming vault was reset to drive back the radiation that had made the planet uninhabitable.
RannochRannoch was the arid homeworld of the quarians, a walled garden of rivers and deserts lost to the geth in the war that drove its people into exile. For generations it lay watched over by a vast swarm of geth space stations.
Sur'Kesh: The Salarian HomeworldSur'Kesh was the lush, jungle-covered homeworld of the salarians, the seat of their breeding rules and government, and the site of a secret STG base raided by Cerberus during the search for a genophage cure.
Terminus SystemsThe Terminus Systems were a vast, ungoverned region beyond Citadel space, home to a loose affiliation of minor species united only in refusing the Council's authority. A haven for piracy, the slave trade, and mercenary gangs, the Terminus centered on the trade hub of Omega.
Terra NovaTerra Nova was the second human extrasolar colony and the first settled beyond the Charon mass relay, a garden world whose platinum deposits drew a rush of immigrants. Once the most populous Alliance colony, it later suffered batarian raids and a Reaper landing during the war.
ThessiaThessia was the homeworld of the asari, a wealthy and stable world rich in element zero that was long regarded as one of the most prosperous in the galaxy. Its peaceful republics were shattered by the Reaper assault during the war of 2186.
ThorianThe Thorian, also called Species 37, was an ancient sentient plant on Feros, at least fifty thousand years old. It controlled the minds of those who inhaled its spores, turning them into thralls, and held an entire colony in its grip until Commander Shepard destroyed it in 2183.
TuchankaTuchanka was the homeworld of the krogan, a harsh and irradiated world scarred by the nuclear wars its people waged upon themselves. Once a fertile world teeming with fierce life, it became a wasteland of craters, ash, and predatory survivors.
VirmireVirmire was a lush, tropical frontier world in the Terminus reaches where Saren Arterius built a secret research base, and where Commander Shepard learned the true purpose of the Reapers before destroying it.
Voeld: Frozen Angaran WorldVoeld was an angaran world in the grip of an ice age, set in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. Once dense with cities, it had become a frozen battleground where scattered angaran settlements and a resistance held out against the occupying kett.
WardsThe Wards were the five great arms of the Citadel, residential districts each home to millions and dense as the cities of old Earth. Sealed against vacuum and tended by the keepers, they could be closed to fold the station into an impenetrable cylinder.