Moon Zone

This information is about unimplemented features that were confirmed via one or more methods, but might have changed significantly before being released.

Overview

The Moon Zone or Moon Base was a rumored upcoming zone to City of Heroes, City of Villains, or both. It had been suggested several times, and people browsing the game files insisted there is "proof" of such a zone going to be in an upcoming issue. In the final months before the closure of Paragon Studios, devs on the forums confirmed that a Moon Zone was in the early stages of concept art and production.

References

Before the announced closure, however, the only piece of information available was on a forum post by Positron:

• The moon base is called "Armstrong Lunar Facility". The space station is the "Gagarin Orbital Platform".
• Armstrong base and Gagarin station are the common nicknames for the two facilities.
• The IOSC (International Outer Space Consortium) is the international space flight organization.
• The above is part of the background for the City Of world.
• A number of players have found the following text inside their files; "texture_library/WORLD/V_COV/Space/Moon_Landscape/MoonDirt_01.texture (piggs/texVWorld.pigg and piggs/texVWorld.pigg)"

However, MANY references have been made to the moon, starting with Issue 8 and the reopening of Faultline. Some of them are as follows:

• The dam in Faultline is said to have been ruptured by unusual seismic activity on the Moon.
• Several Rikti ships were said to have retreated into space following the aftermath of the Rikti War.
• The Circle of Thorns have made casual references in Faultline to a source of power on the moon.
• The Lost frequently speak of a "change" coming and sometimes reference the damage to the dam as part of it.
• In promotional art for Issue 12, there is a large, central shot of the Moon.
• It is possible to see the moon from Ouroboros.
• Manticore and Sister Psyche had their honeymoon on the Moon.
• The Lore AMA has several questions and answers about the Moon Zone.