Illium

Description
Illium is a classic garden world developed to serve as entrepot between the Terminus Systems and the Asari Republics. To abet this trade the normally stringent customs laws of Council space on product-safety-proscribed materials and sapient trafficking are relaxed. Officially, Illium is not an asari world; it is colonized and operated by asari corporate interests. This give it the same legal latitude enjoyed by the human corporate research enclaves of Noveria. Illium is one of the youngest asari colonies settled during the 7th Expansion Wave. The first child born on the world is only now reaching her middle age. The world is hot and massive; ground settlement is only possible at the higher polar latitudes. In more equatorial locations the population is housed in arcology skyscrapers to escape the heat of the surface.

World Type: Garden

Illium is a mission world and is not minable.

The skald fish, which is available for purchase at Citadel Souvenirs, is native to this world.

Additonal Description


Ilium is an asari colony in the Imathea Cluster which is introduced in Mass Effect 2 as the homeworld of the Dantius sisters and Seryna. Liara T'Soni has also taken up residence there working as an information broker. The world appears to have a capital city named Nos Astra. Illium is a commerce planet. It sees a lot of new cultures and goods due to its proximity to the Terminus Systems. All kinds of goods are traded on Illium. Drugs are legal as long as they are labeled properly. One can buy any weapon or technology, even indentured servants. At the same time it is still an asari world and considered to be safe. However new visitors are instructed to avoid signing anything. Illium is a free-trade world and contract term requirements are more relaxed than on other worlds. This and other trade rules are relaxed in order to stay competitive with the Terminus systems. Very few quarians visit Illium as it does not allow the Migrant Fleet to enter the star system. It is one of three known asari worlds, the other two being Thessia, their home planet, and Lusia.

In Mass Effect 2 Shepard heads to Illium to intercept and recruit notorious drell assassin Thane as he attempts to assassinate Nassana Dantius. Once on Illium Shepard must battle against Eclipse mercernaries under the Dantius' employ in order to reach Nassana and encounter Thane.

While on Illium, Shepard also has the opportunity to recruit Samara, an asari Justicar. She can be found at the end of an alley that has been roped off as a crime scene, interogating a mercenary. After Samara has been taken into custody, Shepard must infiltrate an Eclipse base and recover the name of the ship that the Justicar's target escaped on. She will then be released from custody and join Shepard's team.

Ilium's Design
Because it is an asari homeworld, designs for Ilium had to capture the beauty and serenity of the species.

Trivia

 * Īlium is the Latin name of the legendary city of Troy.