Location: Milky Way / Exodus Cluster / Asgard System / Terra Nova
Description[]
Before DLC Completion[]
X57 is a metallic asteroid, originally located at the trailing Lagrange point of the gas giant Borr. With the increased development on Terra Nova, a new orbital port facility was necessary. Due to a shortage of funding, it was decided to 'mine out' X57, using the recovered resources to finish out the interior for habitation. The asteroid was decelerated from Borr's orbit using fusion torches, allowing it to fall into the orbit of Terra Nova.
Recently, communications with the engineering team on X57 have been lost. The fusion torches have reignited, and the asteroid is accelerating towards Terra Nova.
After DLC Completion[]
Asteroid X57 has been brought under control. Once repairs are complete, the asteroid will be carefully maneuvered into geosynchronous orbit around Terra Nova. Though the batarian terrorists have destroyed several months of work, experts predict it can still open for business before the end of 2184.
Assignments[]
- Assignment: X57: Bring Down the Sky
- Assignment: X57: Missing Engineers
- Assignment: X57: Avoid the Blasting Caps
Points of Interest[]
| Location | Appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Initial | Fusion torch. |
| 2 | Initial | Fusion torch. Surrounded by active blasting caps, so it must be approached on foot. |
| 3 | Initial | Fusion torch. |
| 4 | Initial | Main transmitter. When repaired, displays survey stations on the area map. |
| 5 | Discovery | Main Facility. The underground headquarters for the mining and engineering crew, consisting of several offices, a central hub and a medical room. The facility cannot be entered without a pass card, and the batarians have changed the entrance codes. A pass card can be acquired from Charn. |
| 6 | Discovery | Survey Station 1
“Survey Station 1 Recording Body of C. Hymes “This body has severe burns and shows signs of major concussive trauma. Mercifully, the explosion would have killed her instantaneously.” |
| 7 | Discovery | Survey Station 2
“Survey Station 2 Final Entry |
| 8 | Discovery | Body of R. Montoya
“It looks like he died from a single shot through his helmet, likely from a sniper. Whoever killed him didn't even bother to search his body; there's still equipment in his service pack.” |
| 9 | Discovery | Survey Station 3
“Survey Station 3 Final Entry Body of G. Mendel “This victim was badly beaten before being killed with a pistol shot to the back of the head at close range. It's likely he surrendered, only to be executed by his sadistic captors.” |
| 10 | Discovery | Vehicle wreckage. Body of T. Slajs and salvage.
“The scorching on this victim's hardsuit suggests he escaped the burning interior of his vehicle only to be gunned down by his assailants.” |
| 11 | Discovery | X57 Radio. First examination yields:
“This computer is filled with operation logs and personal journals for a small pirate music station operated by X57's engineers. It includes scripts for several promotional messages, none of which appear to have been recorded.”
Subsequent examination yields: “You notice an open text file, the personal journal of the station operator. It reads in part: "Project director wants to shut us down. Says our music is too 'extreme', that we're inciting the younger workers to riot and sleep with aliens. I asked him if he'd listened to us. He said he'd talked to someone who'd heard about what we play."” (Note that this may require several re-examinations.) |
| 12 | Discovery | Construction camp. Several fuel tanks nearby.
“The computer lists a complete cargo manifest of the containers outside. It is mostly uninteresting – excavation equipment and parts for prefabricated work shacks. A footnote catches your eye: 'Explosives moved to grid reference 32-4-16 for safety.'” |
| 13 | Discovery | Explosives cache. Full of grenade storage boxes. |
Lifeforms[]
Properties[]
Asteroid X57 is 22 kilometers long, twice the size of the asteroid that wiped out Earth's dinosaurs. If it's allowed to strike Terra Nova it would have subjected the planet to cataclysmic upheavals that it would not recover from for thousands, potentially millions, of years.
Trivia[]
- The slogans found at X57 Radio reference classic sci-fi series' Star Trek and Babylon 5. One of them, "When Your World is Hollow, We Help You Touch the Sky" refers to the classic Star Trek episode For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, about a hollow asteroid serving as a generation ship for a group of colonists that is inadvertently set on a course to impact a human colony.
- Your Last, Best Hope for ROCK within 300,000 Kilometers", references the motto of the titular Babylon 5 station, "The last, best hope for peace".
- The slogan "Talk Hard," references Pump Up The Volume, a movie about a student operating a pirate radio station.
- The project director's complaint in the PC version is likely an allusion to the 'sex scene controversy', wherein author Cooper Lawrence made several false allegations regarding the game's sex scene, and the possible negative effects it could have on its target audience. When asked if she had ever played the game, she emphatically said no. When she later recanted her accusations, she claimed she had asked a third party to describe the content of the game to her.