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Limbo-6
September 9, 2026 at 01:09 AM
Initial version (2026-09-08)
Limbo-6 is the setting of DUST: Origins and effectively its antagonist. It is an orbital processing platform in decaying orbit above the prison planet Dross, and it is the last of the six stations the Sol Imperium built there. When the game begins it is in total collapse: the orbit is failing, major systems are down, and the population that remains is fighting over whatever is left.
Limbo-6 was built as a gateway to Dross. Along with five other sprawling orbital stations, it was meant to support the Sol Imperium's colonisation of the planet below, and its early population was colonists rather than convicts.
When Dross proved impossible to tame, the station's purpose darkened. Colonists gave way to prisoners. The cryo bays that had held settlers became warehouses for human cargo, holding transfers on ice until the planet needed replacements. And the research facilities became an Imperial black site, where prisoners were subjected to gene-splicing, infection trials and other experiments designed to make human beings survive a world that violently purged them.
Decades have passed since the last Sol Imperium ship resupplied the station. When the Navy stopped arriving with new transfers, supplies ran thin, oversight lapsed and the Limbo Stations began falling into disarray. Limbo-6 is the last of them still standing, and it has entered its final days.
The station the player wakes into is a wreck that has not finished collapsing.
Condition | Detail |
|---|---|
Orbit | Decaying. The station is expected to tear itself apart. |
Systems | Major systems have failed. Whole decks have gone dark or opened to the vacuum of space. |
Cryo bays | Thousands of prisoners remain frozen in failing pods. |
Containment | Bio-experiments have escaped and now roam the station. No area is described as safe. |
Authority | The station's deteriorating AI continues enforcing laws written by masters who vanished generations ago. |
Population | A handful of survivors have woken amid the chaos and are fighting over dwindling resources, weapons and escape pods. |
Guards | Still present, and executing inmates. |
The escape pods are the way off, and the official framing is that they are gone, destroyed or off limits. That is the problem the whole game is built on: there must be a way off somehow, and finding it is the objective.
The station is described as vast, with more than one way to get around. Progress through it comes from exploring, talking to survivors and reading logs held in its central terminal system, and much of its geography is locked behind collected disks, hacked security and restricted files that yield key items. Those items enable backtracking, which suggests a layout meant to be re-crossed once new access opens.
Danger scales with depth. Every sector reached is described as deepening the horrors waiting in it, so the station functions as a difficulty curve as much as a map. Equipment scales the same way: the further in the player gets, the more they gain access to.
One early teaser clip referred to the station as Limbo IV. Every other official surface, including a dedicated page on the game's own site and the store description, uses Limbo-6. Limbo-6 is the correct designation and the one used throughout this wiki.
Sector or deck names, and how many there are.
Whether the station AI is an antagonist, a system, a character, or all three. Its enforcement of old laws is stated as lore, not as a described mechanic.
Whether the other five Limbo Stations appear or are referenced beyond their existence.
The station's crew, its command structure, or who ran the black site.
How many survivors are aboard, and who they are.
Whether any part of Dross itself is playable.
