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11EXODUS is a multi-world game. The Traveler does not stay on Lidon the entire campaign; each Exodus targets a specific destination in the Omega Centauri cluster, and over the course of the story Jun Aslan visits a sequence of biomes, factional capitals, and Celestial ruins. The worlds shown in trailers and community updates so far make clear that biome variety is a deliberate part of the design: frozen ruins, molten depths, towering shrines, and dense urban interiors all appear in promotional material.22Lidon44Lidon is the player's home moon, in the Malakbel system, orbiting the gas giant Galarus. The Aslan Dynasty's stronghold here is the Persepolis cityscape on the moon's hot pole. Lidon was the destination of a comparatively late ark fleet whose surviving descendants now make a living as salvagers, engineers, and Travelers. The moon is hostile enough that the population lives in fortified urban districts rather than spread agriculture, and its surface is studded with the remains of an extinct alien civilization that predates both the Celestials and the human Dynasties.66Lidon's position is not natural. An Archimedes Engine, one of the planet-moving relics built during the Remnant Era, holds the moon in its orbit beside Galarus in the Malakbel system. These machines stabilise orbits, regulate atmospheres, and terraform dead rock into habitable ground, and they fail after a few thousand years. Repairing one is close to impossible because the civilisation that built them went extinct ten thousand years ago. A world whose Engine fails can become uninhabitable inside a single generation. That is the deadline sitting underneath the campaign, alongside the Rot. See Story and Setting for the wider timeline.88Persepolis1010Persepolis is a vertical, sealed city, organized around a central tower complex. It hosts the Aslan Dynasty's central authority, the salvager guilds, the Traveler caste's preparation grounds, and the spaceport from which every Exodus launches. Notable landmarks include the Oupávia Space Tower, visible across the cityscape.1212The April 2026 Persepolis Cityscape clip showcased a balcony vantage point overlooking the city, with the gas giant Galarus dominating the horizon and the Oupávia Space Tower rising in silhouette. The clip also formally introduced the Precognition ability as the player's tool for reading landmark history in the cityscape; see Gauntlet Abilities for the broader picture.1414Officially, Persepolis is Jun's primary hub and a major city for humans and Awakened alike, layered with centuries of building on top of ancient Celestial ruins. One neighbourhood has been named: Borderline, where Elise Charroux drinks with the other mercenaries and salvagers at the local cantina. Archetype Entertainment has said a dedicated deep dive on Persepolis as an RPG hub is planned before launch.1616Lyonesse1818Lyonesse is a location on Lidon defined by its space towers. The March 2026 gameplay clips used it twice: a live combat encounter on the outskirts of Lyonesse with Jun, Tom, and Elise, where positioning and squad support decide the fight, and a quieter traversal sequence climbing one of its space towers with the railclaw. The developers used that second clip to make a point about pacing: traversal in EXODUS has its own rhythm, and the towers are built to be looked at as much as climbed. How Lyonesse fits into the story has not been disclosed.2020Below Lidon2222Across April and May 2026, Archetype Entertainment showed a series of gameplay clips set in subterranean Celestial ruins beneath Lidon. These are not all officially confirmed as a single connected network, but they share architecture, materials, and visual language. The named sites are:2424Ghost City: buried Celestial ruins stretching miles below the surface; the site of a mercenary-search mission with Elise and Salt. See Ghost City.The Guarding Maze: a collapsed Celestial facility where the environment itself is the primary threat; traversed with Tom and Phaedra. See The Guarding Maze.The Foundations / Molten Depths: volcanic Celestial ruins miles below the surface, with magma flows, scorching geysers, and boiling rivers. Eruption is used here to shape livestone into bridges and to redirect magma around the party.2727Common across all three sites are walls built from livestone (the Celestial material that the Traveler's gauntlets can shape via the Eruption ability), vertical traversal demands that lean on the Railclaw, and environmental puzzles that require the player to forge the next path forward. The full ability set used in these environments is on Gauntlet Abilities.2929Khonsu3131Khonsu is the first non-Lidon world shown in extended gameplay. The March 2026 community update walked through a Khonsu mission titled "Breaching Khonsu", with the Traveler infiltrating an orbital Celestial shrine. The interior shown is dominated by towering, ornate Celestial architecture, with environmental puzzles, vertical traversal, and combat encounters layered through it.3333Khonsu is also the showcase for several of EXODUS's signature systems. The Recycler mode swaps are demonstrated in the Khonsu footage; gauntlet abilities like the Lance feature heavily; the Railclaw moves the Traveler through architectural spaces that explicitly require grappling traversal.3535Tsang3737In May 2026 Archetype Entertainment introduced Tsang, a volcanic world in the Malakbel system that Archetype describes as the most volcanically active world in the system. Its conditions are summarised in official material as extreme heat, a sulfuric atmosphere, and unstable terrain. The reveal shows the Traveler descending into a deep crater with sulfuric rivers, erupting geysers, and a poisoned sky. The exterior is wrapped in toxic yellow mist, the rock walls are coated in sulfur, and the ground itself is unstable enough that an unsteady step risks collapse.3939The June 2026 extended reveal put an objective behind the location. Jun travels to Tsang with Phaedra, and the pair cross sulfurous lakes and ancient architecture looking for her missing grandfather, Elijah, who is described as holding a terrifying secret about the origins of the Rot. The showcase closes with Jun facing a final choice over Elijah's fate, which makes Tsang the first location publicly tied to a named, consequential story decision rather than to a traversal or combat demonstration.4141At the bottom of the crater is the visual hook of the demo: a derelict starship half-buried in volcanic rock, corroded by decades of exposure. The mission squad shown alongside Jun Aslan is Elise Charroux and Phaedra, a pairing the developers underline by warning that this is not somewhere a Traveler should be alone. A May 2026 mission-briefing update frames the trip in story terms: something buried on Tsang could save the homeworld, and both Jun and Phaedra have personal reasons for making the descent, planned alongside other trusted allies. Archetype showed more of the wider campaign, including the homeworld’s plight against the Rot, at the June 6, 2026 Extended Gameplay Reveal.4343Biome variety and additional worlds4545Other worlds previewed in trailers and dev material include:4949Frozen worlds with ice-locked ruins. Glimpses include massive icy structures and below-zero exteriors.Molten depths. Subterranean lava environments housing ancient ruins.Forest and frontier biomes. Brief shots of more pastoral environments populated by Awakened creatures.5252These have not all been named officially. They are listed here as deferred entries that will be promoted to their own articles once Archetype publishes names and contexts.5454How repeat visits work5656Worlds in EXODUS are not single-use levels. Because of Time Dilation, the player can return to a world after an Exodus and find it changed in concrete, signposted ways:5858Political control of a settlement may have changed hands.NPCs the player knew may have aged, died, or been replaced by descendants.Infrastructure may have advanced, decayed, or been repurposed.New questlines may have opened that did not exist before the trip, and old ones may have closed.6060This dovetails with the faction map covered in Celestials and Factions, since several of those changes are driven by faction-scale events that take place during a Traveler's absence.6262The Omega Centauri cluster6464In the game's fiction, Omega Centauri is a globular cluster roughly 16,000 light-years from Earth, containing on the order of ten million densely-packed stars. The deep-time fiction is that the original arkships scattered across the cluster's millions of habitable worlds; the player only visits a small selection of those worlds during the campaign, but the cluster's larger geography is the wallpaper behind every conversation about the wider war between baseline humans and the Celestials.6666For the cluster's political shape, see Celestials and Factions. For Jun's personal stake in defending Lidon, see The Traveler: Jun Aslan.
