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The Moon - Version 14 vs Version 15
Jun 4, 2026, 08:56 PM
Removed duplicate in-body wikilinks
Jul 22, 2026, 02:27 AM
Added How the Moon Is Explored covering the non-open-world structure, widening access, and gated secrets, plus the studio's statement that the lunar cities are culturally mixed rather than monocultural
11Earth's Moon is the seat of power of the SOL Shogunate and the principal explorable region of SOL Shogunate. It is the stage on which Yuzuki's revenge plot unfolds. For the wider pitch see the Overview; for the political body that rules this world, see the SOL Shogunate. The Moon is described as a network of glass-domed megacities and crater mining settlements stitched together by long-range infrastructure.22Glass-Domed Megacities44Each major city on the Moon is themed around a different era of Japanese history. Inside the domes, centrifugal force and engineered atmospheres approximate Earth-normal conditions: walkable gravity, breathable air, and stable temperatures. Life inside a dome can resemble a richly art-directed period setting, even though the dome itself sits on a barren regolith plain. These megacities are where the elite shogunate aristocracy lives.66The era theming is a surface, not a description of the population. The studio has said each city is meant to read as a real, lived-in futuristic metropolis made up of many different backgrounds and cultures, so the Japanese-period dressing sits on top of a mixed populace rather than standing in for it.9+Confirmed Cities911Two cities have been confirmed as flagship locations:1113CityEra InspirationRoleShin-EdoFeudal Edo periodKnown as the Lunar Glass City. An opulent capital under a vast dome, dressed with the architecture and street life of a feudal Edo capital.Tenkyo1980s Showa-eraA nightlife district drenched in neon, built around a late-twentieth-century Japanese entertainment quarter.1315Other lunar cities are implied by the design pitch, but none others have been publicly confirmed.1416Infrastructure1618The lunar world is held together by industrial-scale transit.1820Space elevators connect the lunar surface to orbit, moving people and material between the Moon and the wider solar system.Bullet trains tie cities and districts together across the lunar surface. The Tennoji clan built much of this network, which is part of why the family carries so much political weight before the massacre that opens the campaign.Opulent elite quarters inside the cities indicate a class divide built into the architecture, visibly separate from the spaces where colonial workers live.2022Outdoor Surface2224Outside the domes, the lunar surface is hostile. Unpressurized exterior zones face hard vacuum, high radiation, and extreme temperature swings. When Yuzuki steps outside, her bio-ceramic skin hardens into protective plating, letting her fight and move through conditions that would kill an unaltered human. Long stretches between settlements are where mounted traversal matters: a robotic horse, along with a monocycle option, is the long-distance answer for crossing the exterior.2426Worldbuilding around the surface is layered with the remnants of an earlier solar system-wide war. The exterior is not only hostile because of vacuum and radiation. The studio has framed it as a place that still carries the scars and traces of conflicts fought across the colonized worlds before the present-day rule of the Shogunate, which is part of why crossing it is treated as more than just a physical hazard.2628Class Divide as Architecture2830The split between elite and worker quarters is more than a story note. Long-term life in low gravity weakens bone and muscle, and the public framing of SOL Shogunate rule is that the wealthy buy back what the Moon costs the body. Inside the engineered cities, the elite have space, time, and equipment to exercise, which keeps them in fighting form. The colonial worker class living below the spotlight does not get the same opportunity, and the gap shows up not just as luxury but as physical capability.3032Gravity-manipulation gear builds on the same divide. The hand-and-belt tools that let elites cheat lunar gravity, an evolution of equipment from real-world astronaut programs, are restricted to those who can afford them. Yuzuki carries that gear, which is one reason her movement on the surface reads as inherited privilege rather than personal skill.3234Crater Mining Settlements3436Alongside the glass cities, the Moon is home to mining settlements carved directly into impact craters. These are working colonies tied to the rival Karasuma clan, whose power flows from lunar mining. They keep the resource economy of the Shogunate running but are not the spaces the elite are shown enjoying. Specific named mining settlements have not been revealed.3638Orbital Component3941The Moon's geography extends into orbit. A wheel-shaped space station rotates to generate artificial gravity in the style of a Stanford torus. Combined with the surface space elevators, this orbital layer establishes that travel between the lunar surface and high lunar orbit is part of the world rather than a one-time set piece.4143Class Divide4345Geography and class line up tightly on the Moon. The visible side of lunar life is the gleaming aristocracy inside the domes: themed cities, elite quarters, a culture engineered to feel like a beautified Earth-bound past. The largely unseen side is a colonial worker underclass that keeps the mines and transit running. The political body responsible for that separation is the SOL Shogunate, and the campaign uses Yuzuki's status as a ronin to move between layers ordinary citizens do not normally cross.4547How the Moon Is Explored49+The Moon is not a single seamless open world. The studio has been direct about that: the game is narrative-driven and built out of designed levels rather than one continuous map. There is still a variety of biomes to move through, and access to them widens the further into the campaign the player gets.51+Individual areas are built to hide things. The studio has described levels that conceal secrets and locked-away places needing the grapple and unlocked skills to reach, so coming back to an earlier location with a better toolkit is part of the design. The stated framing is a world of lies and unfolding mysteries, where answers surface as the player pushes on and tend to open bigger questions rather than close them.53+Unconfirmed Details4755Several pieces of the lunar setting have not yet been officially detailed and should not be treated as confirmed:4957The full catalog of cities beyond Shin-Edo and Tenkyo is not yet public.Named neighborhoods, districts, or landmarks inside any city have not been revealed.City sizes, populations, and explorable footprints have not been quantified.How the game handles the lunar day and night cycle is undisclosed.A full taxonomy of outdoor surface zones, including any named regions or biome types, has not been published.Orbital locations beyond the wheel-shaped station, and whether other planets in the solar system are explorable, remain unconfirmed.5159This page will be updated as more is revealed.
