#019 GAD BA4: Game Re-Design - World Setting

For part of the design documents I was tasked with setting the location of the story. Below is a passage specifically for the World Setting as well as a concept image for the location:

XP-159 is a very large water based planet, 25 times the size of earth, chosen for it’s abundant supply of water to power its hydrogen based reactors. The drawback of XP-159 is it’s constantly adjusting atmosphere, thin at some times and thick at others, which creates a non-sustainable environment for oxygen breathing organisms as well as regular barrages from solar wind. The research facility is well protected to counter this, with 2 foot thick Inconel walls and automated blast windows/doors.

Phenotype is based in an off-world research facility on the planet marked XP-159. The reasons behind this are due to the nature of the scientific research taking hold in the facility, the genetic mutation and experimentation of animals in the quest to create the ultimate bio-weapon.

The facility was lifted into the outer atmosphere in modules on the back of a modified winged aircraft, then pieced together into larger modules. The modules were then towed to XP-159 from earth by an automated nuclear powered space-tug, the journey would take an estimated 24 years! The facility researchers and staff traveled to XP-159 in a lighter and fast ship some time later, timed to arrive at the same time as the facility.