Hey Guardians!
[url=http://oi57.tinypic.com/30b1moh.jpg]I've marked up a map[/url] (also can be seen above,) of the Earth Cosmodrome map. This thread will be a discussion about the map itself and the direction it will take us .
[b]**Please note that everything I discuss is pureply seculation, and my own interpertations of what I can see on the map.**'[/b]
Map Key:
[quote]Green: The Traveler. The Last city. The Reach of the Traveler's protection. This circle could very well be the walls of the city. As most pictures indicate, this city is circular in shape.
Yellow: The boundaries of the first Area on Earth.
Orange: The boundaries for the rest of the Earth map.
Blue: Bodies of water. Rivers, coasts, etc.
Red: Possible adventure paths.
Purple: The Colony Ship, Cosmodrome Raid.[/quote]
I believe that the entire map that we see here is just the first of many for the Earth world. This map itself is called Cosmodrome. The Cosmodrome is made up of 10 sub-area. Old Russia (Yellow,) Rocket Yard, The Divide, Dry Sea, Sky Watch, Moth-Yard, Delta South, Blind Steppes, Forgotten Shore, Colony Ship.
[u]Why I believe that the area in Yellow is Old Russia:[/u] It's simple. The area outlined in yellow has multiple locations listed. It is the only area on the map like this. Since we know that the Devil's Lair resides in Old Russia, we use the process of elimination.
[u]But Moth-Yard and Delta South are in the same area!:[/u] Although they appear to be connected, I believe that they may be considered different areas. The map itself is hard to tell, but they seem seperated by mountains or something a bit more subtle than what seperates the other areas.
[u]How could Colony Ship be considered an area?:[/u] I will go more into this later on in the post..
Old Russia
[spoiler]Contains the Devil's Lair, which was know to be the first of many Strikes we will be able to accomplish in the game. There is a river running through this area. A bridge of broken down vehicles lies in the river at the Graveyard. This is how you cross. On the other side of the river is a pathway, currently blocked. This pathway possibly leads to future content (DLC?) If you dont cross the river, you will find two areas: King's Watch and Blast. King's Watch could possibly be anything. Another strike perhaps? Maybe a public event area? It is quite possible that this is the wall from the reveal trailer. Blast to me sounds like it could be the PvP arena.[/spoiler]
Rocket Yard
[spoiler]An alternate route, allowing you to bypass whatever King's Watch and Blast might be. This area lets out back in Old Russia, right at the entrance to the Devil's Lair. There is also a path that heads through The Divide.[/spoiler]
The Divide
[spoiler]This area connects the Rocket Yard with Old Russia. After beating the hell out of the Machine Beast at the Devil's Lair, you can enter the Divide.[/spoiler]
The Dry Sea
[spoiler]After beating the Devil's Lair, you can head out west to the Dry sea. From here, you can access the Forgotten Shore. The Dry Sea looks to be a marsh-like area, or an area with e lot of beach and thinning rivers. [/spoiler]
Sky Watch
[spoiler]Connects the Dry Sea and Old Russia.[/spoiler]
Moth-Yard
[spoiler]The Entrance lies between Sky Watch, and Old Russia.[/spoiler]
Delta South
[spoiler]Home to the Colony Ship. Possibly the last area before being able to access the Blind Steppes.[/spoiler]
Blind Steppes
[spoiler] The last area of the Cosmodrome map. There will possibly be a connection to "Gateway" in a future DLC. This area has the hardest level of difficulty, aside from the Forgotten Shore.[/spoiler]
The Forgotten Shore
[spoiler] This area can be accessed via the Dry Sea. This is one of the last and hardest areas to complete in the Cosmodrome.
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The Colony Ship
[spoiler] I have reason to believe that the Colony Ship has something to do with the Raid for the Cosmodrome. It seems very random to have a random image of the Colony Ship.[/spoiler]
What I have gathered from this map:
[quote]-Each Planet Could have Multiple Zones, This map detailing the Earth's Cosmodrome.
-Each Zone has multiple areas. Old Russia, The Dry Sea, and the Blind Steppes for example
-Each area could have it's own raids, strikes, PvP arena, etc.
-There will be hidden areas that we need to come back to at higher levels.
-There will be one Raid per Zone. If the game ships with one Zone on each of the four planets that would give us four raids at launch.
-There appear to be paths to future content that we can not currently access.
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So these are my initial thoughts on the map after marking it up. What do you think? Do you have any more theories of how the progression of the Earth map might play out? Do you have any ideas about things I'm missing? I'll update this post as more ideas come to the light.
Edit:
[quote]So in the video, the narrator says this: "Beneath the ruins of the Cosmodrome, in the shadow of an old colony ship, we've located the House of Devils' lair"
Upon doing a little googling, this is what I've found:
cos·mo·drome
/ˈkäzməˌdrōm/
noun
noun: cosmodrome; plural noun: cosmodromes
(in the countries of the former Soviet Union) a launching site for spacecraft.
So looking at more than just the map, we can rule out the Colony Ship being a raid. This particular map's purpose might very well be to showcase the location of the Devil's Lair. The Colony Ship is the landmark that distinguishes it.[/quote]
[b]Once again, this topic is purely speculation.[/b]
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Reviving an old thread because it is now relevant with recent information. ^^BUMP^^
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Anyone else have any ideas?
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1 ReplyIf I recall correctly someone from Bungie or a press person stated the rocket yard is where you leave the wall of the city, but I could be mistaken; I've watched a fair bit..
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2 RepliesEdited by Nick the Slick: 4/30/2014 1:57:56 PMI don't know if that area in green really is the Traveler though. In the video it stays in the background while the rest of the map gets closer to the screen. I think it's more of a compass rose of sorts.
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10 RepliesPretty good speculation, earth's cosmodrome looks to have more than just old russia, i would love to see different habitats in earth, all we have seen so far is like plains and alpine enviroments.
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Please keep in mind that insight not fully be caught up on info. If I have something wrong, please fill me in.
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2 RepliesEdited by CryoliteZ: 4/30/2014 6:31:54 AMThis whole part of the map is old russia. Look at the wall between the divide and blind steppes and watch the gameplay vid that they are going trough the wall, at the beginning you hear the guy say "old russia".
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2 RepliesSome info: in the Devil's Lair strike, they entered through the rocket yard and fought west.