Dark Moon thrusts you into a harrowing future set on the desolate lunar landscape. In the unforgiving year of 2077, humanity's fledgling foothold on the Moon teeters on the brink of collapse. What was once a beacon of progress has been ravaged by a cataclysmic solar flare, reducing the lunar colonies to ruins and shrouding them in darkness.
As the player, you awaken amidst the chaos, cut off from civilization and left to navigate the twisted remnants of lunar infrastructure. Communication is severed, and survival becomes a desperate struggle in this hostile, dystopian world. The technology that surrounds you is a haunting blend of futuristic marvels and the eerie echoes of abandoned lunar plans, a stark reminder of humanity's relentless drive for expansion.
Drawing inspiration from the blueprints of space agencies and private enterprises, Dark Moon immerses you in a grim, gritty vision of lunar colonization. Brace yourself for an odyssey through the shadows of a shattered dream, where every step could be your last in this unforgiving lunar wasteland.
An early concept of a lunar train
Who you are?
Once a respected member of the Engineering Council dispatched by Moon Shell, your mission seemed straightforward: supervise the implementation of an advanced mining system on the unforgiving lunar surface. However, the stark simplicity of this task crumbled beneath the weight of an unforeseen catastrophe.
A colossal solar storm, an act of celestial wrath, descended upon Earth with merciless fury, obliterating all electronics in its voracious path. As chaos reigned, the blinding rage of the Sun's scorching rays engulfed the Moon's main communication relay, leaving it a smoldering ruin in the unyielding light.
Now, you find yourself stranded and isolated, a solitary figure in the desolation of a lunar wasteland consumed by the relentless glare of the Sun. The once-promising outpost is now a graveyard of shattered dreams, everything within the Sun's reach reduced to ash in mere moments.
In this twisted reality, light is not a source of hope but a harbinger of destruction. Embrace the shadows, for they are your only refuge in this relentless battle for survival amidst the suffocating darkness of the lunar expanse.
Drone and bot hangar in Mechaplex
Dark Moon timeline
- 2032 - Global powers, including US, China, Russia and EU engage in the Global Trade War in order to gain control over Earth’s strategic resources.
- 2034 - Climate crisis, mass migration and starvation in South America results in the formation of a superstate USAN (Union of South American Nations) composed of most of the countries on the continent.
- 2035 - Economic warfare fueled the innovation in the resource mining sector, and due to that massive states gained additional independence from global trade chains.
- 2038 - African Union collapses due to conflicts of the Nile Delta and its dams. Arabian League supports Egypt, exacerbating the geopolitical differences on the continent.
- 2045 - The unprecedented economic recession and climate change force civilization states to stop the Global Trade War and partially restore the global trade chains. However, the major players are on their way to secure their own resource independence from the global market.
- 2046 - The beginning of the Resource Wars. This is a series of proxy conflicts between the major players trying to secure the resources in the weaker and divided parts of the Earth. The players for each region are: Middle East: European Federation, Russia, and the USA Oceania: CANZUK, China, India, and the USA Africa: CANZUK, European Federation, China Central America: The USA and USAN
- 2055 - Due to the severe depletion of resource deposits in the Earth's crust, the Civilization States begin their efforts in space. First lunar mining operations of a large scale are initialized. However, due to the lack of space law, slowly smaller conflicts between the Civilization States are on the horizon.
- 2066 - The Moon Shell company is founded together with the Moon Rush project, which is the first cooperative effort to lessen the chances of conflicts for space resources.
- 2072 - The outstanding success of the Moon Rush project and its Moon Shell Corporation ends the Resource Wars.
- 2077 - Dark Moon Begins…
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