Stygia is the setting of the game Bulletstorm. It is a harsh, extremely dangerous planet inhabited by giant man-eating plants, mutants, and cannibalistic gangs.
History[]
A once fertile and beautiful world that was rich with peaceful inhabitants, Stygia was used for a luxurious vacation resort for humans that was controlled by an unnamed, amoral corporation. However, the planet was host to extreme levels of gamma radiation in the form of electrical storms. In an effort to combat this and reduce costs in the process, the corporation staffed the resort's maintenance group with cheap prison labor, employing convicts in exchange for shortened sentences. The convicts (exactly twenty-eight thousand of them) ran the resort in part from an underground facility and various tunnels, including the maintenence of gamma radiation filters that gathered and neutralized the radiation from the gamma storms.
However, the corporation began storing radiowaste waste created by the gamma filiters in the prison facility where they lived while they tried to find a permanent dumping ground; this resulted in mutations, sickness and death among the workers. In response, the workers quickly revolted and destroyed the radiation filters to eliminate the waste. However, in their haste, they destroyed the only things protecting everyone, themselves included, from the storms. With no filters, the radiation to build up on the surface and mutating the entire population as well as the planet's wildlife.
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Trivia[]
- The name "Stygia" is most likely in reference to the River Styx. This "Stygian world" is repeatedly called a hell planet.
- Another planet named Stygia was featured in the video game Ratchet: Deadlocked, for the PlayStation 2, which also has same kind of lightning storms as the one in Bulletstorm.
- One day on Stygia lasts 32 hours.
- Due to the 32-hour day/night cycle, Grayson is only on the planet for two days.