Borderlands feats & lore discussion

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Borderlands feats & lore discussion

Borderlands is a roleplaying-shooter series. It currently has 3 major games and 3 spinoff games, as well as comics, novels and a movie on the way, along with other spinoffs. Most of the series is set on the distant & dangerous planet of Pandora, where a team of Vault Hunters team up to find and...

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Time for this thread to rise up once more! To start with, we have a canon size and distance and orbital speed for Pandora's moon of Elpis; that being a rough radius of 808 miles (or 1300.34995km, giving a total size of 1616 miles, or 2600.6999km). The Crackening brought up lava from Elpis's molten core to destroy the moons aatmosphere (which would imply that most of Elpis is full, even if the very core is hollow).

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Elpis is noted to weigh 'a fex sextillion metric tons' (10^21). More importantly though; Lilith didn't just mark the Firehawk brand on the moon (as I originally thought), but teleported herself and Elpis away across time and space. If she survived this or not is unknown (although Ava threatens anyone who tries to follow her telepathically, by warning she would teleport them into the nearest sun).

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The Eye of Helios Laser shakes the entire moon of Elpis, and with multiple blasts, has the power to destroy Elpis (which would take out a good part of Pandora too).

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The Eye of Helios laser as seen from space.

Elpis before Zarpedon started using the Eye of Helios against Elpis (although the moon is still damaged after the Crackening)...

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...And after.

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Randy Pitchford confirms that Lilith did infact teleport the entire moon of Elpis (perhaps with the power of the Eridium within) to somewhere else, and she will be wherever Elpis is (which no doubt will be revealed in a future game).

 

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At last! Direct confirmation that Moonshot canon rounds can take mere seconds to reach the targeted location on the planet (from The Worlds of Borderlands).

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These Loader and Constructor bots could serve as quick ground assault forces almost anywhere on Pandora or Elpis, sometimes arriving in a matter of mere seconds!

 

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Further confirmation that Lilith either teleported the entire moon of Elpis across both space and time or erased it from existence. What's more, it's also said that the fight between the original Vault Hunters and the Destroyer (or at least the small part of it that came through the Vault) fractured the planets mantle.

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There, Lilith helped defeat the Destroyer, the apocalyptic abomination unleashed from within. The titanic battle fractured the planet's mantle, sending an alien mineral called Eridium surging upward through Pandora's crust. Lilith found that this substance significantly enhanced her Siren powers.

Lilith was last seen levitating towards Elpis, after which she and the moon both disappeared...leaving only her Firehawk sigil emblazoned across the Pandoran sky. Some believe she teleported Elpis somewhere else in space and time. Others think she phased the moon entirely out of existence, sacrificing herself in the process. As of this writing, nobody knows for sure.

 

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The damage done to Pandora by the opening of the Vault, being great enough to fling huge country-sized chunks of the ground up into space.

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It should also be noted that this Vault opens every 200 years so as to feed and tame the Destroyer, so that it would be sated, and there's no evidence of the planet's surface being ripped apart the other times too.

 

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All of the calcs I've made for Borderlands so far! Any calcs I'll do for the series in the future will also be linked here.

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A POWER LOADER breaks through the thick concrete into Rolands prison, and Roland then bowls this robot over and tears its gun hand off (remember that POWER LOADERS can withstand being fired from Helios to Pandora in seconds; also, even ignoring all that, it's a big machine made of metal).

 

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Hyperion's mining operations to uncover the Vault of the Warrior creates large-scale earthquakes that are felt from many many miles away (note also the fragments falling from the ceiling).

 

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Wilhelm picks up and throws a train carriage.

 

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The Pre-Sequel guides say that Torgue weapons are there for when you need to "put down 200 Kilotons of violence" (page 302).

Explosions don't go out of style, When you need to put down 200 Kilotons of violence, you're not gonna go to Dahl. Jakobs is still trying to work its way out of the stone age. And Maliwan is too busy developing pretty apps for their weapon systems. I've heard that they have a new model coming out later this year; it has rounded corners. Ohhhhhh: WHO CARES!!!
You didn't come here for looks or efficiency. Screw that, we TRY to waste more ammo per shot, because it's loud. You're here to buy explosions, and that's all we have. Our bullets blow up. Our rockets blow up ... more. That business card I left out for you, well, don't give it to your kids.
Primary Feature: High Damage, Explosive Damage Type, Slow Bullet Velocity

 

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Moze's Iron Bear weighs 15 tons.

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First of all, I am pleased to announce that I did not watch the Borderlands movie!

In other news, Borderlands 4 has been announced. We see Elpis reappear somewhere else, and fragments of the moon raining down when they crash into something surrounding a certain planet, and a cyborg hand picking up a bandit mask that fell from the moon of Elpis.

 

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Another trailer for Borderlands 4, and new information.


Borderlands 4 will take place on the planet of Kairos, which was sealed until the moon of Elpis reappeared & broke the seal, with the main villain being the Timekeeper, an authoritarian figure who rules over the entire planet.

Borderlands 4 introduces new Ripper horde and deadly planet, Kairos

Mayhem awaits in a new trailer featuring a dangerous new planet and fast-paced co-op action.

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It also reveals The Timekeeper, Borderlands 4’s primary antagonist who rules over Kairos from on high.

For some background on how we got here, our Official Teaser Trailer showcased the cataclysmic arrival of Pandora’s Moon, Elpis, in the atmosphere above the previously hidden world Kairos. The collision tore a hole in the protective barrier surrounding the planet, raining down meteorites and bandit masks.

Now, years later, these events have given rise to a horde known as the Rippers, led by their terrifying Queen, Callis. In the trailer we see them face down The Timekeeper and his army of synthetic soldiers, known as The Order.

By the time the Vault Hunters crash land on Kairos, the planet is a powder keg waiting to explode. You know what comes next—full-scale Borderlands Mayhem.

So get ready to gather your friends, gear up on loot, and take the fight to the authoritarian Timekeeper in Borderlands 4.