Lua

"Gold rings circle and encapsulate the desolate moonscape – lavish architecture signifying the Orokin mastery over all things natural and technological during their reign. The opalescent halls stitching together what the enemy destroyed have been vacated since that era came to an end."

- Lua Fragment

Lua is the Earth's moon, accessible as a planet in the Star Chart. Once the seat of the Orokin Empire's power during their reign, it is now shattered and broken, scarred by the Old War. Recent events have led to the reemergence of this lost celestial body, and now its fragmented remains are fought over by the Grineer and the Corpus.

Lua can only be unlocked after a player completes The Second Dream quest. Both Grineer and Corpus contest possession of the moon, leading to Lua being the only other planet, besides Mars, that has Crossfire missions.

The Orokin Moon Tileset serves as the primary environment for Lua.

Unique Enemies

 * Sentient units can be found and fought on this moon. Combat against them revolves around their ability to adapt themselves to the damage dealt by the player's weapons and abilities, requiring Tenno to have multiple types of damage (both physical and elemental) in their loadouts.
 * Corrupted Wardens can be found in "Lua Rescue" missions.
 * Orokin Spectators can be found in "Lua Spy" missions.

Trivia

 * Lua is Portuguese for "Moon".
 * Missions on Lua are named after various craters on the Moon: Copernicus, Grimaldi, Pavlov, Plato, Stöfler, Tycho, Von Zeipel.
 * Before, Lua was the name of a node on Earth, and the Orokin Moon missions introduced in were considered Earth nodes. Specters of the Rail update subsequently moved the Orokin Moon missions to its own location, with the Lua node being renamed Cervantes as its previous name was then used for the new star chart location.
 * The name Lua for the Earth's Moon was foreshadowed by dialogue in The Second Dream, named as the place where the "rejects were consigned", likely referring to the Tenno.
 * Lua ties with the Orokin Derelict for the least amount of nodes of all the planets in the Origin System. While Lua's post-Orokin dimensions are unclear, the Moon is larger than Phobos, Ceres, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and Eris.
 * Lua also refers to lightweight multi-paradigm programming language designed primarily for embedded systems and clients. It is cross-platform, since it is written in ANSI C, and has a relatively simple C API.

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