Their first act was to cannibalize the remains of the original terraforming mission. Scrambling to convene infrastructure, the UDA established the Lagos Unit to manage extraction of the exotic deposits. The rise and fall of Icarus Excerpts from Icarus: A history Since both Minos, and Icarus are named in the game it has been guessed that the space station orbiting Icarus is named Daedalus. You should note that Icarus' father was Daedalus who build the Labyrinth for the King of Minos. You can read more about Icarus on Wikipedia. The filming of No Rescue Trailer can be seen on the clock in K's room as May 4th 2162, or 27 years after the First Cohort landed on Icarus.The First Cohort's time period can be seen on Mo's ID badge in the No Rescue trailer as between, 12 March 2135, and 12 March 2140.These first prospectors were called the "First Cohort". With the discovery of exotics, Icarus was opened to prospectors, and claims were issued. With the discovery of exotics a rush of people went to Icarus set to make their fortunes, similar to the old gold rushes on Earth. The exotics somehow interfered with the terraforming, and made the planet uninhabitable for humans. During the terraforming exotics were uncovered, the most expensive ore in the Universe. Sometime before the year 2135 Icarus was selected to be the first celestial body to be terraformed. Icarus is a planet sized moon orbiting the gas giant Minos in the Proxima Centauri star system located 4.2 light years from Earth. The flight of Daedalus and Icarus though had left no clue as to direction travelled, and so King Minos was in for a long search.The story behind Icarus Storyline Some sources though claim that the Greek hero Heracles had witnessed the death of Icarus, and recognising the boy as the son of Daedalus, Heracles was said to have performed the necessary funeral rites which Icarus’ father had been unable to do.īack on Crete the escape of Icarus and Daedalus which had gone unnoticed was eventually discovered, and Minos would set out with his fleet to recover Daedalus, for the king of Crete did not want the craftsman working for anyone else. The area of water where Icarus hit would become known as the Icarian Sea, whilst the previously unnamed island where the body of Icarus washed up was subsequently called Icaria.ĭaedalus of course had to watch his son fall to his death with no way of intervening, the grieving Daedalus would have to fly on alone to safety. In a very short time, all that Icarus was left clinging onto were the wooden frames, and so Icarus plunged seawards, dying as he hit the water. The worst fears of Daedalus were soon realised for as Icarus flew closer to the sun, the wax began to melt, and the feathers soon became detached from the wooden frame. Icarus had become over confident, and ignoring the warnings previously given by Daedalus, he started to fly higher and higher. Minos though did not want to lose the services of the master craftsman, and so rather than being executed, Daedalus and Icarus were instead locked away in a tall tower (or in other sources father and son were locked within the Labyrinth). Initially though, King Minos was more angry about the help given by Daedalus than he was about the intrigue of his own daughter Ariadne. Theseus was thus able to slay the Minotaur, and soon the Greek hero and Ariadne were fleeing from Crete. To aide Theseus, Ariadne had enlisted the help of Daedalus, the man who had designed the Labyrinth beneath the palace at Knossos, and so Theseus entered the domain of the Minotaur with a ball of twine and a sword. Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, though, had spied Theseus as he arrived upon the island, and had fallen in love with the Greek hero. Theseus was due to be one of the Athenian youths scheduled to be sacrificed to the Minotaur as part of the tribute paid to King Minos by Athens. The fall from grace for Daedalus, and the downfall of King Minos, was to follow several years later, for the Athenian hero Theseus was destined to arrive upon Crete.
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