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   A wasteland at the edge of human civilization. Once beyond the corporations' petty squabbling, now the planet and its moon has changed hands too many times to count. Time was a traveler might find a desperate kind of freedom here. Now, it's as much a prison as when Dahl first broke ground.

   It is a tundra region in one of the geographic poles of Pandora. The Shelf represents the most remote and environmentally extreme settlement of humans on Pandora. The Southern Shelf is covered in ice year round, but experiences drastic seasonal changes. The ice sheet is located several hundred miles along the coast from the Three Horns region.

   Years ago, there was a healthy population of peaceful inhabitants comprising the predominant town of Liar's Berg and Blackburn Cove. However, they were regularly accosted by the Ripper bandit clan stationed on the small cargo ship named the Ice Sickle. After Handsome Jack took over the Hyperion Corporation, he built a rail line up to the Southern Shelf so his army could subjugate the region. Around half of the citizens fled to Sanctuary while the Rippers took over the area's main port, acquired the Soaring Dragon Freighter as their mothership, and murdered most of the remaining inhabitants.

   Gaige DiMartino

   Gaige was a high school student from the planet Eden-5, and lovingly supported in her endeavors by her parents, particularly her father. She would often ECHOcast live about what was going on in her life and had a dozen subscribers to her channel, although this dropped over time to two. Gaige found the history behind the Vaults, Eridium, and Pandora to be particularly fascinating, and considered her era to be "the most awesomely awesome time period in history" to be living in.

   She originally conceived Deathtrap, then called the Mechanized Anti-Bully Deterrent Test, or Project DT, as a science fair project to combat bullying. Her rival, Marcie Holloway, was a contestant in the science fair as well, and used her father's money to buy her way through the competition. After Gaige was inspired to amputate her left arm with a particle saw and replaced it with a robotic one she built, Marcie apparently stole Gaige's DT designs and sold them to Eden-5's corrupt police force.

   On the day of the science fair in the school auditorium, Marcie's father bribed the judges, helping her win first place with a defective robot based on Deathtrap's first or second revision blueprints. Gaige, with at least a fourth revision Deathtrap, placed third. Marcie then shoved Gaige, causing Deathtrap to identify her as a hostile. Deathtrap attacked with its digistruct claws, which unexpectedly caused her body to explode the moment her skin was touched (likely all over Gaige as well), due to a miscalibration of the claws by Gaige, likely when she had added the discord circuits the night before. After the auditorium was cleaned up of Marcie's remains, the traumatized Gaige was escorted to the principal's office and faced expulsion and arrest for accidentally murdering her rival. She called her father to create a distraction to help her evade arrest, which apparently consisted of the novel use of a golf cart and lots of gasoline. Gaige and her father realized she would have to leave Eden-5 so the police and her misappropriated invention couldn't find her and after an emotional farewell, she bought a transplanetary shuttle ticket to Pandora to become a Vault Hunter. ECHOcasting during the journey, she was shocked to find that her two subscriber count had jumped to 20,000 because the science fair incident had been reported on the ECHOnet and people apparently found her channel; she explained what had happened and the subsequent fallout. After landing on Pandora, she stowed away on a train leading to Windshear Waste.

   Hyperion provides New-U Station services and is one of the chief weapon manufacturers on Pandora. They manufacture submachine guns, combat rifles/assault rifles, repeater pistols, rocket launchers, shotguns, and sniper rifles. Hyperion weapons are made of dark pink, red, silver, or black metal of a sort and have greater accuracy and damage when compared to guns of similar levels.

   Hyperion maintains a Claptrap manufacturing plant in the Dividing Faults.

   The Hyperion Vice President, Mr. Blake then arrives on the planet to personally take charge of a counter-insurgency operation, accompanied by a group of soldiers.

   The opening of the Vault and the appearance of Eridium gained the attention of a Hyperion employee named Handsome Jack who utilized it for Hyperion's profits. After opening the Vault on Elpis, he decides to use the Warrior to cleanse Pandora of bandits.

   After killing Harold Tassiter and destroying the Claptrap product line, Jack becomes the president of Hyperion. He then declares himself as the dictator of Pandora, intending to rule over the populace with an iron fist to eliminate "bandits", whilst also gathering Eridium to charge the Vault Key he stole from Patricia Tannis to unlock another Vault containing a powerful creature known as the Warrior, in order to secure his rule over the planet. He also maintains a facade when addressing everyone on Pandora, including his attempt to build the city of Opportunity and using the Hyperion Truth Network to spread propaganda. Jack is killed shortly after the Warrior is destroyed.

   Hyperion has extensive interests all across Pandora and has set up huge facilities to mass-produce loaders and harvest valuable Eridium ore.

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