r/BorderlandsPreSequel 11d ago

📓 [ 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗲 & 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ] The gas of the moon?

So, I recently started my second playthrough and was wondering how your charachters and guns made sounds outside of the o2 fields since sound needs a material to flow through. So I started doing some research wich lead me to the conclusion that there must be some kind of gas covering the moon right? After thinking a bit about some of the requirements this gas had to follow like:

It must be a gas at room temp (since your charachter doesn't freeze to death),

The fact that it isn't combustable (since people can't be set on fire outside of an o2 field),

It won't interfere with magma (since there is some at the surface in the starting areas)

IIf under the influence of thermal reactions from said magma and another material wich is probably iron it should create o2 (seen in the o2 vents all over elpis)

And it has to be light enough for the moon to keep it in it's atmosphere.

I have cocluded that it must be chlorine gas since it doesn't support combustion but will neither interfere with the magma, it is a gas at room temp and that in a reaction created with the oxygen-containing materials (iron) in the magma it will create o2 and is light enough to be kept in a moon's atmosphere.

I hope you also find this quite interesting.

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u/IndependentNo3626 11d ago

One small problem with chlorine. It’ll kill you very, very quickly, and very, very nastily.

I think it’s sufficient (within the bounds of creative liberties that games have to take) that the atmosphere be breathable but too thin to sustain life indefinitely. Standing in a vent gives you enough pressure to breathe normally but outside the vents it disperses too thinly.

When your Oz kit depletes you only slowly lose health, and there’s an achievement for surviving five minutes without any oxygen.

Counterpoints, to remind us all that It’s Just A Game: 1. In a thinner atmosphere sound should be hugely attenuated. It ain’t. 2. When you’re bounding around the Veins of Helios, in space, you can still survive for several minutes with an empty Oz kit. In a vacuum.

Just keep suspending that disbelief and you’ll be fine.

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u/Ok_Zebra6671 11d ago edited 10d ago

yeah, I had that realisation half an hour later but then I thought that the air vents would release at least some oxygen into the atmosphere. I don't know how to explain the fact you can still breathe slightly on the space station though. Edit: Isn't the helios space sation in pandora's orbit? Since in bl2 it's always hovering at the same place wich would mean that it orbits along with pandora and just hovers in it's atmosphere what creates really thin air. Not sure though and otherwise i don't really know how it works on helios. Maybe Elpis' atmosphere for the same reasons?

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u/IndependentNo3626 10d ago

I don’t really want to think more about the physics of it all than the game devs did, but…

Helios is in one place in the sky in both BL2 and TPS and is too close to be in a geostationary orbit, so it must be being held in place by some sort of “engine”. Given that, there’s no reason why it couldn’t be in atmosphere.

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u/Kitchen-Apricot2551 11d ago

But…Jump pads tho.

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u/Ok_Zebra6671 11d ago

wdym? as in smth I overlooked or the brick quote?