Planets and systems

The universe of Apex Legends spans many planets in many star systems. They are divided into two regions: the Core Systems and the Frontier.

Core Systems

The Core Systems include Earth, its solar system, and other solar systems easily accessible from Earth. Little is known about the geopolitical state of these systems, except that these surrounding planets and systems are heavily populated and polluted, and that they have a lack of resources.

The Frontier

The discovery of the Frontier, a cluster of star systems with an unusually high number of habitable planets in 2292 by the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (IMC) sparked a "New Space Race" between the megacorporation and its various rival companies. This new Space Race was fought for a variety of reasons, most prevalent however was the immensely rich resources the planets in the Frontier possessed. IMC-funded colony ships were the first to colonize the region and the exploration and the colonization of the Frontier gave a major boost to IMC's support in the Core Systems.

Frontier colonization ramped up with the passage of the IMC Serviceman's Readjustment Act (the IMC's so-called "G.I. Bill"), which awarded veterans of IMC-backed military campaigns in the Core Systems various benefits; loans to start businesses and farms on the Frontier, low-cost mortgages and guaranteed property rights on Frontier worlds to start new lives. This new rush of settlers still had the combat skills they have acquired over the course of the conflict, including commandeering Titans.

In 2442, conflict erupted yet again in the Core Systems and this has led to neglect from the IMC of the Frontier settlers for centuries. This has allowed the development of the Frontier largely independent from the IMC, the growth of fiercely independent culture, and the rise of lawlessness in the area. The Corporate Wars eventually ended with the IMC as the victor.

Exhausted of resources from centuries of war, however, the IMC decided to return to the Frontier en masse and seeing the Frontier colonies thriving, declared eminent domain - citing their initial investment in the Frontier's colonization. Planets were seized and mining installations propped up at astonishing speeds, Frontier settlers meanwhile, were forcibly relocated or evicted from their homes. The various perceived injustices led to the formation of the "Frontier Militia", a confederation of various planetary armies, pirate and mercenary groups with one goal in mind: protect the Frontier and their way of life from the IMC.

The formation of the Militia and its subsequent attacks on IMC garrisons was what was presumably the reason for the start of the Titan Wars in 2671. The wars went on for twenty-one years and ended in the IMC's victory. Only fifteen years after this conflict, however, the Frontier War began. The Militia victory in the Battle of Demeter turned the tide of war and put the IMC on the defensive, cut off from supplies from the Core Systems, the remaining IMC forces limped on as the Remnant Fleet. The war eventually ended after the Battle of Gridiron, which left both the Militia and the IMC with no capabilities to wage more battles.

The Frontier consists of at least 21 systems with at least 76 planets.

The current political status of the Frontier is unknown due to the communications blackout that occured immediately after the Battle of Gridiron.

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The Outlands

The Outlands is a small cluster of planets on the fringes of the Frontier. Travel from the Core Systems to the Outlands takes roughly 20 years. The Outlands consists of at least 10 systems with at least 32 planets, as well as one black hole.

Initially colonized in the 2300s, the Outlands was controlled by the IMC for most of its history, primarily because of its military and mining outposts. From 2713 to 2719, the IMC began to retract from the Outlands to focus its efforts on the Frontier War. The withdrawal and the ensuing power vacuum it created ignited a civil war between these planets in 2716, only ending in 2723 with the signing of the Mercenary Syndicate Treaty. The six planetary governments who signed the treaty were then organized as "Syndicate Space", formally referred to as the Syndicate Alliance of Free Worlds, ruled by a group calling themselves the Mercenary Syndicate. The rest of the planets of the Outlands became known as the "Fringe Worlds". Most Syndicate Worlds are located in the Prime System.

One of these Fringe Worlds, Salvo, formally joined Syndicate Space in 2734 after more than a decade of resistance.

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Trivia

• The Outlands are sometimes treated as separate from the rest of the Frontier. Senior writer Ashley Reed explained that this is because the Outlands were not as affected by wars or the Blackout as most of the Frontier was. The Outlands were initially a remote section of the Frontier, but now it acts distinctly from the rest of the Frontier thanks to more favorable circumstances.
• Prior to Season 16, official sources listed Revenant's home planet as Solace.
• Revenant, Loba, Ash, and Alter are the only Legends with no specified homeworld.