A wasteland, and two locations one called capitol hill on earth, and the other called here in orbit around jupiter. You can think of it as UAC and Hell. Once in orbit around jupiter you have access to leonov and discovery. HAL 9000 and the monolith, cause a mishap that you must survive and return to earth in a few months. You can’t stay here for a longer duration. Why we come here, is because of the pull, the monolith calls us, Netaji wants to show up on TV.