Varylia 5

"Rocky outcroppings punctuate fields of tall grass in a planet dominated by misty highland terrain."

- Official Description, Helldivers 2 "A volcanic planet, with great geological instability. Cyborgs, shells devoid of humanity, occupy this planet."

- Official Description, Helldivers 1 Varylia 5 is one of the five planets that reside within the Trigon Sector.

Topography
Varylia 5 is a planet covered in barren grassy plains and rocky hills, blanketed by perpetual foggy and prone to torrential rainstorms. Due to it's distance from Super Earth and it's previously hostile nature, Varylia 5 was sparsely populated and even more sparsely defended even before the outbreak of the Second Galactic War. As a result, it was captured by the Automaton's early, only being liberated in the first phase of operation swift disassembly.

However this has not been the first time that the planet has felt the bootstrap of socialist tyranny as one hundred years ago, the planet was one of the many occupied by the cyborgs. Back then, Varylia was a very hostile world, plagued by a scorching environment, plagued by geological instability which caused mantle to bubble up from the planets core to create seas of magma that cover most of the surface. Even so, the parts of the planet that weren't covered in lava were incredibly fertile, with some supporting small islands of vibrant green plant life in the form of shrubs and grasses. Some Helldivers even reported burned trees and the bleached skeletons of animals, perhaps suggesting that Varylia 5 was not always so inhospitable.

Never the less, following the end of the first war, the Ministry of Expansion gained oversight over the planet and began terraforming efforts. After a century of terraforming efforts, the planet has become a lot more hospitable and geologically stable, with environmental conditions now similar to Draupnir and Oshaune. The redirection of ice comets to cool the oceans of lava has created not only large contents of rocky basalt, but also created huge bodies of water which allowed for more plant life (and regular humans) to thrive (had the first colonies not been blown up by rampaging socialist toasters).

Never the less, the planet stands as a testimony to humanity's ability to tame even the harshest of planets!

FTL Lines

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Trivia

 * In Helldivers 1 there is also a planet called Varylia 5, however it was a lava planet rather than a grassy highland one.