Nu-Earth

Nu Earth
First appearance	1981 (first issue)

Nu-Earth is the name of a fictional planet near two suns and a wormhole that is the main setting for the Rogue Trooper fictional universe.

Due to its strategic importance the Southers and the Norts are fighting over the planet. This perpetual war has seen the use of just about every weapon of mass destruction, which made the planet toxic. Most life forms became extinct or mutated, and all inhabitants must wear protective chem-suits at all times. Because of this the Souther scientists were instructed to start the G.I. program to create a supersoldier immune to all those dangers.

The planet was originally called "New Earth", which later became "Nu-Earth" as it was an Earth-like paradise before the war started. Many of its place names have the prefix 'Nu-', i.e. Nu-Atlanta.

The war ultimately comes to an end, with life once again returning to Nu Earth, where now endless fields of gravestones cover the horizon; commemorating the war.

A Souther fort completely isolated since the beginning of the war, its garrison developed bizarre customs based on historical movies.

Formerly the Nort capital on Nu-Earth, the Southers attempted to take the city with a decisive orbital drop in the early days of the war. With both sides pouring reinforcements into the area, Nordstadt the city has long since ceased to exist as anything more than ruins- Nordstadt the strategic target, however, is alive and well, as both sides consider the city valuable by virtue of the concentration of enemy troops still engaged in bitter street-fighting throughout the city. The current Nort capital is Nu Nuremberg, in Greater Nordland.

With the landscape reduced to crystal and glass by thermal bombardment early in the war, it provided a beautiful and deadly backdrop to the Quartz Zone Massacre which saw the destruction of nearly all G.I.s. in an ambush, the co-ordinates of their drop zone given to the Norts by a traitor in Souther high command.

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