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| - Avant Gardens is the second world in LEGO Universe. It introduces combat, the four Factions of the Nexus Force, and several other game concepts to players. Upon escaping the Venture Explorer, players make a landing in Avant Gardens, but quickly find that conditions there aren't much better than where they came from. The elevated highway that would normally allow for easy travel across the world has been broken in several places, leaving players with only one option, to continue on to the nearby Paradox Research Facility, which is also in ruins. There, the player meets Wisp Lee, the head researcher of the facility, who directs them to Epsilon Starcracker for protection from the Stromlings and Stromling Mechs who are roaming the ruins. Epsilon gives players their first weapon, and are then d
- Avant Gardens is a chunk of the planet Crux that was once peacefully controlled by the Nexus Force until an accident during an experiment on the deadly Maelstrom Spider Queen at the Paradox Research Facility in the area unleashed the Maelstrom into the area, corrupting most of the researchers and security mechs at the facility, turning them into Stromlings. Shortly after the explosion, Nexus Force recruit refugees that escaped the corrupted Venture Explorer arrived and helped contain some of the Maelstrom.
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| - Avant Gardens is the second world in LEGO Universe. It introduces combat, the four Factions of the Nexus Force, and several other game concepts to players. Upon escaping the Venture Explorer, players make a landing in Avant Gardens, but quickly find that conditions there aren't much better than where they came from. The elevated highway that would normally allow for easy travel across the world has been broken in several places, leaving players with only one option, to continue on to the nearby Paradox Research Facility, which is also in ruins. There, the player meets Wisp Lee, the head researcher of the facility, who directs them to Epsilon Starcracker for protection from the Stromlings and Stromling Mechs who are roaming the ruins. Epsilon gives players their first weapon, and are then directed to Beck Strongheart at the Sentinel Base Camp. Beck teaches the player about Armor and item abilities, then challenges them to last a minute in Avant Gardens Survival using their new skills and items. After succeeding this challenge, Beck gives the player approval from the Sentinel faction. Players then face getting approval from the next faction, Paradox. Wisp asks players to bring him fifteen Maelstrom Infected Bricks from the Maelstrom enemies, then reveals the cause of the outbreak: Paradox had been experimenting with Maelstrom energies, and had created another Maelstrom Spider, the Spider Queen. The Spider Queen then broke out of its cage and attacked, destroying everything nearby and releasing Maelstrom gases from the pipes in the facility, allowing the Darkitect to make corrupted copies of the Paradox researchers and infect their security mechs. The Spider Queen then escaped, leaving destruction in its path. Wisp sends players to follow the trail of Maelstrom the Spider Queen left and collect samples of it, which he then makes into a Maelstrom Cube. He then directs players to use the Maelstom Cube on a pile of bricks in an intact cage in the facility. Upon doing so, the Maelstrom uses the bricks to create a Dark Spiderling. Wisp comments that, so far, they can only create spiders, which is "probably a good thing". Having now received approval from Sentinel and Paradox, Epsilon officially welcomes players to the Nexus Force. Players are then sent to the Maelstrom Mine, where the Spider Queen escaped to. There, they meet Melodie Foxtrot, who lends them trial faction gear, and asks them to look for clues as to where the Spider Queen went. Players then enter the mine, to find swarms of Dark Spiderlings, more ruins of Paradox equipment, and a half broken launchpad leading to Block Yard, where the Spider Queen is clearly visible. Players return this information to Melodie, who then asks them to forward it to Beck, but not before taking back their trial faction gear. Beck gives the players permission to pass through the tunnel behind the Sentinel Base Camp, where they arrive at the Assembly Monument. After helping Rusty Steele on the monument's construction, players climb to the top and use a bouncer to get to the Launch Area. There, they find that the Spider Queen has created a large Maelstrom cloud over the picnic area, and are sent by Crash Helmut to Block Yard to confront the spider. There, they are greeted by Vance Bulwark, who once again lends them trial faction gear to take down the spider. The player then fights and smashes the Spider Queen, destroying the Maelstrom cloud. After a brief building tutorial, players are free to build their own creations on Block Yard, and then continue on to the next world, Nimbus Station.
- Avant Gardens is a chunk of the planet Crux that was once peacefully controlled by the Nexus Force until an accident during an experiment on the deadly Maelstrom Spider Queen at the Paradox Research Facility in the area unleashed the Maelstrom into the area, corrupting most of the researchers and security mechs at the facility, turning them into Stromlings. Shortly after the explosion, Nexus Force recruit refugees that escaped the corrupted Venture Explorer arrived and helped contain some of the Maelstrom. Avant Gardens is also home to an Assembly Monument construction project and is the main outpost of the Sentinels, not counting Nexus Tower on Crux Prime.
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