No Man's Land
No Man's Land (ノー・マンズ・ランド, Nō Manzu Rando?, Alt. Gunsmoke) is a desert planet and the primary location in which events take place in the Trigun series. It is known to have at least five moons orbiting it.
History[]
Not much is known about No Man's Land before the Project SEEDS starships crash-landed on its surface. However, several species of alien animals including sandworms and a group of sentient hive-minded insects lived on the desolate planet before "The Big Fall." One-hundred-and-fifty years prior to the series' beginning, Knives altered the Project SEEDS fleet flight trajectory with the intent of crashing every ship onto the planet's surface. Thanks to the efforts of Rem Saverem, who managed to reduce the velocity of the fleet at the last minute, a small fraction of the fleet crash-landed on the surface and survived the impact, stranding humanity on No Man's Land. Though displeased, Knives believed humanity would be unable to survive on such a desolate world, and was content with the idea of the survivors wasting away.
Being a planetary wasteland, No Man's Land was extremely ill-fit to sustain human life. For the next 150 years humanity would struggle to survive in the planet's desolate environment, utilizing plants found in the ruins of the crashed ships for food and water while building cities and towns around them. Over time what would become known as the Seven Cities would be built, making them the cultural and political hubs of the planet.
Seven Cities[]
Other Cities[]
- Denna City
- El Pazzo
- Floating Ship (also the Floating City)
- Fondrique
- Kansas
- Karsted City
- Macca City
- New Colorado
- New Miami
- Ollderado Hill
- Orleans
- Ripmela
- Voldoor (also Valdour)
- Warrens City
Towns[]
- Carcasses
- Dankin
- Demislad
- Demitrihi
- Faybrant
- Felnarl
- Jeneora Rock
- Keybos
- Lewiston
- Little Jersey
- LR Town
- Meldreck
- New Oregon
- Promontory
- Tonim Town
Trivia[]
- In the 1998 anime, Dark Horse's English manga translation and the unreleased ps2 game, the planet is referred to as "Gunsmoke", while in the manga and the 2023 anime, it is referred to as "No Man's Land."