Lego Space lore speculation

[BrokenEye]

I'd wager that Ice Planet isn't its own faction but a specialized team belonging to the Space faction. Everything about them (their clothing, the sort of equipment they carry) is geared towards the specific needs of living on just the planet Krysto and nowhere else, but also seems to indicate that it's a place they're exploring, not their home. Maybe some sort of long term scientific expedition with permanent or semi-permanent bases, but not full scale colonization.

Plus, their logo is clearly a variant of the Space logo, which is sort of like how NASA mission patches often incorporate the pre-existing iconography of NASA and of the United States into a design that's otherwise unique to the mission (and usually adds some additional symbolism pertaining to what the mission is about, like the icicles and the icy color scheme). They do something similar in the military, though I'm a bit unclear on just what sorts of units get their own insignias (besides, they don't really seem to be military anyway).

[Commander Fenris]

2 hours ago, BrokenEye said:

I'd wager that Ice Planet isn't its own faction but a specialized team belonging to the Space faction. Everything about them (their clothing, the sort of equipment they carry) is geared towards the specific needs of living on just the planet Krysto and nowhere else, but also seems to indicate that it's a place they're exploring, not their home. Maybe some sort of long term scientific expedition with permanent or semi-permanent bases, but not full scale colonization.

Plus, their logo is clearly a variant of the Space logo, which is sort of like how NASA mission patches often incorporate the pre-existing iconography of NASA and of the United States into a design that's otherwise unique to the mission (and usually adds some additional symbolism pertaining to what the mission is about, like the icicles and the icy color scheme). They do something similar in the military, though I'm a bit unclear on just what sorts of units get their own insignias (besides, they don't really seem to be military anyway).

That's a good catch, I didn't really look too closely at their mission patch.  I wonder if they are just exploring Krysto, or multiple Ice Planets, as a specialist force?  The reason I think the latter, is that Ice Planet 2002 suggests something like the "two thousand and second ice planet", in one possible reading.  

[Commander Fenris]

I was reading Jim Spaceborn 2: The Kidnappers from Swamp Planet, a comic I didn't even know existed, but can be found online.  A new piece of lore (that I will add to the glossary on the last page), is that borundium seems to be an important resource in LEGO Space.  It's used to coat the thrusters of starships in the Classic Space era.  Perhaps something to be considered along with Energy Crystals.  It's said that the Galactic Spearhead's original mission was to discover resources.

[BrokenEye]

10 hours ago, Commander Fenris said:

That's a good catch, I didn't really look too closely at their mission patch.  I wonder if they are just exploring Krysto, or multiple Ice Planets, as a specialist force?  The reason I think the latter, is that Ice Planet 2002 suggests something like the "two thousand and second ice planet", in one possible reading.  

Ooh, so that might imply that there's also, like, a Desert Planet team and a Swamp Planet team, etc. that never actually appeared in the sets or tie-in stories.

[Commander Fenris]

17 hours ago, BrokenEye said:

Ooh, so that might imply that there's also, like, a Desert Planet team and a Swamp Planet team, etc. that never actually appeared in the sets or tie-in stories.

Yep, it's a really interesting possibility.  Perhaps the name "Ice Planet 2002" means that spacemen have surveyed 2,002 ice planets in total so far; perhaps not all of them warrant a full landing team, they just get a cursory survey via a probe, and 2002 "Krysto" is one that merits a full Ice Planet Rangers expedition?  Consider the factions of the 1990s:

• - Futuron
• - Space Police
• - Blacktron
• - M-Tron
• - Ice Planet
• - Unitron
• - Spyrius
• - Exploriens
• - Rock Raiders

One way of interpreting them is that they are all different civilizations, at different times even.  Another way is that they are all competing factions at the same time.  And another is that some  of them are branches of one overall civilization.  Perhaps Rock Raiders represent the mining division, and M-Tron represent some kind of engineering force?

Edited 5 hours ago by Commander Fenris