Veldin

Veldin is the home planet of Ratchet, which first appeared in Ratchet & Clank.

Ratchet & Clank
The story begins with Ratchet working on his homemade ship near his garage that he called home. However, because Ratchet didn't have a robotic ignition system, his ship wouldn't start, and he was stuck on Veldin indefinitely. However, soon after his Help Desk told him he needed the ignition system, Ratchet noticed a ship crash landing nearby. Ratchet set out to find the crash site, fighting the ship's pursuers along the way, and found a small robot among the wreckage. After returning to his garage, the diminutive robot awakened and showed Ratchet an Info-Bot containing a message from Chairman Drek, a Blarg diplomat looking to build a new planet for his race, due to their former home of Orxon being rendered uninhabitable due to heavy pollution. The message contained coordinates to the planet Novalis, Drek's next target. The robot asks if Ratchet would help him find Captain Qwark, a galactic super hero, to help stop Drek. In exchange, the robot agreed to start Ratchet's ship. As the robot's pursuers from planet Quartu descended upon the duo, Ratchet hastily agreed and the two escaped the planet.

En route to planet Novalis, the robot was given his name. When Ratchet asks the robot's name, he began spouting off his serial code, but when Ratchet knocked the steering wheel and the small robot produced a "clank" sound when hitting the door, Ratchet cleverly decided to nickname his robotic companion Clank.

Much later, after having explored several planets and discovering Drek's plan to destroy Veldin with the Deplanetizer on planet Quartu, Ratchet and Clank returned to planet Veldin. First the duo stopped at Drek's fleet to see if they couldn't catch him on his ship. After having found an Info-Bot displaying a commercial for the destruction of Veldin instead, the two headed down to the planet proper.

Ratchet and Clank landed on Veldin to find Kyzil Plateau infested with Blarg commandos, tanks, and drop ships, with Drek's new planet held in tow over Veldin by Drek's fleet. After having fought their way through swathes of Blarg forces, the two met the man himself, Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek. After fighting Drek for a few moments as Giant Clank, Drek used a special beam to reduce Clank to normal size. Ratchet and Clank then fought Drek and drove him back to their final confrontation atop the Deplanetizer, where he revealed that he himself was the one who polluted his home planet in the first place and was only creating a new planet as a money making scheme. An angered Ratchet and Clank fought Drek once more until they managed to flip the main laser of the Deplanetizer, sending Drek flying off to his artificial planet and putting the planet directly in the massive laser's line of fire. Naturally, Ratchet and Clank fired the laser and destroyed Drek's artificial planet. Unfortunately, this sent massive chunks of rock crashing down onto Veldin's surface, knocking Ratchet and Clank off of the superweapon. Clank managed to hang on to part of the laser's scaffolding and Ratchet managed to hang onto Clank, but the servos in Clank's arm were breaking fast. The two began to fall, but Clank quickly transformed into his Thruster-Pack form and allowed Ratchet to land safely. Ratchet thanked Clank and began walking away to his garage, while Clank sadly assumed he was being abandoned due to the events on planet Umbris. Before getting too far away, Ratchet ran back and assured Clank that they were going home together.

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
Six months after the defeat of Drek, Ratchet and Clank are interviewed for a holovision show by the name of Behind the Hero. The two mention a few things that the two did after they heroically saved the Solana Galaxy from Chairman Drek, but Ratchet notes that things had slowed down by that time and sadly remarked "I guess no one needs a hero right now." Meanwhile, in the Bogon Galaxy, one Abercrombie Fizzwidgit, CEO of Megacorp, knew he needed a hero and teleported Ratchet and Clank into a massive Megacorp ship in Bogon. After being filled in on a situation involving a stolen Megacorp experiment called the "Protopet" Ratchet agreed to help Mr. Fizzwidgit. Clank, however, opted out. Mr. Fizzwidgit instead offered Clank an apartment in Megapolis on planet Endako as well as a job with Megacorp. Clank was sold and after two weeks of intense training to become a Megacorp Commando, Ratchet headed out alone to planet Aranos to attempt to recover the Protopet.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
After their business in the Bogon Galaxy, Ratchet and Clank lived comfortably in Clank's apartment in Megapolis. However, after Ratchet saw a news report detailing the Tyrrhanoid invasion of Veldin, led by one Dr. Nefarious, Ratchet and Clank dropped everything, installed their newly-built homemade Gravametric Warp Drive and set out for Veldin.

After arriving on Veldin, Ratchet found that the Galactic Rangers, the Solana Galaxy's defense force, had already arrived to, rather ineffectually, help suppress the Tyrrhanoid threat. After making it to the Galactic Ranger Dropship, Ratchet and Clank fight alongside the Rangers in the Battle of F Sector. Following the battle Ratchet spoke with the Galactic President of the Solana Galaxy and received coordinates to planet Florana in order to find the Florana Tree Beast, who is believed to have formerly been one of the galaxy's greatest heroes.

After the Battle for the Starship Phoenix it is revealed that Veldin was intended to be the Biobliterator's second target, after having already turned parts of Kerwan's population into robots. Angered, Ratchet heads to Koros to destroy the superweapon and the subsequent events lead to the Battle of Mylon and the defeat of Nefarious.

Ratchet & Clank Comic
After defeating Dr. Nefarious for the second time and putting an end to the Great Clock Crisis in the Polaris Galaxy, Ratchet and Clank returned to Veldin in an attempt to retire as galactic heroes. Unfortunately, when Polaris Galactic President Qwark shows up at their door step, their retirement ended early. Qwark informed Ratchet and Clank that planets had started going missing, including Terachnos, Cobalia, Sargasso, and Aranos. Ratchet turned down Qwark's plea for help, but soon after, the planet thief, Artemis Zogg, showed up near Veldin. Zogg's warbots came raining down onto the planet's surface and Ratchet jumped into action. Ratchet and Clank were ultimately unable to fight off the warbots and were abducted along with the entire planet of Veldin by Zogg, finding themselves in Zogg's artificial "Artemis Galaxy".

Ratchet and Clank were thrown into the Vartax Detention Facility, but three months later they escaped with the help of the Agorian General Glahm as well as Cronk and Zephyr. Ratchet and Clank were then taken by Cronk and Zephyr to Apogee Space Station. After reuniting with Talwyn Apogee and surprise guest Sasha Phyronix, Zogg contacted Apogee Space Station with an offer. Either Ratchet and Clank turned themselves in, or Veldin was deprived of sunlight until the planet finally died.

Ratchet and Clank went to Zogg, but after he failed to hold up his end of the bargain, the two fought their way out of Zogg's flagship, grabbing the Surinox Shard along the way, and escaped the ship, landing on Veldin. The two arrived and found that Veldin was not the arid desert they had remembered, but a frozen tundra due to the planet's lack of sunlight.

After warbots once again came raining down onto Veldin, Ratchet ran aimlessly through the barren ice plains before finally relocating his garage and picking up Alister Azimuth's OmniWrench, which Ratchet had mounted on the wall. Now armed, Ratchet was able to fend off the warbots, but only long enough to retreat to the shelter underneath his garage. Clank grabbed the Grummelnet Flux Compression Generator that they happened to have, and used it to create an EMP, disabling the warbots long enough for Ratchet to escape. Clank set off the EMP against Ratchet's wishes, knocking Clank unconscious. Ratchet picked up his disabled friend and again set out into the icy wastes.

He eventually found Veldin's Planetary Defense Center. To his surprise, General Glahm was present in the Defense Center directing the surface-to-space missiles to obliterate Zogg's fleet. As Talwyn was still on Zogg's flagship at the time, Ratchet pleaded with Glahm not to launch the missiles just yet. Glahm, of course, didn't listen and sent the missiles Zogg's way, leading Ratchet to believe that Talwyn had been killed in the resulting explosions.

Soon after, Ratchet and Clank were found by Sasha and Cronk. They offered Ratchet their condolences before the four left Veldin and prepared for the final confrontation with Artemis Zogg.

After Zogg was defeated, all of the displaced planets were returned to their original locations, including Veldin.

Appearance
Veldin is a largely arid planet. From orbit the planet appears to be mostly desert with large bodies of water near the north and south poles, but large swathes of desert expanse between.

On the surface, Kyzil Plateau displays what you'd expect from the brown planet, arid, brown, barren. As the name suggests, Kyzil Plateau features many plateaus and mesas, with sharp drops in every direction and various impressive rock formations aplenty. There are man-made structures present everywhere on the planet, sticking out of the sides of cliffs, presumably as housing. Other man-made structures on the planet include what appears to be the frame of a crashed ship, as well as reservoirs for storing water.

When Zogg is depriving Veldin of sunlight, the planet becomes an icy waste as opposed to a desert waste. From orbit the planet reflects this change, displaying encroaching ice sheets taking over the planet as it succumbs to death's grasp.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

 * Save Veldin! (The Tyhrranoids have invaded your home planet, you must save it!)
 * Eliminate the Enemy Forces (Veldin will never be safe while the enemy force still occupies territory. Suprise them in their camp and end this once and for all)