Our Mass Effect Roleplay's version of Luna, a moon of Earth, was an early source of helium-3. Luna is now mined for materials used in space habitat construction. When land allocations took place the batarian population was given the domed over craters for habitation. Knowing that they could easily cause trouble, they were kept close to Earth so as to keep an eye on them. To further the safety of the rest of the galaxy against batarian aggression, the Hierarchy's military was given a fourth of the Moon's habitable domes so that Luna initially existed in a military state. For the first ten years after the war the batarians were denied spacefaring capabilities, which had the additional boon of the moon becoming well developed with elaborate construction. Since 2227 they have been given limited access to ships, gaining their way towards redemption in the eyes of the rest of Sol's races.
