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Nandana

Earth is dying. One world answered the scan — water, forests, weather, life. Humanity came to live. It was already built, already guarded, and already claimed.

[!lore] The Landfall Bible This is the canonical world reference for Landfall, a turn-based tactics game. Everything here is the single source of truth for missions, factions, units, and story.

The premise

The colony ship Odyssey crossed the dark on the strength of a single reading: one Earth-like world in reach of a starving humanity. The colonists named it Nandana — the garden — and came down to stay. There is no going back; Earth is spent.

But Nandana is too perfect. Someone terraformed it. Ancient structures wake as the landers touch down, and machine Custodians move to repel the newcomers from a paradise that was, somehow, prepared for them.

The truth surfaces slowly — that Nandana was built, ages ago, by the Progenitors, an ancient race that terraformed worlds and seeded life across the sector; that its machine Custodians still wait for an inheritor they can no longer recognize; and that the enemy soon descending on the colony is the makers' estranged firstborn, the Mara, who overthrew their creators and hold this garden sacred and forbidden.

What any of it has to do with humanity — whether the garden was meant for you, or you simply wandered into it — no one can yet say. You have landed in the middle of someone else's unfinished war.

  • Nandana — the seed-world you fight to keep.
  • The Seeding & the Lineage — Progenitors, Mara, humanity: three generations of one bloodline.
  • The Raid Loop — deploy, salvage, and get home before the Tether breaks.
  • History & Timeline — deep past to the three acts of the war.
  • Factions — the Colony, the Custodians, the Mara, the Progenitors.
  • Regions — Nandana's biomes as battlegrounds.
  • Units — the salvage arsenal, from scrap rifles to Progenitor light.

The question at the end

"A house stood ready in the wilderness — swept, and warm, and empty. We never learned whose it was, or whether the door had been left open for us." — from the colony's first-year record

Were the Progenitors benefactors or slavers? Is humanity bound to them at all — made by them, carried by them, or a stranger that simply crossed the dark into their garden? The game does not answer, and neither does this bible: its writers have left the question open on purpose. See The Seeding.