LV-876 was a prime example of a lush alien world. 500 volunteers were dispatched on a colonizing mission, or at least that was they were told. In fact, the mission was a top-secret experiment set about by earth officials to test the unique effects of alien biology directly on human subjects and would be guided closely by a small research group on hand.

The vessel landed itself on a rather arid stretch of land near the planets ocean, a lush forest with strange pink trees and dense vegetation sat only a few kilometers off in the distance, an ideal place to experiment with the strange worlds diverse ecology.