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This article is about the moon in a mountain easter egg in Just Cause 4.

JC4 Moon easter egg entrance

Entrance to look for.

Description[]

This is one of the Easter Eggs in Just Cause 4.

Go to the Qachas region at the middle of the Solís. Open the map. In the region, look for the area where the word QACHAS is. Slightly south-east of the word is the side of a small mountain. Go to this area. For more details look at the gallery.

It's advised to complete the mission Operation Illapa first, because that makes the area easier to get to. Not only does the Blizzard make it hard to spot the rock (see below), the lightning strikes will also likely kill Rico before he can get there.

On the mountainside is an area of rock that's differently colored. Normal rock is blueish grey, but this area is more brownish. See the gallery below for a map that shows the approximate location. Then, look for a particular slab of rock deeper into the mountain, as if pressed into a hole. On this special rock is a red X.

Use explosive weapons to blow up the rock. This reveals an about 100 meter long tunnel.


Entrance and science area[]

Enter the tunnel. The easter egg inside should be somewhat illuminated at night, but will be pitch black in the daytime. Either way, feel free to explore.

The tunnel leads to a giant room. The room has a platform with some computers and a few scientists discussing science. The same computers and scientists can be seen at a few mission interiors where they speak the same dialogue. What's interesting is the giant hemisphere of glass panels around it. The glass can be destroyed with gunfire. Doing this triggers wind and a gravity field from the other side.

One of the desks here has a paper on it with some scientific equations and Italian writing for someone respecting/valuing someone called Ilaria.

Moon and giant sphere[]

The other side is an about 2 kilometer thick invisible spherical area with an about 100 or so meter thick Moon floating in the middle of it. The moon even has a small flag on it. If enough of the glass is destroyed, the triggered Moon gravity will pull some furniture and people from the computer room to the surface of the Moon.

The Moon will be grey and well lit. The background has stars on it and looks like space.

The entire area has a zone of special moon gravity, so be very careful with using the Wingsuit/Parachute here. The gravity can hit Rico against the Moon from any direction.

It is sometimes stated that a glitch causes the room to be completely pitch black, but this is not a glitch. It is just that the moon only lights at night. If you visit at night, it will be bright and you can explore the room. In daytime, it is pitch black.

Giant cave around the sphere[]

Going to the top of the giant sphere that contains all the above, allows the player to peek through the edge, to see an about cube-shaped cave around it. Somewhere near the top is an opening, or at least an easier place to clip through. The cave contains the normal snowy weather of the region and during the daytime when the moon is not shining and the room is pitch black, the giant sphere will cast a shadow on the ground below. The ground below also has a smaller hemispherical dent, about 20 meters across in the ground. The fastest way to exit the cave is by calling a pilot for fast travel.

In-universe analysis[]

A roadless blocked-off cliffside entrance with no helicopter landing pad is a terrible entrance. How would the scientists even get to work? There are unusable doors on the inside, that the scientists could probably use, but it is unknown where it leads. The nearest base is the Project Illapa facility, Illapa.

They are likely using wormhole technology that was developed by the eDEN Corporation (in Just Cause 3) to monitor the real Moon. If that is the case, this is certainly a part of the Solino Space Program.

Trivia[]

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  • Unfortunately this wiki has been unable to find it again on YouTube after the years that have passed, but some time before the launch of Just Cause 3 there was a relevant promotional interview with one of the developers. The interviewer asked the man if there was anything "too crazy" for the Just Cause game series. The man laughed and said that Rico would never go to the Moon. At the time this was believed to be a reference to the 1979 Bond movie "Moonraker", in which James Bond went to space. That movie is widely considered to be somewhat odd and unfitting to the rest of the film series. It is very unlikely that this easter egg would have been planned so far in advance and it's probably coincidental.


Gallery (outside)[]

Gallery (inside with darkness)[]

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