Apex Legends Season 15: Catalyst Lore Explained

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Apex Legends next season Eclipse revealed their new legend Catalyst. We got the lore trailer revealing Catalyst’s backstory and motivations for joining the Apex games. Just in case you missed it, here’s everything you need to know about Catalyst’s background.

Catalyst comes from the planet Boreas. If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same planet Seer is from. As a brief recap, in Seer’s lore trailer “Metamorphosis”, we saw Boreas’s long history of environmental troubles. Boreas’s moon Cleo was hit by a meteor and shattered it causing it to weaken and in turn, cause Boreas to be subjected to meteor showers, tide disturbances, and temperature fluctuations. Turns out the moon’s gravitational pull is pretty important to a planet.

A new atmosphere was created and a Stasis net was installed on the moon to try and hold its structure to reduce the damage and catastrophe at bay for Boreas below. We saw that after Seer left the planet for the Apex games soon after, Hammond had moved into Boreas to find and dig for its natural resources. Hammond discovered that Boreas was abundant with the resource ferrofluid and was harvesting the element.

Here’s where Catalyst comes in. Teenage Catalyst, aka Tressa Crystal Smith, and her sisterhood of friends were outspoken against the damage Hammond was inflicting on their planet and prayed for the moon’s survival. Tressa and her friend Margo connected over finding their place in the world as Catalyst had just transitioned and felt more herself. And yes, if you picked up on that note, it’s been confirmed that Catalyst is the first trans character in Apex! As a lovely fun fact, she was also created with help from a representative of GLAAD and brought to life by a trans voice actress.

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