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History
The discovery of The Vault, and the resulting surge in the appearance of Eridium, soon drew the attention of Hyperion and Handsome Jack. Hyperion, being a weapons manufacturer and one of the major industrial powers on Pandora, needed a stronger foothold on the planet, and so brought their robot manufacturing expertise to the world along with a significant injection of resources. The resulting cadre of personnel and robots soon had the planet under strict martial law.
Involvement
Borderlands
The only known presence of Hyperion forces are their recon team.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
As mentioned by Jack and Tassiter during Lost Legion's invasion, the Helios station was meant to merely observe Pandora. While it does possess its own security systems, such as automated turrets, Hyperion lacked a proper military force of its own, which allowed the Lost Legion to overwhelm them easily when aided by a jamming signal. Their FIX Loaders, presumably designed by Doctor Langois, were similarly unarmed and served as utility units. Stalkers were held captive for research on optical camouflage.
Hyperion's line of armed loaders came to existence when Jack's Vault Hunters helped Hyperion scientist Gladstone Katoa to finish his prototype and install a military-grade AI, which would presumably produce loaders to fight off the Lost Legion off-screen.
Some playable classes in the game are also directly affiliated with Hyperion. Claptrap, an individual robot from his namesake product line, was updated into a combat-capable model programmed to obey Jack's orders. Timothy Lawrence signed up at Hyperion and become Jack's body double for the next two decades to pay off his student loans. After the events of the game, Jack betrays Claptrap and disposes of him, Wilhelm joins Hyperion while Timothy Lawrence remains in his position.
Borderlands 2
Hyperion makes its presence known at the start of Borderlands 2 when Hyperion derails a train carrying Vault Hunters across the Windshear Waste. From then on it is an ever present threat with its moonbase disgorging combat units down to the surface of the planet, and Handsome Jack making a determined effort to gain control over another vault.
Hyperion makes a minor contribution to the events of Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty. They have somehow secured one of Captain Blade's compass pieces but remain oblivious to its importamce. Captain Scarlett then orders the Vault Hunters to raid the convoy carrying it. When they unintentionally destroy the fourth piece, Herbert tasks them to enter the Hyperion-owned Washburne Refinery and acquire some poly-kryten to reconstruct it.
Following the destruction of Helios, the Hyperion survivors turn into a Pandoran tribe led by Vaughn. The remnants of Hyperion units would appear physically in Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary, specifically active security turrets and loaders hacked by New Pandora.
Borderlands 3
In Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot, mechanical Hyperion units continue to function in the derelict titular casino. They also manifest as virtual representations in Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck as part of Krieg's memories.
Hyperion Units (Borderlands 2)
Personnel
- Combat Engineer
- Engineer
- Hyperion Hawk
- Hyperion Sniper
- Hyperion Soldier
- Hyperion Infiltrator
- Loot Midget Combat Engineer
- Loot Midget Engineer
Robots
Notable Units
- Bone Head 2.0
- BNK3R
- Foreman Jasper
- Handsome Jack
- Hunter Hellquist
- Jimmy Jenkins
- Loader #1340
- Mal
- Saturn
- W4R-D3N
- Wilhelm
- Appears in Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty:
Hyperion Units (Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel)
Vault Hunters
Others
Tassitron Units (Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel)
Tassitron Sniper
Since Hyperion are allies in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Hyperion units are absent from the main storyline. The Claptastic Voyage DLC contains one area with digital Hyperion enemies, installed in claptrap's mind by Harold Tassiter. These are analogous to the Hyperion units encountered during Borderlands 2. They are only encountered in one area of the map Cluster 00773 P4ND0R4, in The Destroyer's dig site during File Search.
Hyperion Units (Borderlands 3)
DLCs
Robots
- Appears in Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot:
- Badass Corrosive Loader
- Badass HOT Loader
- Badass Hyperion Turret
- Badass ICE Loader
- Badass Loader
- Badass Shock Loader
- Badass Surveyor
- Badass Wee Loader
- Bouncer Bot
- Casino Bot
- Constructor
- Derelict Loader
- EXP Loader
- GUN Loader
- HOT Loader
- Hyperion Turret
- ICE Loader
- P-Loader
- RIOT Loader
- RPG Loader
- Rusted EXP Loader
- Rusted GUN Loader
- Rusted SGT Loader
- SGT Loader
- Surveyor
- SVY Loader
- Trash Bot
Officers
- Appears in Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck:
Notable Units
Others
- Appears in Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot:
- Appears in Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck:
Gallery
- Main article: Gallery: Hyperion (faction)
See Also
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