Climate control center

The Interior of the Climate control center.

A Climate control center sometimes called a Weather Device was developed on the planet Fichina, at some point between the Lylat Wars and the Aparoid Invasion. Its development resulted in the planet becoming inhabitable.

Appearance

The Climate control center was a primarily circular building, with at least one entrance as well as the main antechamber that contained the weather control system. The system was a large pole that influenced the meteorlogical atmosphere into changing, in this case, preventing the planet's naturally occuring, uninhabitable blizzards from occurring.

Aparoid Invasion

The Exterior of the Climate control center.

By the time Team Star Fox arrived at Fichina to apprehend Pigma Dengar for the theft of an Aparoid Core Memory at Katina based on a tip from Star Wolf member Panther Caruso, the climate control center was shut down for an extensive period of time presumably by Pigma, resulting in a huge blizzard on the planet, as well as several Aparoids being reported nearby. As the rest of the Star Fox team was unable to fly their Arwings in the blizzard, Fox McCloud descended onto the planet alone. Fox also discovered that the center was protected by a shield barrier, necessitating that Fox deactivate it to reactivate the climate control center.

The Shield Generator tower, its emerald power supply is its weak point.

The shield generators themselves were invulnerable to Fox's equipment to be destroyed directly, so Fox targeted the green power supply of the generator towers instead. Upon doing so with the Landmaster, he then entered the climate control center and activated the controls, eliminating the blizzard for good. However, before he was even able to leave, the Sentry Bot 3000s started targeting Fox, also sealing him inside the control center due to a security lockdown, thus forcing Fox to hold them off until Falco arrived.

Afterwards, Slippy investigated the remains of the Sentry Bot 3000s and discovered the cause of their malfunction: they had been infected by the Aparoids. However, Pigma then appeared and infected a power generator into becoming an Aparoid. Because of Pigma's earlier actions, it caused the generator itself to become critically unstable, thus undergoing self-destruction and forcing the Star Fox team to fight off the generator and let Pigma escape, as the alternative was to let Fichina experience permanent blizzards. After destroying the aparoid while sparing the generator itself, the Aparoid forces retreated.

Aftermath

As a direct result of the mission, the climate control center was in need of repair work from damages by both Pigma and the Aparoids, with the warning system and ancilliary equipment needing to be in dire need of reevaluated.

A climate control center was used on Fortuna, Titania and even Corneria to blanket the planets with white snow.

Extreme snow happens less often on Corneria.

Expect snow in Star Fox, all the time.