This is the whole station seen from the top of the glass crown. It is the real game, drawn from straight above. North is at the top, the way you come in is on the left, and the only way out is on the right.
Every stop on the map
Glacier Gate Concourse
In Omaha: Main entrance and Glacier Bay Landing
Every visit starts here, where the shuttles dock. In Omaha this is the main gate and Glacier Bay Landing. Seven wakes up on his charger at the west end and rolls out through the big doors.
Verdance Hall
In Omaha: Lied Jungle
The biggest room in the zoo after the zoo itself. In Omaha this is the Lied Jungle, just inside the gate. Here it is a glass barrel vault with its own rain.
Home world: Thallo IV, a jungle moon with a twelve-hour rain.
Lantern Chimp
Moss Tapir
Ember Toucan
Vine Serpent
Reedjaw Crocodile
Kesh Dune Dome
In Omaha: Desert Dome
A geodesic dome on the rise, where Omaha keeps the Desert Dome. The sand inside came from Kesh, one bag at a time.
Home world: Kesh, a desert planet where the dunes sing at noon.
Glasshump Camel
Sentry Meerkat
Dune Vulture
Sandsifter
Umbra Vault
In Omaha: Kingdoms of the Night
Next to the dome and half under it, like Omaha's Kingdoms of the Night. The lights stay off on purpose. Let your eyes adjust.
Home world: Umbra, a world that keeps one face to its sun and the other in the dark.
Vault Rat
Hollow Spider
Gloam Roach
Umbral Wolf
Canopy Gorge
In Omaha: Hubbard Gorilla Valley and Orangutan Forest
Cliffs on three sides and a window on the fourth, after Hubbard Gorilla Valley. The gorillas watch the visitors more than the visitors watch the gorillas.
Home world: Mbali, a mountain world of fog and fig trees.
Stoneback Gorilla
Pelagia Deep
In Omaha: Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium
Pelagia Deep sits where the Scott Aquarium sits in Omaha, with a glass tunnel straight through the main tank. Mind the drips.
Home world: Pelagia, an ocean moon with no land at all.
Lumen Shark
Tide Dolphin
Abyss Orca
Choir Whale
Bell Jelly
Reef Octopus
Spark Squid
Glass Seahorse
Lantern Crab
Hive Gallery
In Omaha: Butterfly and Insect Pavilion
A six-sided pavilion between the aquarium and the grasslands, like Omaha's Butterfly and Insect Pavilion. The walls are real hive paper, sealed in glass.
Home world: Vesp, a warm planet of paper hives the size of houses.
Vesp Drone
Apex Hall
In Omaha: Cat Complex
The cat hall. Thick glass, warm rocks, and three keepers who never turn their backs.
Home world: Rakh, a red savanna planet with two suns.
Rakh Tiger
Crown Lion
Crown Lioness
Ombra Savanna
In Omaha: African Grasslands
Twenty-eight acres of grassland in the east, as in Omaha. Only a moat and a force field keep the herds in.
Home world: Ombra, a grassland planet with violet skies.
Spire Giraffe
Thunder Elephant
Prism Zebra
Anvil Rhino
Strider Ostrich
Dusk Buffalo
Mire Hippo
Floe Shelf
In Omaha: Owen Sea Lion Shores
A cold pool on the south walk, after Owen Sea Lion Shores. The ice is real. So is the smell.
Home world: Glacia, a snowball planet with a liquid ocean under the ice.
Rime Seal
Frost Walrus
Shard Penguin
Glacier Bear
Kaltor Highlands
In Omaha: Asian Highlands
Terraced pens on the south side, like Omaha's Asian Highlands. Bamboo for the pandas, rocks for everyone else.
Home world: Kaltor, a highland world of terraced valleys.
Lantern Panda
Brass Stag
Kaltor Elk
Ridge Bear
Tusk Boar
Skyvault Aviary
In Omaha: Simmons Aviary
A net vault eight hundred feet long, the same as the Simmons Aviary. The birds can fly the whole length without touching a wall.
Home world: Aerith, a gas giant's moon where most things fly.
Sunset Flamingo
Storm Eagle
Signal Parrot
Honk Goose
Comet Gull
Nursery Pens
In Omaha: Children's Adventure Trails
The petting pens. Every animal here comes from Earth. Visitors from other worlds find them the strangest exhibit in the zoo.
Home world: Earth. Yes, that one.
Earth Goat
Earth Sheep
Earth Pig
Earth Hen
Earth Capybara
Koi Garden
In Omaha: Garden of the Senses and the koi lagoon
The quiet middle of the zoo: a round plaza with a koi pond, benches and a charger. It takes the place of Omaha's Garden of the Senses. In the breakout it is the one open space where Seven can see trouble coming.
Pod Bay C
In Omaha: (none: the station's lifeboats)
The station's lifeboats, at the far east end. Omaha has no pod bay, which is probably for the best. In the breakout only one pod is still good, and the amber route on the deck leads to it.
Why it looks like Omaha
The station copies the layout of the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, one of the largest zoos in the United States. The chamber is about 128 acres, close to the real zoo's footprint. Each habitat sits roughly where its real counterpart sits. If you have been to the Lied Jungle or the Desert Dome, you already know your way around. You just did not have to outrun anything last time.