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The lunar hypergate that was destroyed 15 years ago during Heaven's Fall was
said to strand the Vers Knights on the Earth Orbit.

It is improbable that there are no unmanned ships ferrying supplies to the
Vers homeworld (Mars) and parting from the Vers foundries to the frontline
(Earth orbit).

But given the scale of space technology, it is not unthinkable that some
people (commoners) would not travel several months to get from Earth orbit to
Vers (Mars).

That the nobles of Vers think themselves as stranded on the orbit because they
would not submit themselves to this arduous trip, OK.

But do people still travel to and from Vers after Heaven's Fall? Is there some
reference from the canon material?


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Do people still travel to and from Vers after Heaven's Fall?


We found out right at the beginning of episode 1 (around 0:22) that Asseylum
herself left Vers just two months before the start of the show, at which point
she is in Earth orbit (in Cruhteo's castle). Also, in episode 21, we see that
Klancain (Cruhteo Jr.) has come from Vers to meet Slaine.

So transit from Earth-vicinity to Mars without the Hypergate surely must be
_possible_ , but this of course says nothing about how prevalent it is.

I suppose this also does tells us one more thing - the fastest mode of transit
from Mars to Earth orbit must take somewhere under two months, which is
considerably faster than all currently proposed ways of getting people to
Mars.

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If we want to look to marginally-less-canonical material: the second volume of
the BDs came with a short manga titled "Aldnoah.Zero Extra Episode 01", which
portrays Slaine's life right after the passing of his father, including his
being taken in by Cruhteo.

Here, we learn that the Orbital Knights (or at least Cruhteo) and their
retinue come to Vers every so often on business.

> [![Aldnoah.Zero Extra Episode 01, p.
> 26](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m3mlsm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m3mls.jpg)
>
> Top left panel: Asseylum asks Cruhteo, "You had come to Vers?"; bottom right
> panel: Cruhteo replies, "I had a minor matter to attend to."


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