Thunder Junction

Thunder Junction is a plane of the Multiverse, introduced in Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
==Description==
Thunder Junction is an American Wild West-inspired frontier world, favored by some of the most famous villains of the Multiverse, who use the Omenpaths to travel through the Blind Eternities. Thunder Junction is a massive desert plane, characterized by wide vistas, cacti, tumbleweeds, rattlesnakes, canyons, railroads, small wooden towns, and many other Wild West tropes. The plane has no governing force. Solar powered pylons provide power to settlers across the plane.Flavor text of <c>Conduit Pylons</c>
Winter on the plane is thunderstorm season, and the desert rain is hard and sudden.
===History===
Before the Omenpaths opened, Thunder Junction was an unspoiled, uninhabited plane. The only structures on the plane that predated the Omenpaths were Maag Taranau and several mysterious runecarved obelisks.Flavor text for <c>Runecarved Obelisk</c> The plane was not a target in New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse.
After the opening of the Omenpaths, Thunder Junction was overrun with outlaws, and crime became a way of life. Riveteers of New Capenna constructed railroads on the plane, while Ral Zarek from Ravnica was building relay towers for a communication network across the Omenpaths. Peace is kept by the Sterling Company.
===Thunder===
The opening of the Omenpaths awoke the wild magic of Thunder Junction.Flavor text for <c>Quick Draw</c> Appearing as blue lightning, it is chaotic and destructive. Settlers dubbed it "thunder" eventually becoming the plane's namesake and put it to use in everything from farming tools to melee weapons to a variety of firearms, known as "thunder blasters." A shooting competition known as the "Thunder Trial" is held in Omenport. These tools come in a variety of forms, including:
*Thunder bows. Heavy, well-balanced crossbows.
*Thunder pistols, small but heavy.
*Thunder rifles
*Thundercuffs, used by lawmen.<c>Shackle Slinger</c>
===Known locations===
There are only two major settlements on Thunder Junction Omenport and Prosperity with the rest falling into the category of smaller towns.
*Hardbristle, a settlement of Cactusfolk along a train line near the hills.
*Ironstone, a roadside town with little to offer beyond a single card den, an abandoned mine, and a rail station.
*Omenport, a town built in the desert region where an unusual number of Omenpaths open and the location of a relay tower built to establish interplanar communication. The town features wooden buildings with triangular rooftops and faded paint, dotted with clusters of cacti. Triangle motifs reminiscent of the Omenpaths are common in the architecture. An enchanted fountain in the town's plaza perpetually bubbles with cool water. Mission bells ring each day at sundown. It is connected to Prosperity by the Omenport Express.
*Prosperity, the wealthiest metropolis on Thunder Junction, under the control of the Sterling Company. Tall gray boulders mimic towering skyscrapers, and its buildings are pristine and whitewashed. ornate trains move through the heart of the city, connecting it to stations across Thunder Junction. Two long roads paved with clean white stones run alongside the raised tracks, and are patrolled by nearly a dozen Sterling Company guards. The town is home to many saloons.
**Prosperity StationFlavor text of <c>Iron-Fist Pulverizer</c>
**The Sterling Company headquarters.
**The Voyager Grande, a ten-story tall hotel, casino, and entertainment megaplex. Jagged, triangular rooftops and wide-reaching windmills loom from its rooftop. Colorful bunting stretches from its balconies, and spherical lights are strung up along blue-striped gables. The grand front room holds wooden card tables and staircases and elevators leading to a second floor containing restaurants, dance halls, and theatres. The tenth floor, accessible by key, is for the hotel's most-exclusive customers.
***The Slickshot headquarters, contained in the basement.
**The Prosperity Post, the local newspaper. 
*Rustwood, a remote and failed ranching town now mostly abandoned.
**The Wildcard Saloon, the hideout of Oko's band of outlaws.
*Saddlebrush, a quiet, isolated town where Annie Flash's ranch sits on the outskirts. Around the town are badlands and dunes.
*Tarnation, a town built around the vault by Akul and the Hellspurs.
**Maag Taranau, also known as The Vault, an ancient artifact locked away at the center of the plane, rumored to hide untold riches and power.
*Thief's Folly, a graveyard for prospectors. The necropolis is composed of fields of tombs, graves, and mausoleums surrounded by a high stone and iron wall. Long-dead trees reach toward the sky. The architecture of the tombs and design of the grave markers are a patchwork amalgam of dozens of planes; some of the bodies were brought from off-plane, or buried elsewhere and then moved. Grave markers are written in the way of the corpse's homeworld, with a line of clarifying text in Thunder Junction's script. The majority also have small sigils etched into the corners of the marker forming an incantation.
*The wilderness, the uninhabited land
**Blacksnag Bog, a treacherous swamp containing an old mining trail and lost treasure, and the bones of those who searched for them.Flavor text for 
**The Eversaloon, a respite that appears at the moment it is most needed.Flavor text for Referred to as "extraplanar," it may be another plane connected by an Omenpath or a pocket plane of Thunder Junction.
**Fool's Fall, headwaters of a river guarded by strange snakesFlavor text for and mysterious djinni.Flavor text for 
**Redrock
**The Southern Trail
**SpinegullyFlavor text for 
**Spinewoods and <c>Spinewoods Paladin</c>
==Inhabitants==
===Factions===
*The Freestriders - nomadic hunters and outlaws who live off the land and believe in freedom in all its forms.
*The Hellspurs - bandits and criminals, based in Tarnation. The Hellspurs were led by Akul and relied heavily on the use of Fire and Thunder magic to get what they wanted. 
*Outcasters - scattered groups of hermits and outlaws that huddle in small ramshackle towns across the plane.
*The Slickshot Gang - a band of outlaws and thunderslingers for hire led by the crime boss Lilah.
*The Sterling Company - led by Bertram Graywater, they are what passes for the law around Prosperity, although their interest is mainly protecting their riches.
===Sapient races===
Note: Thunder Junction contained no sapient life before the Omenpaths opened. The inhabitants listed as "sapient" are assumed to all originate from other planes unless otherwise specified.
*Aetherborn 
*Angels 
*Aven 
*Bearfolk 
*Beastfolk 
*Cactusfolk - The only known sapient race native to Thunder Junction.
*Catfolk 
*Centaurs 
*Demons 
*Djinni 
*Dragons 
**Dragon Elementals 
**Dragon Horrors 
**Scorpion Dragons 
*Dwarves 
*Elementals 
*Elves 
*Faeries 
*Giants 
*Goblins 
*Gorgons 
*Homarids 
*Homunculi 
*Humans 
*Kor 
*Lizardfolk 
*Minotaurs 
*Nezumi 
*Ogres 
*Oozefolk 
*Orcs 
*Rabbitfolk 
*Rhoxes 
*Shapeshifters 
*Sharkfolk 
*Sirens 
*Skeletons 
*Snakefolk 
*Specters 
*Sphinxes 
*Spirits 
*Turtlefolk 
*Vampires 
*Zombies 
===Other===
*Armadillos 
*Badger Beasts 
*Bats 
*Bears 
*Beavers 
*Beasts 
*Birds 
**Buzzards 
**Ravens 
**Roadrunners 
**Strixes 
**Vultures 
*Brushwaggs 
*Cats 
**Arynxes 
**Cougars
**Felidars 
*Constructs 
*Coyotes 
*Crabs 
*Dinosaurs 
*Dogs 
*Drakes 
*Elementals 
*Elks 
*Frogs 
**Frog Beasts 
*Gnomes 
*Golems 
*Griffins 
*Hippogriffs 
*Horrors 
*Horses 
*Hydras 
*Insects 
*Jackalopes
*Lizards 
**Gila monsters
*Oxen 
**Holy Cows 
*Pegasi 
*Pests 
*Pigs
*Plants 
**Plant Spiders
**Plant Wolves
*Porcupines 
*Possums 
*Prairie dogs 
*Salamanders 
**Newts
*Scarecrows 
*Sheep 
**Bighorn Sheep
*Snakes 
**Rattlesnakes
**Snake Horses 
*Unicorns 
*Varmints 
*Wolverines 
*Wurms 
**Rattlewurms 
===Flora===
*Aloe vera
*Apple trees
*Brittlebush
*Cacti
*Duckweed
*Grain
*Pinyon pine 
*Sugarcane
==Languages==
===Writing Systems===
*A simplified script used for signage
==Culture==
Thunder Junction's culture is an amalgamation of the planar diaspora that inhabits it.
===Cuisine===
Alcohol is common on the plane, in the form of whiskey, cocktails, and birch beer. Inhabitants also smoke tobacco and eat piñon nuts.
==Planeswalkers and other visitors==
===Native planeswalkers===
===Planeswalker visitors===
===Non-planeswalker visitors===
==Trivia==
*Thunder Junction's wildlife, like its culture, is based around Americana:
**Its Basilisk-like mounts are based on roosters.
**Its Drakes are based on rainbow trout.
**Its Griffins are a combination of bald eagles and mountain lions.
**Its Horses are based on American Paint horses.
*Thunder Junction being described as uninhabited before the Omenpaths' opening sidesteps some colonialist aspects of Western tropes but does resemble aspects of American Indigenous erasure known as the "Frontier myth," where the land is described as being 'empty' before it was colonized. However, this is contradicted by various clues throughout the story, suggesting this to be merely to cover the mystery of the building Coin Empire arc.
*The name of Maag Taranau combines the old Irish "mag" for "plains" and the Welsh "taranau" for "thunder".
==Gallery==
File:CoinBebop.png|Cash-style currency used on Thunder Junction.
File:ThunderBebop1.png|Thunder blasters in the Outlaws of Thunder Junction x Cowboy Bebop trailer.
File:ThunderBebop2.png| by Maxilla.
File:OTJWeapons.jpg|Weapons of Thunder Junction.
==In-game references==
: Scryfall does not record flavor text for digital cards. See Alchemy: Thunder Junction/Flavor text.
==References==
Category:Planes