<Li> Venus, time unknown, the hydroponic plantations . </Li> <Li> Earth, 28th century, Galaxity, capital of the Terran Galactic Empire, the headquarters of the Spatio - Temporal Service . </Li> <Li> Earth, 1986 . An explosion of hydrogen bombs at the North Pole has caused the ice cap to melt, engulfing most of the Earth's cities in a series of tsunamis . Locations visited include: <Ul> <Li> United States of America, New York, New York City, Manhattan . The deluge has flooded the city turning the streets and avenues into a network of canals not unlike Venice . The population have abandoned the city leaving it to the looters . Travel is only possible by boat or across the rooftops which, in places, have been connected with rope bridges by the looters . Galaxity's relay station is located in the Statue of Liberty . Valérian is first imprisoned in Macy's department store and then advances his search for Xombul on the top of the Empire State Building from where he discovers Xombul's robots in the United Nations . Sun Rae's base of operations is the Plaza Hotel while Laureline's hideaway is in Greenwich Village . Xombul's New York base is in Washington Heights . Valerian, Laureline and Sun Rae escape the final deluge via the Washington Bridge . </Li> <Li> United States of America, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park . Yellowstone is too far inland to be affected by the tidal waves but the catastrophe has upset the caldera resulting in eruptions of lava . Xombul's refuge is an underground super laboratory built by the US Army inside the Rocky Mountains similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex . </Li> <Li> Low Earth Orbit, a secret space station designed as a refuge for the President of the United States in the event of a nuclear holocaust . It is from here that the surviving footage of the nuclear explosion at the North Pole was taken . </Li> <Li> Brazil, Brasília . Saved from the catastrophe thanks to its inland, high altitude location . Galaxity have a second spatio - temporal relay here . A conference at the University of Brasília has meant that many of the Earth's best scientists were here at the time of the explosion . They are working to rebuild their shattered planet . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> United States of America, New York, New York City, Manhattan . The deluge has flooded the city turning the streets and avenues into a network of canals not unlike Venice . The population have abandoned the city leaving it to the looters . Travel is only possible by boat or across the rooftops which, in places, have been connected with rope bridges by the looters . Galaxity's relay station is located in the Statue of Liberty . Valérian is first imprisoned in Macy's department store and then advances his search for Xombul on the top of the Empire State Building from where he discovers Xombul's robots in the United Nations . Sun Rae's base of operations is the Plaza Hotel while Laureline's hideaway is in Greenwich Village . Xombul's New York base is in Washington Heights . Valerian, Laureline and Sun Rae escape the final deluge via the Washington Bridge . </Li> <Li> United States of America, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park . Yellowstone is too far inland to be affected by the tidal waves but the catastrophe has upset the caldera resulting in eruptions of lava . Xombul's refuge is an underground super laboratory built by the US Army inside the Rocky Mountains similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex . </Li> <Li> Low Earth Orbit, a secret space station designed as a refuge for the President of the United States in the event of a nuclear holocaust . It is from here that the surviving footage of the nuclear explosion at the North Pole was taken . </Li> <Li> Brazil, Brasília . Saved from the catastrophe thanks to its inland, high altitude location . Galaxity have a second spatio - temporal relay here . A conference at the University of Brasília has meant that many of the Earth's best scientists were here at the time of the explosion . They are working to rebuild their shattered planet . </Li> </Ul>

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