Lego Universe

General Knowledge

Factions

Next on the list is the Assembly. They are builders and contain a variety of Faction kits, and are led by Dr. Overbuild. They focus on building mainly.
The Inventor. They are armed with a Improved Launcher which is very long range and can destroy stuff very far away. It is a "two in one gun", in other words you get a Secondary gun and a normal weapon. The Secondary gun launches a beehive at enemies, "stinging" them to death. The shoulder pads do damage to enemies every second.
The Summoner. Straight to it's name, a Summoner "summons" creatures to aid it in battle. The Summoner staff, like all assembly weapons, restores armour when charged. His "Orb" creates a Thwok, a creature, and his hat and shoulderpads make a Bulper and "Scratch" a kind of pet. The valiant is called the WingReaper, which can creates a flight of owls to help you.
The Engineer. All Engineers use spanners, and the ones in Lego Universe aren't any different! They also have a Controller, which creates a magnet to lift enemies into the air. The Shoulder pads make a wildly known, "turret". The Turret will destroy anything in front of it. The valiant is called the "Serratorizer". It is basically a couple of grinders, which can create a Bot quick to shoot enemies.

After them are the Paradox. They are secret agents working for Vanda Darkflame and are dressed in black and purple, even white for the "Space Marauder".
The Space Marauder. This Faction kit includes a Blaster, and a Launcher. The Blaster's charge up is to regenerate imagination, and the Launcher fires a rocket at enemies, which is useful. The Helm can make you throw an Energy Sphere, and the shoulderpads throw Seven Energy Spheres around you. The valiant weapon, the "Wormholer" lives up to it's name. When you charge it up, it lets off a machine gun like fire, putting holes in enemies and destroing them. It can also release a Stromling mech, which will fire at enemies.
The Sorcerer. The Sorcerer uses a wand and another Orb, but this time the Orb makes an explosion which knocks back enemies. The shoulderpads are a great help to characters around you, as they let off a blast and restrores a lot of imagination whilst hurting enemies. The valiant weapon, the DoomSlicer, can create a Stromling Spiderling, which also helps you in battle.
The Shinobi. Unlike the Sentinel Samurai, the Katana that he uses are very different from the one a Samurai would use. The special attack makes you run forward, and hurt every enemy you strike. The shoulderpads make you throw shuriken everywhere around you, hurting all enemies in a set range.

The Venture League. Focusing mainly on exploration and adventure, the Venture League are far and few. In my experience, Venture League is not the preferred choice of many people, but people who do choose it get some pretty decent weapons.
The Daredevil. The Daredevil uses flareguns to destroy everything within a close range. Unlike other guns, these guns have four shots instead of the standard three. The shoulderpads create a mist which does a tot of damage, and the flareguns do the same. The valiant weapon, the Rutcarver is like half a motorbike and you can ride it on it's special ability.
The Buccaneer. Using a Pirate sword and a pistol, the Buccaneer really is a pirate! The pistol fires a bullet at enemies, and the shoulderpads release a monkey which mesmerises and hurts enemies. The valiant weapon, known as the the Broadsider. It makes a schooner which rams and destroys enemies.
The Adventurer. This kit uses a whip, and a crossbow. The crossbow obviosly fires at enemies, and the whip whips them. The shoulderpads help other people, because it restores life to characters around you.

The worlds

Venture Explorer
This is where all minifigures start, free-player or not. The Venture Explorer can not be visited again, but it can be in Return to Venture Explorer. The very basics are explained here, from moving to using your imagination and many other things.

Avant Gardens
The place where there are loads of people every day, at any time, Avant Gardens is a, fun brilliant place where some enemies are easy and others are just tough. The missions start out very easy and get harder as you progress, until you reach the launchpad, where you can go to Nimbus Station, Return to Venture explorer and two propertys. Free-players can only go to the "Block Yard", their only property. You can also get a mission which cannot be completed as a Free-player, where you need to go and talk to Nexus Jay.
There are no mini-bosses except the Spider-Queen, which is hard and takes a lot of time to destroy. You can redestroy her in the Battle Instance in the Spidercave. You can't even get decent weapons to kill her. But it is a still a very good place to go, with a lot of enemies and people to make teams with.
Avant Gardens includes a Survival, where you are attacked by enemies from Avant Gardens and certain other enemies from various places. You are outside the Sentinel base camp, and there is nowhere to hide from enemies. You can be very safe near to the Spidercave Entrance, where few enemies rarely go.
The Spidercaves, which has lots of Stromling spiders in it, is a place where you can find the Battle Instance. The spiders are farely easy to smash, but they get a bit overwhelming at times. The Paradox Refinery had the Spider Queen in it, but she escaped. Then there is The Monument, a giant statue commemorating the battle against the Mealstrom. It is made of a Stromling about to be destroyed by a Minifig, but it's hard to tell when you're near it.

Return to Venture Explorer
This is based on the Venture Explorer, except it's overrun with stromlings and the Mealstrom. The spaceship is the same, apart from the fact that it's glowing red and there are stromlings everywhere. The Nexus Force scout, from Avant Gardens, is there. He gives you various missions, most of which are easy. Somehow, though, he's in Avant Gardens and on the Venture Explorer at the same time, a small mistake in the game. The general purpose of the Return to Venture Explorer is to clear and find out stuff about the Mealstrom.

Nimbus Station
Nimbus Station is where you choose your faction, and get and a general tutorial of racing and factions. There are four faction vendors in Nimbus Square, all who supply Rank one and two gear, and can give you missions. There is also a "concert" where you can play instruments. There is a Guitar, a Bass Guitar, Drums and a Piano. If you play them for long enough, you can get items to play anywhere. There is also Brick Annaxe, where two propertys (Nimbus Isle and Nimbus Rock) can be accessed, but you can only launch off to Nimbus Isle if you have cleared Nimbus Rock of the Mealstrom first. You can also get to all most all places, like Gnarled Forest, Forbidden Valley, Nexus tower, Lego Club, Starbase3001 and Pet Cove.
There is also the Battle of Nimbus Station, known as "Bons". Unlike the Avant Gardens Survival, you are faced with "waves". These Waves need to be destroyed one at a time, and not just continually coming at you. After every Enmey leader (Murgle Blotch, Whack Bliddo) you get a powerup boxes to help you. But after Whack Bliddo you get Boom boxes, dratted things from Gnarled Forest. It is much easier to survive, as there is a place behind a hedge where enemies can't reach you. There is also a place on top the Towers where they can't get you, but you need a Jetpack. The Battle is based in Nimbus Sqaure, inside the Four faction Vendors.

Pet Cove
In Pet Cove you learn to Tame pets, get Pet Treasures and many other things. You can tame three pets, A Terrier, a Cat and a Rabbit.