The Ark

The Ark is a location featured on The 100. It is one of the two main locations. What is left of the human race survives in the Ark, but the life-support is dying. This is the reason the Delinquents are sent to Earth.

Season One
TBA

Components

 * Agro Station – grows soy for food, and a source of illicit moonshine.
 * Mecha Station – mechanical facilities, and the location of the Mir-3 escape pod.
 * Hydro Station
 * Mir-3 – salvaged in 2102.
 * Dropships – Previously enough for 700, now only 600.

History
The Ark is the orbital home that humans have survived on for 97 years, while Earth lay uninhabitable. The original survivors numbered over 400, spread across the space stations of 13 nations. Of those 13 stations one was lost to conflict before the remaining 12 joined forces. Those survivors combined the 12 remaining stations and thousands of satellites into The Ark, and their population grew to 2658, stretching life support to the breaking point.

Due to the resource scarcity, all adult criminals are punished with death, and juvenile offenders are imprisoned until they turn 18, and are either freed or executed. As a way of both testing the recovery of Earth, and reducing the population using up life support, 100 juvenile offenders have been sent to Earth.

Not knowing if the 100 were alive or dead, still facing inadequate life support, and with only enough dropships for 700; the Ark was forced to cull an additional 320 sacrificial volunteers, bringing the population living on board to 2237.

12 Nations
The flags of the 12 national space stations that formed the Ark, are paraded as part of the Ark's Unity Day celebrations.
 * Australia
 * Brazil
 * Canada
 * China
 * France
 * India
 * Japan
 * Russia
 * U.K.
 * U.S.A.
 * Uganda
 * Venezuela

13th Station
According to Finn, the 13th Space Station was destroyed in a conflict and the remaining stations decided to work together in order to obtain peace. Which country it belonged to is unknown.