

After teaming up with another lombax and helping her deal with her own baggage, Ratchet ultimately decides at the end of Rift Apart that he’s ready to find the lombaxes. Ratchet isn’t able to face these insecurities until he meets Rivet. He doesn’t want to disappoint them, and he’s worried that they won’t like him. After living his whole life as the only lombax, he is a little overwhelmed at the idea of finally meeting the rest of his species. Ratchet and Clank meet Rivet, who turns out to be Ratchet’s interdimensional counterpart, and Ratchet discovers a series of lombax artifacts called the lorbs which reveal the location of the map that can finally lead him to the lombaxes.Īs it turns out, Ratchet’s reasons for not pursuing the lombaxes are a bit more complicated than he let on. Nefarious steals the newly-repaired Dimensionator and uses it to take himself, Ratchet, and Clank to an alternate dimension where he is the emperor he’s always wanted to be. If you’ve played Rift Apart already, you know what happens next. Clank secretly recovers the Dimensionator and manages to repair it sometime between Into the Nexus and Rift Apart.

In the final moments of the game, Ratchet tells Clank that he doesn’t want to repair the Dimensionator or find the lombaxes because he has everything he needs in this universe already.

The device breaks, once again dashing Ratchet’s hope of finding his people. In this story, Ratchet and Clank have to repair the Dimensionator in order to banish yet another villain, Mr. In the ensuing battle with Tachyon, the Dimensionator is destroyed and with it any hope that Ratchet will be able to find the surviving lombaxes. When Tachyon returns in Tools of Destruction, Ratchet finds the Dimensionator and learns the truth about the lombaxes’ fate and his family history. Ratchet lived his whole life believing he was the only lombax. Related: The Best PlayStation Exclusive, Knack, Is Canoncically Part Of The Ratchet & Clank Multiverse When the lombaxes came under threat from Emperor Tachyon and his army, Kaden hid them in an alternate dimension with the Dimensionator and sent Ratchet away to grow up in secret on planet Veldin. Ratchet’s father, Kaden, was the protector of the Dimensionator when Ratchet was just a baby. In case you need a refresher on the Dimensionator, it is an ancient lombax device that has the power to open portals to different dimensions.
