For the 2009 science fiction film Avatar, director James Cameron conceived of a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine the fictional moon of Pandora, which is inhabited by a sentient indigenous species and multiple fauna and flora. Located in the Alpha Centauri system,Pandora is a lush, tropical Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus and is covered with rain forests. Humans travel to Pandora in the 22nd century and discover that it is occupied by a sapient indigenous humanoid species ...