Pandora (disambiguation)

In ancient Greek mythology, Pandora was allegedly the first woman, who was made out of clay. Each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of humanity for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts".

According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of humanity — although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod — leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again. She opened the jar out of simple curiosity and not as a malicious act.

In the modern era, the phrase "to open Pandora's box" means to perform an action that may seem small or innocuous, but that turns out to have severe and far-reaching consequences.

Planets
Pandora, the fifth moon of the gas giant Polyphemus, which orbits the closest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri A (Athena). Settled in 2107 C.E. by the UES Pandora, the planet is unique that it is home to not only Human colonists but the native Na'vi.

Ships
UES Pandora, colony ship and first vessel of the Pandora Program, established the first extra-solar colony of Pandora in Alpha Centauri A (Athena) in 2107.

Pandora Ark, a class of colony ship used during the Pandora Program to colonize in Alpha Centauri A (Athena) in 2107.

Culture
Pandoran, referring to individuals born on the moon Pandora, this can include both the Human colonists and the native Na'vi.

Organization
Pandora Program, a colonizatoin program in the 2060s to 2120s that focused on the colonization and development of the moon of Pandora in Alpha Centauri A (Athena).