Respawn Entertainment has shared first details of Apex Legends’ 15th season – including a reveal for new hero Catalyst, the first trans Legend to join its line-up – ahead of launch on 1st November.

Details of the new season, which Respawn is calling Eclipse, are a little light at present, but the developer’s newly launched Season 15 webpage promises a new map – said to be lie “in Boreas’ shadow” – as well as a new gifting feature, enabling players to purchase and send cosmetic items to their friends.

For now, though, the focus is very much on new hero Catalyst, real name Tressa Smith, described as a “experienced terraformer and defensive conjurer [who] uses her remarkable control of ferrofluid to manipulate the battlefield.”

Catalyst will be voiced by Meli Grant – who jokingly described the character as “the grim trans Legend your parents warned you about” on Twitter – and her backstory is detailed in the latest instalment of Stories from the Outlands, titled Last Hope.

Here, we’re introduced to Tressa and her friend Margot, as they discuss ways in which they can help save Boreas’ shattered moon Cleo from the clutches of the Hammond Robotics company – a discussion which takes a deadly turn when Tressa becomes unwittingly embroiled in an eco-terrorist plot.

All that would strongly suggest Season 15’s new map will be Divided Moon, which was revealed as part of the huge Apex Legends’ leak earlier this year.