Owner: Rogue (Bar-Kemal Ltd.)
Location: Earth, North Africa
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:
The Hassaoud complex is Bar-Kemal’s largest petroleum extraction facility in Algeria, as well as one of the most profitable. Inexplicably, both the oil and natural gas drilling and compressing equipment – apparently constructed well before the Interregnum – had been partially buried by the shifting sands of the Tuati Basin for many years, sparing it the destruction that befell most similar facilities of the same vintage. As a result, Bar-Kemal was able to begin resource extraction of the mostly-untapped deposits in this region with only a minimum of capital investment (excavating the existing facilities and replacing some worn-out components). Hassaoud now produces vast quantities of both crude oil as well as liquefied natural gas, and is serviced by a spur of the company’s trans-Saharan railroad.

The base is secured by a sizable mobile suit force, typical of most of Bar-Kemal’s important facilities. The security forces are stationed in a separate area of the installation in what appears to be a nominal military garrison protected by a number of machine gun emplacements. In a design that prototyped some of the newer Khurais base’s concepts, numerous additional defensive batteries, including a large number of beam weapons, are positioned throughout the facility on disappearing pedestals that can be raised or lowered from camouflaged bunkers. Principle of these weapons are a pair of giant photon particle cannons, presumably salvaged off of Space Revolutionary Army mobile armors. The mammoth pillars that allow the weapons to raise and lower from below ground also each mount six laser cannons for direct defense of the heavyweight artillery.

A further defensive trick is the base itself. The very old infrastructure of the mining and compressing facilities use a variety of equipment and methods no longer employed in mining, including burning off waste gas and other sludge that would normally be recycled and reprocessed on newer devices. By purging a substantial amount of this waste product at once, the entire base can be obscured by a massive cloud of acrid, toxic smoke that can be seen for miles. In addition to blinding visual sensors, the burning particles of tar and oil likewise glare-out infrared scanners. The base’s defenses, using powerful “LADAR” laser detection optics, are relatively unaffected by the screen as far as targets near the base are concerned, making this a particularly devastating tactic to use against enemy forces that have penetrated the base’s immediate perimeter.