04.19Barclay
Barclay
Owner: Space Revolutionary Army
Location: Arctic, Underground
Add-Ons:
- Surface:
- Airstrip
- Subterranean:
- Hangar x 10
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Spaceport
- Command Center
Mobile Suits (22/35):
- Lvl5 Juragg x 15
- Lvl5 Crouda x 3
- Lvl5N Vertigo x 4
Mobile Armors (0):
Defenses:
- Minefield
- Missile Launcher x 19
- Beam Cannon x 8
- Antiaircraft Laser x 20
Occupants:
Formerly a small refueling station for Alliance patrols in Antarctica, the Barclay base was seized by the Space Revolutionary Army as part of a covert operation. The Alliance-built surface structures, consisting of a few hangars, an airport with control assets, warehouses, and the massive fuel storage tanks remain in place, but are essentially decoys. What looks like a small, lightly defended outpost abutted next to glaciers that stretch to the Weddell Sea is actually a front for the Army’s operations on Earth. Massive excavations have been conducted below the surface and well into the glacier itself, where the Army maintains a large defense force as well as command and control facilities that direct the flow of communication across the entire Antarctic – the Space Revolutionary Army’s efforts on Earth are directed from this installation. A monstrous mass driver has been built within the glacier itself, the never-thawing ice serving as an efficient heat sink for the magnetic accelerators; a camouflaged, thermally-shielded blast door set into the side of a sheer glacial face some miles away sends the base’s outgoing vessels towards orbit. Defense turrets are concealed within camouflaged bunkers and only emerge when firing, making the base far more dangerous to approach than it actually appears. Hardened elevators allow defensive units to quickly deploy into the Alliance base’s concourse or to emerge from the glacier for flanking maneuvers. The Alliance’s old X-band radar site has been supplemented by much newer active phased array scanners, providing over-the-horizon capability to warn of incoming intruders at great distance.