Fort Vought

Large Coastal Base
Owner: Earth Sphere Alliance
Location: Coastal
Add-Ons:
- Hangar x 8
- Airfield
- Command Center
- Sensor Array
- Dock facility (Naval vessels)
- Submarine Pen
- Wall
- Trenches
Mobile Suits (38):
- L1 Aries x 8
- L2 Aries x 4
- L1 Leo x 10
- L2 Leo x 6
- L3 Leo x 4
- L1 Cancer x 8
- L2 Cancer x 6
- L2 Pisces x 6
Mobile Armors (0):
- None
Defenses:
- Beam Cannon x 8
- Heavy Beam Cannon x 6
- Antiaircraft Laser x 16
- Missile Launcher x 18
- Minefield
Occupants:
None

Fort Vought is the collective name for the complex of fortifications and the naval facility existing at the scenic Puget Sound in the northwest United States. The base is roughly divided into two segments: the defense batteries at Admiralty Inlet, designed to deny enemy naval assets from entering the sound, and the dock facilities themselves that occupy islands and portions of the interior coast. With most of the California coast destroyed by colony drops that toppled the Old Earth Federation, Fort Vought is the main naval installation on the west coast of North America for the Earth Sphere Alliance.

The shore defense installations are split up between three islands (technically two islands and a peninsula) guarding the center and northern approaches, effectively creating a “triangle of fire” for anything attempting to move through the inlet into the sound. Each of the three island forts are protected by a thick seawall and two casemated heavy beam cannons, providing long-range bombardment capability to targets far offshore. Antiaircraft emplacements are stippled throughout the forts to provide local defense. Space between the islands is less than three miles, allowing jump-capable mobile suits to “skip” over the interposing water (locations within the perimeters are provided for mobile suits to touch down from such maneuvers).

The dock facilities, airfield and base proper are located deeper in the sound along the southeastern shore, enabling even the largest naval vessels to be serviced. Due to the rapid increase in ground altitude thanks to the gently rolling hills that dip into the sound, much of the base is built on reclaimed land from the sound, and overall it is of a very oblong shape, hugging the sound’s coast. The airfield juts out on a large artificial peninsula that forms the southern terminus of the installation. Though most of its defensive emplacements are designed to protect against an enemy approaching from the sea, some are retained around the base proper to protect from inland vectors as well.