Owner: Earth Union
Location: Earth, Central United States
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:

The North American Defense Command – NORAD-C, or more commonly just NORAD – served as the Old Earth Federation’s most well defended installation in the Northern Hemisphere, intended to serve as a secondary command center should the unthinkable befall the global headquarters in Brasilia, South America. Initially the headquarters of the Earth Sphere Alliance during its campaign to re-unify the world after the Interregnum, the top command was moved to the state-of-the-art Joint Operations Headquarters Alaska in UC 214, relegating the North American Defense Command to a secondary command post once again. NORAD is an exceptionally old installation, and while the Earth Union has added to it in recent years, parts of the facility date back to well before the Old Earth Federation, the development of mobile suits, or even space colonies. During the Guild’s invasion of North America, the chaos created by the anti-mobile doll virus infecting the Alliance’s Skyline Network allowed the Guild to seize the installation, and the final (ultimately unsuccessful) push on JOSH-A was staged from NORAD. Guild forces were eventually driven out of the base some months later, and the ancient fortress has remained an important link in the Earth Union’s global defense network since.

Built explicitly to survive the possibility of nuclear warfare, the installation – now referred to as the Defense Operations Base Cheyenne Mountain – is built almost entirely beneath the eponymous landmass in the picturesque Rocky Mountains, with only a few monstrous blast doors at ground level belying its purpose. The cavernous interior of the base is easily large enough to allow mobile suits to operate unfettered, and indeed, some have described the internal architecture as being similar to a subterranean city, with buildings and roadways to boot. The Alliance would later model the interior of their Alaskan headquarters on these newer portions of the facility, although on a much grander scale. The mountain itself pays host to a small forest of defensive emplacements, allowing fire to be directed on approaching enemy forces via land or air in any direction. The Earth Union’s reliance on GN-powered and flight-capable mobile suits necessitated the excavation of several vertically-oriented launch shafts to allow its garrisoned forces to quickly deploy from their below-ground hangars, while the site of the factory complex once used to assemble mobile dolls has been gutted and replaced with a totally new facility for the fabrication of various GN-X models.

The Old Earth Federation installed a very sophisticated Anti-Orbital Missile System, intended to defend the installation from attacking forces attempting to drop onto the base from above. While somewhat outdated in the present, the system has been revitalized by the Earth Union’s deployment of the massive Sentinel space station. Instead of a purely defensive role, coordination from Sentinel can now permit missiles from Cheyenne Mountain to be fired on other targets in orbit that have appeared on the space station’s scanners.