Owner: Rogue (C.D.S.A.)
Location: Earth, Brazil
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:

A failed colony drop intending to destroy the Old Earth Federation’s general headquarters circa UC 188 was diverted and landed in the Pacific Ocean, with a large fragment obliterating a portion of eastern Brazil. The inlet created by the impact was later revealed to contain a massive quantity of high-quality metal from the colony’s shell, similar to Lake Nigeria in Africa albeit on a slightly smaller scale. After the fall of the Atlantic Federation, the Reino Estado Novo constructed a large-scale surface installation to harvest materials from the bottom of the inlet.

Originally a floating mining base, the Ilha de Campina Grande – “Isle of the Grand Plain” – has grown considerably over the last two decades into a full military base with a rigid foundation to the floor of the inlet. Because of the relative stability of the inlet, the base doesn’t rise very high off the surface, looking more like someone cut-and-paste an armed industrial facility off of land and placed it improbably on a body of water. The base initially appears to be an over-sized metallic plate stippled with warehouses and repair bays, along with docks for ships and other vessels and bristling with cranes. This fairly non-threatening appearance is defeated preemptively by mobile suits on patrol around the facility’s open concourse in spite of the hidden positions of its defensive gun batteries, which are stored below the deck and risen up on hydraulic lifts to engage attacking enemy units. The Ilha has several “levels”, although only the upper most one is exposed above the surface of the inlet – the remainder, containing the base’s mobile suit hangars, sonar and other communications lines, and ports for reclamation submersibles to dock, are built into progressively narrower blocks that extend some distance below the waterline. If viewed from the side, the base would have a vaguely turnip-shaped profile.

The reclamation facility is a state-of-the-art construction, and almost entirely automated. Autonomous submersibles are sent down to the bottom of the inlet where they “shave” metal off of the colony wreckage, then float back to the surface where they attach themselves to prearranged loading gates. The metal is offloaded and smelted down, with the ingots sent back to the Estado‘s industrial complexes inland on regular (and well-guarded) transportation ops.