Huge Mountain Base
Owner: Earth Sphere Alliance
Location: Mountain, Forest, Subterranean
Add-Ons:
- Hangar x 12
- Command Center
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Mobile Doll Control System
- Anti-Orbital Missile Silos
Mobile Suits (38):
- L2 Aries x 8
- L3 Aries x 8
- L2 Taurus x 6
- L3 Taurus x 4
- Virgo x 4
- Virgo II x 8
Mobile Armors (2):
- L4 Gemini x 2
Defenses:
- Beam Cannon x 10
- Heavy Beam Cannon x 4
- Antiaircraft Laser x 22
- Missile Launcher x 18
Occupants:
None

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 South America. The fortress dates from the time just before the formation of the Federation, when the United States was steeling itself from the prospect of nuclear attack by the Warsaw Pact.

Built explicitly to survive the possibility of nuclear warfare, the North American Defense Command is built almost entirely beneath a mountain 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. Initially the headquarters of the Earth Sphere Alliance during its campaign to re-unify the world after the Interregnum, the top command was recently moved to the brand-new Joint Operations Headquarters Alaska, relegating the North American Defense Command to a secondary command center again.

The mountain is well protected from attack from virtually all angles; thanks to its specialized anti-orbital missiles, it can even intercept enemy forces attempting to drop directly from space onto it. Aside from a host of more conventional defensive emplacements and a large mobile suit garrison, including the feared mobile dolls, the Alliance uncovered a pair of mysterious mobile armors during excavations to bring the facility back online, classifying them as “Gemini” and employing the heavily-armed weapons as high-mobility gun platforms for local defense.