04.20Barbados
Destroyed Small Jungle Base
Owner: Nobody
Location: Jungle
Add-Ons:
- None
Mobile Suits (0/0):
- None
Mobile Armors (0):
- None
Defenses:
- None
Occupants:
Technical and History: Thrusting up amid the island’s gently rolling hills and steamy jungles, the Barbados fortress is a small but well hardened installation, forming the spearpoint of Alliance defenses of the Western Atlantic. Barbados was essentially depopulated by various means during the Interregnum, allowing the Alliance to turn the bulk of the island itself into a jungle of boobytraps, with camouflaged sinkholes and enormous explosives buried helter-skelter for unfortunate attackers to uncover. Due to its isolated location, “the rock” as it is sometimes known is resupplied by using its Aries as taxis to ferry supplies from dock ships sailing out of Guantanamo.
The Barbados fortress has a preponderance of very large rocket artillery, which form a significant defensive screen over the eastern half of the Caribbean, thanks to accurate firing solutions plotted by the advanced sensors at Guantanamo. Much of the fortress’ below-surface levels are deep magazines for these launchers, enabling it to happily fire away during even very long sieges.
Present: Barbados was attacked by a contingent of renegade mobile suits, spearheaded by Kale Armistad and Deacon Gerard. Atlantic Federation pilot Hermes Mauser and Human Reform League pilot Scarth Maheart participated as well. The fortress was abandoned by the Alliance garrison after its mobile suits were destroyed, and is now in the hands of the renegades with its ultimate dispensation unknown. The laser emplacements have been completely destroyed, as have most of the missile launchers. The heavy rocket artillery was likewise decommissioned, though the subterranean rocket magazines remain intact. Damage to the central base structure has rendered the command center non-functional, and the concourse has been torn up in some areas, along with a giant hole in the eastern perimeter wall.
Only a few days later, the entire base was levelled via timed charges placed in the rocket magazines; it is now nothing more than a debris strewn hole in the ground and is completely unsalvageable.