08.26Olympus
Large Space Base
Owner: Rogue (Battle Group Typhon)
Location: Space, L4 shoal zone
Add-Ons:
- Hangar x ???
- Command Center
- ???
- Dock Facility (space vessels)
Mobile Suits (???):
- L?? Jenice x 10+?
- L?? Septem x ??
- L?? Crouda x 6+
Mobile Armors (???):
- ???
Defenses:
- Antiaircraft Laser Cannon x 8+?
- Antiaircraft Missile Launcher x 6+?
- Beam Cannon x ???
- Antiaircraft Machine Gun x ???
- Minefield
Occupants:
After the climactic end of the Space War, a peace treaty between the colonies at Cloud Nine and PLANT was signed, and both the Space Revolutionary Army and ZAFT were demobilized. Discontent existed on both sides, however, and among the ranks of the Army was particularly rife. When the war ended, and both governments officially renounced their anti-Newtype/Coordinator ideologies, the particularly militant Battle Group Typhon – the last squadron still in operation from the Talos Escort Fleet and the only unit which wasn’t acting under the authority of the Army’s Office of Military Intelligence – unilaterally deserted their posts, taking their ships and mobile suits with them, and fled into the shoal zones outside Lagrange Point 4 where the colony laser had been destroyed some time earlier.
More than sixteen years after the end of the space war, Typhon exists now as an essentially pirate organization, although they still fly the flag of the Space Revolutionary Army and maintain a sense of military discipline. While ostensibly committed towards continuing the war against PLANT, most of the group’s activities in the present involve commerce raiding and stealing weapons to further bolster their forces. Established around UC 230, the Olympus base is something of a makeshift fortification formed by the attachment of a small natural resource satellite to a destroyed colony husk, which is used as an improvised dock facility – a ruined Garbera-class battleship has been parked at the interior of the colony and serves as a command center for the base as well as a power plant from its nuclear reactors. Mobile suit hangars are carved out of the resource satellite, while various defensive batteries are installed both on the satellite’s exterior as well as on relatively stationary rocks and pieces of large debris, making for an extremely perilous approach from essentially any direction.
Olympus’ greatest defense, however, is the presence of the shoal zone itself. The incredible density of the debris, and the presence of various unexploded munitions and ordnance, makes navigation of any sort perilous at best. The Typhon regulars have spent years scouting for an ideal base location, and claim to have effectively “mapped” virtually all pieces of hazardous materials – this chart of the shoal zone has been programmed into the computers of the group’s ships and mobile suits, giving them an unprecedented degree of freedom of movement while most anyone else would be limited to making slow and steady approaches to avoid collisions with space junk. The very dense fields of mines that have been laid throughout the shoal zone further complicate matters – the bombs are proximity triggered and disguised as floating wreckage, abruptly latching onto unwanted mobile weapons or ships before exploding to maximize their destructive force.