Owner: Earth Union
Location: Earth, Western Europe
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:

Special: Occupants at this base may move to Hercules II in North Africa as part of a movement without using any AP. Note that Bar-Kemal Ltd. must allow the occupant to pass through Hercules II before granting use of the tunnel.

Situated adjacent to the old Alliance Hercules I base, the Earth Union’s Gibraltar facility incorporates much of the original fortifications while featuring a number of greatly expanded facilities as well. In addition to the Alliance’s installation in the actual Rock of Gibraltar itself, a sprawling complex has been built on reclaimed land that runs parallel to the Spanish coastline a not-insignificant distance into the Strait of Gibraltar.

The base’s coordination center remains the relatively small and inauspicious command bunker situated within the Rock of Gibraltar itself, where most of the original missile batteries have been removed in favor of state-of-the-art GN beam weapons typical of modern Union fortifications. Most of the Rock’s mobile suit hangars have been re-purposed as particle condensers for the heavy artillery positioned within, and new facilities for mobile suit storage (including GN drive servicing) have been positioned near the center of the “new” base around the control tower. Lesser defensive emplacements are positioned at regular intervals around the perimeter of the reclaimed land including around the dock facilities to the west, while a number of mooring masts on the eastern end and twin mass drivers opposite the docks make up the base’s cosmoport. The Gibraltar facility serves as a secondary space complex in Europe immediately behind the Sector Command Base in Berlin, effectively filling the same role as the Alliance’s Corsica installation prior to the Guild War period.

In addition to the cosmoport and the heavy weapons that allow the base to control the Strait of Gibraltar, the base is the site of a production facility for mobile armors – the physical separation of the base from nearby land provides for more than adequate physical security, while the local environs are adequate for field testing and dry runs before shipping the completed weapons off for use at other bases. Finally, the Gibraltar Tunnel still exists on the land side of the base. While inoperable for over a decade thanks to the destruction of the southern terminus by the Guild, Bar-Kemal Ltd. has re-opened the southern end as a gesture of goodwill to the Earth Union, and regular transit under the strait is possible once more. As the tunnel exit itself opens well away from the reclaimed land on which the base proper exists and giving the close proximity of the massive artillery on the watchful batteries of the Rock, the security at the northern end is (comparably) lighter than the African side.