Earth Liberation Army Training School “Huygens”

Earth Liberation Army Training School “Huygens”

Large Coastal Base
Owner: ZAFT
Location: Coastal
Add-Ons:
- Trenches
- Wall
- Hangar x 14
- Command Center
- Sensor Array
- N-Jammer
- Submarine Pen
- Pilot Training School
Mobile Suits (52):
- L0C GINN Trainer x 14 (trainees)
- L3C Daughtress x 6 (aggressors)
- L1C GINN x 8
- L2C GINN x 4
- L1C GINN WASP x 4
- L3C GINN High Mobility Type x 2
- L1C DINN x 6
- L2C DINN x 2
- L2C ZnO x 4
- L3C ZnO x 2
Mobile Armors (0):
- None
Defenses:
- Antiaircraft Laser x 16
- Missile Launcher x 14
- Railgun Battery x 12
- Antiaircraft Machine Gun x 20
Occupants:
None

Named in honor of Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens, ZAFT’s Surface Training School was established to provide real combat education under terrestrial conditions to its mobile suit pilots. Initial battles against Atlantic Federation forces in South Africa showed that simulations alone simply were not adequate to properly prepare its forces for combat on Earth, and an academy was established soon after at the southern edge of New Zealand.

The Huygens base is constructed not far from the small town of Invercargill, whose significantly shrunken population has produced a rather overly-large urban center with many large but abandoned buildings, creating an excellent environment to teach close-quarters fighting. The nearby Southern Alps allow for mountain training and expeditions in other varieties of hostile terrain, and thanks to a widely fluctuating climate (hot and dry in the summer, snow in the winter, with heavy rain in between), combat conditions under all sorts of weather can be replicated, while the nearby coast allows for marine exercises as well. A number of Federation Daughtress mobile suits were absconded with after the seizure of Cape Town and transferred to Huygens to serve as aggressor units.

The base exists along a natural harbor, abutting the foothills of the Southern Alps – the derelict civil facilities there were swept away by ZAFT engineers to construct the modern fortifications and submarine pens. A seawall that runs between the pens forms one perimeter of the base; the rest is a relatively semicircular affair reaching out into the grasslands. Most of the defenses are focused on top of the submarine pens themselves, which are effectively giant blockhouses, though some exist within the base proper and along the inland perimeter – ZAFT is obviously more concerned from an attack from sea than land. Obstacles and earthworks exist just outside the perimeter, forming the core of the basic warfare element of the pilot training grounds, which also serve a dual purpose of being handy defensive positions against enemies approaching from inland.

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