Owner: Rogue (Bar-Kemal Ltd.)
Location: Earth, East Africa
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:

Positioned dead center in the Calanscio Sand Sea, the eponymous base is one of the regional infrastructure centers tasked with resource exploitation – in this case, the enormous Sarir Field, whose petroleum reserves are thought to be among the biggest in the world. Due to the constant threats of renegade attacks from the al-Ghazi Brigade and other nomadic brigands armed with mobile suits, the oil field is secured by a large fortification that also acts as a packaging and transit terminal for the company’s trains heading east to Egypt.

The Calanscio base is a densely constructed fortification with a roughly octagonal shape, a thick perimeter wall forming the base’s terminus and also acting as a passive defense against the sand reclaiming the company’s property. To focus the defensive emplacements, the airfield is not within the perimeter, instead placed directly adjacent to the base proper with a large motorized gate allowing aircraft to taxi into the protected areas. The base’s perimeter bristles with defensive emplacements, allowing it to repel an attack from essentially any direction, while antiaircraft turrets are mounted on pedestals within the secure zone to provide an overlapping field of fire as well as to help thwart any enemy activity that has made it over the wall. While primarily intended to provide protection from sandstorms, the channels that run between the base’s major areas of activity are tall enough for mobile suits to move around through, allowing them to act as something of a trench system for up-close fighting should the tactical situation come to that.

A large-scale shipping terminal makes up the center of the base, which is a main stop along the railroad line from Egypt to Senegal. As crude oil is pumped in via pipelines from the myriad wells that dot the Calanscio Sand Sea it is compressed and packaged for transport at this terminal, where armored trains collect and ferry the product under heavy guard the rest of the way to Bar-Kemal refining sites further east. Direct access to the airfield can also be achieved from the shipping terminal for higher-priority cargo. The open areas of the terminal also form a makeshift drill grounds for the base’s mobile suit contingent before they are sent out on daily patrols of the surrounding area.

To “keep an eye” on the oil fields, a pair of monstrous truss masts each nearly a kilometer tall thrust skyward from within the walls, bristling with numerous multi-spectrum cameras and other visual scanners along with a dedicated line-of-sight laser communicator for every group of wells – this allows problems with the remote stations to be reported immediately, as well as to maintain a vigilant overwatch for miles of the surrounding desert. One tower could theoretically maintain total observation capability over the entire area – the other is a backup for when the primary tower is taken offline for maintenance or other disruptions of service.