Owner: Earth Union
Location: Earth, Eastern United States
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:

The Earth Union’s Regional Energy Center, originally constructed as the Earth Sphere Alliance’s Great Lakes base, is an important energy generation and distribution asset formerly used to manage shipping along to the communities on Lake Superior. After the western facilities were devastated during the Guild War, the transportation functions became irrelevant, but it is still an important source of municipal electrical power in the surrounding region.

The base’s most distinctive feature is the monstrous Heller Dam, a giant block of concrete reaching towards the sky that has diverted most of the outflow of water, drying up the famous Niagara Falls and effectively creating a single body of water between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Massive turbines within the dam generate electricity for the entire area, and the fixture is so thick that even beam weapons would have a hard time penetrating it expediently. Two bunker complexes sit on either side of the dam, each fitted with a number of modern GN beam cannons and other weaponry courtesy of its new role as a fortified hard point. A bypass using locks runs a few miles away, allowing ships (including Union Navy vessels) to travel upstream in spite of the fluctuations in relative surface altitude, although these are far and largely unused in recent years.

Mobile suit hangars are built underground nearby, with elevators used to reach the surface. Additionally, massive tunnels link them together as well as running along the interior of the dam – though not originally intended for use as such, they are large enough for mobile suits to travel through, albeit in a slightly crouched posture. This faculty is almost never employed with the mobilization of GN-X-type mobile suits, although some tactical flanking maneuvers have been employed using them before. A tall observation tower provides a 360 degree panoramic view of the area, allowing computer-assisted observers to maintain visibility over the dam, the reservoir behind it, and the nearby locks. A number of additional defensive emplacements are dotted in the area around the “base” area (the hangar elevators and tower), which is protected by an anti-mobile suit wall, with a few looking over the locks and canal. Two elevators are located near the locks as well, allowing mobile suits from the base to quickly sprint over and emerge to combat anything approaching from the south.