Lake Nigeria

Ocean Base
Owner: Atlantic Federation
Location: Ocean, Surface
Add-Ons:
– Hangar x 6
- Command center
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Submarine pen
- Docking facility (Naval vessels)
Mobile Suits (30):
– L2 Daughtress Flyer x 6
- L3 Daughtress Flyer x 4
- L3 Valient x 4
- L1 Daughseat x 8
- L2 Daughseat III x 4
- L3 Daughseat III x 2
- L5 Leopard (S-2 equipment) x 2

Mobile Armors (0):
- None
Defenses:
– Antiaircraft Laser x 18
- Missile Launcher x 16
- Long-range Missile Launcher x 4
- Beam Cannon x 8
Occupants:
None

Lake Nigeria was destroyed in an attack by a group of ZAFT suits and rogues.

Much of Nigeria was destroyed by a colony drop before the Interregnum, creating a massive body of water that stretches out to a narrow channel emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. Named “Lake Nigeria” by the Atlantic Federation, the lake bottom is literally coated with wreckage from the colony and the Old Earth Federation fortress that was once at ground zero – a veritable goldmine of high-quality steel that has shrugged off corrosion handsomely. Combined with the resource-rich ore veins and other natural wonders in the vicinity, a treasure of materials awaiting exploitation only needed some kind of facility to be based out of.

With much of the nearby ground rendered tectonically unstable due to the colony drop, the Atlantic Federation simply opted to build right in the middle of the lake in the form of a gigantic semi-floating platform. Massive columns extend down below the platform towards the bottom of the lake. Normally these are flooded with water, anchoring the platform in place just above the high tide level, but massive pumps can turn the columns into pressure hulls, allowing the entire base to float above the bottom and slowly move to different areas in the lake, to facilitate easier extraction of resources. Giant drilling rigs are used to dig below the bottom of the lake for buried material, while enormous vacuum hoses suck up loose material and feed it up to the platform; things of worth are separated out into collection chambers while debris is simply ejected off the opposite side or used as ballast. Smelters and refineries on site break down metals and ore into usable materials.

Due to the base’s location, usually near the center of Lake Nigeria, it is often impossible to attack without flying or amphibious mobile suits. Due to the vast amounts of resources extracted on a daily basis, the facility is also quite important to the Atlantic Federation’s economy, and as a result it is well defended with a large array of defenses and mobile suits. Finally, Lake Nigeria forms the third triangulation station for Mogadishu’s Noventa Cannon in Equatorial Africa, along with Lake Victoria. Although the base is outside the range of the giant artillery, and thus couldn’t be defended by it in case of attack, its powerful sensors are nevertheless one of the chief reasons why Mogadishu is able to dominate Equatorial Africa successfully.