Gigantic Space Station

Owner: PLANT National Guard
Location: Space, L4 (PLANT)
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
During the Space War, ZAFT invested an nearly bottomless sum of both material resources and manpower in construction of the massive GENESIS doomsday weapon, an incredibly powerful gamma ray emission device capable of obliterating even the best protected targets over an impossibly long distance. By focusing the detonations of dozens of conventional nuclear warheads through a byzantine neutron filtration and pumping system whose very execution was considered nothing short of “fifteen consecutive miracles” by the PLANT Supreme Council. After obliterating a number of enemy assets, including a Space Revolutionary Army base on Mars and the mysterious DOME installation on the lunar surface, the weapon was critically damaged during the final battle of the Space War in late UC 223 and essentially rendered inoperable. However, the heavily reinforced frame of the station itself survived the battle, and was later recommissioned as the headquarters of the PLANT National Guard.

With both the Boaz and Jachin Due asteroid fortresses pulverized during the war, utilizing the shell of GENESIS as a space station was the most expedient option available to the postwar colony military. The cavernous refraction chamber and acceleration tunnel that formed the “barrel” of the weapon have been hollowed out and restructured into offices, barracks, maintenance shops, and mobile suit hangars, with a large dock facility installed in the dish-like emitter. Although no longer capable of firing massive gamma ray bursts, the weapon’s multiple layers of Phase Shift Armor render it nearly impervious to all but the most powerful attacks – as a result, it is an exceptionally hard-to-damage base, and a natural strong point for use in defending PLANT. While capable of moving under its own motive force (albeit extremely slowly), even the dozens of nuclear reactors installed at the station’s base can’t provide sufficient electrical power to maintain its Phase Shift Armor while under way, and as a result the National Guard essentially considers it a stationary fortification for all intents and purposes.