Outlying Defense Base Kamchatka

Owner: Earth Union
Location: Earth, East Asia
Add-Ons:
- Unknown
Mobile Suits (???):
- Unknown
Mobile Armors (???):
- Unknown
Defenses:
- Unknown
Occupants:

The remote base on the miserably cold Kamchatka Island is possibly one of the Earth Union’s least popular stationing locations, and one of the more antiquated holdouts of Human Reform League base construction still in use today. The base is built in an artificial basin roughly the shape of an irregular convex polygon, with the structures and main operations center at the bottom of the steep-walled concrete and metal depression.

Aside from its main protective value against snowstorms and wind damage, the base’s position at the bottom of the artificial basin also makes it quite difficult to attack directly. Access to the basin floor is granted by a series of monstrous open-air elevators at regular intervals, and a gently-sloping rampart leading up to the edge of the basin houses lines of defensive emplacements that peek out of their positions to blast enemies approaching from the vast stretches of flat and usually snow-covered land in all directions. The rampart perimeter is tall enough to offer a mobile suit a good degree of cover from incoming fire, and space is sufficient between the back of the rampart and the edge of the basin to allow travel around the circumference. The other advantage of this layout is that the turreted emplacements can also rotate around to fire down into the basin itself in case of a perimeter breach. Some of the defensive arrangements quite clearly were designed to cater to Tieren combat necessities – the Union’s adoption of GN-powered mobile weapons renders some of the infrastructure essentially unnecessary or little used, but unlike in other former League bases these faculties weren’t dismantled in the intervening years.

During the League’s operation of the base, a large prison complex was housed at the facility along with a number of mobile suit factories – prisoners were essentially used as slave labor (“Revolutionary Volunteers”) to keep the assembly lines moving. The prison still exists today, and surprisingly, so do the old Tieren factories, but it is unknown if the latter is still in operation or for what ends.

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