Post by New Dornalia on May 26, 2013 20:07:24 GMT -5
The New Yorktown Naval Weapons Station in New Yorktown, New Hokkaido County on the surface, is a simple remote research outpost and armory in the remote fringes of the Prates Supercluster which refuels ships and hosts a border defense unit. It is nestled in a relatively green, wooded area, with a temperature and biome type similar to the Eastern United States.
It's also just as rural, with not many big urban centers--then again, the whole planet is zoned for military use, and most residents are military dependents living in suburban-style gated communities, with civilian contractors being the only civvies really aside from the pre-military homesteaders, who still live in the area and occasionally supply food to the base. Tract housing for military dependents is everywhere in New Yorktown and a light rail and bus line supplies transport for those without their own cars.
However, in reality it is a massive, sprawling complex home to three different administrative agencies and a whole host of nasty superweapons. It consists of both surface facilities, such as a massive Artillery and Rocketry Test Range, aboveground barracks for the military, and a motor pool, as well as subsurface facilities. There is also, oddly enough, a Wilderness Park with both aboveground and underground components used for testing the viability of animal specimens as well as extensive greenery throughout, both for asthetics and for security.
Selected for its remote location and tranquility, New Yorktown Naval Weapons Station is by Presidential Order now jointly maintained by not just the Colonial Republican Navy, but all the Colonial Republican Armed Forces branches as well as the External Research and Intelligence Section and the Tennenbaum Institute. The Station in particular is home to elements of the 555th Infantry Division, the Naval Scientific Research and Special Applications Unit Six (with attendant naval guards, etc.), 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Division, and an entire Marine Aviation Squadron, VMF-666, the "Three Six Mafia"; it is also home to the 4077th Composite Test Squadron, which once dueled pilots in DACT training until being recently seconded to Unit Six, so as to test fighters and exotic technologies. ERIS Agents and attendant selected mercenary teams screened for high-level clearance also have been seen on the base.
Why is this? President Haggar and Supreme Commander Katarzyna Wachowski were initially concerned with the development of more sophisticated planetary defenses as part of the DORCOM initiative. However, as time went on, a variety of factors lead to Wachowski increasing its importance as a center of superweapons research--namely, internal reports suggesting improvements could be made to the infinite improbability bomb, an endless stream of e-mails from the Tennenbaum Institute looking for work, and observations made by the Dornalian Expeditionary Force in the Gamma Quadrant, among others.
As such, funding was increased, and in order to keep Congress quiet with the money matters, a partnership with ERIS and the Tennenbaum Institute was established to allow a greater access to exotic research materials (and also to keep Nadine's research on the same page as everyone else's).
The facility itself currently has several large laboratories dedicated to Cybernetic Warfare, NBC Warfare, High Energy Warfare, and other such things. Dr. Tennenbaum has reportedly taken a long residency there to finally get back to making things that blow up as opposed to tinkering with mere lifesaving devices, and all manner of projects are being developed there or otherwise being given new life and refinement.
Note: All the stuff in here is obviously Secret IC.
It's also just as rural, with not many big urban centers--then again, the whole planet is zoned for military use, and most residents are military dependents living in suburban-style gated communities, with civilian contractors being the only civvies really aside from the pre-military homesteaders, who still live in the area and occasionally supply food to the base. Tract housing for military dependents is everywhere in New Yorktown and a light rail and bus line supplies transport for those without their own cars.
However, in reality it is a massive, sprawling complex home to three different administrative agencies and a whole host of nasty superweapons. It consists of both surface facilities, such as a massive Artillery and Rocketry Test Range, aboveground barracks for the military, and a motor pool, as well as subsurface facilities. There is also, oddly enough, a Wilderness Park with both aboveground and underground components used for testing the viability of animal specimens as well as extensive greenery throughout, both for asthetics and for security.
Selected for its remote location and tranquility, New Yorktown Naval Weapons Station is by Presidential Order now jointly maintained by not just the Colonial Republican Navy, but all the Colonial Republican Armed Forces branches as well as the External Research and Intelligence Section and the Tennenbaum Institute. The Station in particular is home to elements of the 555th Infantry Division, the Naval Scientific Research and Special Applications Unit Six (with attendant naval guards, etc.), 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Division, and an entire Marine Aviation Squadron, VMF-666, the "Three Six Mafia"; it is also home to the 4077th Composite Test Squadron, which once dueled pilots in DACT training until being recently seconded to Unit Six, so as to test fighters and exotic technologies. ERIS Agents and attendant selected mercenary teams screened for high-level clearance also have been seen on the base.
Why is this? President Haggar and Supreme Commander Katarzyna Wachowski were initially concerned with the development of more sophisticated planetary defenses as part of the DORCOM initiative. However, as time went on, a variety of factors lead to Wachowski increasing its importance as a center of superweapons research--namely, internal reports suggesting improvements could be made to the infinite improbability bomb, an endless stream of e-mails from the Tennenbaum Institute looking for work, and observations made by the Dornalian Expeditionary Force in the Gamma Quadrant, among others.
As such, funding was increased, and in order to keep Congress quiet with the money matters, a partnership with ERIS and the Tennenbaum Institute was established to allow a greater access to exotic research materials (and also to keep Nadine's research on the same page as everyone else's).
The facility itself currently has several large laboratories dedicated to Cybernetic Warfare, NBC Warfare, High Energy Warfare, and other such things. Dr. Tennenbaum has reportedly taken a long residency there to finally get back to making things that blow up as opposed to tinkering with mere lifesaving devices, and all manner of projects are being developed there or otherwise being given new life and refinement.
Note: All the stuff in here is obviously Secret IC.