Fulbtzs Berrentzs Command Base

(Version 1.00 - Last Modified: 12/13/2003)

The Zentraedi fleets were, for the first part of their existence, supplied from the various industrial centers of Tirol's empire. However, as the Zentraedi armada grew in the wake of the Ci'Vonian disaster and after several industrial sites were destroyed by the Disciples of Zor or the Invid, plans were made to centralize several key parts of the Zentraedi supply lines into a few gigantic and 'unbeatable' positions. The Robotech Factory Satellites were constructed and took over production of most Zentraedi ships as well as half of the clone production and much of the expendables manufacturing. However, the greatest project ever finished was the Command Base, a supply depot and clone manufacturing center and the operations base for the Zentraedi High Command. In the later days of the Tirolian Mercantile Empire, a third of the Zentraedi were cloned here.

It was decided that the defense of the new Command Base would not be based on heavily arming the Command Base itself, contrary to what one would expect of a Zentraedi headquarters. As the Command Base had no maneuverability to speak of, and had far too much strategic value to be risked in combat, any large weapons on the Command Base would remain unused in the best case, and invite the Base commander to enter combat in the worst case. Instead, the Command Base was provided with a huge organic defense fleet. Should the Command Base ever come under attack from the Disciples of Zor, this fleet would destroy the attacker or, if the attacker was too strong for that, buy enough time for the Command Base to fold to safety. Unknown to the Zentraedi, the DoZ had insufficient Reflex Cannons to destroy the Command Base by bombardment, and any smaller weapons had no chance of breaking through the bases's kilometers-thick armor and get to the vitals inside before the Command Base would be able to fold. The only vulnerable spot in the original design were the doors of the main shipping lock. If a concentrated nuclear missile bombardment were to impact on the locks, the torpedoes would soon be passing through the remains of the doors and into the base itself. For this contingency, the doors were made of a 330' (100 m) thick depleted uranium and vanadium mix. Additionally, the doors were doubled, so that there were four such doors at the entrance and four more at the terminus. As a ranged defense against mecha and torpedoes closing on the locks, a large number of anti-mecha and anti-torpedo missile launchers were installed on the Command Base, with over a thousand of them around the lock area. With this defense array, the Robotech Masters felt convinced the Command Base could not be destroyed before it had a chance to retreat.

As it happened, the defenses of the Command Base were never tested until the Zentraedi Holocaust in orbit of Earth. On the orders of Dolza, the Command Base folded to Earth to oversee the destruction of the micronian culture and the Zentraedi it had infected, an infection of Zentraedi on a far larger scale than had been the case with the Disciples of Zor. Dolza was determined that this time, the infection would be contained before Breetai and his micronian allies could escape the system, as the DoZ had done centuries ago. The risk to the Command Base would be mostly evaded because almost all Zentraedi fleets had been gathered together and were to fold into the Sol system first. However, Breetai and the Terrans refused to cooperate with his plans. With its defense fleet and the Grand Fleet engaged in a running battle with the Adoclas fleet under Breetai's command, and much of the crew still somewhat disoriented by Minmei's singing, the Macross managed to close with the Command Base. In the last minute, rather than advancing on the lock doors for a Reflex Cannon salvo, the SDF-1 rammed the hull of the Command Base near one of the emergency exits, of which the existence and position was relayed to the SDF-1 by the defectors. Dolza had expected and had planned counters for an attack again the main lock and surviving records indicate there was a Flagship in the locks, ready to fire its own Reflex Cannon as soon as the SDF-1 entered its firing zone. With the pinpoint shields activated, the SDF-1 was able to penetrate the walls without crippling damage. The ship burst into the emergency exit and following that passage soon entered the central chamber. With no Zentraedi defenses between the ship and the Command Base's Reflex furnaces, the SDF-1 wasted little time before launching a missile salvo. The Command Base exploded mere seconds after the salvo hit taking most of the vessels specifically assigned to defend the base down with it.

The Fulbtzs Berrentzs Command Base was a vaguely cylindrical asteroid, with large protrusions on each end. Consisting of heavy metal ores, the original asteroid was to be mined by the Tirolians for these metals. However, re-assignment of the asteroid as a Zentraedi base somewhat changed the standard mining procedure. Rather than starting at the surface, a tunnel was bored through the richest surface vein until about 7.5 miles (12 km) inside the asteroid. From that point on, the innermost half of the diameter was removed throughout the asteroid, save for the core surrounding the longest axis, which was left as a foundation for the heavy equipment that would be mounted. Once hollowed out, the inside of the Command Base was filled with air and even some moisture, precipitating clouds inside. Artificial solar illuminators and heaters were then installed, giving the interior an almost Earth-like light and temperature. Excess heat was removed by gigantic thermo-voltaic surfaces, and then shunted to the monopolar heat sink in the fold drive.

In the center parts of the central stalk a number of the largest Protoculture reactors ever made were housed, to provide power to the environmental and propulsion systems. The entrance tunnel was widened and given heavily reinforced doors, and would serve hereafter as the main lock for the base, capable of allowing a Zentraedi Flagship entrance to the central space. A small number of emergency exits were also built, their precise location a closely guarded secret, and their final kilometers of terminal approaches left undisturbed. Should it ever have become impossible to use the main locks, any ships inside could escape by blowing up the intervening walls. However, this would have depressurized the entire base and leed to a massive loss of Zentraedi resources. Consequently, no ships ever exited from these emergency corridors, though one ship once entered the base through one, just before the destruction of the base. Also included in the main stalk were the offices and quarters of the Zentraedi High Command. As a supply point and as a main Zentraedi cloning station, the Command Base sported large storage warehouses near both ends of the central stalk, and extensive cloning and training facilities for all the mass-produced Zentraedi in the interior walls. These training facilities included large training spaces and an extensive area devoted to advanced flight training. There were a number of starship docks available inside the Command Base. However, the Zentraedi never used the Command Base as a major production station, instead fixing ships up so that they could make a fold to a Factory Satellite or another repair site. Neither were there any major production facilities inside the Command Base; most of its supplies came by a continuous stream of transports from the various industrial centers of the Tirolian Mercantile Empire.

Ship Information:

• Ship Class: Space Station, equivalent to a Dreadnought
• Ship Type: Command
• Year Commissioned: 1853 CE
• Crew: 3,550,000
• Troops:
  • Air Group: 180,000
  • Troops: 1,600,000
  • Total: 1,780,000
• Total Crew and Troops: 5,330,000

Vehicle Complement:

• Combat Pod Complement:

878,490	Regult Combat Pod
7229	Glaug Battle Pod
133,072	Light Artillery Pod
66,011	Heavy Artillery Pod
52,892	Recon Scout Pod

• Fight Pod Complement:

162,718

Raulonve Fighter Pod

• Power Armor Complement:

21,582	Nousjaedul-Ger Cavalry Power Armor
17,658	Queadlunn-Rau Tactical Power Armor

• Other Complement:

1000	Glaug Booster Unit
3489	Quel Quallie Cyclops Reconnaissance Scout
500	Frandlar Tiluvo Transport Pod
2000	Liewneuatzs Personnel Shuttle
8000	Hover Platforms
500	Reflex Warheads (of each type)

M.D.C. by location:

• Main Laser Cannons (50)- 2000 each
• Retractable Particle Beam Cannons (300)- 150 each
• Retractable Laser Turrets (1200)- 60 each
• Retractable Long Range Missile Turrets (2500)- 100 each
• Retractable Heavy Missile Turrets (500)- 200 each
• Retractable Weapon Hatches (4500)- 100 each
• Small Airlock Access Hatches - 800 each
• Large Airlock Access Hatches - 2000 each
• Inner Access Hatches - 400 each
• Main Lock Doors (2) - 60,000 each
• Central Core - 5,000,000 *
• Main Computer - 10,000
• Anti-Gravity Thrusters (30) - 250,000 each
• Auxiliary Thrusters (50) - 90,000 each
• Hull Regions (53,000) - 1000 each
• Main Body - 53,000,000 **


M.D.C. Armor Rating - Hull Region: 12
M.D.C. Armor Rating - Main Body: 20
Notes:

*	Depleting the M.D.C. of the central core will overload the station's giant reactors, causing the station to explode.
**	Depleting the M.D.C. of the main body will shut down the entire station, including life support, gravity control, communications, weapons, and engines.

Speed:

• Fold Drive: Uses a Fold Drive with a maximum speed of 10 light-years per hour. The station's navigational equipment cannot safely execute a fold jump of distances greater than 1 kiloparsec (3260 light-years) and it can only be activated once per hour.
• Sublight: Can travel at up to 5 percent of the speed of light (0.05c) and accelerate / decelerate at a rate of 0.05 percent of light (0.0005 c) per melee.
• Atmospheric Propulsion: The station cannot operate in an atmosphere; it cannot come within 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of a planet's atmosphere without being caught in its gravity well.
• Maximum Range: Effectively unlimited by drive system and the station can manufacture and grow its own supplies. The station can provide continuous supplies for millions of Zentraedi warriors per month.

Statistical Data:

• Height: 87 miles (140 km)
• Width: 31 miles (50 km)
• Length: 31 miles (50 km)
• Weight: 99.21 trillion tons (90 trillion metric tons)
• Reactor System: Tirolian Protoculture Reactor with a life span of 200 years.
• Propulsion System: Anti-Gravity / Chemical Drive
• Gravity System: Internal
• Cargo: Huge cargo facilities that can hold hundreds of millions of tons of supplies and mecha.

Weapon Systems:

1. Main Laser Cannons (50)
   These powerful cannons represent the most powerful portion of the station's limited defense systems. Strategically placed around the station, there is no arc that doesn't have at least two cannons, but the largest concentrations are around the main lock. Located near the Main Lock Door are ten cannons and the remaining forty cannons are spread over the main body of the station to cover the remaining arcs.
   • Range: 100 miles (160.9 km) underwater, 200 miles (321.9 km) through an atmosphere, and 200,000 miles (321,869 km) in space.
   • Damage: 1D4x1000 M.D. per single blast.
   • M.D.C. Weapon Rating: 23
   • Rate of Fire: Each cannon can fire once per melee.
   • Payload: Effectively unlimited
2. Retractable Particle Beam Cannons (300)
   Scattered across the hull of the ship are powerful anti-ship particle beam cannons, the cannons stand ready to pop out from under their sliding hatches to attack. Each turret is capable of 360 degrees of rotation with an arc of fire of 180 degrees. The cannons are strategically placed around the station so that no arc has less than fifty cannons facing it.
   • Range: 100 miles (160.9 km) underwater, 200 miles (321.9 km) through an atmosphere, and 200,000 miles (321,869 km) in space.
   • Damage: 2D4x100 M.D. per single blast.
   • M.D.C. Weapon Rating: 24
   • Rate of Fire: Each cannon can fire twice per melee.
   • Payload: Effectively unlimited
3. Retractable Laser Turrets (1200)
   The Lasers Turrets are located in batteries along the all sides of ships and are used as anti-mecha and small anti-ship weapons. They are not very powerful, but if fired in large numbers they can be devastating. The turrets are strategically placed around the station so that no arc has less than sixty turrets facing it.
   • Range: 1584' (956.6 m) underwater, 3168' (956.6 m) through an atmosphere, and 60 miles (96.6 km) in space.
   • Damage: 2D6x10 M.D. per single blast.
   • M.D.C. Weapon Rating: 23
   • Rate of Fire: Each cannon can fire four times per melee, but they must fire in a volley of at least three cannons.
   • Payload: Effectively unlimited
4. Retractable Long Range Missile Turrets (2500)
   These are very similar to the Retractable Laser Turrets, except they fire missiles instead of laser beams. They can use several different types of warheads according to the mission at hand, but they are usually configured to be anti-spaceship missiles with the heaviest warheads available. The turrets are strategically placed around the station so that no arc has less than 200 turrets facing it.
   • Missile Design: SAA-1 Granite (Gliquoun Touwhaug) Long Range Missile
   • Missile Type: Any available type
   • Missile Guidance Systems: Select any three available guidance systems.
   • Missile Warhead: Any available type
   • Range: 800 miles (1288 km) in an atmosphere and 935,525 miles (1,505,582 km / 5.0 light seconds) in space.
   • Speed: 2500 mph (4023 km/h) in an atmosphere and an acceleration of 4% of light (0.04c) per melee in space, with a maximum duration in space of 16 melees and a maximum safe speed in space of 55% of light (0.55c).
   • Damage and Blast Radius: Varies with type of missile warhead.
   • Rate of Fire: One at a time or in volleys of 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 missiles. Each launched can fire once per melee.
   • Payload: 100 missiles per launcher, for a total of 250,000 long range missiles.
5. Retractable Heavy Missile Turrets (300)
   These are similar to the Retractable Long Range Missile Turrets, except they fire cruise missiles. They can use several different types of warheads according to the mission at hand, but they are usually configured with the heaviest warheads available. The turrets are strategically placed around the station so that no arc has less than twenty turrets facing it.
   • Missile Design: SSA-1 Sniper (Lojredbeth Deuawhaug) or SSA-2 Scrapper (Letkes Deuawhaug) Cruise Missiles
   • Missile Type: Anti-Spaceship
   • Missile Guidance Systems: Select any two available guidance systems.
   • Missile Warhead: Armor Piercing, Fragmentation, High Explosive, Plasma / Napalm, Kinetic Energy, and Reflex only.
   • Range: 1600 miles (2575 km) in an atmosphere and 3,019,777 miles (4,859,860 km / 16.2 light seconds) in space.
   • Speed: 3000 mph (4828 km/h) in an atmosphere and an acceleration of 6% of light (0.06c) per melee in space, with a maximum duration in space of 32 melees and a maximum safe speed in space of 60% of light (0.60c).
   • Damage and Blast Radius: Varies with type of missile warhead.
   • Rate of Fire: One at a time or in volleys of 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 missiles. Each launched can fire once per melee.
   • Payload: 40 missiles per launcher, for a total of 12,000 cruise missiles.
   • Modifiers: Automatically hits a stationary target in space, has more advanced targeting equipment that gives a bonus of +6 to strike a moving target, but has a penalty of -10 to strike any target under 500 tons (453.6 metric tons).

Special Systems:

1. Medial and Bio-Scan Facilities
   The station has extensive medical facilities that can do anything from mend broken bones to extremely complicated surgery. The station also has a complete bio-scan chamber used to study and analyze alien life forms and to provide detailed information regarding the physiology, chemical structure, and genetic structure of that life form.
2. Missile Storage
   The station has storage for a large number of missiles used by all Zentraedi ships. Fully loaded, the station holds 50,000,000 SAA-1 Granite (Gliquoun Touwhaug) Long Range Missiles, 5,000,000 SSA-1 Sniper (Lojredbeth Deuawhaug) Cruise Missiles, and 5,000,000 SSA-2 Scrapper (Letkes Deuawhaug) Cruise Missiles. These can be transferred to other Zentraedi ships to reload their missile supplies or they can be used to reload the station's own missile launchers. Transferring missiles to another ship takes about one minute for every 200 missiles transferred. Reloading the station's missile racks takes about 1 melee round to completely reload one missile launcher and up to 100 launchers can be reloaded simultaneously.
3. Protoculture Reactor Recharger
   The station is able to recharge other ship's Protoculture Reactors by draining its own reactor of energy. For every ten years recharged by the station, the life span of the station's Protoculture Reactor is reduced by one year.
4. Spaceship Production Facilities
   The station contains marginal spaceship construction facilities. There are 5 building docks measuring 13,123' (4000 m) in length, 12 building docks measuring 8202' (2500 m) in length, and 48 building docks measuring 1969' (600 m) in length. In total, 65 ships could be under construction at the same time. The station is only designed to build Zentraedi ship, not Tirolian or Border Fleet ships. At normal production it takes one month to build a Tou Redir Class Scout Ship, two months to build a Rineunadou Lojmeuean Class Monitor or a Thuverl Salan Class Destroyer, three months to build a Quiltra Queleual Class Multipurpose Transport or a Queadol Magdomilla Class Command Ship, and four months to build a Nupetiet Vergnitzs Class flagship. Reduce production times by half if a facility is at maximum production, but for every month the facility is at maximum production there is a cumulative 5% chance that the facility will fail and require 1D4 months of repair before restarting operations.
5. Spaceship Repair Facilities
   Each spaceship construction dock can be used to repair or refit a Zentraedi ship; the docks can also be used to repair or refit any Tirolian or Border Fleet ship. The length of time it takes to repair a ship depends on the extent of the damage or disrepair of the ship. The average length of time to repair a ship can last from a few days to a several weeks.
6. Mecha Production Facilities
   The station contains extensive mecha construction facilities. There are ten mecha factories and each factory is designed to be generic and can construct any Zentraedi mecha. At normal production, each factory can produce 1000 Regult Combat Pods, 300 Glaug Battle Pods, 750 Light Artillery Pods, 750 Heavy Artillery Pods, 500 Recon Scout Pods, 500 Raulonve Fighter Pods, 500 Nousjadeul-Ger Calvary Power Armor, 200 Queadlunn-Rau Tactical Power Armor, 2000 Hover Platforms, 500 Glaug Booster Units, 800 Light Defense Drones, or 600 Heavy Defense Drones per week. It takes one week to retool a factory from producing one mecha type to a different mecha type. Double rate of production if a factory is at maximum production, but for every month the factory is at maximum production there is a cumulative 5% chance that the factory will fail and require 1D4 weeks of repair before restarting operations.
7. Auxiliary Production Facilities
   The station contains extensive auxiliary construction facilities. There are six auxiliary factories and each factory is designed to be generic and can construct any auxiliary Zentraedi unit. At normal production, each factory can produce 25 Quel Quallie Cyclops Reconnaissance Scouts, 75 Liewneuatzs Personnel Shuttles, or 150 Frandlar Tiluvo Transport Pods per week. It takes one week to retool a factory from producing one unit type to a different unit type. Double rate of production if a factory is at maximum production, but for every month the factory is at maximum production there is a cumulative 5% chance that the factory will fail and require 1D4 weeks of repair before restarting operations.
8. Weapon Production Facilities
   The station contains extensive weapon construction facilities. There is one factory dedicated to producing armor and another dedicated to producing infantry weapons. At normal production, the factories can produce 8000 suits of armor of any type and 8000 infantry weapons of any type per week. Double rate of production if a factory is at maximum production, but for every month the factory is at maximum production there is a cumulative 5% chance that the factory will fail and require 1D4 weeks of repair before restarting operations.
9. Missile Production Facilities
   The station contains extensive missile construction facilities. There are ten missile factories and each factory is designed to be generic and can construct any Tirolian missile. At normal production, each factory can produce 30,000 short range missiles, 20,000 medium range missiles, 5000 long range missiles, or 1000 cruise missiles per week. It takes one week to retool a factory from producing one missile type to a different missile type. Double rate of production if a factory is at maximum production, but for every month the factory is at maximum production there is a cumulative 5% chance that the factory will fail and require 1D4 weeks of repair before restarting operations. The construction of a missile includes all guidance systems and warheads, although no more then 50 reflex warheads of any type can be built per week.
10. Close Production Facilities
    The station is able to produce 50,000 new Zentraedi warrios each month or either gender. New clones are created fully mature, but they require a training period that generally lasts for two months before they are considered to be fully trained.

Standard Systems:

1. Life Support System
   The station has a fully operational life support system that provides fresh atmosphere throughout the ship. The life support system can sustain hundreds of millions of people indefinitely.
2. Communication Systems
   The station is equipped with four communication systems. The first is a long range laser system with a maximum range of 100,000 miles (160,934 km), the transmissions travel at the speed of light, but they rely on line of sight, so it cannot communicate with a ship that is on the other side of a solid object. The second system is a long range radio system with a maximum range of 60,000 miles (96,561 km), the transmissions travel at the speed of light, but they are easy to intercept and jam. The third system is a satellite relay system that allows the ship to boost the range of the other communication systems indefinitely by using satellites or other ships to relay the transmission. The forth system is a Hyperspace Communications Relay, which travels at a rate of one light-year every 5 seconds. Hyperspace communications can travel through planets and other obstructions unhindered, are extremely difficult to intercept, and impossible to jam. The ship's communication array can communicate with up to 25,000 ships simultaneously.
3. Sensor Systems
   The station is equipped with four sensor systems. The first is the Electromagnetic Detection Equipment that detects other sensor systems at twice the maximum range of their transmitter. The second is a powerful array that uses standard radar waves, which are fairly easy to jam, but it is obvious when the radar array is being jammed. The sensor can track tiny targets at a range of up to 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km), small targets at a range of up to 15 million miles (24.1 million km), medium targets at a range of up to 25 million miles (40.2 million km), and large targets at a range of up to 40 million miles (64.4 million miles). The third is a Subspace Mass Sensor that uses gravity-based technology to detect target's at real time speed. The sensor can track tiny targets at a range of up to 2 million miles (3.2 million km), small targets at a range of up to 20 million miles (32.2 million km), medium targets at a range of up to 40 million miles (64.4 million km), and large targets at a range of up to 60 million miles (96.6 million miles). The forth is a Hyperspace Mass Sensor that can detect and track ships that are using a Fold Drive. The sensor can track tiny targets at a range of up to 8 parsecs (26.08 light-years), small targets at a range of up to 40 parsecs (130.4 light-years), medium targets at a range of up to 80 parsecs (260.8 light-years), and large targets at a range of up to 120 parsecs (391.2 light-years). See Tirolian Ship Systems for more details on sensor systems.
4. Targeting Computer System
   Connecting the station's sensor systems with the weapon systems is the Targeting Computer System. The system is designed to control all of the weapons currently equipped on the station. This system can track up to 1500 targets simultaneously, providing detailed information about the targets from the ships data files. All direct fire weapons receive a bonus of +6 to strike and all missile weapons receive a bonus of +4 to strike. These bonuses are in addition to any previously stated bonuses or penalties.

Combat Summary:

• Combat Actions: 8
• Strike: +6 to strike with direct fire weapons and +4 to strike with missile weapons.
• Dodge: -10 to dodge
• Targeting System: Can track up to 1500 targets simultaneously.
• Note: Cannot perform the Evasive Maneuvers spaceship combat maneuver