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Old 08-30-2017, 09:50 AM
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With the cover story of the Soldier Meadow Mine, the Project set about the construction of Prime Base.

The mine itself was buried at the northeastern point of the ridge (were the Mission Complex is placed on the Prime base Module map). There is no direct connection between the mine and Prime Base (they are separated by over 500 feet of untouched rock).

Prime base consists of three three-mile long tunnels, placed one above the over (separated by 50 feet of rock/reinforced concrete) with the upper tunnel some 200 feet below the surface of the ridge. These tunnels have short tunnels running to the left and right of the main tunnel, leading to rectangular "warehouses".

Tunnel One (uppermost) is the munitions tunnel with the northern end dedicated to munitions and the southern end to bulk weapons storage. There are two small tunnels running towards the surface. The first leads to a Weather Exposure Module and the second to a Electronics Exposure Module.

The Weather EM is hidden underneath blast doors on the top of the 5,138 foot peak. Once activated, a variety of monitoring equipment can be raised and lowered as necessary.

The Electronics EM is located under a second set of blast doors on the top of the 5,177 foot peak. Located here is an aerial search radar, and several antennas for monitoring AM/FM bands as well as satellite dishes.

Tunnel Two (middle) is bulk equipment and vehicle storage.

Tunnel Three (lower) is bulk material storage for the workshops of Prime Base.

At the southern end of the ridge (the original Prime Base location) are eight tunnels, each running some 800 yards in length and some 300 yards in width with 20 foot ceilings. and stacked one above the other.

Tunnel A and B house Operations, here are the personnel & accounting offices; mission and branch operations offices; communications, administration, the technical library and briefing rooms.

Tunnels C, D, and E house the personnel quarters, civic center, library, recreation and exercise areas and the base school.

Tunnel F houses the base hospital and medical supply storage areas.

Tunnel G and H house the research laboratories, base arsenal, laundry, and the power, sewage, fresh water supply and air circulation equipment.

Leading from Tunnels G and H is another tunnel running along the "spine" of the base for about a mile. This is the Workshop Tunnel, here are the Base Farms, the distillation and brewing shop, the biology lab, the chemical research lab, and the physics research lab, all located at intervals on the northern side of the tunnel.

Along the southern side of the tunnel are the admin office, woodworking shop, three machine shops, two forge rooms, the mechanical engineering and maintenance shop and the print shop. At the far end of the tunnel is the archives storage rooms, a series of six, heavily secured rooms.

You will note that there are no aviation facilities within the base, to the south of the ridge is a fairly level plateau that is dedicated to an air strip. dug into the ridge are a series of boltholes that contain four Lockheed C-130 Hercules, four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, eight UH-1N helicopters and four OV-10D Broncos.
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