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Level One consists of four major tunnels, interconnected with four secondary tunnels. Each of the major tunnels has a series of Bays cut into both sides. The secondary tunnels also have smaller bays that are used for equipment as well as storage lockers. Level One is dedicated primarily to the three primary entrances (Personnel, Vehicle and Aviation) as well as a decontamination facility dedicated to each entrance. Base Security has three bays that secure and monitor each of the entrances. Adjacent to the Personnel Entrance is the Medical Screening Facility; Central In-processing; Transit Team Quarters; a Dining Facility; an Exercise and Recreation Area; a Housing/Billeting Officer and a Personnel Assignment and Adjustment Office and an Accounting/Supply Office.

Level Two consists of five major tunnels, interconnected with five secondary tunnels. This level is dedicated to Project-wide operations. Tunnels 2, 3, and 4 contain the operations floor; operations support; branch operations; the communications intercept center; the communications center; computer center; briefing rooms; a dining facility; an exercise area; base administration section, base internal telephone exchange; base video complex; base fire department (manned 24-7); the Project technical library; general technical library; the World Holo Map room and its viewing and control section and the Archives office (archive material is stored in the GSSP.) Tunnels 1 and 5 (the outmost tunnels) are divided into spare parts/raw materials storage; machine shops and parking areas for “deep storage” vehicles and aircraft. The secondary tunnels, as for Tier One, have smaller bays that are used as storage lockers.

Tier Three has seven major tunnels, interconnected with seven secondary tunnels pattern. The main tunnels house food services (two sets of kitchens, dining rooms; and cleaning facilities; school and day-care/nursery; playground; civic center (with restaurant/bar; BX/commissary; auditorium; two community halls; concourse/park; club/lounge; arcade; tailor shop; class VI store; fast food & ice cream parlor; barber/beauty shop; a convenience store); exercise & recreation area; base laundry; library; hospital. Scatted around the major tunnels are (46) single-occupancy quarters; (227) dual-occupancy quarters; (100) tri-occupancy quarters; (50) quad-occupancy family quarters and (10) laundry rooms for a total population of 600.

Tier Four, the bottommost layer of the base consists of seven tunnels interconnected with seven secondary tunnels. Tunnels 1, 2, and 3 contain hydroponics/fish farms. Secondary Tunnel D ends in a blast door that gives access to the Annexes and General Support Stores Pods (GSSP). Tunnel 4 houses additional hydroponics/fish farms as well as the farm administrative office. Tunnel 5 has farm stores and cleaning, sterilization, and maintenance facilities. Tunnel 6 houses the distillation & Brewing center and its associated supplies. Tunnel 7, due to the nature of its activities is connected to the other major tunnels by only two secondary tunnels (B and F) and these are sealed with blast doors. This is the location of Sigma’s Laboratories and Research. Here are the biology labs, chemical research, NBC warfare lab, and physics research labs.

Past the secondary tunnel D’s blast door are a series of annex tunnels: Annex A is the shop's section, consisting of, two woodworking shops; four machine shops; two forge rooms. Annex B is the engineering and production area, this consists of a mechanical engineering and maintenance facility; a materials and electronics engineering facility; a production & assembly area; a hydro/aerodynamics engineering facility; a fusion engineering facility, and a laser/energy facility. Annex C is a printing facility with an extensive printing store area. Annex D is the base arsenal, this consists of three sections: the base armory (repair/maintenance and reloading facility; the base arms room (ready stores of arms & ammunition, and the nine arms bays (which hold extensive weapons, ammunition, and related equipment.)

The General Support/Stores Pods: Like Prime, Sigma Base is can provide almost all of its needs. Please note that the GSSPs are intended to keep Sigma running and can only support the field teams assigned to the base. Omnicron does have access to three supply bases that are intended to support field teams in the Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma areas.

GSSP is the anagram identifying the bulk supply and inventory system of Omnicron. There is no office that controls and monitors the Pods. The Base accounting system keeps track of supply levels, and the location of each and every item. As levels decrease, the inventory system also keeps track of Omnicron’s own production and directs any excess production into the GSSPs for long-term storage and eventual issue.

The Pods are sometimes referred to as warehouses, although sizes, shapes and special equipment varies. Each pod is a very large room with load-bearing walls and pillars and a locking door. Near the door is a computer terminal that serves as an inventory control point.

In essence, the GSSPs can be divided into three broad categories: Base supplies, foodstuffs and consumer. These are, at best, very broad groupings and there is some amount of overlap between the groups.

Base supplies are those items stored for the use of Base personnel and equipment supporting the mission operations. A very general list would include (but by no means limited to): uniforms, boots, POL products, rations; replacement power tools, tool kits; light bulbs, toilet paper, tarps, camouflage netting, paper, pens, pencils, hardware (nuts, bolts, nails, screws, etc.), electric wiring, kitchen gear and so forth. I will never draw up a total inventory list, but as the Prime Base Module suggests, “require your players to think of and ask for what they want, or think they need. Then, if the item(s) is responsible, include it.”

Another thing to consider is the difference between perishable and permanent items. The GSSPs will include a large amount of perishable and very, very few permanent items. There would be a large amount of lights bulbs and vehicle spares….and very few replacements vehicles.

Foodstuffs are self-explanatory. Omnicron produces plenty of vegetables and fish, even limited beef, pork, and chicken that will support its population. But the vast amount of foodstuffs will be in bulk containers, 55-gallon drums or cases of barley, coffee, corn meal, flour, malt, pepper, rice, salt, spices, sugar, tea, wheat, yeast, etc. as well as drums of fruits, fish, meats, and vegetables.

There are also GPPSs that are refrigerated storage. Here are stored items such as frozen beef, pork, poultry, mutton and fish, frozen fruits and vegetables, whole milk, and a slew of other items. Non-food items such as whole blood, camera, x-ray film, and selected drugs are also included.

Luxury items consist almost entirely of consumer goods such as items for the BX/Commissary system. The emphasis for this class of items includes jeans, flannel shirts, and other civilian clothing and footwear, brand name liquor, assorted soft drinks and beers, specialty foods, coffees, teas, and other delicacies, tobacco products, perfumes, jewelry, watches, and other items that would fall under this category.

Finally, there are four annexes that are placed at the extreme northern end of the base. These are the Power Annex, which maintains three fusion reactors (primary, secondary, and emergency), four bays with emergency e-batts, the Emergency Power Grid Control, the Base power plant, Main Power Grid Control, and the Main Power Grid. The Water Annex contains a 1.7 million gallon tank of fresh water and four water wells. The Sewage Annex which filters, and recycles “gray” water and dries out and burns “black” water. Finally, there is the Air Annex which filters and recycles the base’s atmosphere and as well as filters and purifies outside air and then runs both through the base’s HVAC systems.

At the far end of the annex/GSSPs system are a security complex and another blast door, leading to the Annex Tunnel. The tunnel runs just short of three kilometers to the north of the Base. The tunnel is six meters wide and four meters high and it doesn’t run in a straight line. Starting three hundred meters from the blast door, it turns gradually northwest (in all a 10-degree turn) and after running five hundred meters, there is a blast door and a turn north (another 10-degree turn) and it then runs a kilometer north before another blast door and a 20-degree turn the northeast. The last one point five meters is straight and ends in another blast door. At the near end of the tunnel, its depth is eighty meters but gradually rises to a depth of three meters below the surface.