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Losing Prime Base was unthinkable I think to the Projects Leadership
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But why, and why does this excuse their stunning oversight?
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I think the idea was that even if lost the Regional Bases working together could take over.
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Or a backup Prime Base or whatever. Having plans (especially vague ones) does not help if you are completely unable to enact them.
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Prime Base itself was just a HQ. It didn't do much more than coordinate.
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But that's a pretty big "much more than" when the job was waking up the entire Project. A parachute is one small, specialized part of a paratrooper's equipment, but if it doesn't work then the results are catastrophic. So you jump with a reserve. The entire Project hinged on Prime Base remaining intact and functional for five years through a nuclear holocaust and the ensuing chaos... and it didn't have to.