Sigma Base

[dragoon500ly]

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. Sigma 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 Sigma. 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 Sigma’s own production and directs any excess production into the GSSPs for long-term storage and eventual issue.

[dragoon500ly]

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 luxury goods. 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 Prime Base 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.

[dragoon500ly]

Foodstuffs are self-explanatory. Sigma 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.

[dragoon500ly]

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 (underground hydro-electric), Main Power Grid Control, and the Main Power Grid. The Water Annex contains a 1.7 million gallon tank of fresh water; 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.

[mmartin798]

Just trying to wrap my head around Sigma Base's role. I am assuming it is C3I, as there just does not seem to be any manufacturing capability other than for food and base maintenance.

If these assumptions hold, then I think the base looks pretty complete. The only thing that was not clear is the scale of the base. Boring tunnels will generate a significant amount of slurry that has to be moved off site. The longer the tunnels, then more slurry needs to be taken away. This might make keeping it secret harder, especially if samples of the slurry need to be tested prior to disposal.

If the tunnels were blasted instead, then a similar problem with the tailings.

[dragoon500ly]

Work is in progress, but any manufacturing will be in the annexes. But I'm sketching a fifth annex. I researched exactly what type of manufacturing would be suitable. So far I'm considering ammo; body armor; computers; radios; and medical supplies, suggestions are cheerfully welcomed!

Looking over a geological survey of the terrain in my anticipated location, this is limestone with shale outcroppings (mostly the hills and ridgelines). So, insofar as the tunnels go, I'm looking at a tunnel-boring machine with the waste being funneled to the surface and shipped out via the storage containers.

[Grumpy0ldTroll]

Sorry for the thread jacking.

Talking about tunnels reminded me about a video I watch a month ago. An automated way of building the tunnel before you bore it.

https://youtu.be/bfJY0syocfU

Only brought it up because it would sound like a Morrow thing of building something in stealth. Still have to get rid of the slurry as was suggested earlier.

I assume that you could bring in the huge equipment at the end to remove the excess material. Maybe allow it to look like a much smaller operation.