Finding Prime Base

[tsofian]

The Project planned for everything, well almost everything. They will have had a huge set of Standard Operating Procedures. These will cover things that are likely to happen, things that are unlikely to happen and things that are wildly unlikely to happen. Will they have one that covers the canon situation in the game? Prime Base is gone. 150 years have passed. The player team is likely the only team awake (in most modules, Desert Search this is not true).

Yes they have the three basic principals Of Help the people, Contact other Morrow Teams and Try to Survive.

If you are the only Team awake how do you try and contact other Teams? Unless you are a command Team you don't have any other Team locations. Your autonav is only programmed with your six caches, so it isn't much help.

If Prime Base is off the net what IS the SOP response? Would it be to try and find the Backup Base? Does the backup base even exist? If it does it is buried deep and sealed tight. There will be almost no clues to its location, unlike canon Prime Base, which was lit up like a Christmas tree by comparison.

Should the player characters try and rebuild their little patch of the world and hope future generations can find Prime? Will the rest of the Project Sleep for another hundred years? Will the characters try and find other teams? If so how? Even a big Project has a tiny footprint when compared against the area of CONUS. The Project would have been very careful to eliminate patterns from bolt hole concealment and placement. It isn't that every bolt hole is under a Burger King. Absolutely the only thing they have in common was the antennae. Those were specifically designed to be hard to find.

Yes, the Command Team in Desert Search has a clue where to find Prime Base, so perhaps ALL the bigger bases do, but that is a huge OPSEC issue.

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by tsofian

If you are the only Team awake how do you try and contact other Teams?

Radio, would be my first suggestion. Just because you don't know where they are doesn't mean you can't call them and ask to meet up. That won't work out in the case of the game, but it would be step 1 in the SOPs.

Originally Posted by tsofian

If Prime Base is off the net what IS the SOP response? Would it be to try and find the Backup Base? Does the backup base even exist? If it does it is buried deep and sealed tight. There will be almost no clues to its location, unlike canon Prime Base, which was lit up like a Christmas tree by comparison.

Command should degenerate to the senior regional commander and then down the line. There should also be preprogrammed distress signals that the team can use, and the automated communications gear in the Project should be using those signals and the lack of responses to distribute access. The backup base should be hard to find, but if you think Prime Base was nuked it makes more sense to look for the "hard-to-find" base than the "no-longer-exists" base.