Hong Kong Shatterdome

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The first and largest Shatterdome, opening 2015 November 25 under the command of Chief Sergeant Class One Xiong Li-hua.
==Quick Facts==
* Opened 2015 November 25
** Almost 9 months before the next Shatterdome (Lima)
** Organized into 'mini 'Domes' by 2015 October
* Formerly a wave energy-generation facility at 62 Tsing Yi Road
** Disney is 6.1km across Victoria Harbour
*Largest 'Dome of them all
**30 Jaeger-capacity, 7 conveyor belts, 500feet at peak
*The most widely-spoken language in Hong Kong is Cantonese; the official languages are Cantonese and English
**Shatter is a Cantonese-Russian-'and sometimes'-Korean-Spaish pidgin spoken in the Shatterdome. 
*Officially, Hong Kong uses the Metric system, however most people use a mix of Chinese, Imperial, and Metric.
* A place of worship in one of the lower levels modeled modeled after the Tomb of the Virgin Mary (in terms of decor, coexistence, and relief)
** One of the final facilities designed and built; architects squeezed it in around existing Shatterdome facilities
** Cats! >replace with shmoo!link<
== Description ==
Located at 62 Tsing Yi Road (southern end of that island (Victoria Harbour)), the Hong Kong Shatterdome, affectionately known as 'The Madhouse', opened on November 25th, 2015. Among others, Shaolin Rogue, Crimson Typhoon, and the Horizon Brave units call this home.
:THE DOME ITSELF WAS MAYBE FIVE-HUNDRED feet high at its peak. ... From a central staging area, seven tracks radiated out. Six led to Jaeger bays ... The seventh spoke led to Scramble Alley, the ramp a deploying Jaeger took to the ocean doors. Outside the ocean doors ... was a staging pad where Jumphawk helicopters could hook up a waiting Jaeger and fly it to its drop point.
With a peak height of 500feet and capacity for 30 Jaegers, the Hong Kong Shatterdome is the largest of all. It features seven conveyor belts leading to the six hangers and Scramble Alley (and therefore the ocean and Jumphawk engagement point).
Some have described it as lotus-like from a distance ("Fighting for Air"):
:His last stop lands him at a school that is half the city away from the Shatterdome, but Stacker can see the blooming petals of the dome opening up for construction and repairs in the horizon. ... it is a grey and white building made more for practicality than beauty, but he sees the echo of a lotus flower when the Dome opens wide and he thinks humanity’s always liked a little symbolism. 
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:When Cheung squints in the distance, the blooming petals of the Hong Kong Shatterdome are on display against the pumping dark smoke of the Jaeger factory behind it.
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:Cheung plans to make him wait forever. Until they’re through with school and whisked away to the Shatterdome where the lotus flower petals can hide them away from anything dirty of Hong Kong.
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:Up close, the Shatterdome doesn’t resemble a lotus flower at all. The petals are way too high up for Cheung to clearly identify when they’re faced with huge, automatic doors made of reinforced steel and yellow numbers painted on them.
The petals can open, exposing the hanger to the open air and expediting the launch process: 
:Its ceiling was constructed to open up and out like the petals of a flower (Chapter 6, Epage 94)
:The prelaunch sequence for Striker Eureka and Gipsy Danger was well underway. Above them, the petals of the Shatterdome started to open ... the dawn sky shed light on the gathering at the center of the Shatterdome. (Chapter 29, Epage 425)
For over eight months at the beginning of the Jaeger program (November 25, 2015 until August 9, 2016), the Hong Kong Shatterdome was the only Jaeger base in operation and, therefore, handled all deployments, retrieval, and maintenance of the Jaegers, as well as housed all program personnel. All Mark I and II Jaegers and the Mark III Vulcan Specter entered service with Hong Kong as their Home 'Dome, before moving to their permanent bases of operation as other Shatterdomes opened.
Shatterbucks is located in three places, two of which close due to a lack of staff (those by a set of doors for civilians and half-way up to LOCCENT). The chain is down to one employee by 2021 and one location in the refectory.
===Novelization===
THE DOME ITSELF WAS MAYBE FIVE-HUNDRED feet high at its peak. Its ceiling was constructed to open up and out like the petals of a flower, but at the moment it was closed. From a central staging area, seven tracks radiated out. Six led to Jaeger bays, tall enough to accommodate the huge robots and framed with catwalks and platforms allowing access to any part of a Jaeger from any angle.
The seventh spoke led to Scramble Alley, the ramp a deploying Jaeger took to the ocean doors. Outside the ocean doors, just like at the Anchorage and Lima Shatterdomes where Raleigh had previously been stationed, was a staging pad where Jumphawk helicopters could hook up a waiting Jaeger and fly it to its drop point.
The spaces outside the marked spokes and their conveyor platform tracks were a tangle of equipment, spare parts, and work crews. It all looked like home to Raleigh and now that he’d had five-plus years to stew on it, he couldn’t figure out what he’d been thinking when he left. This was where he belonged.
Opposite Scramble Alley, a mezzanine stuck out over the floor. It contained the Hong Kong LOCCENT, the Shatterdome’s nerve center, wall-to-wall monitors, holodisplays, and workstations. Everything that happened in the Shatterdome or any of its Jaegers was represented on a screen in the LOCCENT. Behind it, Raleigh guessed, would be the mess hall, living quarters, lab facilities... all the stuff a Jaeger resistance needed to keep itself fed, fit, trained, and ready to save the world. (Chapter 6, Epage 94)
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Looming over the interior of the Shatterdome was a huge clock. Not even a digital clock, an old-fashioned flip clock. Only it was twenty feet across and each of the flipping panels must have been as big as a movie poster. That was different. It wasn’t showing the local time, and Raleigh didn’t remember seeing anything like it at previous Shatterdomes he’d seen.
Pointing up at it, Pentecost said, “War clock. We reset it after every kaiju attack. Helps keep everyone focused on a common goal.” (Chapter 6, Epage 95)
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He led Raleigh and Mako along a raised portion of the Shatterdome that looked down on maintenance bays and the radiating array of deployment tracks. (Chapter 6, Epage 95)
==Timeline & Appearances ==
2015 March: China volunteers to build a Jaeger-housing facility, 
2015 April: China offers again to promote Chief Sergeant Class Two Xiong Li-hua to Class One, this time including an offer to promote Junior Sergeant Lo Nang to Chief Sergeant Class Three (OF-8); they accept
2015 April: Yeung Tang Min conveniently brings dress clothes to work, sent to the Shatterdome to sponsor a coffee station. 
2015 June (late): the Academy makes plans with the Shatterdome as to how they'll solve the housing problem in Kodiak; they agree to send two planes of graduates every two weeks until there are no more graduates in the Academy.
July (mid): the Academy sends all their graduates and their families by plane to Hong Kong (so Chuck Hansen and the Collier twins would be in this bunch; (“Puppy Parka”); Chief Sergeant Third Class Lo Nang reassigns her SiC, conscripts and promotes Tang Min to Chief Sergeant Fourth Class
2015 August: the roof (a tarp) over the Cadets' 'quarters' (an empty hangar bay) springs a leak; the Cadets are sent to Disney.
July (mid): Nate Barclay-Harvey hears about the chaos en 'Dome, gets herself to Hong Kong, and offers Chief Sergeant Third Class Lo her help (" A Gal who Knows what She's Doing")
October: the Hong Kong Shatterdome gets itself organized into a number of 'Mini 'Domes'. 
November 25: the 'Dome opens; Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua officially receives her First Class stars and assumes command; some are scandalized that isn’t wearing her uniform properly nor bowing as deeply as she should while getting her First Class stars, most are amazed someone can run the largest (quasi)military facility on earth whilst heavily pregnant; Scott Hansen meets Nate (officially) at the Shatterdome opening gala
==Gallery==
Dome tumblr mscz5d7z2b1rieeiwo5 1280.png|A repair area in the hangar from "Man, Machine, and Monsters (2013)".
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