Ascension Base

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Ascension Base 	Ascension Base
Location 	Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean
Nearest city 	Georgetown
Year Built 	Unkown
Affiliated Factions	The Chosen
Located on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Ascension Base describes a series of complexes built on and into the volcanic island. 
Before the war, the island was notable for hosting an orbital debris observatory and one of four ground antenna used to assist in the operation of Earth's Global Positioning System. This existing association with space and the island's remoteness likely heavily played a factor in the Chosen selecting is as their second major base. 
After occupying the island at an unknown point between 2014-2018, the Chosen began to fortify the location, establishing a perimeter of guided missile turrets and constructing a number of bunkers around the island, the largest of which were small fortresses built within Cross Hill and South Gannet Hill. Wideawake Airfield was seized by the Chosen and continued to serve as the island's sole airport for moving personnel to and from the island.
The island's primary purpose was to serve as a secret spaceship construction yard, drawing resources from the magma chamber below the island's dormant volcano. A portion of Green Mountain's peak had been converted to a drydock for the space warships and served as the island's CIC. Components were fashioned at the factory built at the foot of the mountain and were transported following a route leading directly to the drydock near the peak.
Due to its nature as a manufacturing station, the island hosted a significant number of noncombatants aligned with the Chosen which assisted with the design and construction of the planned ships, as well as the general running of the island facilities itself. In addition to its garrison of suits, the island was notably guarded by The Black Swordsman due to its strategic significance.
The island was visited twice by ACC. The first operation lead to the destruction of the drydock and most of Green Mountain, as well as a number of Chosen suits (at the cost of Basilius' life and two other temporary casualties). The second operation to the island lead to its complete destruction thanks to a seismic bomb, killing anyone unable to make a quick escape from the island as it broke up and fell into the ocean. Loss of the island and its personnel was a massive blow to the Chosen and forced them to launch a desperate attack on Libra in response.
Category:PACYOA: TE
Category:The Chosen
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