BAF Map Lore

Category:BAF Lore
== BRITISH ARMED FORCES: Location File - 0001 ==
=== The Presentation Room ===
Location: Classified, United Kingdom
The Hub of Uniformed British Armed forces Events / Operations. Contained on a small isolated island somewhere within the British isles, This building is known by all BAF members, however the location is classified to prevent information leaks and a possible enemy target.
The Presentation Room is used for the phase one recruit training program, which lasts 2 to 3 weeks. newly recruited members will learn the basics of the British Armed Forces. Qualified trainers, aided by senior officers, will teach recruits about the line formations, marching, and how to act while in position, including the chain of command and the respective uniforms of each branch. The recruits will be promoted to OR-2 (Private) if they pass the Phase one training, which requires them to  understand the fundamentals and pass the final 5 question test. There is a great mystery surrounding the people who built and maintain the Presentation room. All the information available is that it is a perfectly and immaculately pruned, impossibly designed place.
Images as of Autumn 2022
Map Designed by Seffy
Lore written by ~biscuit~
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=== Marine Base ===
Location: Lapland, Finland | Coordinates: 68°48’06”N, 27°16’04”E
At the BAF’s Founding, the navy branch were in desperate need of a covert Marine base and training compound. So, Today’s Marine Base was constructed, as designed by the Fleet Admiral based on the history from Bardufoss Air station (Norway's oldest air station still operating) the first plane landing on March 26 1938, named, ‘de Havilland Tiger Moth.’
This state of the art facility has a dock, buildings, ground training, boats, vehicles, etc.
When British Avro Lancasters began to bomb the battleship Tirpitz on 12 November 1944 in Operation Catechism at H
åkøya near Tromsø, calls to Bardufoss failed to save the ship. The fighters failed to scramble in time and Tirpitz was sunk in ten minutes  by two Tallboy bombs. Luftwaffe ace Heinrich Ehrler was originally stripped of command and sentenced to three years in prison because of this. He later died in combat when he rammed an American B-17 Flying Fortress over Germany.
The Marine Base was where the HMS Nightingale (marines) used to take place when they were part of the British Armed Forces. But later when The Coast Guards (Fortuna) took over they weren’t part of it anymore because there wasn’t enough space and the marines were falling apart. So the BAF decided that they wanted some change into their Forces, which was when they decided to create Coast Guard (Fortuna). However, Defence staff decided the Marine Base should remain where it is, ready for use in any needed circumstance.
Map Designed by Blaze
Lore written by pandadash
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=== The Docks ===
Location: Plymouth, England | Coordinates: 50.365177, -4.168221
Located in the city of Plymouth, the BAF Docks are the Home Base of the Navy Fleet, and the Base is more than capable of housing them. Alongside this, the facilities have to be able to also accommodate large foreign allied ships like the American aircraft carriers of the Gerald R. Ford-class and the Japanese Izumo-class multipurpose destroyer-carriers. In total, the BAF fleet boasts the following ships:
* NAVAL VESSEL REGISTER - SEPT 2022
* HMS Freya (R08) - Main Concourse, Dock B (Fleet Flagship)
* HMS Nightingale (LH2) - Main Concourse, Dock A
* HMS Jörmungandr (D35) - Pier 1, North, Dock A
* HMS Vengeance (D44) - Pier 1 North, Dock B
* HMS Iron Duke (BB 1912) - Pier 2, South
* HMS Iron Duchess (D47) - East Concourse, Dock B
* HMS Athena (S126) - East Pen
* HMS Ariadne (S127) - East Pen
* HMC Fortuna (C84) - Pier 2A
* *HMC Ferox (C85) - Pier 2B
* *HMC Midas (D59) - East Concourse, Dock A
*Coastguard Vessels. Temporarily assigned until commissioning of Coastguard Concours on the Maryfield Peninsula, due 2023.
As Plymouth is fairly remote, there’s a lot of development potential further inland for possible city, harbour and infrastructure expansions. In fact, the Maryfield Peninsula to the west, is set to receive four sets of drydocks and an entirely new shipyard with covered maintenance facilities within next year. The city of Plymouth itself has been booming over the last few years due to a large influx in workforce. Ever since the economic crisis and the pandemic in 2019/2020 started a lot of folk wanted to move out, further away from large population centres. However, Insufficient Infrastructure caused this to backfire, and by now Plymouth has found itself within the top 20 of largest cities within the United Kingdom.
As the primary bulk of the Navy operates from Scapa Flow and Portsmouth, the <insert BAF fleet name> has been assigned its very own harbour due to its expanding size and now operates entirely independently as its own Royal Navy detachment. For the last couple of years, several small towns on the outskirts of Maryfield have been at danger due to rising sea levels. The government has since 2019 reallocated the land for dredging and reclaiming, and the entire naval base is set to be finished by spring 2023 as per its original schedule.
The harbour area as of now features mooring areas for the Home Fleet, specific moorings for foreign vessels on port visit, high profile- as well as reinforcement vessels, with its own facilities. 6 large warehouses, primary maintenance facility, 2 main office buildings, the Admiralty building, an old decommissioned drydock which has been temporarily converted as a submarine pen until the redevelopment in 2023 is finished, a shipyard with a row of 4 large and 2 small drydocks, and the Millbrook NAS (Naval Air Station) to the Southwest which services the Royal Navy Coastguard. From here, search & rescue operations will be conducted, for which the Coastguard has a specially assigned anchorage for stand-by vessels.
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=== Camp Tidworth ===
Location: The Great Mewstone island, United Kingdom | Coordinates: 50.307936, -4.106911
Camp Tidworth is the BAF’s main infantry and vehicle training facility. Soldiers are sent here for instruction in the use of tanks, infantry transport vehicles, anti-vehicle weapons and artillery training.
The island itself has plenty of forestry, and a lake in the center. 
In early 2022, the BAF wanted to have a location for soldiers to freely practice using vehicles and anti-vehicle equipment, so the island was established as a base to allow such training to be done. To facilitate this, Camp Tidworth was set up, providing warehouses to house the Land Rovers and Mastiffs, an instruction building in the center, Challenger 2 tanks lined up along the race track, as well as military tents to allow soldiers to rest, see a map of the island, and to store Javelins. The race track is just outside the tents to allow soldiers to get the hang of driving the vehicles, and there are paths leading outside the base that leads to the rest of the island to practice driving in the local terrain. There are also transport helicopters stationed just North of the camp to allow soldiers to practice piloting them, with three other smaller helipad stations located throughout the island.
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=== Jungle PVP ===
South East China, Tianzi mountain range | Coordinates: 24.100441805354066, 110.3431857442687
In an overgrown, Sunken Valley in the Tianzi mountain range, China. Military camps and Deep Crust Mines have been discovered by satellite. These mines are owned by an up and coming PMC,  __CLASSIFIED__. Starting operating in the area after their defeat and loss of their largest Thermonuclear WMD nicknamed ‘Raindrop’ at __OPERATION AVALANCHE__. 
Recently, the Royal Irish Rangers were deployed to recon the area to find out what __CLASSIFIED__ was doing there. Rangers reported Armed guards and the mining of bertrandite ore which is being created and airlifted to processing plants to refine into Beryllium which we believe to have been used to manufacture Thermonuclear WMDs.
Miners operate out of three camps with a small armed unit based at each one. Each camp has tents and crates of raw bertrandite ready for export, however, it appears. All personnel have left in a hurry, leaving much equipment, weapons, raw material and mobile quarters behind.
The existence of a large bertrandite vein in this easily defendable area makes it a politically unstable and HIGH RISK area. BAF intelligence suggests many hostile PMCs will move into the area to seize control of this valuable beryllium deposit. 
The Area is classified as __EXTREMELY VOLATILE__, and will remain under surveillance, expecting much combat and large military operations within this area of the Tianzi mountains in the near future.
Deployed Rangers secured comprehensive images of each camp:
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