Fort Derringer

Fort Derringer is a heavily fortified defensive position situated on the western tip of Walcott’s Island, next to the B43-12, Stalwart Penitentiary Of His Excellency.  The fort was built shortly after the start of the Perennial Wars, as the coalition sought to protect its assets in the Bay of Telluride and provide safe grounds for the wartime production of weapons and battleships. With Uranite-reinforced concrete 12 meters thick in some places,  A garrison of roughly 150,000 personnel is stationed here to keep the position operational.  The fort is bristling with dozens of anti-aircraft gun batteries equipped with quad McManus 120mm Area-Denial Flak Cannons. These are generally loaded with Cerberus Rounds: high velocity shells containing hundreds of small warheads, each with a Tungsten core placed in front of an Activated Cinderite payload.  These are ideal munitions for punching through thick titanium armor and vaporizing an aircraft’s internals.  On the sea-facing side bunker of the fort there are 21 mounted Latimer Mk III Electromagnetic Railguns, independently enhanced with MacLeod Seastar™ Auto-Tracking Modules.  The immense power draw of these emplacements necessitates the fort’s own Cinderite-Fusion Reactor.   Firing solid Uranite sabots at speeds of up to mach 24, Latimer guns are specifically designed to engage and disable heavily armored watercraft at an effective range of 200 nautical miles and a max range up to four times as much.  Vessels without proper defensive capabilities will be quickly disabled if not sunk outright.  The guns are also used for natural threats against the island such as Kaiser Shark and Terrorclaw attacks.
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