Fort Ratte Almay

**Fort Ratte Almay** is a huge complex of underground fortifications built by the Gra Valkas Empire to create a buffer area in the conquered Leifor territories between Joint Base Lars Filmyna and the second city of Reiling in Leifor.

## Description

Fort Ratte Almay is located close second city Reiling and some 400 km east of Lars Filmyna and the capital Leiforia in Leifor. It was constructed after Leifor's capitulation to the Gra Valkas Empire to serve as the military base. The Gra Valkas Empire, having readied themselves to make an enemy of the entire world, hypothesized that there may come a time when the enemy, using their sheer numbers, would temporarily push them back to their occupied territories in Leifor. They envisioned the Fort Ratte Almay protecting the Reiling, which served as the last line of defense between joint base Lars Filmyna and the city proper of Leiforia in an empty clearing between Ahl Forest in the north and sloped and heavy forest in the south. The fort commander is Colch Mir.

Fort Ratte Almay is made of several fortresses, pillboxes, large rotating turrets, and other smaller bases to form a heavily-armed defensive line. It was designed not only built in a way to be well-camouflaged from air attacks but also fitted with high-grade armoring that protects it from bombings, boasting several long-range artillery mounted in rotating turrets. On both sides of Fort Ratte Almay are dense forests, which the Gra Valkas military believe are too much for tanks and other ground vehicles to traverse. The entire network is manned by thousands of trained soldiers and engineers and has enough provisions and ammunition to last for extended periods.

Fort commander Colch Mir believes Fort Ratte Almay is basically one huge, impregnable fortress that not even Japan could pierce.

## Chronology

### New World War Arc

While Gra Valkas Empire force was scattered throughout Leifor as the vast majority of the defenses and supply chains, the Lars Filmyna, were decimated by JASDF air strikes, the morale of the Gra Valkan soldiers began a retreat back to Fort Ratte Almay. They rallied inside that the underground fortress was impregnable as it had been able to hide and withstand the air raids of JSDF and World Union Forces so far, and they would crush any enemy that came at them.

At the end of the Liberation of Leifor, after the Holy Milishial Empire Death Bar Fleet finished with the shore bombardment, the JGSDF ready themselves for the land invasion of Leifor. Font commander Colch Mir was in the operations command room deep inside the underground fortress, Fort Ratte Almay, about to give a PA broadcast to all of his personnel as the last line of defense of the empire on Mu continent. The elite soldiers of Ratte Almay were all prepared to fight to keep this absolute last line of defense standing.

After many days of waiting with no sight of the enemy's advance, he was confident that the enemy would not attack the fortress and he assumed that the enemy knew that attacking the fortress was a bad idea. However, much to his shock and horror, his subordinates yelled out that the JSDF and Mu mechanized forces appeared in front of Reiling. The Japanese tanks were more than capable of traversing and plowing through the thick Ahl Forest to bypass the place. Colch Mir was in disbelief as the thick forest should have deterred the advancement of any mechanized force. Fort Ratte Almay was simply ignored and circumvented without a fight as Japanese tanks continued heading to Reiling, the second city of Leifor. As a result, the titanic battle between the JGSDF and the Fort Ratte Almay never occurred as the invading forces simply bypassed the fortifications completely.

## Trivia

* The Fort Ratte Almay is basically the Gra Valkas version of the Maginot Line of World War 2. Like the Maginot Line, it shared the same weakness of a large, static fortification as it can easily be circumvented. In World War 2, the Nazis bypassed the Maginot Line by cutting through the Ardennes, a heavily forested area that was thought to be impossible for tanks to navigate.