A ground facility designed to be placed on planets (both inhabited and uninhabited) and moons.

• 400mm Anti-Orbital Railgun
• Surface to Orbit Missile Launcher
• Surface to Air Missile Cluster
• Umbrella Shield System
• Unified Shield System

The Planetary Defense Fortress is solely responsible for assisting in planetary defense with both its weaponry and its strike forces.

The Planetary Fortress with Underground visible

Planetary Fortress Moon version

Moon Version with Underground visible

With the Second Mishhuvurthyar War going poorly for the three Super Powers of the Galaxy, the neutral Abwehran Star Empire was still slow to realize the threat it faced as a whole. A select few 'war-philes' however were not in the same boat. These un-named individuals from military and civilian careers began to lobby and coerce researchers and engineers to design better defenses for the few worlds the Empire held. In AF 260 (YE 32), Kaiserlich F&E and Northern Manufacturing Corporation joined forced to create the technology and design for the Planetary Defense Fortress.

Designed to replace many of the Schirmherrschaft bases, the Planetary Fortress was developed to protect the Star Empire's worlds from threat of planetary invasion. But it wasn't enough for the 'war-philes'. In response, the design specifications included a lunar facility option which allowed the Fortress to be placed upon uninhabited worlds and moons. This meant the Planetary Fortress would be an integral part of system defense as well as planetary defense. Construction of the first Planetary Defense Fortresses would begin late in the Second Quarter of AF 260.

Type: Ground-based Defense Fortress Designers: Kaiserlich F&E Manufacturers: Northern Manufacturing Corporation Production:

• Per Inhabitable Planet: 1000+ ¹⁾
• Per Uninhabitable Planets and Dwarf Planets: 60
• Per Moon or Planetoid: 6-18 (depending upon size)

Fielded by:

• Schirmherrschaft for inhabitable planets
• Weltraumflotte for uninhabitable planets and moons

Base Personnel: 10,000 Ground Forces:

• Schirmherrschaft: 1 Landwehr Brigade (7500)
• Weltraumflotte: 5 Marine Corp Battalions (2990) w/ 6 Detached Schirmherrschaft Armored Companies (444).

Aerospace Corp:

• Schirmherrschaft: 350
• Weltraumflotte: 350

Total Personnel: 13,784 - 17,850

Surface Area: 4.8 squared kilometers (~1186 acres) Depth: 1090 meters (~3576 feet)

Lifespan: 40 Years Renovation Cycle: Every 10 Abwehran Years (~40 Standard Years) Cost per Unit: 18,000,000 Credits (6,000,000 KS)

• Hull: 250 SP
  • Shield: 200 SP (Threshold 4)

• Unified Shield System: 250 SP (Threshold 4) Note: Protects City, not Fortress

• Administration Offices (in office tower)

• Administration Offices (in office tower)

• Administration Offices (in office tower)

• Administration Offices (in office tower)
• Surface to Orbit Missile Launchers

• Administration Offices (in office tower)
• Surface to Orbit Missile Rails

• Administration Offices (in office tower)
• Cooling Level
• Surface to Orbit Missile Elevators

• Administration Offices (in office tower)
• Surface to Orbit Missile Elevators

• Administration Offices (in office tower)
• Surface to Orbit Missile Elevators
• Cooling Level

• Administration Offices (in office tower)
• Armories
• Hatches for Retractable Weaponry (outside facility)
• Surface to Orbit Missile Elevators
• Umbrella Shield System generators (half centrally located and half around the facility perimeter, underground)
• Vehicle Staging Area

• Armories
• Fuel Storage
• Unified Shield System Generator
• Vehicle Storage
• Weapon Storage Chambers
• Armored Layer

• Ammunition Storage

• Armored Layer
• General Storage

• Armories
• Enlisted Living Quarters
• Officer Living Quarters
• VIP Quarters

• Armories
• Enlisted Living Quarters
• Officer Living Quarters

• Agricultural Section

• Industrial Section

• Civilian Quarters
• Military Family Quarters
• Village Section

• Water Storage
• Armored Layer

• Artificial Photosynthetic Life Support System
• D-D Main Fusion Reactors

• Strike Craft Launcher

• Strike Craft Storage
• Armored Layer
• Ammunition Storage
• Fuel Storage

Located in the Office Tower of the PDF, the Administrative Offices are mostly cubicle spaced for civilian/military administrative duties. There are at least 2 enclosed office spaces for higher echelon administrators and three Meeting Rooms per Office Floor. There is also one kitchenette for drinks, snacks, and meals.

An office cubicle normally contains a desk, a desk terminal, and an office chair. There is enough space on the desk for personal decoration.

An enclosed office space has twice the volume of a cubicle with similar furnishings. However, the additional shelving space allows the storage of documents, media storage, and other work related items.

The standard meeting room is a space with a hexagonal table equipped with secure terminals for presentation viewing. The room is also equipped with a holographic projector that connects the center of the table with the ceiling to provide a more interactive presentation for groups.

A large section of the base is divided at two-floor intervals to create spaces for agricultural activity. Using lighting to mimic the sun and environmental controls to create the prospect of year-long round growing opportunities, the Agricultural Section allows a PDF both a back-up source of oxygen an a source of food to make them self-sustainable. There is also a floor dedicated to animal husbandry and harvesting, though special measures are taken to limit outbreaks in disease.

Huge armored storage depots for Ammunition are built into the base in the subterranean sections of the PDF. It is sectioned off into armored cells to protect the rest of the storage area from faulty explosives. There are also elevators to allow ammunition for the defensive weaponry to be loaded in the midst of combat.

The Armored Layers are 10-meter thick slabs of Military Station Tri-Armor used to protect vital sections of the underground. Namely, they are used to protect living quarters from possible explosions and/or exposure. The only openings through this layer are via maintenance ladders and elevator shafts.

Storage areas for Infantry equipment and weaponry, there are 40 Armories in the entire Base and all of them combined hold enough equipment and weaponry for twice the amount of military personnel on base.

Civilian Quarters in a PDF are much like a single bed/bath apartment with a main living room and kitchenette. Basic furnishings are provided, but decoration must be provided by the individual.

Using a system of liquid nitrogen conduits that lead to radiators on the surface, the Cooling Level is responsible for dealing with the heat generated by Surface to Orbit Missile Drives.

See Civilian Quarters.

A honeycomb-like storage used to contain fuel for the variety of vehicles maintained by the PDF. Each comb is a self-contained, armored storage unit designed to stop the damage from one cell from transferring to another. Each cell also has safety measures to protect against fuel ignition.

A warehouse-like facility used to store miscellaneous equipment and goods for usage by both civilian and military personnel.

A massive factory complex in the PDF designed to produce ammunition and a variety of other equipment as long as there are raw materials.

Military Family Living Quarters is based upon a family-sized apartment or starter home with a centralized main living room combined with a dining room/kitchen. The Living Room has multiple doors leading to a Master Bedroom with Bathroom, a Full-sized Bathroom, and two bedrooms. The Military Family Quarters is provided with basic furnishings.

Much like an Enlisted Living Quarters only with 1.5 times more volume per room and an extra Office Room added.

A series of fifteen Launch Tubes (cylindrical, vertical tubes with Unidirectional Gravity Plating lining them) in a boxy formation that are used to launch Strike Craft out of a moon's gravity well. They are strictly for moon-based PDFs only.

A honey comb-like structure used to store Strike Craft in their individual armored cells. This allows Strike Craft to be protected from any accidents which may threaten them. Elevators and conveyors from the Main Structure of the Base allow Strike Craft to be transported from the First Surface Floor back into Strike Craft Storage during recovery.

A series of elevators dedicated to lifting Surface to Orbit Missiles from Ammunition Storage to the Surface to Orbit Missile Rails.

An intermediary storage medium used to feed Surface to Orbit Missiles from their elevators to their launchers.

A commercial and recreation district in a Planetary Defense Fortress, the Village Section is really a self-contained town in the military base. It is also one of the more well protected sections of the Base. During Emergency Situations²⁾, the Village Sections acts as a last desperate measure to protect the Abwehran species.

An area that makes up the majority of the First Surface Floor, the Vehicle Staging Area is where all Ground and Aerial Vehicles are loaded with personnel and supplies before being launched.

A honey-comb like structure used to store all manner of ground and/or aerial vehicles in their own individual armored cells. This allows vehicles to be protected from any accidents which may threaten them.

Essentially a large anti-microbial storage center for Water, which is constantly recycled and filtered by the PDF's Artificial Photosynthetic Life Support System.

Weapon Storage Chambers are armored containers for the PDF's Defensive Batteries. When not in use, every weapon is retracted underground into these cells for maintenance purposes. It is also to protect each battery from sabotage attempts.

The Fortress is constructed from a dense frame of Nerimium trusses covered by Military Station Tri-Armor to provide a durable passive defense against ground invasion, aerial bombardment, and orbital bombardment.

A Planetary Defense Fortress contains 50 CU-24 computer systems with the three main computers installed with Smart AIMs. These three computers act like a Triumvirate system to moderate all the Programmed AIMs and VIMs under them.

A Planetary Defense Fortress uses a worlds Planetary Communications Network as its primary method for telecommunications. It also has Radio and microwave transmission capability. A Fortress' Microwave transmission is normally used to communicate with planetary satellites.

The Planetary Defense Fortress uses a variety of detection systems including:

• Imaging Scanner Package
• Military Radar
• LADAR Targeting Array

A Planetary Fortress is fully compartmentalized much like a starship and is capable of becoming airtight in case of biological, chemical, and/or nuclear warfare.

While a life support system may not be needed for a planetary facility, the Planetary Fortress has 4 Artificial Photosynthetic Life Support Systems for construction on hostile worlds, celestial bodies, and just in case nuclear, biological, and/or chemical warfare occurs.

A Planetary Fortress runs on municipal power grids during normal operations. In combat situations, six D-D Main Fusion Reactors can be activated to power weapons, shields, and life support systems.

The Planetary Fortress has one main shield system, the Umbrella Shield System to protect itself from orbital and aerial attacks. Fortresses built near major surface cities are also equipped with a Unified Shield System. Multiple Fortresses work together to create a massive umbrella shield over their city to protect civilian inhabitants from stray military fire or genocidal xeno attacks.

• 20x 400mm Anti-Orbital Railguns, DR Varies with Ammunition - used on aerospace craft entering atmosphere
• 20x 80mm Gatling Railguns, DR Varies with Ammunition - used on aerial craft and armored vehicles
• 30x Surface to Orbit Missile Launchers, DR Varies with Ammunition - used on orbital vessels
• 20x Surface to Air Missile Clusters, DR Varies with Ammunition - used on aerial craft
• 80x 20mm Gatling Gauss Cannons, DR Varies with Ammunition - used on assaulting infantry

• 90x Space for Future Aerial Fighter
• 90x Space for Future Aerial Gunship
• 30x Achtung Assault Shuttle

• 200x Walküre-class Multirole Space Fighter
• 30x Achtung Assault Shuttle

• 1000x Jäger Heavy Infantry Armor
• 10x Space for Mobile Command Vehicles
• 80x Vorrecht Main Battle Tank
• 30x Space for Super Heavy Tank
• 100x General Purpose Off-Road Vehicle
• 60x Heavy-Duty Off-Road Vehicle
• 200x HAV1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle

• 900x Jäger Heavy Infantry Armor
• 10x Space for Mobile Command Vehicles
• 80x Vorrecht Main Battle Tank
• 30x Space for Super Heavy Tank
• 150x Space for All-Terrain Vehicle (moon rover type)
• 150x HAV1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle