Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25402021-20140927072258/@comment-192.200.149.130-20141005023835

The Military Base:

Fort Martel is a military base located a reasonable distance from Mycaelis. It currently serves some 28,000 active duty members and 7000 reservists and 10,000 civilian employees and 6000 contractors from various departments and corporations, including Deiron Corp. Fort Martel’s placement has been looked upon strangely by geographers especially since there is another, larger Fort a mere few hundred miles away, but the government has never properly explained it’s presence and most people put it up to beauracratic ineptitude and tradition.

Queerly enough for a military base, there is over double the amount of civilian workers on base at all times, and a disproportionately high number of contractors. Unlike some other forts which focus on mass drills and grand strategy, Fort Martel consistently favors small unit tactics and is rumored to have a massive R&D department. Despite it’s closeness to Mycaelis, soldiers are almost kept sequestered from civilians, even during their month of Military Leave, in a special district of Mycaelis. Additionally, witnesses of the Fort Martel have said there are two very strange designs:

Instead of pointing against the sea, the guns and fortification primarily point towards the city of Mycaelis. Second, there seem to be more guns pointing inward, towards the base itself, rather than out…