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A ghost town and old factory complex
sitting in farmland around the small Mexican town of Acancéh, this
facility nestles above a maze of rock tunnels and halls, carved and
sectioned from deep natural caverns, poking beneath the surface at a
high-security airstrip and the aforementioned town. The tunnels also
have connections to the local rail network to allow large shipments to
be routed here for transport to the Funky Horror, as the modern
Acancéh is the Board's main launch facility for flights to their HQ. A
high perimeter fence surrounds the airstrip to keep out uninvited
guests, and a powerful defence grid has been installed closer to the
site itself to fend off the more persistent.
A very, very old Board base, and a place where Boadies
hung out even before it was a base, Acancéh has been somewhere the
Board put things for Quite Some Time. It holds a place in Board myth as
where the Goddess stood when She created the world, and the oldest
building in the base structure is a small, domed, and empty building
that supposedly marks the exact spot...although you'd have to take the
caretakers' word for it since Herself is rarely seen here outside of
formal occasions, preferring to lurk in Deck Zero aboard the Funky Horror these days. What is
known is that the base is built in and around unusually rich deposits
in rare and dense metals - iridium, remarkably pure iron, and several
radioactive ores. Given the proximity of the entire Yucatan peninsula
to the immense crater where the Dinosaur-Killer asteroid is thought to
have struck, it is highly likely Acancéh was originally built for
mining.
This abundance of precious metals directly led to the
base's finest hour, when it hosted the immense launch platforms and
construction hangars that assembled components of the Funky Horror
prior to launch. Now that the "mother yards" have finished their work,
most of the equipment has been shipped to orbit for the station's
drydocks, leaving the above-ground skeletons that slowly vanish as
recycling teams break them apart for parts - all that remains now are
the huge launch gantries, now used to dock Fanworks BBs. These
days, alterations below-ground have installed machine shops and vast
vehicle hangars, holding the armoured units and arcane, world-altering
devices the Board keep in reserve "just in case".
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