Name: Hell's Heart
Unit Type: Space Fortress
Manufacturer: Red Eyes Armada
Operator: Red Eyes Armada
Operational Date: 6 June, AD 2995.
Dimensions: Height: 12 kilometers (7.5 miles); Length: 8 kilometers (5 miles); Width: 4 kilometers (2.5 miles)
Crew: 20000, w/ 3000 pilots, plus additional personnel from visiting starship crew/pilots. Armament: Anti-ship missile launchers x20, anti-ship blaster cannons x20, anti-mecha personal defense cannons x200.
Compliment: 3000 Goblin-class GERWALK mecha (garrison), plus any vessels in dock.
Long before the pirate Red Eyes became a warlord seeking to conquer Galactic Christendom, he decided to become more than just a savage alien pirate raiding for profit and prestige. To become a real power-player, one needed a base to operate from, and either you took one over or you built it yourself. In the first major exhibition of Red Eyes' future ambitions, the pirate convinced his crew to stake out a place of their own.
They found, out on the fringes of the galaxy, a massive planetoid. Having already build into smaller asteroids to create supply depots, caches, secret bases, and so on they took to the task of turning this huge floating rock into a space fortress. It was not done swiftly; knowing how his people think, Red Eyes wisely built out the fortress in stages. He rotated personnel on the regular, using the construction projects as the means for too-hot crews to lie low and wait out pursuits away from curious eyes.
Once complete, Red Eyes' celebrated the occasion by proclaiming the whole of the galaxy as fair game for their raiding, quoting a work of Old Earth: "From Hell's Heart, I stab at thee!" Ships stolen elsewhere soon came here to be stripped down and refit as raiders, and mecha stolen from elsewhere likely came here in increasing numbers for the same refit process. It was a short step from possessing the power to refit another's construction to doing your own.
That jumped into overdrive when a mysterious figure arrived just before Christmas of 3000. Shortly after his arrival, Hell's Heart underwent a stem-to-stern overhall and the original designs started rolling off factory lines running at all hours. The debut of the Goblin, and then the Gomorrah, worried many in Christendom- but it would be the debut deployment of a new and powerful machine that would horrify the surivors of The Taking of Gabriela Robin.
Hell's Heart would eventually be discovered, beseiged, sacked, and destroyed by the Solar Guard and several naval task forces volunteered for the mission, but its influence would be felt for many years thereafter as this mode of speed-constructing a space fortress would be rolled out on a galactic scope and scale in the wars that followed.
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