Marineville is the headquarters of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol.
Ten miles inland on America's western seaboard, Marineville is a completely self-contained town built to withstand aerial attack, so most of its surface installations are capable of descending into underground silos when 'Battle Stations' is sounded. In addition to a network of missile silos and underground aircraft hangars, it has an extensive subterranean dock complex.
Linked to the Pacific by a ten-mile-long tunnel, Marineville provides maintenance and launch facilities for the WASP's fleet of submarine craft, including its newest and most effective strike vessel, Stingray. Military personnel live on-site in underground barracks or apartments. Some civilian workers live on-site, and a few commute in from the surrounding area.
Facilities[]
- Jailblock
- Satellite communications station
- Guardhouses
- Underground service loop road: links main installations, above and below ground level
- Hydromic missiles: powered by liquid gas, the dyna-prop rota engines can achieve speeds of 25,000 m.p.h. and deliver a variety of warheads
- Aquanauts' living accommodation
- Hydromic missile for twin launch gantries: when 'Battle Stations' is sounded, the gantries swing into an upright position into readiness for missile launch
- Watertight doors: allow pens to be drained, enabling maintenance work to be carried out on berthed submarines
- Hydraulic clamp: raises Stingray above water level when the sub is on stand-by
- Observation point and harbour master's office: for controlling submarine traffic in he underground harbour
- Underground harbour: gives access to all pens from the launch tunnels
- Filtered waste pipes: lead to underground sewage stations
- Fire station
- Staff car maintenance and control building
- Underground hangars for WASP's Arrowhead Interceptor fleet
- Administration building: incorporates conference rooms, offices, and facilities for visiting navy personnel
- WASP training unit
- Control tower: incorporates communications centre and computer room
- Shopping mall and leisure centre
- Sports centre
- Air-base radar station
- Hospital
- Underground storage facilities: food concentrates and medical supplies enable base to operate in isolation for up to three years
- Gatehouses
- Air-crew stand-by lounges, social clubs, offices, and visiting pilots' accommodation block
- Social services offices
- Helicopter landing pad: provides direct access to the hospital A&E department
- Air-base administration building
- Hangar for WASP Spearhead bomber flee and helicopters
- Air-base control building
- Underground service loop road
- Officers' accomoddation: also used by control tower staff, blocks have wifht flats, each with a garage
- Meeting and function rooms
- Social club
- Bar and restaurant
- Marine research laboratories
- Power plant with control room
- Water filtration, purification and disturbing pumping stations
- Auxiliary solar energy power plant
- Security video cameras: others at perimeter fence, checkpoints, and streets
- Water inlet pipes: lead from coastal pumping station to flitration and purification plants and power station
- Power conduits: connect coastal tidal turbines with power plant
- Filtered waste pipes: lead to underground sewerage stations
- Several tracking stations