Neptune Base

Pre-Uprising Era
When the NDRC fell, the people of Decholon scattered to any of the Citadels that still remained, in hopes that they would be spared from the warfare of the Second Armeli Invasion. One of these Citadels, known as Neptune Base, was defended enough to keep the Mercury Legion off of their back. This would be the sanctuary for a number of Decholonian families, namely the high-class ones that had reserved spots in the most defended Citadels.

The reason for Neptune Base’s high level of defense came from its role of protecting the Head Family should their safety ever be compromised. The family in question was the one of Prime Minister Will Palmer. Will himself never made it to the safety of the Citadels, being captured and assumed dead by the public. With Will being MIA, all of the responsibilities fell upon his eldest daughter, Cecelia. However, she was still too young to inherit an already fallen government, so instead she was inducted with many of the teenagers that took refuge in the base to participate in The REDEMPTION Project.

Being trained by the veteran pilots still alive from the fall of the NDRC, the students of the Project underwent a rigorous series of tests and combat situations, but in the end almost all of the students were able to make it to Pilot Level. Among them were Cecelia Palmer herself, Kelly Valentine, and Hannah Floyd. The more experienced students were given the opportunity to pilot the Limited Production types of Garrisai that the base had. The students were now experienced enough to begin running surprise counterattacks against small ML Garrisai outposts.

A total of four Castel GTs, a single Cyclops GT and two Juggernaut GTs were in the base at the time. Neptune Base had a total of eight hangar bays, with a single "catapult" launch port for High-Mobility Units. using a moving platform on a rail, it could pick up any of the Garrisai on the hangar bays and bring them to the catapult. It is arranged with four hangars on each side.

Many of the aforementioned surprise attacks were deemed effective along the Aquarian Coastline, though over time more and more Armeli forces began clustering around that area. Pilots began to fall, and the dwindling amount of Castel, Juggernaut and Cyclops GTs forced the Base’s Garrisai back into hiding. Recovery teams were deployed, but in the end the only Garrisai they had left were two Castel GTs in critical condition (one without an arm and head, a relatively intact Juggernaut GT and the upper torso of the Cyclops GT whose legs had been blown off during a retreat. The other Juggernaut GT and Castel GTs were destroyed in battle.

The Garrisai were put out of service for a very long time, with the only sort of activity being the gradual restoration of the Juggernaut GT and Cyclops GT which were planned to be used by Kelly and Cecelia. However, the discovery of a MESS Frame at Minerva Base sparked a distress call. The Cassiopeia Remnants were busy fighting their own offensives in the desert, and the Aquarian Remnants were out of options. Except one.

Uprising Era
After the fall of the NDRC, all of Project X’s experimental Garrisai were either destroyed, stolen by the ML or UNI, or kept in long term storage. Most of the stored units were immediately fielded in a last minute fallback to the horde of Legion units, all of which never made it back. Except the Majestic. Being the oldest and first of the Project X machines, it was quickly superseded by the units Storm II and Rocket II. However, its outdatedness was what kept it safe from the impossible odds of the battlefield.

In desperate need of a unit capable of making it to Minerva Base without being destroyed along the way, Neptune Base had no other choice than to launch the Majestic. Recruiting the skills of the now ace pilot Cecelia, she was sent out across the Andro-Aquarian border, making her way into the plains of Andromeda. On the way to her support run, she was attacked by a wandering patrol of the Andro-Aquarian border, where she was forced to engage.

After dealing with a patrol at the cost of her Assault Rifle being destroyed, Cecelia continued towards Minerva, where the distress signal was being related. When she arrived at the scene, she found a Castel Commander Type and a MESS Type under fire from a Mercury Legion patrol. While the Castel Unit had already destroyed three of the five Revoltas, and the MESS Unit one, they were being overwhelmed by a new threat: The Fortress Vendetta.

The Castel and MESS were downed, but using the Majestic’s Destroyer Lance and high-Mobility, she was able to force the Vendetta and Revoltas into a retreat. After the battle, Cecelia was ordered to remain at Minerva Base and help the Castel Unit guard the MESS Frame until the two Limited Production Types were finished being built.

Trivia
- Neptune Base's design and location can be roughly attributed to the DT Testing Facility of the early stages of Harbinger 2584, as well as the Aquarius Citadel from the first drafts.

- The Base was named after its location near the water.