List of underwater facilities?

[Alan Grant]

I'm wondering if anyone has ever made a partial or complete list of known canon-established underwater facilities found in the Inner Sphere/periphery.

That could mean aquafarming, underwater mining/refining, underwater cities, anything.

I'm somewhat interested in using these for some stories and such. I'm finding it very difficult to research what's out there however.

[AlphaMirage]

New Avalon has some underwater command facilities
Kwangjong-ni has an underwater factory and aquaculture
Harjel is harvested from Strato Domingo by the Goliath Scorpions
there might be some on Matsuida since fishing is so vital to its economy
Galtor V has all kinds of subs in its turning point so underwater sites are possible
Chara III (Pacifica) is noted for underwater installations and being the homeworld of a CAAN regiment
Principia is noted as having Shipwrights according to the Kraken Unleashed Merc Writeup during the Jihad

[Mendrugo]

There's at least one underwater city on Tukayyid, with a sealed train running to it.

Many underwater habitats were built on Lackland, but ultimately abandoned due to the expense and to attacks by Mothers of the Ocean.

[tassa_kay]

Sian has the Atlantis Undersea Resort.

The Wars of Reaving book had a domed underwater city on Vinton, Verne, that was a Diamond Shark holding.

Dagda in the Pentagon apparently has a ton of underwater mining operations, giving rise to the Water Elemental Mining Suits that led to the Elemental suits we know and love.

Interstellar Players 3 gave us the world of Frobisher in the Canopian Ruins region, where "untold billions of Star League dollars" were used to construct large underwater living quarters for the scientists doing genetic experiments.

The Neptune Submarine entry tells us that the FedSuns was using them for base defense after they had adopted the strategy to build fixed command posts underwater to protect the vital installations from orbital/aerospace bombardment, but no word on any specific facilities' locations other than Galtor V (and after the Combine conquered Galtor V during the 4th SW, they started using the Neptune the same way).

The Solaris VII "Aquagladius" 'Mech was built to fight in underwater arenas, and Solaris VII has one: The Pool, built in the remains of a Star League sewage treatment plant.

Lackland's local marquess had underwater habitats built at the end of the 3rd SW, but apparently they weren't very financially viable yet people were still living there (and considered it to be idyllic, despite the poor education system and lack of any real industries).

Far Reach in the Chainelane Isles had lots of underwater habitats and facilities in the Star League era, as they were a corporate hub of the RWR. However, they failed over time after the RWR collapsed.

Shimonita in the Combine had underwater mining facilities put in place by the Ozawa Mercantile Association (before the Kuritas took power), but they were rendered useless within a century due to poor maintenance routines and violent weather.

Apostica in the LyrCom had an underwater research station.

Helen in the DracCom had a large floating scientific research stationed called Aquanis in the Star League era, but it sank during the Succession Wars and is a popular underwater tourist attraction. Not sure if this counts for your purposes but I thought I should add it just in case.

Repulse in the CapCon is portrayed in the apocryphal German-language novel Gier as a frigid ocean world with domed underwater cities such as Guandoa.

Caselton in the FedSuns has several underwater and underground command centers and military bases.

Gravenhage in the DracCom was once a tropical planet with oceans before its desertification, and apparently hosted at least one underwater Star League research facility.

[idea weenie]

Was there a book with various components for an underwater base?  Basically you would select components from it to make up the different parts of the base, like LEGO.  I.e. an underwater train tunnel would be composed of multiple tunnel segments that have train track segments inside them.

[AlphaMirage]

There are rules for building underwater structures in Strategic Ops. Not quite LEGO components but understandable

[Frabby]

The TRO3026 fluff for the Neptune submarine (iirc) mentioned that the FedSuns like to build underwater command posts on their stronghold worlds. It's definitely a thing.

[truetanker]

If you built the building with light capital strength ferrocrete and armor that with standard Plate over it, should be able to suck boatloads of damage. Build a wall two hexes away that covers the entrances so that the full building is underground underwater. Or even inside a mountain cayon.

Box cayon mapsheet anyone?

TT

[tassa_kay]

boatloads of damage

I enjoyed this entirely too much.