Pegasus base was originally a very large and powerful pirate base, until it was raided nearly eighty years ago. Since then, it has remained abandoned. It existence was never very common knowledge, and its location was brought to the Rebellion by Colonel Lonestar. The first scout team found the base in astonishingly good condition, with the power and environmental systems still there and in repairable condition. This outpost has operated for the past six years without a single relocation or compromise, due primarily to its unique nature.
Pegasus houses the 321st Composite Flight group, made up of one squadron each of X-wings and Y-wings, along with a pair of Y-wing Longprobes and a pair of light transports. In addition to the impressive space assets, Pegasus is home to two companies of SpecForce troops (Tackforce Thresher) and provides control functions to a half dozen SpecOps Mission Groups and guerrilla training teams throughout Hoget Sector in the Outer Rim region of space.
Obviously larger than the famous Teifron outpost, Pegasus has but one entrance or exit, and has no exterior guns or towers. All needed traffic control functions are handled from a specially equipped airspeeder or ground crew. This is due to the unique construction of this base.
Pegasus base is buried deep within an extinct volcano, surrounded by a large lake. The heavy, half kilometer-thick, rock shield the occupants of the base from detection by all but the most determine sensor sweep. The entrance is under nearly 300 meters of water. The only safe way for all but a very few highly modified ships to enter the base is via the "force tunnel", a cylindrical force field that holds back the water, and can be set from five to fifty meters in diameter. After going down the force tunnel, you find a cavern set in side of the mountain that extends back roughly eight hundred meters, then you must go up and forward to the landing bay. The cavern forms a moon pool against the water, allowing our utility subs and divers to make their way out of the base without the need to power up the force field generator. In case of emergency, a series of 6 blast doors in the cave and seventh over the moon pool provide a very solid barrier that must be burned through. Additionally, a number of mounted and automated guns, installed by the previous users, ring the moon pool. Due to the difficulties in exiting the base, the pair of "Ready" fighters can not scramble in the usual minute, but it is very quick.
There is a concealed fighting position on the top of the base with a land line, optical link to the command center. This replaces the observation and sensor tower normally used. This position is well equipped by Rebel standards, with an E-Web, a BlasTech automatic blaster rifle and a pair of missile launchers, as they are the welcoming committee in case the Empire ever raids the base. This position is concealed among the rocks and is very deeply dug in. To reach it, one must take a sub or air tanks up to the surface, wade ashore from the shallows and climb close to a kilometer, much of it straight up. For this reason, the ten man team that is stationed to the "mynock's nest" stays up there for five days at a time. They also have a burst transmitter and receiver that is tied into the optical cable link, providing communications, but giving the message to a transport, which transmits from deep space is the preferred technique. This is the only fixed position outside the cavern. In addition to the look outs, Pegasus' commanders have all insisted that ground patrols be conducted by infantry squads on foot, along with the occasional wilderness survival class being conducted in the mountains, bogs and forest around the lake.
The base itself is actually undermanned, with only about a quarter of the quarters and storage space actually being used. When it was used by its original builders nearly a hundred years ago, the hanger deck contained nearly a full wing of fighters, a dozen freighters and a pair of corvettes or bulk freighters, along with several scores of airspeeders and swoops. Nearly three thousand pirates and their support staff and families lived here at one time. Today, less than a fifth of this capacity lives inside the mountain. The Specs that call Pegasus home have done much to help take up the space, with a 400 meter blaster range, a 50 meter climbing/repelling wall, specialized explosives dumps, and a "fun house", where they teach guerrillas from around the sector the fine arts of room-to-room fighting with harmless light guns. The two organic medics are supported by a 2-1B medical droid and a bacta tank, the machinery of which was left behind after the raid. Several water tanks and a series of hydroponics banks go a long way towards near total self sufficiency as far as rations go, and (theoretically) allows the base to hold out for close to three months if seiged in.
Simply put, Pegasus base has the potential, if the man- and firepower
ever become available, to support and house an extremely large force of
Rebels. Its loss would be most unfortunate.
Vehicles Assigned to Pegasus Base
X-wing space superiority starfighters | 10 |
Y-wing attack starfighters | 10 |
Y-wing Longeprobe recon starfighters | 2 |
YT-1300/Ghtroc 720 light transports | 2 |
utility subs | 2 |
skyhoppers | 2 |
airspeeders (2 modified for combat) | 5 |
Total | 33 |
Personnel Assigned to Pegasus Base
Combat
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Pilots and gunners | 40 (includes relief pilots) |
Ground Troops | 210 |
Mission Group personnel | 40-50 (varies depending on the groups assigned) |
Command
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CO | 1 |
XO | 1 |
Senior Engineers | 2 |
Intelligence Staff | 3 |
Senior Navigator | 1 |
Ground Troop Commander | 1 |
Surgeon | 2 |
Junior Officers | 8 |
Support
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Fighter Crew Cheifs | 18 |
Fighter and Transport Ground Crews | 52 |
Technicians | 27 |
General Staff | 40 |
Total
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446 |
Dan Evon type: Wild Planet Temperature: Temperate Atmosphere: Type I Hydrosphere: Normal Gravity: Normal Terrain: Mountain, Forest, Lake Length of Day: 27 standerd hours Length of Year: 329 local days Sapeint Species: Humans, various aliens, droids Space Port: Limited Services (rebel) Population: 450-650 (depending on Rebel activity) Planet Function: Rebel Base Goverment: Rebel Base Tech Level: Space (Rebel Base), none (most of planet)Dan Evon is named for the pirate who built the origional base here. It is a rather normal, plain world. However, it is far from the standerd trade lanes, the land is too mountanous for crops and herds, and the major ores locked to deep, for a coloney to be profitable here. In the last eighty years since the arrest of Dan Evon, his planet has seen few visitors, and officially has no population.
Much of the world is mountainous forests, with many lakes and inland seas. It teams with indigionous animal and plant life, much of it edible, according to the logs and diaries of Dan Evon's crews. It is realitivly stable from a geological perspective, and has few active volcanoes or faults.
GM Note: There are a few, very small caches left from the Hogetians on the planet. They have not been discovered yet.
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