Fort Potato

Fort Potato

ETNO -Object in the Oort Cloud - 69,000 m non spherical rock, dust and ice asteroid.

Utilized as  a space fort.

Fort Potato was the first Oort cloud object physically surveyed by United Earth and the first object in the Oort cloud used as a deep space scanning and system defense platform.

Today it is one of fifty (public known) [1] such forts, 23 are built in an on natural objects ,while the other 27 are artificial constructs.

(see Heliopause Forts  and Fort Vickers )

Fort Potato is under the auspice of Sol Defense, but has a contingent of Union Army personnel that is permanently detacted to operate the installed Class X weapons (Loki Torpedoes and Translocator Cannons )

Fort Potato

 * 69,000 m length and approx. 24,000 m diameter
 * Personnel : 50 Sol Defense - 12 Union Army - 20 Figther pilots - 25 Civilian service personnel

Armament:

 * 4 x Long Range Translocators - Kilo Load -
 * 2 x Translocators Giga load- Standard Range
 * 4 x TL Gatling - Mini Load
 * 12  x Loki IV launchers
 * 60 x FTL -DE

Defensive

 * 3 x ParaDim -

Sensor Equipment

 * GE - Ratheon Mass Detectors - ER  1 LY
 * SII - Quasi Space sensors
 * SII - Quasi Space Disruptor
 * SII- Energy Emission Sensor Array

Aux.Craft

 * The Fort has a contingent of Enroe Valkyrie Fighter craft ( 5 ) and an armed D60 Long Range Shuttle

Note : Fort Potato has activley defended the Sol system during the Big War (4th Intergalactic War) and destroyed nine Nogoll ships.

[1] There are persistent rumors that there are hundreds of "stealth" forts, but their existence is publically denied by both the Union Army and the Sol Defense Force.