User:Dante the Ghost/Sandbox

Makes sense.

Overview
Launched to Titania on 15.12.799/999.M28, the Titanian Expedition's job is to mine a rare energy crystal found nowhere except on this planet to alleviate an existential crisis that threatens Kōneria. With an initial mission complement of 840 men this has since expanded to over 5000 several resupply missions later.

As the energy crystals were rarely found upon the surface the base was established in the ice shell and steadily dug down to the subsurface ocean below. Along the way countless rooms were dug out of the ice and rock to expand the base. Once the ocean was reached the majority of the mining vehicles brought were then converted into submarine vessels, with a number retaining their original specifications. The base completed a month after landing, the original colony was then abandoned and is now mostly used to store surface vehicles and to provide power from the constant wind and lightning storms which ravage the planet.

Buildings
Shaped like a large "bowl" inside the ice the Kōnerian Central Command (KCC) features numerous chambers containing storage facilities for the crystals and local materials, barracks for the miners and base personnel, and vehicle garages for the underwater vehicles. A small number of research facilities have been created to study the vast variety of chemotrophic and chemoautotrophic ecosystems encountered in the ocean, once thought to be impossible due to the energy requirements. Vehicles are manufactured here from locally mined metals once a factory was set up along with a 3D printing system; smelters and refiners were also set up, and small payloads of metal are set back with the energy crystals, including captured hydrogen.

Bordering the subsurface ocean are thirty underwater towers, extending a few hundred meters into the water, arranged in a rough circle to match the base. These are simultaneously defense towers and sonar/radar distortion generators, as occasionally predators would sometimes track to attack the base. Contained in these towers are the garages, stacked upon one another, connected via elevators and staircases. Topside is the old base, which has been converted into power plants and garages.

Finally, last but not least, in the long cable which connects the subsurface mining base to the small space station high in the atmosphere. Due to the dangerous lightning storms and fantastic wind speeds, it was deemed unsafe for TAVs to continue flying back and forth between space and the ground; one or two accidents solidified that belief. A smaller version of the Celestial Dock, the space station, called simply Titania I, has one major hub with its own power source. It oversees the launch catapult where the IP-C SC Capital Star rests during its unloadings and uses for its return, usually coinciding with the arrival of another IP-C SC. The station also controls a number of satellites which map the surface of the planet, and monitors all activity down below.

Facility information
Official Name: The Titanian Expedition

Colloquial Name: Kosmos

Location: Titania

Purpose: Refine mined energy crystals and ship them back to Kōneria

Diameter: 200 kilometers

Radius: 100 kilometers

Area: 31415.93 kilometers

Circumference: 628.32 kilometers

Armament:
 * Defense Stations
 * Sonar distortion field

Complement:
 * 5000 men and women
 * TMP Miner I—(Titanian MultiPurpose)
 * TMP/M-DM Buggy II—(Mobile-DualMining)
 * TMP/LMU Digger IV—(Light Mining Unit)
 * TMP Crystal Transport III
 * TMP Crystal Reaper V
 * TMP/ADU Harvester LXIV—(Armored Drilling Unit)
 * TMP Driller
 * TMP Mining Tank VI
 * TMP/RaD Tricycle XXXII—(Reconnaissance and Defense)
 * Titanian Spaceplane IV
 * VS/TOL Dropship III

Historical information
Built: 15.12.799/999.M28

Destroyed: ???

In use: Yes

Controlled by: The Titanian Expedition

Notable info: Mining energy crystals to avert an existential crisis.