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The garrison commander at the time had been one [[Major]] [[Edwin Keeler]], an idealistic officer from the [[Free Worlds League]] who had command over an engineer battalion. Unable to move the huge weapons cache off-world for lack of starships, he and his engineers continued on a project that had already been going on for a long time: A system of natural caves had been enlarged, initially to construct an underground laboratory while later efforts turned it into an unassailable fortification with vast warehouses and an extensive transportation system.<ref name=PoG148/><ref>''The Price of Glory'', pp. 188, 235</ref> The underground complex extended from Freeport into a mountain range. Owing to the large transportation network there were several other entrance points. The town of Drango appears to have been a hub in this logistics system, although this was barely remembered by the thirty-first century.
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The garrison commander at the time had been one Major Edwin Keeler, an idealistic officer from [[House Marik]] who had command over an engineer battalion. Unable to move the huge weapons cache off-world for lack of starships, he and his engineers continued on a project that had already been going on for a long time: A system of natural caves had been enlarged, initially to construct an underground laboratory while later efforts turned it into an unassailable fortification with vast warehouses and an extensive transportation system.<ref name=PoG148/><ref>''The Price of Glory'', pp. 188, 235</ref> The underground complex extended from Freeport into a mountain range. Owing to the large transportation network there were several other entrance points. The town of Drango appears to have been a hub in this logistics system, although this was barely remembered by the thirty-first century.
  
 
Keeler hid the weapons from the fleet base here, but he also felt that the imminent wars threatened mankind's achievements at large. For this reason, he also put a Memory Core in the installation. Finally, the installation was trapped against unauthorized access as he felt the weapons must not fall in the hands of barbarians. Blasting open the access door (a huge stone slab in a natural mountainside, roughly 100 km from Freeport) or destroying the library core would cause the installation's large [[fusion reactor]] to overload and explode, destroying the entire weapons depot.<ref>''The Price of Glory'', p. 295</ref>
 
Keeler hid the weapons from the fleet base here, but he also felt that the imminent wars threatened mankind's achievements at large. For this reason, he also put a Memory Core in the installation. Finally, the installation was trapped against unauthorized access as he felt the weapons must not fall in the hands of barbarians. Blasting open the access door (a huge stone slab in a natural mountainside, roughly 100 km from Freeport) or destroying the library core would cause the installation's large [[fusion reactor]] to overload and explode, destroying the entire weapons depot.<ref>''The Price of Glory'', p. 295</ref>

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