EARTH DEFENCE FORCE

Headquarters

Located approximately five miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean and half embedded in the puerto rico trench wall, the EDF Headquarter facility serves as the central point of Terran defence. As the main base for the EDF and the only one capable of supporting and housing the full team along with massive equipment such as the Raptor, this undersea location is very possibly the most important installation on the entire planet, and is consequently  well-defended. The structure itself is very thick to resist the crushing pressure of the water above, and it is armed with pulser batteries, motion- and life- sensing torpedos, and  sonic weaponry however the bases main defence is its secrecy as its hull can absorb sonar waves and has a high power intensive holographic sheild. The base is capable of housing the full EDF team in comfort and safety, along with one Raptor class atmospheric craft, the EDF fleet of ten Starlance class fighters and six Behemoth class interceptors, and a compliment of Aqualance class subsurface craft. The base also contains other EDF equipment such as three Trident Rapid Response Craft, several Jetbikes, jeeps and speedboats and a full armoury, along with workshops sufficient to repair any damage to anything. As an undersea base, the main method of transport to the surface is either in the Raptor or an Aqualance, but there are also escape pods and a low level teleporter, unable to transfer more that 3 occupents at a time and taking over 10 minuites to materialise at the second site, hidden in the UK (without exception, the point of origin for the whole team). This is only used for gathering supplies, as the risk of discovery and exposure is simply too great.

These ships where the prototypes for the ISA's Starlance project, fast and greatly overpowered for their size, these small ships where decommisioned as they almost tore themselves apart in their testing runs thus not being very safe, this is why the members of the EDF chose them as their fighter of choice, they needed a ship that could put itself to the limit along with the pilot, however rigourus training is required as a slip of the mind can cause the ships to turn so fast as to black out the pilot.

Its armmaments include two pulse cannons and optional quadrilite missles.

Almost predating the starlance project by 25 earth years these older fighter used to be the backbone of the ISA's bombing fleet, the fighter as been refitted countless times the mark 5 was the highest the ISA could spare for the EDF making their bombers over 10 years old, however these ships pack a signifagent puch having greater armmament and weapons load then the starlance, another feature is the great flexibility as parts of the behemoth can be removed or added to turn it into, scouts, shuttles, bombers and heavy fighters.

It has 4 pulse cannons and a wide range of possible weaponary.

The Raptor is the EDFs main transport and the only craft the ISA specially built for the project as anything else they had was unsuitible to the atmosphere, the ship itself is massive with a wingspan greater then an airbus a380, it can hold up to 2 starlances or aqualances a behemoth and two chimea craft battle tanks at one time, also a deployable troop drop deck removes the need for the raptor to land, despite its size the raptor can attain speeds of greater than Mach 15 using a drive similar to the slipstream on isa cruisers but on a much smaller scale. The Raptor has 3 pulse cannon in each wing and an arry of missles from its deployable missleslead. Its advanced multitargeting system makes it lethal to come face to face with.

The chimera is the EDFs answer for ground support, in full retracted mode it can travel in excess of 200mph. Its ordinances can be retracted in an armadillo style armour sheild alowing this vheicle for simple head on attack approach against much greater numbers, it also has limited aquatic capability.

Its weapons include a fully loaded missle k, 4 pulse cannons fore and aft hydralic rams, its multi targeting system means that this ship can be attacking multiple enimies at once while traveling at very high speeds.

Smaller than its spacefaring counter part the Aqualance is designed to protect the EDFs base and for more covert missions that envolve water, their small size mean these ships can travel up most rivers as a speedboart or submarine. Usually deployed by the raptor.

Armaments include two pulse cannons, optional torpedos.