Tamo Bunker
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The Tamo Bunker was an underground command on planet Tukayyid, under Mount Kline, in the Tamo Mountains range.
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History
After the Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht defied The Clans to fight a battle there, a Trial of Possession for Terra, it became his secret and only command post. From that place, he directed all Com Guards forces during the battle. Prior to the Battle, Focht's commander, the Primus Myndo Waterly expressed her doubts about Focht's decision, fearing than the Clans locate the bunker and attack it, as they were specialized in headhunting missions: in fact, the same year, the heir of the Draconis Combine, Hohiro Kurita, was almost killed in a similar attack. Focht said her that all the communications connected to the planetary grid, and through substations, get to the bunker through cables and, in fact, he expected the Clans to waste time and resources searching his location.[1]
Battle of Tukayyid
During the battle, the primus fears were almost realized but, ironically, by accident: Focht was right, and there are no indications about the Clans even suspecting the bunker's location... but a Star of OmniMechs of Clan Smoke Jaguar, the only one which operational zone was nearby the bunker, Gamma Light Supernova Star of the 122nd Striker (Clan Smoke Jaguar), during an exploration mission, passed within 30 kilometers of the Bunker. Luckily for the ComGuards, the Jaguars didn't expect the attack they received from the hidden bunker defenders, and all the Star was quickly destroyed, their communications jammed with ECM. However, if only one of them had escaped, the Jaguars would have suspected about what they were defending and probably taken the bunker and slaughtered their defenders, which could have put an end to the battle barely began.[2]
Jihad
Tamo Bunker survived the Jihad apparently undamaged, despite the Word of Blake's nuking of the planet, and after the Rasalhague Republic joined the Ghost Bear Clan to form the Ghost Bear Dominion, it became a Ghost Bear command post. In 3073 it was there where the Star Colonel Ramiel Bekker received the call from Devlin Stone, who challenged him to a Trial of Possession for the planetary HPG.[3]
The Bunker
Carved out of the heart of Mount Kline by ComStar engineers, the Tamo Bunker was a fully functional Star League Strategic Command post equipped with a Interactive Construct Reality chamber that allowed the Precentor Martial to coordinate the battle across the entire planet from one central location. Utilized by Focht during his planning for the battle on Terra, the ICR and the Tamo Bunker were far in advance of anything the Successor State militaries could produce at the time, a testament to the technology retained by ComStar, though itself was far eclipsed by the Holotank technology utilized by the Clans themselves, an advantage nullified by the Clan's lack of unified focus.[4]
Considering his need for troops for the actual conflict, the Precentor Martial retained only one company worth of BattleMech and two platoons worth of infantry to defend the command bunker. Focht also obtained an AS7-K Atlas which he dubbed Heimdall, after both the Norse guardian of the Rainbow Bridge, and the shadowy Lyran organization tasked with curbing the excesses of government overreach, keeping it prepped in case the bunker came under direct attack. It was Focht's belief that by only having a small amount of troops would draw less attention and minimize the possibility of the Clans recognizing the importance of the facility, which played out in reality.[4]
The ComStar engineers also built physical defenses into the bunker itself - two massive slabs of granite each more than 20 meters thick. Protecting the two main entrances, the slabs were designed to drop if the bunker came under attack, preventing an assault on the interior. This and ample stores and internal power sources was believed to ensure that even if it was attacked the bunker would have held out for the duration of the battle.[4]
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The outside of the Tamo Bunker during the Battle of Tukayyid.
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