Peakfoot City

Peakfoot City is an industrial city in the Northern Front at the base of the mountains. It was founded as a mining town, and became an important stronghold in their war against the giants. When the Front devised their Giantslayer warmechs, they chose to build the factories in Peakfoot City because the metals they would use were already mined and processed there. The city grew with an influx of soldiers and factory workers, and when the war was won many of them stayed, and the city became wealthy as warmechs were exported for sale.

Defences

The city's defenses were paramount during the war with the giants, and have remained in place since the war ended. The outer wall is 24 meters tall and up to 6 meters thick. It is made of stone quarried from the nearby mountains with a 15 centimeter thick steel outer casing. The main gate and the side gates are made from starship bay doors, and are stronger than the walls. They open and close in under a second. There are heavy weapon emplacements along the walls. There are twice as many on the mountain side of the city, as most giant attacks came from that direction and attackers could get much closer to the city before being detected on that side. Most of the weapons are starship plasma cannons, but there are also rail guns and autofire projectile cannons. These weapons can target and fire autonomously, but they are much more effective when controlled by a living gunner. Outside the wall there are underground warmech hangers with elevators to the surface. The elevators are able to deploy 4 mechs at a time and can make two deployments in a minute. The weapons and warmechs are made effective by a powerful starship bioscanner that detects every living thing within 3 kilometers of the city walls, except on the mountain side where its range is only 2 kilometers.

Industry & Trade

Peakfoot City manufactures most of the warmechs exported by the Northern Front

Type

Large city

Owning Organization

The Northern Front