Where would you want to have a secret base?

[FiresThatBurn]

Where would you want to have a secret* base? Like on another planet or underwater?

Simple:

You write where you want a secret base with what ever.

Rule:

Keep in in our Solar System. Moons and asteroids are allowed.

Have fun

For me: I'd want one on the Moon at the top pole, I'd want a bubble like top with adjustable gravity and I'd want A GIANT FREAKING KERBAL PLUSH THAT ALLOWS ME TO SIT IN ITS LAP!(wink sink Squad) and I'd also want a giant underground facility that at any moment I could launch a bomb at the Earth.

*Secret I mean by not having most people know

[GreeningGalaxy]

In a no-holds-barred scenario, I'd prefer one just under the ice of Enceladus. Nice low gravity, lots of water to use for everything, and, if I picked the right side, a great view of Saturn and its rings. The water would also be easy to electrolyze and use as fuel, and then the other awesome moons of Saturn (like Titan!!) would be in easy reach.

Of course, in real life, I would be totally against landing anything on Enceladus or Europa besides completely-sterilized uncrewed probes, because contaminating a world that could possibly have alien life with Earth life would be tragic. Instead, I think some tiny moonlet of Jupiter or Saturn (Elara, maybe? Cute name), or maybe even a Kuiper Belt object like Pluto or Eris, which would be an excellent place for secrecy, but not a great spot for remote monitoring (which I don't personally care about anyway).

My very favorite idea just from a great-place-to-live perspective would be a floating airship base on Jupiter. It would have to float high enough that storms wouldn't wipe it out within a day or two, and ideally, low enough that the atmosphere would filter out the worst of all that angry radiation floating around out there. You'd also have a beautiful view of all the cloud layers and storm formations (I hear Jupiter has fantastic lightning), and might be able to filter useful things from the atmosphere. So yeah, floating base on Jupiter would be awesome. Of course, it would require some mad fancy technology like vacuum-filled airships or maybe some kind of physics shenanigans to use the magnetosphere for superconductor flux pinning (probably impossible, but would be cool), but we're already making the assumption that we can fly a random girl out to Jupiter just because she asked, so that's comparatively trivial.

I like this train of thought, though.

[megatiger78]

a floating base on Saturn with outposts on all the moons and a giant laser to break planets

[TheSaint]

Someplace warm and sunny, where they serve lots of mai-tais.

[Guest alemagno12]

i would like to have a death star-like base floating in the space :D

bravo!

[General Rarity]

In...

Uranus.

i am a bad person

[Overfloater]

On Pluto of course!

Who would suspect, it's not even a planet anymore! xD

[EdFred]

Nibiru of course. No one can find it.

[GreeningGalaxy]

Intergalactic space.

Maybe there will be some peace and quiet out there.

[mrrpamplemousse]

Intergalactic space.

Maybe there will be some peace and quiet out there.

Aaaaaaand you broke the only rule of this game.

OT: a terraforming facility on Mars.

[GreeningGalaxy]

Aaaaaaand you broke the only rule of this game.

Oh yeah, sure enough. Whoops.

Let's say somewhere out in the Oort cloud then, just inside the solar termination shock. That's probably quiet enough anyway.

[Guest alemagno12]

In some planet (if possible) that nobody can find me and ban me for necroing too many posts :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Specialist290]

Not entirely sure how this is a forum game, so I'm moving it to the main Space Lounge.

Personally, the south pole of the Moon would be my personal choice.

[Seret]

Slough. It's the last place they'd expect.

Edit: I would have a secret train that took me to an underground entrance under everywhere like the White House, Buckingham Palace, the Kremlin, etc so that I could sneak in and skulk around wearing a lizard mask just to troll the conspiracy tards.

Edited October 9, 2014 by Seret

[sumghai]

Question:

Isn't the essence of a secret base in that you don't tell anyone where it is?

[General Rarity]

Question:

Isn't the essence of a secret base in that you don't tell anyone where it is?

Shhhh, don't question us...

We'll send you to Uranus.

[Seret]

Question:

Isn't the essence of a secret base in that you don't tell anyone where it is?

Au contraire:

[Javster]

Au contraire:

http://www.outputmagazine.com/_photos/620-secret-nuclear-bunker.jpg

That made me crack up!

The Moon. As long as I had a way to get back to Earth and back to the base.

[TheFlyingPigs]

Ceres. Everybody thinks about Pluto instead.

[Nuke]

just because it keeps company from some rough and shady individuals does not mean it that it is one itself. come on give ceres some love. pluto has charon to keep it company and they just dont care what the rest of the planets think of them. its not like they live all alone in a rough neighborhood or anything.

Edited October 9, 2014 by Nuke

[tutrakan4e]

Aha, nice try, NSA!

But seriously, on an asteroid so nobody can find me >

[Sylandro]

Deep under Sedna's crust. Desolate, unknown and slightly colder than a Rochester Winter.

Oh, and it's a long distance away, good luck getting me!

[cantab]

Between platforms 9 and 10 of Kings Cross Station, London. Once I'd fitted it all out I'd open it up to tourists and rake in the millions.

[Commissioner Tadpole]

Enceladus' south pole would be my best bet. It has been researched that there are underground rivers in it.

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Venus, so I can work on terraforming it with giant mirrors to reflect sunlight, CO2 eating extremofiles, and a giant centrifuge of some sort to shorten the length of its days...yeeesh.