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[Steading] US Region 4 Gulf Coast Sea Steading
By: Peaceman Date: January 10, 2013, 1:55 am
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Name: US Region 4 Gulf Coast Sea Steading
Founded: 2014
Facilities: Sea Steading facility Type 1 x4, Type 2 x12,
Offshore wind generating facility, Aquaculture Farms x8, Oil &
Natural Gas Derricks x 24, Boeing Sea Launch, Costa Fantastica,
MV Marjorie, Accommodation Barges x28, Medical Barge x2,
Offshore Crane ships x2, Wonder of the Seas, Assorted Lighters
and fishing vessels
USNS Mercy, USS Alabama, AOE 2 & 6, AOR 4, CG x2, DDG x4, FFG
x2, CVN-68, LHD-8, LSD-41, LPD-17, US Mobile Offshore Base #4,
USS Mount Pegg, Assorted medium and short endurance Coast Guard
vessels
History: By late 2013 it was determined that climate change from
the solar maximum was causing extensive and rapid melting of the
ice caps. The US Government initiated construction of
Seasteadings for each of the DHS regions. Meanwhile the US
military increased production of USNS ships and mobile offshore
bases. By 2015 the water had already overlapped the lower coasts
displacing millions of US citizens to FEMA camps.
This led to outbreaks of looting and rioting as well as work
stoppages. President Obama ordered martial law and federal
troops were sent in to quell the rioting and ensure work
continued on the remaining steadings. By the end of the year
tensions boiled over into a civil war. During 2016 the low lying
middle of the country flooded separating east from west. Many
refugees made it onto the steadings built for Regions 5, 6, and
7, however do to the ongoing resistance fighting the facilities
were nearly completely destroyed before the military was able to
establish a peace by removing the current government and
allowing the states to elect a new government founded on the
Constitution. The new government moved west with its capitol in
Denver, Colorado.
Regions 8,9 and 10 remained above sea level while gaining some
new inland lakes and seas and has become the breadbasket of the
US. Regions 1-7 were mostly submerged with just an archipelago
formed by the highest of the Appalachian mountains. It is
estimated that 170 million Americans were killed due to the war,
starvation, rapid inundation and disease.
By 2017 the Region IV steadings had annexed the remaining Region
6 steadings. Region IV is the most self efficient and productive
steading as well as the most independent with most of its
residents coming from the Gulf Coast and Southern states.
[center]Private / Corporate Steading
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[center]Type 1 Steading
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[center]Type 2 Steading
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[center]Oil & Natural Gas Rig
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[center]Wind Farm
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[center]Aqua Farms
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[center]Location Map:
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Re: [Steading] US Region 4 Gulf Coast Sea Steading
By: Peaceman Date: January 15, 2013, 1:53 am
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[center]Joint Mobile Offshore Base[/center]
DoD planning origins of the JMOB started in 1990. DoD estimates
that a 5-module JMOB would have room for 3, 500 vehicles, 5,000
cargo containers and 150 aircraft. Of the 5 million sq. ft. of
space, 3.5 million sq. ft., roughly 80 acres, would be climate
controlled. It would be so large that the military could
pre-position 300,000 tons of equipment, 75 million gal. of fuel
and 50 million gal. of potable water. The ONR estimates a JMOB
could house an Army heavy brigade of about 3, 000 troops.
The multiple functions and extreme size of a JMOB would make it
unique among floating structures. In addition to being massive,
the JMOB would have to be stable enough to allow fixed wing
aircraft such as the C-17 to operate in Sea State 6 conditions.
Sea State numbers run from 0 (dead calm) to 12 (hurricane
conditions). Sea State 6 is characterized by 22- to 27-knot
winds, and white, foam-crested, 10-ft. waves with sea spray.
The big challenge will be connecting them. And, once assembled
there will be the problem of long-term, station-keeping during
hurricanes and other severe weather conditions. Because U.S.
forces train to fight in all weather, JMOBs must be capable of
transferring personnel and materiel to shore-going vessels in
conditions up to and including Sea State 3. Finally, each unit
must be built to take the punishing conditions of ocean life for
40 years.
Construction of the first JMOB was started in Pascagoula,
Mississippi, two others were started on the east and west coast
respectively in 2005. By 2010 three complete JMOBS were
finished. In 2013 the President ordered the building of four
smaller MOBs to hold military forces in the Regional areas of
the US expected to flood. The civil war resulted in severe
damage to Region VII’s MOB. Region IV annexed Region VI’s MOB
along with its sea steadings after the war.
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Re: [Steading] US Region 4 Gulf Coast Sea Steading
By: Peaceman Date: February 9, 2013, 7:28 pm
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[center]USS Alabama - recomisioned as a prison hull[/center]
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