Crusade Keep

Crusade Keeps are temporary bases of operations built by the Obsidian Wyrms' Crusade Fleets when they expect to be operating in a given area for an extended period of time. Crusade Keeps do not obey a definite patterns but usually house facilities for a single battalion, arranged accoding to the Battalion Command's tastes.

Crusade Keeps are sometimes dismantled to re-use its materials when it no longer has an use, but often they remain behind. They can be used to secure certain assets such as recurrent recruitment worlds or turned over to Imperial defense systems. In the second case, all sensible elements such as the Apothecarion and librarium and their precious contents are evacuated and converted to other, more suitable more purposes. Known Crusade Keeps include the one found on Mesoteria, which's Crusade Keep is built upon a plateau overseeing large open grounds and feature a vast underground complex