The Dragon's Lair

The Dragon's Lair is the house and associated hangar facility built by Hunter Jusenkyou and the Eighth Power as a home-base. It began as a single mech hangar and later evolved to include luxurous rooms for each of the team members, laboratory facilities, and a GATE network only the team had access to.

Location and Atmosphere

The facility is built on a round planet in a Pocket Dimension on a pecular orbital path that has it circling three different stars over the course of what can be reffered to as a 'year'. The planet is made almost entirely out of gold, which is the primary reason for it's name.

Operational History

Discovery and "Colonization"

The pocket dimension containing the lair was discovered by Kendrick while serving aboard the Geomancer. It was unreachable by GATE but was found to contain an ancient Road. Hunter and his team found another working Road and calculated coordinates, allowing them to reach the world carrying a GATE Interface and thus have two-way travel.

The initial plan was to simply create a hangar and servicing center for the team's mechs, but this was quickly expanded as they added living accomodations and finally private lab facilities. The 'house', as it was sometimes called, grew cancerous, as the ability to add whatever they wanted soon took hold. It had everything, including a cavernous hangar large enough to hold the Saratoga.

By studying Road technology, Hunter and [[Jason Bur'I Jason]] were able to construct a primative system inside a suitcase. This was essentially a portal that allowed someone to climb through the case, down a latter, and into the Dragon's Lair. Unlike Road technology, it only went one place, but it was only needed to go one place. The suitcase included a keypad that allowed the portal inside to be shut off, and the technology was mostly on the other end, making the suitcase appear to be a simple piece of luggage.

First Mothballing

After graduation, the team split to go their seperate ways, and the facility was carefully mothballed for about ten years. Following the events of The Reunion of the Eighth Power, the lair was reopened and became the base of operations for both the team and the Slayer Dragons.

The Victory Research Facility

Not long after the facility was reinhabited, Hunter founded the Victory Research Facility on the same planet, but on a different continent from the lair. A highspeed train-line linked the two.

The VRF would operate for a period of 46 years before being abandoned in the wake of Samuel Fate's invasion of the Multi-Verse.

Abandonment and Decay

Most of the equipment from the VRF's main facility was moved to the School Proper at Gudersnipe, where Joshua continued some of the research. Many of the scientists were also evacuated to the School Proper, or placed in stasis as part of Joshua's Dragon's Teeth. Others were simply given new identities and sent to remote parts of the Alliance.

Some of the VRF's facilities were carefully mothballed again, such as the station and the well-hidden Site B. The surface instalations such as the main facility and the house were cleared of any important or sensative equipment and simply left to rot, helping promote the idea that the facility was completely abandoned.

Later Use

It is implied durring the Consecution Books that at least the house is reinhabited durring the Age of the New Day.