I collect pictures to give me ideas for things in my books. One is pretty landscapes. As I was looking through them, mostly beach scenery, I got a weird thought. Which would be a great location for a secret evil base? From time to time I will post some secret bases. If you want to participate, just send them to my email at eiverness@cox.net and I will post the ones I like and give you credit. Please don’t send me any images that are for commercial use only, I don’t want to have any artist or photographer mad at me, even though this blog is just for fun.
Some secret bases are more obvious than others, which means they won’t last long. If you have a huge island or mountain carved into the shape of a skull, people will naturally send someone over to check it out. There is also the business of building materials, construction crews, etc. I also think if I ever turned super villain, I might prefer a pretty secret base. Do evil people always have dark black lairs? Wouldn’t it be easier to attract other evil people with a cool crib? If you look at bad guys in the real world, like drug lords, mafia, dictators, they live in palaces with gold plated weapons, not in some dank cement cellar.
By the way, the picture of Microsoft’s building is here as a joke. Everyone knows about it, so it is not really a “secret” evil base… Here are my first secret base posts.
I very much like this one. You can have an underwater submarine entrance, a heli pad panel on top, and a missile silo. Also, it has a certain phallic impact that says, “Compensation!” all over it.
The seemingly deserted tower still has good clearance for guards on top to see the surrounding country side, and could house some nice anti-aircraft and radar. Below is where the real plotting occurs. Notice that despite the growth on the tower, the surrounding fields are kept cut short to provide fields of fire and make infiltration difficult.
Ok, this is the upper path, concealing the jungle lair. Notice the antennae cleverly disguised as support rails. They really control space satellites which will help control the planet in secret. Again, the heart of the base is under the convenient rain forest foliage, protected from damage by environmentalist. The perfect cover. For spare change the evil master can charge eco-tourists to walk along his satellite supports.
Old school evil base hidden in Pyramid with side outpost in the Sphynx. Got to love the detail and the fact that it is an Asian base hidden in Egypt. Extra sache for that! Also, again the site is protected from digging and tourists by the Egyptian National Antiquities Authorities. Downside – how to hollow those out and make them into bases without anyone noticing…
Now THIS is my idea of a secret base. Travel the oceans, comprising 2/3 of the Earth, most of which is international waters. No one has juridiction and clearly you look like some wealthy person out on a lark. Easy to attract henchmen to such surrounding. The side ports could house nice retractable weaponry as well. My thought, secret getaway submarine in the bottom, just in case you are discovered.
My favorite part of this base is the low tech garden hose in the foreground. The sheer randomness of it would throw off suspicion. The top is a high tech satellite, radar, whatever you wish it to be, and the bottom is obviously the command section of an underground space launch vehicle. If they get attacked, they can drop off the com equipment and blast into space – easy escape. Of course, with that large of a dish, you would probably have to locate yourself someplace where you could bribe local officials for a bit of privacy.
Michael Bradley - Time Traveler 