The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, which hosts the activities of several tenant units. [...] Formerly the center for the United States Space Command and NORAD, the Complex monitored the air space of Canada and the United States for missiles, space systems, and foreign aircraft through its worldwide early-warning system. Since 2008, NORAD and the United States Space Command have been based at Peterson Space Force Base and the complex, re-designated as an Air Force station, is used for crew training and as a back-up command center if required.[1]
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The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is featured in Depths of Destruction.
It was introduced in 2 days after people when deep inside a Colorado mountain are humans controlled the power to destroy the world. Travis Taylor stated that Cheyenne Mountain is a very large chunk of solid granite with a tunnel that was bored through the mountain and various other areas within it were excavated and one of the walls has a large steel door with behind it is a city built within there. Inside the mountain is a massive complex once home of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. During the Cold War, it was the location where American military commanders would coordinate the nation's response to a nuclear attack and was built for one reason. Travis Taylor stated that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was designed specifically to be able to withstand nuclear war and in fact its a multi-megaton explosion within a mile and a half of the complex. If a nuclear weapon exploded right outside the complex's 25 ton blast doors, the building's inside might not move an inch because the buildings were specially constructed to make sure that if the mountain moved, the building wouldn't. Steven S. Ross stated that each building sits on a shock mountain by giant springs that isolate the buildings from shockwaves in the outside. Designed to withstand a nuclear blast, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex sits permanently at DEFCON none and the destruction of the secret hideout will be an inside job.
Water leaks from the reservoir.
In 4 years after people, the buildings that once housed NORAD headquarters remain strong deep inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. It was the location that 12 million lines of computer code written in 27 different programming languages that helped the military determine if it was missiles or a flock of geese coming over the horizon. With the external threat of nuclear warfare eliminated, the attention falls upon an internal invader, water. The complex conceals a 4.5 million gallon reservoir which is built by the military to help stabilize the internal temperature. Steven S. Ross stated that it is for drinking and to cool the massive amounts of electrical equipment waiting to be used in case of an attack against North America. After 4 years, the more than 1,300 springs which provide protection for the buildings are under assault. The water from the reservoir is leaking out as a lack of maintenance begins to take its tool and if the springs fail, it could spell the end for some of America's most secure buildings. Travis Taylor stated that whatever happens to the granite will start happen to the structure and if a landslide, earthquake, or some sort of motion to the mountain, the motion would get translated into the structure and cause the structure to fail because of it. A place designed to survive a nuclear blast finds its structural integrity slowly dripping away.
In 2,000 years after people, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex is still standing against all odds. Steven S. Ross stated that the building structure would corroded a bit, the framework of the decks and the flat-panel computer screens would be covered in powder, and there would be rust from the structure but still be recognizable making it an enduring tomb for human technology and human ingenuity. Built to withstand a nuclear blast, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex survives but entombed forever [inside], and plant life covers the the entire complex from the outside.
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