🛰️ HÖLLENBUNKER-CLASS CARRIER
- Sean Beckett
- Apr 24
- 6 min read
Updated: Apr 25
“From the belly of the moon, the storm descends.”
Codex Entry | Black Sail Studio – LunaStadt Game Lore Blog
🔻Overview
The Höllenbunker-Class Carrier is the sledgehammer of the Lunastadt invasion fleet—an interplanetary drop fortress engineered for total war. Designed in the shadowed shipyards of Lunastadt and constructed beneath the basalt plains of the Moon, the Höllenbunker embodies the strategic doctrine of overwhelming force, psychological dominance, and tactical flexibility.
It is not merely a ship. It is an apocalyptic delivery system—a mobile war citadel capable of launching a planetary-scale assault in a single atmospheric burn.
Codex Entry: Höllenbunker-Class Carrier
Designation: Höllenbunker-Klasse – Verdammnisträger
Role: Deep Invasion Megaship / Planetary Factory Seeder
Faction: Lunastadt Reichsmaschinerie
First Deployed: Operation Eisensturm, March 2038
Codename: “Hellbunker”
Strategic Role: The Seed of Lunar Industry on Earth
The Höllenbunker-Class Carrier is not merely a vessel of war—it is the centerpiece of an offworld war economy, a spaceborne fortress whose primary function is to terraform the battlefield into a manufacturing zone. While SPK-class carriers drop tanks, the Höllenbunker drops the means to build entire armies.
It is the first structure to descend in a full-scale regional invasion.
Deployment Mechanics
☄️ Controlled Descent via Kettensturm Burn System
The Höllenbunker’s descent is a controlled atmospheric crash—guided by Kettensturm thrust modules which fire in synchronized bursts to stabilize reentry.
Unlike other carriers, it is designed to embed itself into the terrain, anchoring deep into the crust for seismic and atmospheric shielding.
🏗️ Industrial Payload: Factory Seeding Modules
Upon landing, its massive underside cargo bays open, unleashing:
Self-deploying lunar construction bots (nicknamed “Knochenmacher”, or Bone Makers)
Crate-mounted modular factory pods that unfold like origami into functioning facilities
Resource smelters, vehicle assembly lines, and repair bays
Power cores using compact Tyranoflux reactors harvested from Lunastadt's reserves
Each module is built with interlocking design, allowing rapid expansion—within 72 hours, a fully operational tank assembly plant is active, capable of producing 1 VKL-Class tank every 6 minutes when supplied.
🧠 Dark Mind Integration
Once anchored, the Höllenbunker connects to the Dark Mind's war directive network, allowing it to:
Receive lunar schematics in real-time for manufacturing updates
Adapt output to local resistance (switching from VKLs to drones, repair units, or air defenses)
Control thousands of factory drones autonomously, without human oversight
This integration gives the Höllenbunker infinite scalability—a single carrier can spawn multiple auxiliary bases if allowed to persist unchallenged.
🔧 Key Machinery Onboard
Eiserne Gliederung (Iron Frameworkers): Massive tracked bots that set foundation plates for new buildings
Nachtschweißer (Nightwelders): Multipurpose welding drones used for sealing armor plating and reactor casings
Fleischformer Units: Bio-industrial printers for creating Schwartzenkrieger components or Aetheric regenerative tissue
🎯 Tactical Objective
Once deployed, Höllenbunkers are considered Tier-1 Priority Targets by U.S. resistance forces. Their destruction is critical to halting regional tank reinforcements and severing the Dark Mind’s industrial lifeline.
Lore Excerpt
“We thought the Moon sent soldiers. What we got was worse. It sent entire bases—machines of steel and silence. We didn’t fight an army. We fought a factory.”— Dr. Asha Verin, XCOM Declassified Archives, Midwest Resistance Files
🛠️ Technical Specifications
Length: 900 meters
Mass: ~320,000 metric tons
Troop Capacity: 300 Aetheric Warriors
Armor Complement: 10 VKL-Class Tanks
Powerplant: Dual 40 MW Tyranoflux Reactors
Construction Material: Vollmondium-Steel Composite
Descent Integrity: Reinforced Atmospheric Hull + Adaptive Ceramic Ablative Shield
AI Core: MOSCAI (Machine Operations Scene Command AI) Autonomous Strategic Command Unit
🧬 Purpose & Role
The Höllenbunker-Class serves as the primary planetary assault carrier for Lunastadt forces. Each vessel is equipped for:
Troop Deployment
Armor Drop Operations
Onsite Combat Coordination
Forward Operating Base Establishment
Höllenbunkers are not support ships—they are war itself made airborne.
☄️ Atmospheric Entry & Descent Technology
These behemoths do not land—they descend like celestial dreadnoughts through the atmosphere.
Descent Systems Include:
Adaptive Ceramic Ablative Shell: Manages extreme entry heat and pressure
Gravity-Brake Reversal Thrusters: Counteracts planetary gravitational drag
Magneto-Atmospheric Deceleration Field (MADF): Plasma-based kinetic dampening
Grav-Displacement Skirt: Final impact diffusion system
Atmospheric Shock Pylons: Deployable legs absorbing terminal momentum
Even in crash scenarios, the Höllenbunker remains combat-operational.
🪂 VKL Tank Airdrop System
Before touchdown, the carrier initiates “Sturmbrecher-Abwurf”—an airdrop of 10 VKL-Class tanks encased in Reinforced Descent Cradles:
Multi-stage lunar silk-carbon parachutes
Autonomous gyroscopic stabilization
Tyranoflux retros for soft-landing
Explosive cradle bolts for fast tank deployment
These tanks can hit the ground combat-ready while the Höllenbunker is still tearing through clouds above.
🧱 Production: Lunar Shipyards
Primary Site: Waffenmontagefeld IX
Timeline: 5 Earth months per carrier (simultaneous parallel fabrication)
Armoring & Reactor Tech: Derived from 1940s uranium shipments and Vollmondium refinement plants from Lunastadt’s early colonization era
Beneath the lightless plains of Mare Desiderii, in the bowels of the Moon’s forgotten industrial complex, the Höllenbunker-Class Carriers stirred to life. Sealed in vacuum-forged cradles within the massive silos of Waffenmontagefeld IX, each vessel loomed like a monolithic tomb—silent, armored, and brimming with purpose. The reactors hummed as ancient systems rebooted, power flooding into internal command nodes and war coffins alike.
Above, the lunar surface remained still. Cratered. Cold. But beneath that surface—something moved.
🛰️ The Launch from Lunastadt
The order came from the Dark Mind, echoing through the psychic lattice that bound all things in Lunastadt. No voice. No ceremony. Only signal.
One by one, the launch platforms cracked open, and the Höllenbunker fleet ignited their Relativistic Ion Thrust Arrays. A silent storm rose from the moon. No radar signature. No heat bloom detectable by Earthbound eyes. Invisible. Inevitable.
In the initial wave, Thirty-two Höllenbunker-Class Carriers entered Earth’s shadow on a slingshot trajectory—masked by solar interference, cloaked by magneto-chiral deflectors engineered long before mankind had even mapped the far side of the Moon.
Their target: Cincinnati, Ohio.
🌌 Atmospheric Breach
As the blue marble of Earth expanded in their forward scopes, the fleet reoriented in perfect silence. Bastion-9 cores confirmed wind shear, thermal layering, resistance vectors. The vessels formed a coordinated descent lattice.
At 90 kilometers altitude, the sky above Ohio split.
Atmosphere ignited around the descending giants. Their adaptive ceramic ablative shells atomized layer by layer, dispersing in crimson clouds as the hulls turned red-hot. Then orange. Then white.
At 30 kilometers, the Magneto-Atmospheric Deceleration Fields kicked in—spherical plasma blooms enveloped each carrier, warping air currents into pulsing vortices. Civilian observers on the ground would see what looked like meteors falling sideways. Glowing, intelligent meteors.
🔻 The Descent to War
Sturmbrecher-Abwurf initiated.
Before any carrier touched ground, hatches on their undercarriages blasted open. From within: ten VKL-Class tanks per vessel, each ejected within a Reinforced Descent Cradle, parachutes snapping open like iron wings above the skyline. They fell into city parks, along highway corridors, through the broken roofs of factories and abandoned malls.
Seconds later, the Höllenbunkers themselves hit the Earth—with thunder, but not failure. Their gravitational displacement skirts absorbed the final velocity. Shock pylons buried themselves into bedrock. Perimeter armor unfurled like iron petals.
The Moon had landed.
Rise of the Schwartzenkrieger
Some Höllenbunkers bore no tanks. They carried death instead.
Kammerträger variants opened like surgical instruments, hissing clouds of necrochemical fog. Inside, Schwartzenkrieger stasis vats groaned. Reanimation fluids bubbled. Organic tissue sparked with quantum ignition as the first cybernetic corpses rose from their pods. Eyes glowed green. Respirators hissed. Steel bones flexed.
Meanwhile, Sargträger carriers deployed by shock launch: heavy necropods smashed into the city outskirts, cracking streets as the undead soldiers burst free and charged.
No words. No chants. Just marching—relentless, synchronized, and unflinching.
Fall of Cincinnati
By the time the National Guard was deployed, it was too late. The city’s power grid had failed. Airspace was contested by lunar fighter support. Radio signals jammed. Downtown Cincinnati had become a psychic fog zone, where civilians wandered in disoriented horror, minds scrambled by Dark Mind resonance fields.
Aetheric Warriors (Aetherishe), dropped in formation from dorsal troop bays, swept block by block. Their rifles burned green lines through the night. Their armor, impenetrable. Their orders, absolute.
Each Höllenbunker that landed had become a permanent lunar citadel, extruding antenna towers and drone hives, exuding the will of the Dark Mind. The city was ringed by them—thirty-two fortresses, each birthing undead, tanks, and soldiers with every passing hour.
🧠 And From the Moon, It Watches
Back on Lunastadt, the signal was strong.
The Dark Mind watched, silently orchestrating each advance, each breach, each resurrection. Every unit moved in tandem—not as soldiers, but as organs of a single will.
Cincinnati did not fall in hours. It fell in moments.
And as the smoke coiled above the shattered skyline, the message became clear:
The Moon has returned.
The Earth is no longer sovereign.
The invasion has begun.
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