☢️ LUNASTADT’S Modular Nuclear Reactors

Sean Beckett
Apr 23
5 min read

Updated: Apr 26

Inside the Modular Nuclear Reactors Powering the Invasion

⚙️ A Furnace for the Moon: The Story of Lunastadt's Modular Nuclear Reactors

In the silence of space, beneath the lunar crust, a fire burns—not with flame, but with fission. It is quiet. It is eternal. It is the heartbeat of an empire long thought dead.

When the Reich launched its exodus to the Moon, it brought more than men, metal, and ideology. It brought uranium. A lot of it.

🔧 The Spark of Empire

The first modular nuclear reactor on the Moon was installed in 1944, alongside the initial arrival of Hochlast-Mondrakete-4 from Peenemünde, Germany. This was not a simple test system. It was the foundation of continuity. Accompanying it—sealed in reinforced ceramic casks and precision-fitted containment pods—was a payload designed to last not a decade, but five centuries.

Five hundred years’ worth of uranium tetrafluoride fuel, meticulously packed, cryo-stabilized, and buried beneath the lunar bedrock. A sovereign power source. A promise that Lunastadt would never again rely on Earth for its breath.

This foresight was more than strategic. It was theological. In the void, the Sun was no longer a god. The core was.

⚛️ Forging the First Reactors

The earliest reactor prototypes were bulky, inefficient, and crude by later standards. Known as MK-0, they burned hot and required constant manual tuning. But they worked. By circulating UF₄ through FLiBe (a molten salt coolant of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride), engineers stabilized a compact fission reaction that could sustain lunar base operations in the complete absence of atmosphere, sunlight, or gravity.

This design philosophy—molten salt reactors housed in modular armored vessels—became the cornerstone of Lunastadt’s energy doctrine.

By 1954, the first full deployment-ready core was built: the MK-I “Heerlich”, capable of powering hydroponics, pressurization, and life support for forward shelters for over three years.

🏭 Reactor Evolution: A Modular Machine Age

Through the 1950s and 60s, each new expansion of Lunastadt’s infrastructure was built around the installation of a new modular uranium salt reactor. These weren’t supplemental—they were structural. The layout of the base mirrored the reactor grid.

Each new unit came with improved shielding, heat tolerance, and automation. The MK-series grew from basic energy blocks to fully integrated battlefield engines.

Model	Codename	Output	Application
MK-I	“Heerlich”	1.2 MW	Shelter support, scouting drones
MK-III	“Tyranoflux”	9.5 MW	VKL-Class tanks, mining crawlers
MK-V	“Zerocrown”	16 MW	Heavy artillery, mobile bases
MK-VI	“Helionspeer”	12 MW	Atmospheric reentry craft, drop-forges
MK-VII	“Dämmerkern”	30+ MW	Orbital forges, dreadnought cores

Every core was sealed, radiation-hardened, and vacuum-stable. Each could operate autonomously for years without refuel or external input.

🔄 Battlefield Deployment & Forge Integration

The brilliance of the USMR design was its modularity. Reactors could be swapped between tanks and installations. Pods were crane-loaded using crawler arms or rail-fed directly into lunar infrastructure nodes.

Even forward-deployed drop bases on Earth in 2038 carried pre-sealed reactor cores, ready to boot within 42 seconds of ground impact.

In combat, the reactors powered:

Magnetohydrodynamic drives (silent torque for vehicles)
Direct energy weapons (plasma induction and railguns)
Autonomous construction units, capable of printing prefabs and turrets miles from any supply line

When tanks were disabled, new cores were dropped by drones. When factories were built, they began with a reactor. When ships descended toward Earth, their engines sang with uranium fire lit on the Moon long ago.

🔐 Security, Independence, and Immortality

Lunastadt’s power doctrine had one principle: depend on no one.

By 1970, uranium refinement was fully automated. By 1982, molten salt reactor cores were fabricated entirely within lunar regolith forges, using printed insulation and neutron-resistant alloys derived from local materials.

Each core was equipped with:

AI-regulated power routing
Thermal overdrive protocols for short-burst overloads
Scuttle codes and auto-destruct cores to prevent capture

Even after battlefield death, a core could deny the enemy its secrets in a final pulse of radioactive oblivion.

🛰️ The Eternal Engine of Invasion

By the time Lunastadt prepared its invasion fleet in the 2030s, thousands of MK-series reactors had already been produced, sealed, and deployed. They powered tanks, atmospheric reentry vehicles, orbital fighters, and the great Höllenbunker-class troop carriers that would rain hell upon Earth.

Not a single unit required external fuel.

Not a single forward base needed resupply.

Lunastadt had built a war machine that ran forever.

And when Earth burned, it would not be from fire or storm—but from the cold, quiet breath of uranium that had waited in darkness since 1944.

Schematic overview of Lunastadt’s Modular Uranium Salt Microreactors (USMRs), the core power source behind all vehicles, bases, and spacecraft—engineered for autonomy, durability, and lunar battlefield supremacy.

Beneath the shattered crust of the Moon’s far side, where no light from Earth ever falls, a machine empire was born—not of gears and oil, but of uranium and molten salt.

The Uran-Salz-Mikroreaktoren—or USMR Series—are the beating heart of Lunastadt. From massive tanks to mobile command bases and atmospheric dropcraft, every engine of war draws breath from these compact, indomitable nuclear cores.

⚙️ THE TECH THAT NEVER SLEEPS

Each USMR unit is a self-contained, combat-hardened uranium-fueled, salt-cooled fission reactor, engineered for complete autonomy in vacuum, dust, or atmospheric combat zones.

Fuel: Uranium tetrafluoride (UF₄) suspended in molten FLiBe (LiF-BeF₂)
Output Range: From 1.2 MW to over 30 MW
Design: Fully sealed, radiation-hardened, zero-maintenance for 3–5 years of continuous use
Function: Instant-on energy for propulsion, life support, targeting systems, and weaponry

Each unit is installed into Lunastadt vehicles or structures as a drop-in module, swappable in minutes using automated loader cranes.

🔋 POWER WITHOUT SUPPLY LINES

Lunastadt’s nuclear independence is its greatest strategic strength.

Mining Operations began in the 1950s, extracting thorium and uranium from KREEP-rich lunar regolith.
Refinement Plants convert regolith into uranium tetrafluoride and fabricate fuel slugs directly into MK-series cartridges.
Reactor Assembly Lines, buried beneath the moon's dark side, produce hundreds of microreactors annually using robotic forges.

With zero dependence on Earth, no Lunastadt unit requires refueling. Every tank, drop-pod, and forward base is a sealed atomic war engine, pre-loaded with decades of burn time.

🔥 TACTICAL ADVANTAGE

Modular reactors do more than provide energy—they reshape warfare.

Silent Drive Systems using magnetohydrodynamic conversion allow tanks to move without gears or heat trails.
Core Overdrive Protocols allow for brief energy surges—ideal for energy weapons, burst movement, or battlefield shielding.
Autonomous Forge Units use onboard reactor cores to build infrastructure deep in contested zones, far from supply lines.
Scorched Deployment Zones can be created by allowing damaged reactor cores to breach and irradiate terrain.

Every reactor is hardened against EMP, solar flares, and kinetic shock. Some models include self-destruct sequences to prevent capture.