INFO
INFO
Organization: GUARD
Parent Command: Global Operations Command
Command Type: ETC Group / Specialized Extraterrestrial Command
Headquarters: Fort Armstrong Moonbase
Primary Installation: Fort Armstrong, Moon
Remote Facility: Black Crater Prison
Commander: Wayne Grissom
Deputy Commander: Randal LeMay
Public Motto: “Holding the High Ground.”
Internal Motto: “The Moon Is Not Empty.”
MOONGUARD is GUARD’s specialized lunar defense and operations command responsible for Fort Armstrong Moonbase, GUARD lunar assets, lunar surface operations, lunar emergency response, hostile activity on or near the Moon, and the Moon’s shallow operating zone.
Created after the Soltan Star Empire’s 2000 invasion of Earth and the rise of continuing extraterrestrial threats, MOONGUARD serves as Earth’s forward lunar shield. From Fort Armstrong, MOONGUARD protects the Moon, supports ASTROGUARD and the Astroguardians, controls lunar launch and landing operations, monitors space-centric communications, maintains emergency survival infrastructure, and defends GUARD’s farthest permanent installation.
To the public, MOONGUARD is GUARD’s lunar security and emergency operations force.
Inside GUARD, it is known as something more direct:
The farthest fort before the black.
OVERVIEW
MOONGUARD is not simply “ASTROGUARD on the Moon.” ASTROGUARD handles broader spaceflight, orbital operations, deep-space response, and spacecraft-based missions. MOONGUARD controls the lunar battlespace.
Its responsibilities include:
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Fort Armstrong defense
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Lunar surface security
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Lunar search and rescue
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Base emergency response
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Lunar launch and landing control
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Defense against alien and extraplanetary incursions
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Space communications and signal monitoring
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Lunar observatory operations
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Cislunar portal security
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Space vehicle support and assembly
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Medical, quarantine, and life-support operations
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Remote supervillain detention oversight at Black Crater Prison
MOONGUARD personnel are trained to operate in one of the most unforgiving environments in the MDU. On the Moon, every mistake is amplified. A broken seal, compromised airlock, failed rover, corrupted access code, damaged antenna, or late rescue response can become fatal within seconds.
For that reason, MOONGUARD culture is practical, disciplined, technical, and direct.
Their core belief is simple:
The Moon does not forgive carelessness.
MISSION
MOONGUARD’s official mission is to protect the Moon as Earth’s forward defensive high ground, operate and defend Fort Armstrong Moonbase, secure GUARD lunar infrastructure, support lunar emergency operations, and serve as the primary GUARD authority for hostile activity, unauthorized landings, alien incursions, and crisis response within the lunar operating zone.
Primary Mission Areas
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Fort Armstrong command and defense
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Lunar surface security
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Lunar emergency response
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Alien and extraplanetary incursion defense
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Launch, landing, and traffic control
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Lunar infrastructure protection
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Space communications and signal monitoring
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Observatory and deep-space tracking
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Cislunar portal security
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Space vehicle support and assembly
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Remote high-threat detention oversight
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ASTROGUARD and Astroguardians coordination
HISTORY
MOONGUARD was born from a hard lesson: Earth could no longer afford to look at the Moon as distant, symbolic, or empty.
For generations, the Moon represented exploration, courage, science, national pride, and the first great step beyond Earth. It was the place where humanity proved it could reach beyond its own sky. But after the Soltan Star Empire’s invasion of Earth in 2000, GUARD and the World Council were forced to confront a new reality. The Moon was not only a landmark in human history. It was strategic terrain. It was high ground. It was close enough to threaten Earth and far enough to be used against it.
If hostile forces could occupy the Moon, hide weapons there, land craft beyond Earth’s immediate reach, or use its surface as a staging area, Earth would always be vulnerable.
The decision that followed became known inside GUARD as the Armstrong Mandate: the commitment to establish a permanent, defensible GUARD presence on the Moon. The installation that grew from that mandate became Fort Armstrong, named in honor of humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface. But Fort Armstrong was not designed as a simple research outpost or ceremonial base. It was designed as a fort.
From the beginning, building Fort Armstrong was brutal work. The Moon fought every assumption. Construction crews battled vacuum, dust, radiation, equipment fatigue, delayed resupply, incomplete pressure zones, and the constant threat of system failure. Every exposed cable, weak seal, damaged airlock, or late cargo shipment had the potential to become life-threatening. Fort Armstrong’s early years were half construction project and half survival test.
During those years, one officer became central to the base’s identity: Wayne Elias Grissom.
Grissom carried a name already written into the history of spaceflight. He was the grandson of NASA astronaut Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom, one of the original Mercury Seven and one of the early pioneers of America’s space program. To Wayne Grissom, that legacy was not fame. It was responsibility. His grandfather’s life and sacrifice taught him that space exploration is not romance without cost. It is courage bound to discipline. It is ambition restrained by engineering. It is survival built through procedures, seals, pressure checks, communications, and hard-earned respect for unforgiving environments.
Those lessons shaped the man who would shape MOONGUARD.
Grissom was assigned to the Fort Armstrong project during its most difficult phase, when the base was still unfinished and increasingly vulnerable. He was not content to simply command from a distance. He inspected pressure zones, challenged unsafe assumptions, argued for stronger emergency shelters, demanded redundancy in critical systems, and pushed for heavier defenses before many believed they were necessary. He understood that a lunar base could not depend on optimism. It had to survive failure, attack, isolation, and human error.
MOONGUARD personnel still say that Grissom knows every bolt in Fort Armstrong because he either installed it, argued about it, replaced it, or defended it while someone else tightened it.
The first years of Fort Armstrong became known as the Lunar Frontier Years. During that period, the base was isolated, unfinished, and repeatedly tested. Some threats came from the environment itself: suit breaches, rover failures, solar events, pressure alarms, dust contamination, and dangerous construction accidents. Others came from enemies who understood what Fort Armstrong might become. The base faced sabotage attempts, hostile probes, false distress calls, unauthorized landing attempts, compromised cargo manifests, and early assaults meant to prove that Earth could not hold the Moon.
Those attacks failed, but they left scars.
They also created MOONGUARD’s doctrine.
Every landing became a security event. Every airlock became a border. Every surface team required backup, tracking, medical monitoring, and an extraction plan. Every unknown object, signal, or contact was contained before it was studied. Fort Armstrong was redesigned around a single survival principle: no single breach kills the base.
As Fort Armstrong hardened, MOONGUARD took shape around it. What began as a lunar construction-defense effort grew into a permanent GUARD command responsible for protecting the Moon, securing Fort Armstrong, supporting lunar emergencies, and coordinating activity across the lunar surface. The base expanded upward and downward. Above the surface rose command towers, launch systems, communications dishes, observatory structures, rover bays, defensive nodes, and Armstrong Yards. Beneath the surface grew the Below, a shielded network of emergency corridors, pressure-safe chambers, backup systems, shelters, storage vaults, and classified containment spaces.
Fort Armstrong became more than a base. It became a living fortress.
As MOONGUARD matured, the Moon revealed that it was not as empty as humanity once believed. Strange signals were detected from below the regolith. Unknown objects appeared in deep craters. Abandoned alien technology and hidden caches were discovered beyond normal patrol routes. Some contacts could be explained. Others could not. The phrase “The Moon Is Not Empty” began as a warning among surface crews, then became part of MOONGUARD’s internal identity.
The creation of the Armstrong Communications Array gave MOONGUARD one of its most important roles. From Communications Ridge, the array connected Fort Armstrong to Earth, ASTROGUARD, Space Station Gagarin, lunar surface teams, and deep-space monitoring channels. Paired with the Armstrong Observatory, the array turned Fort Armstrong into both shield and watchtower. MOONGUARD did not only guard the Moon. It listened from it.
The addition of the Cislunar Portal Annex changed Fort Armstrong again. Built deep within the Below and operated under strict PORTALGUARD-linked protocols, the Annex allowed controlled portal access between Fort Armstrong, GUARD HQ, ASTROGUARD’s Space Station Gagarin, and Earthside supply infrastructure. But MOONGUARD never treated portal travel casually. On the Moon, a portal is not just a doorway. It is a potential landing, breach, contamination point, or attack vector. The Annex became one of the most tightly controlled facilities in the base.
Fort Armstrong’s defensive power increased with the development of the Fort Armstrong Defense Grid and Lancer Squadron. The Defense Grid gave the base shield nodes, point-defense systems, anti-landing denial capability, buried sensors, emergency lockdown barriers, and integrated smart bulkhead support. Lancer Squadron gave MOONGUARD its own immediate-response lunar fighter force, able to launch from hardened tubes and surface pads to intercept unauthorized craft, defend the base, or support ASTROGUARD operations near the Moon.
By the time Wayne Grissom formally became commander of MOONGUARD, he was already viewed by many as the officer who had made Fort Armstrong survivable. Under his command, MOONGUARD became disciplined, technical, blunt, and deeply protective of its people. It developed a culture of quiet toughness rather than ceremony. On Earth, people might speak of lunar exploration with wonder. On the Moon, MOONGUARD personnel speak of pressure seals, oxygen reserves, convoy routes, field repairs, and how long a person has before a rescue becomes recovery.
That realism has kept Fort Armstrong alive.
MOONGUARD’s mission later expanded to include oversight of Black Crater Prison, GUARD’s remote lunar supervillain detention facility. Built far from Fort Armstrong and accessible only by long-range rover convoy, Black Crater uses distance, vacuum, armor, robotic security, and isolation as part of its containment strategy. Its existence gave MOONGUARD one of its darkest responsibilities: ensuring that some of Earth’s most dangerous prisoners remain far from Earth, far from rescue, and far from opportunity.
Today, MOONGUARD stands as GUARD’s lunar frontier command and the operating authority of Fort Armstrong Moonbase. It protects the Moon, supports ASTROGUARD, watches deep space, launches Lancer fighters, controls lunar surface activity, maintains emergency survival systems, operates critical communications and observatory assets, manages portal security, and oversees Black Crater Prison.
Fort Armstrong is no longer an experiment. It is the farthest fort.
From its walls, MOONGUARD holds Earth’s high ground. Its personnel live with the knowledge that help is far away, the environment is lethal, and the dark beyond the horizon is never truly empty. They stand between Earth and threats that may come from space, from hidden places beneath the lunar surface, or from enemies who believe distance makes the Moon vulnerable.
They are wrong.
MOONGUARD was built because Earth learned the cost of leaving the Moon undefended.
It endures because Fort Armstrong holds.
OPERATIONS
MOONGUARD ORIENTATION AND DOCTRINE HANDBOOK
This Handbook is authorized only for:
GUARD Officers, MOONGUARD personnel and MOONGUARD-Related Academy Personnel
This document provides an orientation of the basics of MOONGUARD, Fort Armstrong and Dark Crater Prison operations, policies, doctrine and rules.
Click the PDF Document image to download and open the Handbook.
OPERATIONS OVERVIEW
MOONGUARD operates as GUARD’s dedicated lunar operations and defense command, responsible for maintaining Fort Armstrong Moonbase, securing the lunar operating zone, supporting spaceflight activity, defending Earth’s closest strategic high ground, and responding to emergencies on or near the Moon.
Unlike Earth-based GUARD commands, MOONGUARD operates in an environment where the terrain, vacuum, radiation, isolation, and distance from Earth are constant operational threats. Every mission is planned around survival, redundancy, pressure integrity, communications reliability, and rapid containment.
MOONGUARD’s operational philosophy is direct:
The Moon does not forgive mistakes.
Because of this, MOONGUARD personnel are trained to treat every exterior movement, airlock cycle, landing clearance, rover convoy, portal transfer, and unknown signal as a controlled operation.
Core Operational Responsibilities
MOONGUARD’s primary operations include:
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Fort Armstrong Moonbase command and defense
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Lunar surface patrol and security
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Lunar search and rescue
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Exterior construction and repair support
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Launch and landing coordination
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Lancer Squadron defense operations
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Lunar traffic and approach monitoring
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Armstrong Communications Array operations
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Armstrong Observatory space-tracking support
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Cislunar Portal Annex control and security
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Armstrong Yards vehicle and spacecraft support
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Medical, quarantine, and life-support response
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The Below emergency shelter and backup-system operations
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Black Crater Prison support and convoy oversight
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Lunar anomaly detection, containment, and investigation
MOONGUARD does not operate as a general space fleet. That mission belongs primarily to ASTROGUARD. MOONGUARD controls the lunar environment, Fort Armstrong, and the Moon’s immediate operating zone.
Fort Armstrong Base Operations
Fort Armstrong is the operational center of MOONGUARD. It functions as a fortified lunar headquarters, emergency shelter, launch-support facility, observatory platform, communications hub, repair yard, defense installation, and survival base.
Base operations are managed around four priorities:
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Keep the base sealed
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Keep the base powered
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Keep the base communicating
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Keep the base defensible
Daily operations include pressure-zone monitoring, airlock control, emergency shelter readiness, surface route tracking, rover fleet management, life-support review, communications checks, defense-grid monitoring, medical readiness, portal coordination, and exterior system inspections.
MOONGUARD personnel often describe Fort Armstrong as a living machine. If one system fails, another must compensate before the failure becomes fatal.
Surface Operations
MOONGUARD surface operations cover all activity outside pressurized base interiors. This includes patrols, inspections, repair work, search and rescue, crater survey missions, route clearance, convoy movement, and emergency extraction.
Surface missions require:
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Approved mission plan
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Suit inspection
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Route clearance
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Communications lock
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Medical telemetry monitoring
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Rover support or extraction plan
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Emergency oxygen reserve
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Weather/radiation review
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Command authorization
MOONGUARD’s surface rule is simple:
No surface team walks alone.
Personnel operating outside Fort Armstrong wear either the standard MOONGUARD Spacesuit or mission-specific variants. Armed external security and prison-support personnel wear the heavier MOONGUARD Security Spacesuit.
Airlock and Pressure-Zone Control
Airlocks are among the most important operational systems at Fort Armstrong. MOONGUARD treats every airlock as a security checkpoint, environmental barrier, quarantine boundary, and life-support gate.
Airlock operations include:
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Identity verification
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Suit pressure confirmation
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Equipment inspection
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Atmosphere matching
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Contamination scan
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Mission authorization
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Emergency override readiness
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Entry/exit logging
No airlock cycle is considered routine. A careless airlock procedure can endanger an entire compartment, work crew, or medical response zone.
MOONGUARD doctrine states:
Every airlock is a border.
Lancer Squadron Operations
Lancer Squadron provides MOONGUARD’s immediate lunar defense fighter capability. The squadron protects Fort Armstrong, patrols near-lunar space, intercepts unauthorized craft, escorts damaged vessels, and responds to hostile approach vectors.
Lancer fighters may launch from surface pads or hardened Lancer Tubes built into Fort Armstrong’s defensive perimeter. These launch systems allow MOONGUARD to scramble fighters even during attack conditions or partial surface compromise.
Lancer Squadron coordinates with:
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High Ground Defense Control
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Fort Armstrong traffic control
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ASTROGUARD
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Armstrong Communications Array
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Surface Operations Command
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Emergency medical and recovery crews
Lancer Squadron does not replace ASTROGUARD’s broader spaceflight mission. Its role is immediate lunar defense.
Fort Armstrong Defense Grid
The Fort Armstrong Defense Grid protects the Moonbase from hostile craft, unauthorized landings, incoming debris, drones, surface assault, and siege threats.
The grid includes:
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Defensive field projectors
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Shield nodes
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Point-defense arrays
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Anti-landing denial systems
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Perimeter sensors
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Buried vibration detectors
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Surface drone sentries
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Launch pad protection systems
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Smart bulkhead integration
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Emergency lockdown barriers
The Defense Grid is managed through High Ground Defense Control, with final operational authority held by MOONGUARD command.
The system is powerful, but it is not treated as independent battlefield authority. MOONGUARD commanders remain responsible for escalation decisions, identification review, and use-of-force authorization.
Communications and Observatory Operations
The Armstrong Communications Array and Armstrong Observatory give MOONGUARD one of its most important roles: watching and listening from the Moon.
Communications operations include:
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Earth-to-Moon command traffic
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Fort Armstrong internal communications
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ASTROGUARD coordination
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Space Station Gagarin contact
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Lunar surface team tracking
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Emergency distress monitoring
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Deep-space signal review
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Hostile spoofing detection
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Cislunar relay support
Observatory operations include:
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Near-Moon object tracking
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Asteroid and debris monitoring
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Unidentified craft detection
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Solar storm warning
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Deep-space anomaly review
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Unknown energy signature tracking
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Support to ASTROGUARD science and navigation teams
MOONGUARD does not only defend the Moon. It watches the dark for whatever may be coming next.
Cislunar Portal Annex Operations
The Cislunar Portal Annex is a restricted PORTALGUARD-linked facility located within the Below at Fort Armstrong. It provides controlled portal access between Fort Armstrong and approved anchor locations.
Approved portal connections include:
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GUARD HQ / Aegis Tower
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ASTROGUARD Space Station Gagarin
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Earthside Lunar Supply Warehouse
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Classified emergency fallback anchor
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Restricted cargo-only transfer anchor
Portal use is tightly controlled and is never treated as casual transportation.
Required portal procedures include:
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Sending-side approval
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Receiving-side approval
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Environmental verification
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Manifest confirmation
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Identity verification
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Pressure compatibility check
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Medical and quarantine review
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Armed security presence
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Emergency shutdown readiness
MOONGUARD portal doctrine states:
Every portal is a landing. Every landing is a security event.
Armstrong Yards Operations
Armstrong Yards is Fort Armstrong’s space vehicle support, repair, and assembly complex. It supports MOONGUARD vehicles, Lancer fighters, ASTROGUARD craft, surface rovers, cargo systems, modular structures, and emergency repairs.
Armstrong Yards operations include:
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Vehicle assembly
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Rover repair
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Lancer fighter maintenance
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Yardhawk utility shuttle support
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Cargo handling
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Hull repair
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External module fabrication
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Launch pad support
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Emergency construction
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Heavy equipment staging
The Yards give Fort Armstrong the ability to repair and sustain itself far from Earth. Without Armstrong Yards, Fort Armstrong would be dependent on distant resupply for every major mechanical failure.
Medical, Quarantine, and Life-Support Operations
MOONGUARD medical operations are centered around Tranquility Medical Center and the Quarantine Wing. Lunar medical response must account for decompression, radiation exposure, suit breach trauma, low-gravity effects, isolation stress, contamination risk, and alien biological exposure.
Medical operations include:
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Emergency trauma care
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Decompression treatment
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Radiation exposure response
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Medical telemetry monitoring
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Surface rescue stabilization
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Quarantine intake
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Prisoner medical transfer screening
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Long-duration lunar health monitoring
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Psychological support for isolated crews
Life-support operations are closely tied to medical readiness. On the Moon, medical care begins with breathable air, pressure integrity, safe water, and radiation control.
MOONGUARD medical doctrine states:
No emergency is over until the air is safe to breathe.
The Below Operations
The Below is Fort Armstrong’s underground survival, utility, emergency, and containment network. It includes pressure-safe corridors, emergency shelters, backup command spaces, storage vaults, the Cislunar Portal Annex, anomaly containment chambers, and older construction tunnels from the Lunar Frontier Years.
The Below supports:
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Emergency sheltering
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Backup command
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Breach isolation
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Radiation protection
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Classified storage
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Utility access
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Portal security
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Anomaly containment
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Siege endurance
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Evacuation fallback
The Below is not simply basement space. It is Fort Armstrong’s survival spine.
When the surface is compromised, MOONGUARD falls back into the Below and keeps the base alive.
Black Crater Prison Operations
Black Crater Prison is a remote lunar detention facility under MOONGUARD oversight. It is located far from Fort Armstrong and accessible only by long-range rover convoy.
Black Crater operations include:
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Prisoner transfer authorization
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Convoy security
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Remote prison monitoring
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Robotic security diagnostics
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Medical transfer review
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Emergency lockdown support
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External perimeter oversight
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Guardian robot coordination
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BC-Prime system review
Black Crater Prison is operated primarily by robotic security systems, including Guardian robots coordinated by BC-Prime, a limited-AI security coordinator. BC-Prime does not make legal or policy decisions and cannot independently release prisoners.
MOONGUARD’s Black Crater principle is blunt:
Distance is part of the containment system.
Emergency Operations
MOONGUARD emergency operations are built around survival-first decision-making. Every emergency is evaluated based on immediate threat to life, pressure integrity, communications, medical capacity, defense readiness, and evacuation or shelter options.
Common emergency scenarios include:
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Pressure breach
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Suit failure
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Rover loss
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Radiation storm
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Surface rescue
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Hostile landing
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Defense Grid alert
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Portal anomaly
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Medical quarantine event
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Black Crater incident
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Communications loss
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Lancer scramble
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Unknown lunar contact
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The Below lockdown
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Base siege condition
MOONGUARD does not assume rescue will come quickly from Earth. Fort Armstrong must be able to fight, seal, repair, shelter, and continue operating under isolation.
Operational Readiness
MOONGUARD maintains constant operational readiness because its mission environment is never truly safe.
Readiness is maintained through:
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24/7 command monitoring
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Defense Grid watch
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Lancer Squadron alert posture
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Surface rover readiness
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Emergency shelter checks
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Medical and quarantine drills
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Portal Annex control procedures
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Communications redundancy testing
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Black Crater convoy planning
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Pressure-breach simulations
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Lunar survival training
MOONGUARD personnel are trained to understand that discipline is not bureaucracy. On the Moon, discipline is survival.
Key Operational Principles
MOONGUARD operations are guided by the following principles:
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The Moon is strategic terrain.
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Fort Armstrong must never fall.
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Every airlock is a border.
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Every landing is a security event.
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Vacuum is a weapon.
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No surface team walks alone.
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Contain first. Study second.
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The base is the lifeboat.
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No single breach kills the base.
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The Moon is not empty.
Summary
MOONGUARD operations combine lunar defense, emergency response, space communications, surface patrol, base survival, portal security, fighter readiness, medical/quarantine support, vehicle sustainment, and remote prison oversight into one integrated command structure.
Every MOONGUARD operation is shaped by the same reality: Fort Armstrong is far from Earth, surrounded by vacuum, and responsible for holding the Moon as Earth’s high ground.
MOONGUARD stands watch from the farthest fort.
And the line holds there.
FACILITIES
FORT ARMSTRONG (MOONBASE)
Fort Armstrong Moonbase is MOONGUARD’s fortified lunar headquarters and GUARD’s farthest permanent installation. Built after the Soltan Shock to secure Earth’s closest strategic high ground, Fort Armstrong functions as a command base, lunar fortress, emergency shelter, space communications hub, observatory platform, fighter-launch facility, vehicle support yard, medical/quarantine center, and survival-ready frontier installation. From Fort Armstrong, MOONGUARD defends the Moon, supports ASTROGUARD operations, monitors spaceborne threats, coordinates lunar surface activity, and stands watch over Earth from the farthest fort.
BLACK CRATER PRISON
Black Crater Prison is MOONGUARD’s remote lunar supervillain detention facility, located far from Fort Armstrong and accessible only by long-range rover convoy. Built into a harsh, isolated crater environment, Black Crater is designed to contain high-threat prisoners too dangerous, unstable, or escape-prone for standard Earthside facilities. Operated through hardened systems, robotic security units, limited-AI coordination, and strict MOONGUARD oversight, Black Crater uses distance, vacuum, armor, and isolation as part of its containment strategy.
UNIFORMS
