Cape Carlson

Cape Carlson is an American military base.

Somehow never gained the same level of fame as Sherman Dam or the ruby crystal mines of Burma.

Cape Carlson is a rocket base somewhere in the United States of America, apparently operated by a branch of the armed forces. Like most rocket bases, it contains a large store of rocket fuel, which is generally useful for launching rockets, but which can also be used to make energon.

History

Canon History

More than Meets the Eye

Shortly after the Autobots attempted to trick the Decepticons with a fake rocket base courtesy of one of Hound's holograms, Megatron informed them that he'd been onto the plan from the start and that his men were attacking the real rocket base.

Indeed, at Cape Carlson, the army were surprised to see an incoming squadron of unidentified jets. The captain tried fruitlessly to get them to identify themselves, but the Decepticons landed and engaged the military forces on the ground. Helpless against superior Decepticon firepower, the human defenses crumbled and the soldiers fled. Megatron soon arrived to oversee the raid, and the Decepticons were able to gather the energon they needed to complete their spaceship to return to Cybertron.

MUX History

Located on Florida on the MUX, Cape Carlson was completely destroyed during the Great Flood of 2011, and has yet to be rebuilt.

Notes

• Despite the name of the base suggesting that it's located near water, it seems to be completely surrounded by rocky desert. Maybe it's a really wide cape.
• In a scene cut from the original script, Starscream used his null-ray on the control tower, freezing the occupants.
• Cape Carlson's name and function is very similar to that of Kennedy Space Center, located at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• In light of this, on the MUX Cape Carlson is located in Florida.

Shattered Glass

In the Shattered Glass universe, Hound suggested to Jetfire that instead of building a space cruiser from scratch that they raid Cape Carlson for pre-build ship parts.