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least known most fortified place for 300+ soldiers with supplies

Worldbuilding Asked on September 3, 2021

I have a rebel group.

I have a government.

The rebels have some guns.

The government doesn’t like the rebels having guns and is trying to hunt them down(’cause that’s just what governments do to rebels who happen to have guns).

The rebels need a hideout that is-

  • in a forest/wooded area
  • little known
  • fortified, or easily made to be
  • hard to see on satellite. If it is seen, hard to see changes brought about by rebel occupation
  • accessible on foot, less so by vehicles, and preferably shielded from air attacks
  • able to contain supplies and living spaces for a few hundred rebels
  • near a natural water source(1 mile at most)
  • has a few easily defensible entries/exits
  • is not a cave. why? glad you asked.
    • easy to cave in or block entries/exits
    • confusing maze might get people lost in heat of combat
    • rather dark, and lighting means electricity, which means generators, which mean fuel, which means going into town to keep the lights on
    • way to easily besieged
    • low ceilings aren’t OSHA approved
    • caves just aren’t very fun to live in
  • currently unoccupied
  • somewhere on earth
  • at least 1 mile away from any city/town and major roads
  • preferably in an area that a local internet provider can hook up to internet

assume that-

  • technology is the same as it is now
  • the earth has the same landmarks/buildings/geological formations as it does now
  • rebel base can be anywhere in the world that follows above criteria

If you know of any places that fit this, let me know so I can pass the information along to the rebels.

2 Answers

Take a page from Blindspot and have them hole up in a disused bunker.

  • in a forest/wooded area
  • at least 1 mile away from any city/town and major roads

Many old bunkers and/or missile silos are in secluded areas.

  • little known
  • currently unoccupied

You could probably hand-wave this by saying it was built by someone that lost a war, or at least a government that no longer exists as such, and ended up forgotten. It would almost have to be unoccupied if it's little known, or else occupied by someone that you can take hostage (or worse, depending on how ruthless your rebels are) in order to take it over. OTOH, maybe one of your rebels is a crazy survivalist that is already occupying the bunker and offers it to his cohorts.

  • fortified, or easily made to be
  • has a few easily defensible entries/exits

Old, disused military installations are more or less by definition fortified with minimal, and defensible, accessways.

  • hard to see on satellite. If it is seen, hard to see changes brought about by rebel occupation

Bunkers are typically designed to be hard to spot, not only from the air, but often from the ground also.

  • accessible on foot, less so by vehicles, and preferably shielded from air attacks

Since they are mostly underground, bunkers offer protection from air attacks. If it's old, it may well not have any roads leading to it.

  • able to contain supplies and living spaces for a few hundred rebels

If it's large enough, no problem, especially as bunkers are usually designed to be more-or-less self-sufficient for some period of time.

  • near a natural water source(1 mile at most)

It's your world, you can easily hand-wave this.

  • is not a cave. why? glad you asked.
    • confusing maze might get people lost in heat of combat
    • low ceilings aren't OSHA approved

A bunker can be as claustrophobic or as spacious as you like. Markings for finding your way around can likewise be as helpful or as confusing as you like, and some paint can change them.

  • easy to cave in or block entries/exits
  • rather dark, and lighting means electricity, which means generators, which mean fuel, which means going into town to keep the lights on
  • way to easily besieged

Well, I can't really help with these, because they directly contradict your other requirements.

  • preferably in an area that a local internet provider can hook up to internet

This is actually dumb. If it has internet hooked up by a local ISP, that's a paper trail that can be used to find you, and might even draw attention to the fact that you're making improvements, which contradicts your other requirements. Don't do that. Use a satellite hook-up, or long-range WiFi to another site in a more urban — and therefore less conspicuous — area.

Correct answer by Matthew on September 3, 2021

frame challenge:
why would they want to hide in a forest? They have by far better options of actions if they stay in an urban area, especially if they can rely on the favor of part (or better the majority) of the local population.
A densely populated area with narrow alleys would make them difficult to detect, provide plenty of escape routes and Government operations costly. Further in case of civilian casualties the rebels would be able to show to the whole world how evil the Government is.
Dug in tunnels and bunkers under civilian areas are a pain to conquer if the attacker is not willing to inflict heavy casualties to the local population. Recent conflicts have shown this quite clearly.

Gathering in any other place, without civilian support (supplies, intel, human shields) is helping the Government to wipe you out with a single strike and not getting any international blame for it.

Answered by Duncan Drake on September 3, 2021

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