Nestled amid the cratered lunar surface is the Justice League’s latest and most advanced headquarters. The JLA first convened in the “Secret Sanctuary,” a mountain cavern near Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. Soon, security concerns forced the team to relocate to a satellite orbiting 22,300 miles above the Earth. The League later made its home in “The Bunker,” an armory buried beneath an abandoned factory in Detriot, Michigan. More recent incarnations of the team were based in unassuming embassies, including New York City, Paris, and even Antarctic sites. These days, the JLA holds court in the Watchtower, a fortress erected in the Moon’s Mare Serenitatis (“The Sea of Serenity”).
While spectacular from the outside, the interior of the JLA Watchtower is no less impressive. Built and maintained by the World’s Greatest Super Heroes, their near-impregnable lunar citadel features an amalgam of fantastic technologies: Kryptonian, Martian, and New Genesian, to name a few. This perimeter fortress is home away from home for many of the League members, while serving as primary staging ground for guarding against threats both alien and terrestrial. As such, the Watchtower includes the most advanced monitoring systems and transport media to ensure the JLA is always one step ahead of Earthly emergencies…even from a headquarters as far as 252,950 miles away.
The Areas of the Watchtower:
-Hall of Justice: This is where the JLA have their meetings. At the center of the Hall of Justice stands the Round Table. Here the team meets to strategize and share information.
-Monitor Womb: Directly beneath the Hall of Justice lies the Monitor Womb, the League’s eyes and ears. Inside this surveillance hub, interactive computer systems monitor global media broadcasts for “Trouble-Alerts,” displaying crises upon holographic displays.
-Security Measures: The Justice League has taken great pains to make the Watchtower self-sufficient and secure from attack. Hydroponic forest fed by Aquaman’s deep water tanks create a living biosphere within the facility, replenishing oxygen. Each wing of the Watchtower also includes its own independently sealing airlock to prevent decompression or fire, or to contain attackers undeterred by the internal battery of security snares, paralysis pits and electromagnetic cages.
-Solar Tower and Power Annex: The Solar Tower’s photovoltaic cells convert sunlight to power the Watchtower’s operating systems. The Power Annex distributes power to base’s circulatory nexus. Excess engery stored in redundant batteries for emergency life-support.
-Stellar Telescope: Optical arrays chart stellar anomalies and astronomical phenomena.
-Long-Range Scanners: Microwave and multispectral arrays monitor cosmic radiation levels and detect unannounced visitors to Earth’s orbit.
-Jump Shuttle Hangar: The Martian-designed spacecraft repaired, maintained, and launched from the self-sealing annex.
-Armory: Secure vault for “last resort” weapons and other technological countermeasures.
-Trophy Room: Contains mementos – some authentic, some facsimiles – of JLA adventures.
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Equipment in the Watchtower:
Jump Shuttle
Teleporters:
