User:RelentlessRecusant/Arastradero Naval Special Warfare Center

"In contradistinction, Arastradero was a modest mound of terra cotta buildings on the ridge of a smallish hill, ensconced on all flanks by desert for hundreds of kilometers. A blossom of unpaved dirt roads ran like capillaries from the Arastradero complex to the mirage-blurred horizon and the arising brilliant blood red star rising from it. The buildings within the enclosure of the Arastradero Naval Special Warfare Center were utilitarian, spartan—their designs befit their purpose; barracks, water reclamation depots, armories, communications stations, and linear flight strips in various shades of tan and cinnamon ringed a nondescript tactical operations center. Refreshingly rustic, the walkways within the complex were framed with pebbles, zen rock gardens, and endogenous cacti. Imported off-world palm trees decorated the central paths and throughways. Arastradero was an exercise in parsimony, yet was imbued with a sort of simple aesthetic grace."

- The thoughts of Lieutenant Commander SPARTAN-G293 "Jake", circa Operation Talented Duelist

The Arastradero Naval Special Warfare Center is a one of several core main operating bases of the UNSC Special Operations Command. Situated on the arid and ravaged colony world of Midgard, set in the Outer Rim in the Alpha Draconis System 309 light-years from Sol, Arastradero Naval Special Warfare Center is one of the major concentrations of UNSC special operations forces on Midgard and as such is a predominant component of the UNSC Defense Force's counterinsurgency strategies there.

Arastradero serves as the unbellished command center for UNSC Special Operations Command Sagittarius, the regional component command of the UNSC Special Operations Command responsible for prosecution of all special operations over 50 light-years from Sol approximately ten to fourteen hours right ascension to Earth, that is, in the direction of the Sagittarius Arm and the Galactic Core of the Milky Way galaxy. Clandestinely, Arastradero also serves as the forward C2 site for the UNSC Advanced Special Operations Command and a mission staging site for the Joint Special Operations Force 452 and the UNSC Naval Special Commando Unit when either special mission unit is deployed to Midgard.

It is antithetical to the Asphodel Meadows Naval Special Warfare Center on Asphodel Meadows, 47 Ursae Majoris System.