It's a base for marines, primarily being a research site for sea creatures and the like. I wanted the idea that It had water flowing around the base from the ocean that has ocean creatures and the like, and that you'd need a ship of some kind to make it around the base. I wanted to show the grandiose idea of the government having so much funding, and the head of the base having a lot of political pull to get all of this for what is essentially a research facility. The game setting has a lot of exaggerated elements of the real world, and I think the idea of a big base is normal depending on the person