iP Services first permanent HQ has become operational (though still limited) and personnel and prisoners will now transfer from temporary facilities at DDS City. The new HQ, Despair City, is a former US Navy base in what is now the Mexican Alliance on Terra. It has a extensive subterranean levels as well as an underwater entrance and an air strip on the surface which has been refurbished.
The underwater entrance will become operational later in the year until then prisoner and personnel transports are via air, the DDSAF have loaned iP Services 2 of its C-440s for transit operations from a spaceport in the US which iP Services have hired.
Despair City has extensive surveillance and self-defence measures including sharks with lasers and a surface based barracks for guards.
