Fort Neuropa

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Fort Neuropa is a Souther fort in the "Fort Neuro" story in the Rogue Trooper stories. It was attacked at the beginning of the war and completely isolated by a Nort seige. As a result its garrison developed bizarre customs (as a result of watching old historical movies and neglecting their Robe-Runners), aping the manners and clothes of various Earth nations and groups from hundreds of years earlier.

When Rogue Trooper arrived at "Fort Neuropa", he discovered that everyone was suffering "Siege Mentality". After losing Bagman and Helm and Gunnar to the "Fort Neuropans", he discovered a plot by the Norts to capture the fort by playing on these neuroses. After foiling an assassination attempt on his life, he recruited the Robo-Hunters to help him foil the the invasion. Afterwards the neuroses cleared and the garrison were all back to being ordinary Southers.

Rogue had to rescue each sector of the fort separately:-

• French sector: Here the garrison had developed a Napoleon-period French mentality and were trying to talk in French (spelt phonetically, e.g. "Kee valla?" for "Qui va là?" = "Who goes there?"). A Nort had played on this by impersonating Napoleon Bonaparte. Rogue, with help from some Robe-Runners (massage robots) stopped this invasion, and Gunnar shot the fake emperor.
• Lim-Ee sector alias Camp Reveille: Here the garrison had developed a holiday camp format. Their self styled elite quickly wiped out the Norts.
• Rom Sector: Here the garrison had developed a disco format. ("Rom" = Romeo.) Norts were using Dreamweavers and their own women.
• Scan Sector: Here "Scan" = "Scandinavian". Some girls from this sector attacked and wiped out the enemy who were attacking the Rom Sector.

Admiral Torpitz then used his Scum Legions to attack all four sectors at once, bringing in big robots called "Amoks". All the sectors attack the Nort forces destroying all the Amoks and killing the majority of the Norts, and the rest of the Norts surrendered. During the battle, the resulting explosions and force-fields make a break in the chem-clouds, and sunlight reaches the ground, and the garrison as a result lose their format obsessions. Before Rogue leaves, the Fort Neuropans reward the Robe-Runners with a new redesign and vow to protect Fort Neuropa from the Norts.

As a result, the Nort commander in charge (General Vagner) went insane from the shock of defeat.

[edit] Realpolitik storyline

In the Realpolitik storyline, Fort Neuropa was destroyed, and its remnants reverted to the World War II era with the leaders modelling themselves after Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, and Harry S. Truman