Watt Ranch

Watt Ranch is a 200 acre property in semi-rural Kentucky featuring the de facto head office of the Watt Foundation, accommodation for Jack Watt, his family and staff, training facilities, a workshop and several recreational features. Watt Ranch, like the Watt Foundation, has implicit associations with Armored Core. Watt Ranch is owned by Jack Watt, but is primarily run by Jolene Smith, Director of the Watt Foundation.

Purchase and Renovations

In 2017 Jack Watt purchased the property for an estimated $3,000,000. This property was quickly the site of numerous contracted structures including an engineering workshop, a racing circuit, an urban combat training ground and a firing range. These features would be completed in 2018-2019. Watt Ranch would be a significant site in the development of the Lyndon Jackson Memorial Suit, completed around 2020.

Additional features of Watt Ranch would come to be produced including extensions to the property's domestic house in 2021. This occurred for two reasons. Firstly, Watt Ranch came to be the de facto base of operations for the Watt Foundation. As well, Jack Watt wished the property to be a potential home for his grandmother and father (still an infant) in this timeline, and in case temporary housing needed to be staff due to the compound's relative ruralness. A number of minimal defencive structures were created in 2021. These were greatly added to in 2026 as a precaution due to the return of superpowers.

Defences

The whole of Watt Ranch has a perimeter fence augmented with a series of sensors. These both inform the Ranch of potential intruders and may activate a series of random turrets scattered and hidden underground throughout most of the property with largely nonlethal weaponry. Further, Watt Ranch has a direct means of contact with Jack Watt and his associated Armored Core team.

Trivia


 * Watt Ranch is estimated to have several million dollars worth of scrap scattered around its property from crashed super cars and other expensive high production vehicles. There may also be some unexploded ordinance due to the property's semi-regular use by Jack Watt