James McCullen, CEO of M.A.R.S. Industries, used M.A.R.S. Industries' advancement in technology to build it. Since the company is a weapons company the base is highly armed and secured. This base had main control rooms, labs, hologram projectors, and missile launching tubes for the nanomite missiles. Due to the metallic structure pervading the ice, as the charges went off, large chunks of the ice itself sank into the water and created an additional hazard for those trying to escape. However, all of the Joes escaped from the base before it all came down.