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Subject:
Four Freedoms Plaza
 Four
Freedoms Plaza is the replacement headquarters for the
Fantastic Four when their original dwelling, the Baxter
Building, was destroyed by the adoptive son of Doctor
Doom. It is located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue
in New York City. The title of the building comes from
a Franklin D. Roosevelt speech urging the Congress of
the United States to enter World War II. In it Roosevelt
outlined the four freedoms the world would enjoy if
it united together to defeat the Axis Power:
The
building's outer walls and windows are constructed of
advanced carbon-fiber composites, said to be nearly
comparable in strength to diamond. Numerous small tubes
run throughout the sections of the building occupied
by the Fantastic Four, enabling Mister Fantastic to
easily stretch to any floor or area. One elevator shaft
has been deliberately left empty, to facilitate the
Human Torch's rapid flight to and from the upper floors.
There are a set of "breakaway points" above
the 50th and 70th stories with built-in explosive charges,
designed to separate the upper floors from the civilian-occupied
lower floors, should anyone try to lift the building
into orbit.
(The
following description of the building encompasses
David Edward Martin's ommitted section of the Fantastic
Four Compendium. Please see below source)
Of
the 100 story building:
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Floors
1 through 50 belong to the former tenants of the
Baxter Building.
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Floors
51-70 are "buffer floors", where the tenants
do not have 99 year leases. Reed has left this space
available in case the team expands or grows and
needs more space.
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Floors
71-100 serve as the headquarters for the team. The
layout of the floors is essentially the same as
that of the Baxter Building.
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Floor
71 is a reception area where the team's robot Roberta
acts as both a receptionist and a guradian for the
rest of the building.
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Floor
72 acts as an inn where guests of the team can stay.
Two suites maintained solely for aquatic visitors
(such as Atlanteans) are accessible from pool entrances.
These pools can also be used as aquatic conference
rooms, and each suite has a different type of water:
one fresh water and one salt water. A watertight
elevator connectd these suites with the river access
tunnel on Sublevel 5.
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Floors
73-75 sre the team's living quarters. Besides the
four members of the team the floor also accomodated
Alicia Masters (later revealed to be the Skrull
Lyja), Crystal, Ms. Marvel II, Wyatt Wingfoot, and
She-Hulk among others. There was also a kitchen,
pantry, spa, two gyms (one for normal strength levels,
the other for super-strong users), a large library,
and a computerized classroom.
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Floors
76 and 77 functions as the team's command center.
Meeting rooms, communications stations, links to
Starcore and other astronomical organizations, and
a computerized medical station are here.
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Floors
78-80 sre storage for miscellaneous supplies. These
floors serve as future expansion space and as a
buffer in case of a disaster in Reed's laboratory.
Alicia claimed a section of 78 as a studio for the
times she stayed in the building.
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Floors
81-99 act as Reed's laboratory and storage for his
equipment. There is an identical workstation on
each floor, enabling Reed to work on any floor.
The workstation consists of computer terminals,
communications console, and mechanical fabricators.
None of these workstations is located overhead any
other workstation and no three of them are in a
straight line. This minimizes the risk of several
stations being destroyed in a battle. The workstations
were linked to each other and to a similar console
in the Richards's home.
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Floors
90 and 91 contains the Negative Zone Portal. The
Portal is in a heavily armored room with walls of
strongly reinforced material.
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Floors
98 and 99 serve as warehouse and machine shops.
They support the hangar on 100 and act as a buffer
to absorb damage from possible hangar disasters.
Fuel tanks for the FF's vehicles are on 99.
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Floor
100 is the FF's hangar. It fills the space under
the four immense fours that top the building.
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The
building's foundation reaches 150' into the Manhattan
bedrock. There are ten floors there. Sublevels 1-2
are used by the building's maintenance staff. Sublevels
3-4 contain the freight docks and tenant warehouse
facilities. A railroad spur enable large masses
of freight to be moved in or out without the need
to deal with the impenetrable Manhattan traffic.
Sublevels 5-15 are restricted to the Fantastic Four.
These floors containe special devices and support
facilities for floors 71-100. Sublevel 5 containe
the waterfilled conduit that reach the Hudson River;
this permits aquatic visitors to directly reach
the complex without suffering the indignity of having
to swim through the NYC sewer system.
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