Talk:Hariyu Base/Urisu Base/@comment-188.116.67.226-20181210222424/@comment-37619698-20181212141423

I don't think the base from the game is supposed to be the same from the movie. In the game it is clearly shown on the map that Hariyu is in Czechia and like you said there are no large bodies of water nearby and the scenery is different from the base in the movie. Also the base in the movie, supposed to be Urisu in the novel of the same name, has two runways. In the novels that tell the events after Innocent Aces and before the Sky Crawlers (None but Air and Down to Heaven) the base is described to be Hariyu from the game as it is described as having only one runway, and Lynx turns off the middle of the runway and goes straight to the hangars at one point. I think Urisu base probably has similar looking buildings to Hariyu because it seems like from what we can see most Rostock bases have a similar layout of a control/office building, living quarters for the pilots, and hangars. You can see that with the base that they go to in Poland as well (the March-Hare base), which was also a Rostock base, except for a couple different and larger buildings.

However we could be overthinking on this without further details. I don't think I can confirm any of this until more of the novels are released in english. The novels themselves leave the less important details like exact locations and detailed descriptions of the airbases out and you have to read between the lines to get an idea of what there is. So it is kind of complicated. From what I read in the novels, the base in None but Air and Down to Heaven seems to be Hariyu with only one runway and the base in The Sky Crawlers novel is Urisu with seemingly two runways as described by Kannami. The scenery is all based off of places in Europe and not supposed to be actual representations of real life Europe, so we could just be overthinking this. There could have possibly been some mix-ups when the film was made from the novels, and then the game from the film as to how the base should look. The rest of the novel series hasn't come out in english yet so I have yet to see what else there is and what happens to Kusanagi and Lynx. It could be that Kusanagi later gets transferred to Urisu along with Sasakura to become the base commander for Urisu, but I have yet to find out. =(

For now, I think there can be separate pages for Urisu base from the movie and Sky Crawlers novel and Hariyu base from the game and prequel novels.

Srry for the long post, I just wanted to explain my thoughts on this. I'm also glad to have found someone else interested in this series as well. Are you a pilot or want to be a pilot by any chance?