Life Support

Life Support is a critical base facility for maintaining XCOM's main base.

Overview
A heavily guarded section of the base, these facilities ensure the base has a supply of filtered air and water. Normally water is delivered from the national supply though the base is capable of drawing from the nearby lakes if needed, it is then stored in large reservoirs and filtered through sieves as well as absorption and ion exchange processes. In normal operations air is drawn in through a large number of camouflaged vents on the surface, then exposed to UV light and purified through a HEPA filter. In the event of external biological, chemical or nuclear attack the the base has the resources to reuse and recirculate air and water internally for up to three months. The base's fire suppression system is also located here, a number of water and halon tanks are connected up to be distributed as needed.