Eclipse BaseEclipse Base

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Eclipse Base is the Team Eclipse Headquarters, located underneath Tanner's Tavern at Crescent Town. Most of the grunts and administration of Team Eclipse reside in this base, holding the player's parents captive. The complex has many rooms, all sporting the Team Eclipse colours.

Notable Events

Infiltration!

Just after the Fisherman from Decca Beach sails Rival Tess to Crescent Town, she instantly bolts off after an Eclipse Grunt in a fury towards Tanner's Tavern. The player, who arrives a bit later, got the news from him and heads to the Tavern as well. Pulling the lever Tanner himself advised, player discovers a secret lift and heads down to this base, which is under a lockdown and he or she must detour via the cafeteria and power plant, battling a large amount of Eclipse Grunts in the process, in order to find the whereabouts of his or her parents and Tess.

Eventually reaching the Security Room, the player beats another Grunt standing guard and presses the button to unlock all the gates, then storms the Boss Office, only to find that the Boss is gone! The player immediately backtracks and raids the cells instead, but by the time player bursts into the hangar for Eclipse Airship, apparently he or she is already too late......

Notable Places

Cafeteria

The canteen of Eclipse Base with some posters questioning how many Pokémon did the Grunts steal. A few Grunts are just eating here, but some others will actually fight the player, albeit with strange reasoning instead of attending to their duty of guarding the base. In the kitchen, player can pick up TM Incinerate.

Power Plant

A chamber where magma is siphoned to power the base. Several Scientists are located here, along with the TM Swagger. In this chamber, there is a locked door, which requires a certain Key Item to access, leading to another secret science lab the player will run into.

Quarters

A room full of bunk beds, where the Eclipse Grunts sleep. 2 of them are awake and will battle the player, again for awkward reasons rather than truly protecting the base. They are guarding the TM Sleep Talk. If the player returns after the Demon's Tomb incident, a few Grunts remain sleeping here and are left behind.

Security Room

A room that controls many of the gates in Eclipse Base. Here, the player confronts Eclipse Grunt Hugh, who has a slightly stronger team than the other members within the base. Once defeated, he leaves the room, allowing the player to press a very suspicious button. From the CCTV screen, it seems that Rival Tess is......

Boss Office

The Eclipse Boss office is opened after clearing the security room. It is filled with his portraits, but the man himself is mysteriously absent. A drawer at the back is open, revealing the Key Item which may come in handy on opening a previously locked door.

Cells and Hangar

A section of the base unlocked once the switch in security room is pressed. A line of cells, where the player's parents were imprisoned with a diary dropped by player's in-game father, lead up to a large hangar that stores the Eclipse Airship!

Trainers

Lobby

Cafeteria

Power Plant

Quarters

Security Room

Hangar

Item

Trivia

• Despite being a notable member of this villainous organization, Eclipse Member Linda does not make a return here, even though all other Eclipse Admins showed up once again.
• Scientist Jeremy makes another appearance here since the previous encounter in Secret Lab. However, this time he only keeps his Lv. 66 Porygon-Z, maintaining its moveset identical from that match.
• In the same drawer where player finds the Card Key, there is a necklace reminiscent of a Rubik's Cube, referencing former Plasma King N, who is an important character in Pokémon Black and White, as well as the sequel Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
• In the cell where player's parents and Tess were imprisoned, a diary is dropped by player's father, who wrote about how he is worried about Jake, as well as the Boss' madness with "the Evil Djinn".
• There are various boxes stashed around in the hanger. Among one pile of those, a special cube named "the Companion Cube" can be seen. This cube makes another reference to the game Portal after the cake in Golden Poké Ball Arcade.
• When you defeat Eclipse Grunt Brittany, she responds with, "OMG reported"