Editing Buoy Base Galaxy

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|image=[[File:Buoy Base Galaxy.png|280px]]
|area=[[Kitchen (Super Mario Galaxy)|Kitchen]]
|level=[[The Floating Fortress]]<br>[[The Secret of Buoy Base]]
|stars=[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|Power Star|20px]][[File:Smg icon greenstar.png|Green Power Star|20px]]
|unlock=Get 30 stars and complete [[Beach Bowl Galaxy#Sunken Treasure|Sunken Treasure]]
|icon=The [[#Buoy Base (Starting Planet)|Buoy Base]] and the [[#Water Sphere Planet|Water Sphere Planet]]
}}
{{quote|This here's a floating fortress. We call it Buoy Base. But nobody's using it now, so we're just here for upkeep.|Gearmo|Super Mario Galaxy}}

The '''Buoy Base Galaxy''' is a [[galaxy]] that appears in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. The galaxy contains a large fortress floating atop a large, semispherical pool of water.  Mario has to climb this fortress in order to get the main [[Power Star]] in this galaxy. The galaxy is one of two galaxies (the other one being the [[Gateway Galaxy]]) to only feature two [[Power Star]]s.

An arrangement of this galaxy's music appears as one of the selectable songs that can be played in events in ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games]]''.

==Planets/Areas==
'''NOTE''': Unless otherwise noted, all names are unofficial.
===Buoy Base (Starting Planet)===
[[File:SMG Buoy Base Planet.png|200px|thumb|left|The '''Buoy Base'''.]]
[[File:SMG Underwater Buoy Base.png|200px|thumb|The underwater part of '''Buoy Base'''.]]
The '''Buoy Base''' is the main part of the Buoy Base Galaxy that consists of a large pool of water and an area above it which contains many obstacles, including [[Topman|Topmen]], [[Thwomp]]s, and [[Amp]]s. The main objective of this part of the planet is to collect five blue [[Star Chip]]s to form a [[Pull Star]] leading to a sphere planet filled with water. Submerged in the large pool of water at the bottom of the planet are multiple [[Bill Blaster]]s and [[Torpedo Ted]]s. A secret caged [[Warp Pipe]] in the pool of water leads to the underside of the planet, where more Bill Blasters and a cage containing a [[Green Power Star]] can be found.
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===Water Sphere Planet===
[[File:Aquatic Dome.png|200px|thumb|left|The '''{{conjectural|Water Sphere Planet|planet}}''']]
The '''Water Sphere Planet''' is a giant sphere filled with water above the Buoy Base. It has a screw on it that Mario must Star Spin to open the planet and retrieve a power star inside of it and also two pulse-wave generating machines, one of which is actually the screw. It is remarkably small in comparison to the Buoy Base and is similar (or a possible reference) to a [[Poké Ball]] from the [[bulbapedia:Pokémon|''Pokémon'' franchise]].
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==Missions==
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!Level
!Image
!Summary
|-
![[The Floating Fortress]]
![[File:SMG Buoy Base Water Sphere.png|200px]]
|This mission's objective is to reach the top of the fortress.
|-
![[The Secret of Buoy Base]]
![[File:SMG Buoy Base Green Star.png|200px]]
|This mission's objective is to find the [[Green Power Star]].
|}

==Enemies==
<gallery widths="80px" heights="80px">
SMG Asset Model Torpedo Ted.png|[[Torpedo Ted]]s 
Galaxy Urchin.jpg|[[Urchin]]s
BlooperSMG.png|[[Blooper]]s 
Watershooter.png|[[Water Shooter]]s
SMG Asset Model Bomp.png|[[Bomp]]
Octoguysmg.png|[[Octoguy]]s  
SMG Thwomp Artwork.png|[[Thwomp]]s 
Spring Topman.png|[[Spring Topman|Spring Topmen]]
Topmini.png|[[Topmini]]s
AmpSMG.png|[[Amp]]s 
SMG Goomba Artwork.png|[[Goomba]]s 
SMG Sentry Garage model.png|[[Jump Guarder]]
SMG Bolt Beam model bolt.png|[[Ball Beamer]] (bolt)
SMG Bolt Beam model nut.png|Ball Beamer (nut)
SMG Bullet Bill.png|[[Bullet Bill]]s
SMG Goombeetle Artwork.png|[[Goombeetle]]s  
SMG Asset Model Big Amp.png|[[Big Amp]]s
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMG Concept Art 4.png| Concept artwork
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=フローターランドギャラクシー
|JapR=Furōtā Rando Gyarakushī
|JapM=Floater Land Galaxy
|FraA=Île Flottante
|FraAM=Floating Island
|FraE=Ile flottante
|FraEM=Floating Island
|Ger=Schwimmland-Galaxie
|GerM=Swimming Land Galaxy
|SpaA=Galaxia de Tierras Flotantes
|SpaAM=Floating Lands Galaxy
|SpaE=Galaxia Tierras Flotantes
|SpaEM=Floating Lands Galaxy
|Ita=Galassia Piattaforma
|ItaM=Platform Galaxy
|Kor=부이 베이스 갤럭시
|KorR=Bui Beiseu Gaelleoksi
|KorM=Buoy Base Galaxy
|Chi=漂浮要塞银河
|ChiR=Piāofú yàosài yínhé 
|ChiM=Floating Fortress Galaxy
}}

==Trivia==
*The second mission in the [[Space Storm Galaxy]] in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' appears to be partially based on the first mission in the Buoy Base Galaxy, even utilizing the same background music and [[Space Storm Galaxy#Topman's Tower|a similar-looking tower]], which features many of the same obstacles and enemies, such as [[Thwomp]]s and [[Amp]]s, and has an overall similar appearance (excluding of course the wide portion towards the bottom of the tower on the Topman Tower Planet).
**Unlike Gateway Galaxy as well as the two-star galaxies in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'', the mission select screen shows the two Power Stars on top of each other rather than side-by-side.
*Buoy Base has a [[List of Super Mario Galaxy pre-release and unused content#Unused planets|unused low poly version]] that shows much more islands and content under the level. The low poly version indicates it was originally going to be part of a much larger galaxy.
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