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ELYSIAN-CLASS SPACE STATION
AFFILIATION
Open Market
MANUFACTURER
Cormin Directorate
CLASS
Space Station
ROLE
City Station
COMPOSITION
Titanium and Transperisteel
DIMENSIONS
1600 meters width
CREW
7,500 essential staff
PASSENGER CAPACITY
400,000 other inhabitants
CARGO CAPACITY
1.6 megatons
HANGAR CAPACITY
- 46x shuttle/light freighter
- 12x corvette/bulk freighter
CONSUMABLES
10 standard months
SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY
Stationary
ARMAMENT
- 12x medium laser cannon turrets
- 6x tractor beam
EQUIPMENT
- 2x heavy shield generators
- 1x long-range communications relay
- 1x long-range sensor suite
- 4x manufacturing facilities
- 4x recycling plants
- 6x hydroponics facilities
- 7x city segments (with other varying facilities)
- Many Lifeboats
- Many Escape Pods
- Many Docking Rings/Tubes
DESCRIPTION
The Elysian-class space station is a space-bound habitation station, manufactured and operated by the Directorate. Very few exist across the known galaxy, with those that do have been around, in most cases, for generations (although a handful of new ones exist). The design, whilst dating back centuries, receive periodic updates in design and technology, as the pace of scientific progress advances. One of the common design elements is that all additions to the stations, no matter how minor, are built to last, being able to survive for generations with proper maintenance.Elysian Stations have six arms, each housing a small city. Those, as well as the core, combine to form one large orbital habitat capable of housing a self-sufficient population in relative comfort. Whilst the core of the station hosts the government functions, mostly focused as the very top of the station, the arms host the bulk of the population. These arms hold dwellings and other civilian structures and are topped with areas of reinforced transperisteel so that the station's inhabitants can look up and see the 'sky', the void of space. The artifcal climate system gives the station a breathable atmosphere.
These huge stations were first designed to be built with everything needed to maintain a self-sustaining population. To this end, the Elysium-class possess recycling facilities so as little as possible will ever go to waste. Hydroponic farming facilities ensure that the inhabitants can grow their own food, using recycling water from the population, as well as gathered from space to farm. Manufacturing facilities can produce products on an industrial scale as needed, such as small craft, droids, vehicles .etc. Perhaps the pride of these stations, however, are the expansive science facilities, which further research in various fields as needed and the medical facilities that are well equipped to treat and heal the denizens aboard these stations.
Resources such as metals/fuels/.etc that the station isn't able to produce on it's own would have to be gathered by outside means, such as mining or trade.
To ensure protection against the harshness of space, the stations have heavy plating, reinforced transperisteel, and dual heavy shield generators. The stations have 12 laser cannons for self-defence, 2 each on the arms, top and bottom. With the defenses, the station can hold out against typical pirate raids, especially with supporting units.
The Stations were first commissioned by a consortium of intergalactic megacorporations, to house a set of their scientific elite, in the hopes of forming a space-bound 'tech incubator', with the hopes of vastly accelerating their technological growth. However, after several decades, the stations began to become self governing, with many developing their own societies and cultures which stand to this day.
Whilst the max population for the stations are 407,500, it is possible to exceed this although it would put greater strain on the station.
LEGALITY
Legal. Possession of one in a governed system would need permission or a special license from the system government.INTENT
So, heavily inspired by Stellaris' Habitats. But making this to serve as a baseline city space station. Also wanting to make lore behind a specific one of these that was made thousand-ish years and its people would have adapted to being on one of these for generations and having a culture emerge. Also compared to other space stations that were already approved to help with scaling.RESTRICTIONS
Obtainable and/or buildable by factions or characters with faction-level resources with threads with staff oversight. A massive shout out to @The Good Doctor for doing much of the leg work here.