Vehicle:Station Halcyon

Station Halcyon is a space station located in the that serves as the hub of the, after being moved from the  in the aftermath of the Annihilation. The Halcyon stations are composed of two O'Niell Cylinder's, both are over 20 miles (32 kilometres) is length, and over 4 miles in diameter. These stations are quite large, and each contained 250 square miles of land on the inside. The pair of stations, Halcyon 1 and Halcyon 2 are a pair, but together for one structure. The pair have the capacity to hold several million people. The station is in orbit at the L5 point in orbit around Vundrum-Alpha, a gas giant.

Early History
After the Annihilation, Station Halcyon was moved by the to the. The station is again put on the edge of the frontier, as a bastion of Gigaquadrant hope after the devastation in what was believed to be a shining galaxy of democracy. With much of the universe in ruin (including the believed extinction of the ), it was also guarded by the safest power, the. However... times change.

Bold New World
The Gigaquadrant was wrong and Station Halcyon abandoned. During the, the New Imperial Order would love nothing more than to dig it's clutches into Station Halcyon. This is the political background of Series 2. New factions such as the Draconid Imperium, and many other interesting things could pop up, like artifacts left behind by the or other Precursor races. The new frontier opens up the possibility of meeting even more alien races. And finally, there is the secret agenda of to unravel.

Command Crew
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Engineering
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Security
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Civilians
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Purpose
The station is the new base of the Seven Starr Alliance, where the recovered database is stored. The purpose of the settlement is to create a new place in which to promote peace and cooperation as well as to open up new unexplored areas of the First Gigaquadrant. The station has some more mysterious purposes as well, which will be revealed.

Artificial Gravity
The amount of energy needed to power artificial gravity on the station would be enormous, and the energy is distributed to different parts of the ship. Instead, the station is more traditional, and rotates to simulate artificial gravity. The pair of cylinders rotate in an opposite direction to each other, in order to avoid a gyroscopic effect that would make difficulty in facing the sunward direction. However, a major problem is keeping the gravity and atmospheric conditions suitable for different species. This problem is counted by three inner sections, and his helped by rotary thrusters:


 * Halcyon 1/Section A: Rotates 10 times an hour; suitable for low gravity carbon-based life.


 * Halcyon 1/Section B: Rotates 40 times an hour; suitable for most carbon-based life.


 * Halcyon 1/Section C: Rotates 80 times an hour; suitable for high gravity life.

Therefore, the Halcyon stations are only suitable for comfortable living by Type A life from M-class worlds, Terracore 1 to Terracore 3. Any more alien life that may come aboard must visit designated areas, specially accommodated for their living. Any species could access A, B or C sections, but for comfortable living, they must live in the sections. Finally, the center of axis of each cylinder is a zero-g environment, which is great for recreation and tourism.

Environmental Controls
Weather, and even seasons (picked by voters) can be simulated inside. Cosmic radiation, meteorites, space junk or even attack is shielded by several layers of deflector arrays. Even day and night can be created by reflecting light from mirrors hinged from each window. The daylight that comes in is polarized, which means there would be difficulty for certain species to see properly, and may require special visors to depolarize the light.

Locations
There is a variety of regions inside the colony. The main obvious part, is he cylinder, which contains thousands of square miles of land, that was carefully placed inside, with various environmental control technology underneath, hidden from view.


 * Cylinder
 * City ring - Suitable for all, workers and citizens alike. There are designated areas for aliens who can't adapt to the settlement's environment.
 * Canals - industrial regions, connected to large canals which stretch around the cylinder.
 * Sea and sea ports - The main purpose here is to support aquatic members, and as an important factor of climate and weather in the settlement.
 * Agri-ring - Where various food is grown. The food is set at the galactic standard.  However, replicators can modify and turn the food grown into any form that would be suitable for any species.  Among the fields, there are more canals and arcologies.
 * Eco-zones - Again, set at galactic standard. Since there is so many human life spread across the universe, various life descended from Earth exist.  Since they are common, they have become the standard.  This zone is important for supporting the climate or for recreational purposes.
 * Another sea
 * City ring 2
 * Cylinder underworld - However, most of the maintenance occurs "underground". This is the underworld, gangs and criminals sometime hide out down there.   It is not a place suitable for citizens or visitors.
 * Outside - Certain parts of the ship are outside the cylinder but still attached to the ship. They look more like the interior of a normal station.  This is where the ships is controlled, and where important diplomatic meetings take place.

Station Defenses
The new SSA station is designed for peace, so it is not heavily armed like a warship, but does have strong defenses, including several superlasers, various turrets, a cloaking field, limited ghost phase and several layers of deflector shielding. There is a small fleet of SSA ships which are often nearby, escape pods, teleporters leading to a secret atmospheric station in the clouds of V.Alpha and advanced scanning systems. The defensive systems have been proven to be robust enough to protect the station from foreign threats of at least tier three power.