Fiction:Station Halcyon

Welcome to Station Halcyon! A new episode-based story, set aboard a space habitat called Station Halcyon, created by the combined efforts of the Seven Starr Alliance, after the SSA lossed contact with Xonexi and planet Orathvor was destroyed.

The Station
The Halcyon stations are actually composed of two O'Niell Cylinders, both are over 20 miles is length, and over 4 miles in diameter. 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.

Artificial gravity
The amount of energy needed to power antigravity on the station would be enormous, and the energy is distributed to diffrerent 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: 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 accomadated for thier 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.
 * 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.

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.

Series one
Introducing the story.
 * 1) Episode one:Beginning