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Fäbrel Yäzö

Fäbrel Yäzö is the designation given to all drydock facilities where starships can be built and maintained. They vary greatly in size and design, but are generally poorly armed and defended. This is acceptable because they are only built in well-established territory, where they can be defended by other ships and facilities.

• Average cost: $100,000,000,000.

Ĭntr Yäzö

A large, well-defended facility designed to serve as a command post and staging area for military personnel and operations. Equipped with station and fleet command centers as well as internal docking facilities for shuttles and external ports for larger ships, it can also service and supply other vessels to a limited extent.

• Cost: $500,000,000,000.

Käs Yäzö

A massive facility almost fifty billion cubic meters in volume, the Käs Yäzö is designed as a full-service military and civilian use starbase. With expansive and luxurious facilities for peace and top-of-the-line defensive systems for war, this facility is as impressive as it is prohibitively expensive.

• Cost: $500,000,000,000,000.

Säzoyl Yäzö

A large, minimally-staffed storage facility used to store consumables, ordinance, and other supplies for military or nonmilitary starships. Support fleets are usually staged from these stations.

• Cost: $100,000,000.

Sönĕsböga Yäzö

This unmanned station is placed in orbit of a planet with other stations of the same type to project a protective energy shield over the planet’s upper atmosphere. Each station also projects an energy shield around itself. Though the station shields are independently powered, the strength of the planetary shield the stations support is equal to the total shield strength of all the orbiting stations (a minimum of six are needed) divided by two.

• Dimensions: 100x100x8 meters.
• Cost: $20,000,000.
• Powerplant: 1 substance/antisubstance reaction chamber (1 terawatt maximum output).
  • Dorsal solar panels (50 watt maximum output).
• Positional correction/stabilization maneuvering thrusters.
• Fuel capacity: 8,000 liters.
• Fuel range: 4 days active operation.
• Complement: 1 AI.
• No weapons.
• Shield power rating: 5.
• Armor rating: 1.

Vĕş Yäzö

A very simple automated facility, a Vĕş Yäzö station has three compartments: one for refining antisubstance from liquid xenon, and one each for storing substance and antisubstance fuel. It must be resupplied with xenon by supply vessel, or directly if the station is situated in a nebula. It has a single docking port at the end of a long arm that keeps vessels at a safe distance from the fuel storage compartments to minimize the possibility of accidents. This port has three pipelines, one each for dispensing substance and antisubstance fuel and one for pumping in new xenon gas for refinement. It also has a narrow hallway, from which monitoring and maintenance staff can access the station.

• Dimensions:1,000x400x200 meters.
• Cost: $50,000,000.
• Powerplant: 1 substance/antisubstance reaction chamber (5 gigawatt maximum output).
• Positional correction/stabilization maneuvering thrusters.
• Fuel capacity: 1,500 megaliters of substance fuel, 1,500 megaliters of antisubstance fuel.
• Complement: 1 crew, 1 AI.
• No weapons.
• Shield power rating: 2.
• Armor rating: 1.