Fuel Station

A very simple automated facility, a Fuel Station has three massive storage compartments, each capable of holding a gigaliter of liquid xenon-129. It may be filled with xenon by a supply vessel, or, when situated in a suitable nebula, have one of its tanks fitted with refining equipment so it can collect the propellant itself. 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.

• Class commission date: 240-6-45.
• Dimensions:1,000x400x200 meters.
• Cost: $50,000,000.
• Powerplant: 1 fusion generator (100 megawatt maximum output).
• Positional correction/stabilization maneuvering thrusters.
• Fuel capacity: 3 gigaliters of propellant.
• Complement: 1 AI.
• No weapons.
• Shield power rating: 2.
• Armor rating: 1.

Home Station

A massive facility almost fifty billion cubic meters in volume, the Home Station 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.

• Class commission date: 308-9-55.
• Cost: $500,000,000,000,000.

Operations Station

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.

• Class commission date: 275-1-70.
• Cost: $500,000,000,000.

Shield Station

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.

• Class commission date: 329-0-24.
• Dimensions: 100x100x8 meters.
• Cost: $20,000,000.
• Powerplant: 1 fusion generator (1 gigawatt 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.

Shipyard

“Shipyard” 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.

Supply Station

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.

• Class commission date: 274-1-86.
• Cost: $100,000,000.

Training Station

A close variation of the Operations Station designed to serve as a supply and launch point for Labule training vessels as well as a sort of headquarters for training coordinators and Labule cadets undergoing practical education.

• Class commission date: 307-6-58.
• Cost: $200,000,000,000.