Oolite Stations

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There are several distinctions here. Is the station an orbital station? Is the station the main orbital station? Is the station a GalCop station?

In the Vanilla game there are just the three stations and the rock hermits (the top four). You can save your game at any of these. The main orbital station is the station around the only planet circling the sun.

This all changes when you add in OXPs. You can add in more stations around the planet (eg Superhub or SothisTC). You can also add in more planets some of which may have their own orbital stations (see Guide to Ambience OXPs - you need OXPs for the planets and OXPs for the extra stations). You can add in more stations which sit around the witchpoint (RRS Waystation, Bank of the Black Monks, System Independent Repair Facility) or are positioned at the sun (Kiota Stations, CZGF & SLAPU). Et cetera, et cetera.

Note that only the main orbital station has an Aegis where one is - in theory - protected from the depredations of piracy. And some other oxp's which affect stations only affect the main orbital (eg Dock Assist System OXP or Traffic Lights OXP).

Note that at the time of writing (2021) you cannot save at all stations. This is due to peculiarities in the Oolite game code (in theory, you can save at "stationary stations" - but the definition of "stationary" is not intuitive!).

Standard stations

These are all GalCop stations. They appear as the main orbital station and have an Aegis where one is - in theory - protected from the depredations of piracy. They obey GalCop law and leaving with illegal goods will incur a penalty. They have both a marketplace and a shipyard.

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Coriolis Station
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Dodecahedron Station
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Icosahedron Station

Other anchorages

Rock Hermits (if you can find one) are not GalCop stations. One can buy illegal goods without penalty. They have both a marketplace (prices differ from the main orbital station) and a shipyard (again, prices differ).

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Rock Hermit

OXP retextures

Click on the stations above to see the many variant textures for each

OXP stations

  • Not all Oolite Stations are GalCop stations! Company stations (eg Aquarian Shipbuilding Corp. HQ) and system stations (eg Astrogulag Penal Colony) are not. But Torus, Globes & Superhubs are. The importance here is for trading in illegal goods. GalCop stations will award you illegal or refugee status if you leave with illegal merchandise on board. The others won't.
  • GalCop stations will also have police vipers as defenders (changed by OXPs to other police ships for some political systems such as Commies or Dictatorships).
  • Not all stations have marketplaces. Or shipyards.
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Aquarian Shipbuilding Corp. HQ
at Galaxy 3: Aqualina only
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Astrogulag penal colony
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Black Monk Monastery
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Buoy repair facility
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Collective Zero Gravity Factory (CZGF)
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Constore
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Darkside Moonshine Distillery
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Darkside Moonshine Saloon
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Fuel station
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Free Trade Zone
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Globe station
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Hacker outpost
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Hathor Trade Station
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HoOpy casino
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Imperial AstroFactory
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Isis Interstellar
at Galaxy 2: Cebior only
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One of many Kiota stations
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Another of many Kiota stations
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Lave Academy
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Military station
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Mining Outpost
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Navy Station
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Nephthys Station
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Nuit space station
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Octahedron station
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Riredi sodalite station
at Galaxy 1: Riredi only
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Royal Hunting Lodge
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RRS Galactic HQ
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RRS Waystation
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Salvage gang
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Solar Laboratory And Production Unit (SLAPU)
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Sothis station
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Space bar
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One of many Strangers World stations
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Superhub
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System Independent Repair Facility (S.I.R.F.)
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Taranis Corporation HQ
at Galaxy 1: Lerelace only
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Trader Outpost (Oolite)
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Taxi station
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Tionisla Chronicle Array
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Tetrahedron Depot
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Torus station
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Transhab station

Unfinished OXP stations

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Amaranth's Refinery station
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BioSphere station
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Cloud city
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Inside Okti's massive colony
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Draven's Oodulldorf Station
at Galaxy 6: Veisin only
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Gsagostinho's station experiments
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Gsagostinho's station experiments
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Mandotech shipyards
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Ryan's villa
at Galaxy 5: Cesousla only
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Solar Harvest's solar station
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Tetiri Planet Ring
at Galaxy 5: Tetiri only
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Zieman's Superico Station
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Zieman's Habitat Orbital Station

Some of these are fascinating. Cloud cities orbit gas giants, but docking has not been built in. Okti's colony was to be part of a mission, and one can fly inside it. Mandotech revolves in different circles, as does Zieman's SuperIco. The Hathor is truly beautiful and is a delight to dock at. Some need only a little work to update them.

One of several SecCom station designs (Galactic Navy OXP's)

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