Navy Station

Navy Station
Size (metres, W×H×L)	1000 x 1000 x 1000
Cargo capacity	N/A
Cargo bay extension	Unknown
Maximum speed	N/A
Manoeuvrability	Roll: 8.0 Pitch: 8.0
Energy banks	N/A
Energy recharge rate	Unknown
Gun mounts	2 Plasma Turrets
Missile slots	Unknown
Shield boosters available	N/A
Military shields available	N/A
Hyperspace capable	No
OXP or standard	OXP
Available to player	No
Base price	Unknown

Overview

The Navy Station was constructed by Aegidian Shipyards as a dedicated naval base, enabling the Galactic Navy to maintain an armed presence in certain key systems. The station follows the classical geometric design and bristles with military defenses.

The power-core of the station clearly uses classified technology generating a defense shield more than twice as strong as the standard shield projected by the typical civilian Coriolis station. Additionally two high-power plasma cannons are mounted near the main docking port, enabling gunners to eliminate fugitives attempting a manual docking or Thargoids making a suicide run.

The defense ships docked in the main hangar vary. In the safer systems, the standard GalCop Viper is considered sufficient. However, in stations deployed in particularly important systems the Station is usually defended by a large squad of Navy Class Asps equipped in full Iron Ass configuration, commanded by the Navy’s most skilled combat pilots.

The most strategically important Navy Stations also feature the latest in defense technology; the Minesweeper Defense Grid. A group of satellites orbit the station rendering any attempted Q bomb attack a futile gesture. These high-tech devices target active mines with an EMP burst, frying the mine’s computer circuitry and turning it into useless scrap before it can detonate.

Deployment History

The first Navy Station was deployed in the Galaxy 1 system of Diso in 2937, orbiting Diso-b. Quite why the Navy chose this site for the test deployment is classified, although it is rumored that a research base is situated deep beneath the surface of Diso-b. Later in the same year, a Navy Station was deployed in the Galaxy 7 system of Estiri, orbiting Estiri’s ocean covered moon, Nemean, presumably to provide security for Judges, Prosecutors and witnesses attending the Galactic Supreme Court. The design evidently proved popular with specialist law-enforcement agencies, as in 2999, GalCop Special Branch were issued with a Navy Station to serve as their main base of operations, situated in orbit around the moon Hercules in the Galaxy 7 System of Geteve.

Recently, the Navy seem to have relaxed their attitude to allowing civilian organizations access to classified technology. The Tianveian Tourist board successfully petitioned the Navy for use of a decommissioned unarmed station placed in orbit around the Tianve Pulsar. This station serves as a luxury hotel for tourists on sight-seeing holidays.

Habitat

The conditions aboard a Navy Station are best described as Spartan. Most of the stations living space being taken up with shield generators and hangars for the large number of fighters stationed aboard. The Navy do usually however permit law-abiding civilian Commanders to dock with their bases, although access is restricted to the docking hanger and Officers Mess.

At times of heightened security however, Navy Stations are closed to civilian traffic, warning buoys deployed warning non-military ships not to approach within 25 kilometers. On no account should a Commander disregard these warnings, as the stations automated defense drones will spew out hardened missiles at any ship not transmitting the correct clearance codes.

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This station appears in the Assassins Guild OXP, the Diso OXP and the Tianve Pulsar OXP.