Omake: Miscellaneous Technologies 11
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Time: 10:17 AM Holy Terran Standard
Location: Starship Emperor's Fist.
Purpose: Information
Patron: Inquisitor Maximan. Ordo Hereticus
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Quote of the day: Lives are the Emperor's currency. Spend them wisely.
Space Cities: Space Cities are massive orbital or deep space constructs capable of colonizing space itself, allowing for a strategic or civilian presence to exist where a planetary colony is impossible. In essence an upscaled star station or metropolis that is placed in void conditions. A space city is often built with a narrow set of functions in mind, but can be built with a wide range of options and additional features to make it suit whatever the environment or circumstances demand. The location it is placed in is unsurprisingly based of its purpose in the plans of the Undead. These locations range from sitting in deep space between star systems to orbiting in asteroid belts.
The core of a space city is its central hub, a large armored spherical station section with a hollow interior from which the commands are relayed across the construction. Meanwhile the outer layers are where a number of docking bays allows for easy loading and unloading of cargo in a micro gravity environment while offering protection to docked ships from outside threats. In addition to docks capable of servicing a wide range of ships from the Undead fleets, the central hub provides a basic level of defensive features. These security measures include a wing of fighter bays and swarm drone bays in addition to enough weapon hard points to fend off would-be pirates or other small attacks, and enough interior room for operations such as refits and repairs to occur.
Making up the middle section of the star city you can find the hub. The hub contains a number of available open areas for expansion, allowing for up to on average six additional wards to be built and developed with more modules, weapon hard points, and other features as needed. Each ward is itself an entire district in its own right, with its own subsystems, life support, weapon systems, and living space for the staff onboard.
These stations serve multiple purposes in the Dragons plans. One could be used for harvesting vast amounts of valuable gases from a gas giant. Another could be used for the role extracting material from asteroid belts. Another still would be research and development of potentially volatile experiments. Along with several other possibilities.
These stations are of course far from defenseless. They are often guarded by multiple Undead vessels. This is in additional to large groups of attack craft and long range weapons. The hull is heavily laced with rune and sorcerous crystals to mark it far more durable. Dedicated ritual rooms serve to amplify the powers of defending witches. Meanwhile within waves of guardians and security barriers within prevent boarding actions.
When one of these stations has served its purpose and is no longer useful it is dismantled and recycled for use elsewhere. Or converted into another form.
@Alucard Vampiry