OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a unique variant on an older model station to serve as headquarters for Alliance High Command and provide the base for a future location entry.
- Image Source: space station one by Kresimir Jelusic
- Canon Link: /
- Restricted Missions: /
- Primary Source: FLEETCOM Station, Project AIAS, SORCE Turbolasers
- Manufacturer: Galactic Alliance
- Model: Modified FLEETCOM CS-001 Station
- Affiliation: Galactic Alliance
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel, Solarium Glasteel
- Classification: Fleet Command and Control, Orbital Defense Station
- Length: 4000 meters
- Width: 2400 meters
- Height: 2400 meters
- Armament: Extreme
6 Heavy Javelin Hypervelocity Cannons - 60 Heavy Long-Range Turbolaser Cannons
- 40 Heavy Long-Range Ion Cannons
- 100 Dual Heavy Turbolaser Cannon Turrets
- 50 Dual Heavy Ion Cannon Turrets
- 60 Heavy Energy Torpedo Projectors
- 100 Light Energy Torpedo Projectors
- 50 Point Defense Batteries
[*]Defenses: Extreme
[*]Hangar: 14 Squadrons
[*]Maneuverability Rating: None
[*]Speed Rating: None
[*]Hyperdrive Class: -
STANDARD FEATURES
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Advanced Targeting Systems
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Heavy Deflector Shield Generator
- Holonet Transciever
- Long-range Communications Array
- Reinforced Hull Plating
- Standard Detention Cells
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Tractor Beams (x64)
- Electronic Counter-Warfare Suite: HIGHCOM Station operates on a distributed network, ensuring that remote control of the station cannot be achieved by outside forces. The ECW suite is primarily designed to keep lines of communication open in the face of hostile jamming by amplifying the signal strength of the station's array beyond the capabilities of anything short of a large amount of signal jammers. Equipped with state of the art disruption technology, the station is packed with sensor jammers and dampening emplacements designed to fend off hostile assault forces.
- Gravity Well Projectors: HIGHCOM boasts two gravity well projectors capable of working in tandem. With both activated, the command station is capable of casting an artificial net across a significant area.
- Aias Shield Array System: A piece of prototype Alliance tech adapted from older Protectorate designs, the Aias Array allows the station to project an extremely durable shield bubble roughly sixteen thousand kilometers in diameter centered on itself.
- SORCE Turbolaser Emplacements: Utilizing specially designed SORCE turbolasers, each emplacement is assigned a percentage of reactor power relative to the installation's designated armament rating.
- Docking Arms: In addition to boasting several medium sized hangars for the accommodation of corvette and frigate sized vessels, a series of a dozen different arms allow larger capital ships to dock.
- Space Fortress: Bristling with state of the art weaponry and the latest in shield generation technology, HIGHCOM Station is designed to be as close to insurmountable as possible. A one of a kind structure, no expense was spared in its construction.
- Command and Control: The primary base of operations for the Galactic Alliance Defense Force's top command structure, HIGHCOM is the operational logistics platform in Alliance space. Tied into FLEETCOM stations strategically positioned, this central installation is the beating heart of GA naval intelligence.
- AIAS Shield Array: Still somewhat experimental shield generators capable of projecting an extremely durable field kilometers outside its source, HIGHCOM's array is so large its able to create one thousands of kilometers wide. It is also capable of merging with other Aias equipped ships' fields to enhance the size and strength of its own. It is a primarily defensive measure as it reduces the stations' power to weapons and the defense screen works both ways, meaning shots can't be fired from inside the field across its barrier.
- Interdiction: Possessing twin gravity well projectors, HIGHCOM is capable of locking down hyperspace travel across a significant portion of whatever system it occupies.
- Shield Array Power Drain: Due to the extreme power requirements, activation of the Aias array reduces the station's armament rating to Average, and it is unable to power its hypervelocity cannons.
- Limited Resources: Both the Aias array and the station's gravity well generators require significant power to operate. In order to activate one, the other must be powered down. If the other is already active, additional time must be taken to both power down one and power on the other.
- Stationary Target: Relying on orbit around a planetoid to maintain its positioning, HIGHCOM possesses little more than maneuvering thrusters. Relocating the structure to any degree is an operation requiring significant time and logistics, and isn't very practical.
Originally built with the intent of being deployed over Sullust, HIGHCOM Station was less manufactured and more assembled by committee, with input from a variety of Alliance defense contractors at different stages. Now it orbits Centax-2, one of the moons of Coruscant, after a shift in the Galactic Alliance's political capital. Using the FLEETCOM design as a base, this installation was scaled up, and the additional space was divided between more defensive emplacements and more office space for the Alliance's military bureaucracy.
Designed to function both in times of war and peace, HIGHCOM is not only one of the new capital's primary defense stations, but the newly established headquarters of Alliance High Command. Offices are included here for the Supreme Commander, auxiliary to the surface facilities on Coruscant that house meetings of the Triumvirate Council. The center of a network of Protectorate era command and control stations that keep watch over Alliance space, this station's twin purposes are coordinating fleet movements throughout allied space as well as safeguarding Galactic Center itself.
