the new colossus
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To resubmit the OPA's primary command and coordination station as a location for continued RP.
- Image Source: Osmani Space Station by GarretAJ
- Canon Link: /
- Restricted Missions: /
- Primary Source: The Foundation | The Kathol Outback (credit to
Jorus Merrill
for original submission and sector passages)
- Manufacturer: The Kathol Outback, primarily the worlds of the Kathol Republic, the Pimbrellan League, and Kal’Shebbol
- Affiliation: Outer Planets Alliance
- Model: Foundation-class Space Station
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel Hull, Matrix Armor Plating, Solarium Glasteel Viewports
- Classification: Mobile Command Platform
- Length: 3000 meters
- Width: 3000 meters
- Height: 3000 meters
- Armament: Extreme
- 3500 Turbolasers (Maneuverable Single-Barrel Mounts, Heavy Quad Turret Batteries, and Dual Long-Range Emplacements)
- 80 Heavy Multi-Purpose Warhead Launchers
- 350 Defensive Emplacements (Antimissile Octets, Quad Lasers, Short Range Null-Burst Projectors, Point-Defense Autoturrets)
- Defenses: Extreme
- Reinforced Hull
- Double-Redundant Heavy Deflector Shields
- Hangar: 1 Squadron
- Large Shuttle Hangar
- Various Docking Arms
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Very Low
- Hyperdrive Class: Slow (Class 5)
- Communication Systems:
- Environmental Systems:
- Propulsion Systems:
- Sensor and Targeting Systems:
- Long-Range Sensor Suite (HSI/DER/EPR/AS/CGT)
- Advanced Sensor Suites (PADAR/ELDAR/SUDAR/STARSCAN)
- Anti-ion Emission Tracers
- Missile Deactivation Transmitters
- PED-21 Distress Beacon
- Other Systems:
- Medical Bay
- Vessel-Wide Beltway System
- Internal:
- Armor and Shielding:
- Ablative Plating
- Reinforced Matrix Armor Plating
- Internal Reserve Deflector Shield Generators
- Countermeasures:
- Specialized:
- Military Station: Serving in a double role as one of several primary facilities for Allied Fleet and Partisan logistics, the Foundation is heavily defended and manned by a multinational team of highly trained peacekeepers.
- Mobile Embassy: As seat of 'government' for the greater Alliance, this station is able to oversee such a geographically vast region of deep space in large part because it can relocate to the systems in its domain most in need.
- Signal Chatter: Pretty much the farthest thing there is from a stealth vessel, the Foundation is one of the loudest satellites in the entire sector. Hundreds of thousands of transmissions are delivered back and forth from the station every day, causing it to light up across subspace like a beacon in the night.
Originally manufactured to house the collective functions of the overarching Kathol government, over time as the powers within the Outback spread in influence across other regions and formed a confederation of local territories, the Foundation has grown into a kind of de facto seat of power for the so called Outer Planets Alliance.
Taking a radical hands off approach to governance, besides ratifying a basic human rights package Alliance institutions are far more similar to a volunteer corps than a federal bureacracy. The many worlds which comprise it tend to work collectively in terms of defense, trade, and navigational standards but in most other respects, they remained isolated and independent.
Security around the station's perimeter is high, vessels which make unauthorized approaches are disabled or destroyed without hesitation. A high level OPA security clearance is required for access.
Internally, the Foundation is divided by sector.
- Diplomatic Sector: This area contains offices, encrypted comm services, meeting areas, databanks, and other facilities relevant to the collective government of the Outer Rim territories. At a high level, overarching areas of cooperation and interstellar agreement are handled here. It could even be said that the Alliance's government is found there, although each senior delegate represents a sovereign system or collective of worlds. The Uukaablians, the Pimbrellans, the Kathol Republic, Kal'Shebbol, and other major players all have a significant presence in this sector.
- Defense Sector: This area contains offices, encrypted comm services, meeting areas, databanks, and other facilities relevant to the collective defense of the Outer Rim territories. The Allied Fleet, Partisan revolutionaries, and local defense force personnel staff this sector. The Defense Sector has the ability to receive reports from vessels, stations, and satellites across the territories, almost in real time, and dispatch alerts to coordinate responses from whichever vessels may be near a given situation. The Defense Sector also helps coordinate the Judges, primarily Force-sensitive law enforcement officers who patrol the outermost reaches of Alliance space.
- Navigational Sector: This area contains the offices of the civilian and military staff, drawn from worlds across the region, who coordinate and set standards for navigational data.
- Trade Sector: This area handles trade policy and economic monitoring. High-level representatives of major corporations often meet with senior government representatives here.
- Community Sector: This area comprises the recreational, natural, and social spaces which help form the crew and staff into a community - as well as bleed off inter-species and inter-governmental tensions. The Community Sector bustles with ranking representatives of obscure planets. A variety of entertainment and restaurant venues are available. Aesthetic influences from Kal'Shebbol and Uukaablis tend to dominate: sweeping lines, subdued monochrome, an elegant Imperial sort of approach.
Modifications 1/12/20
- Updated formatting, hyperlinks, and template fields to reflect factory update/site migration.
- Removed all references to Outer Rim Coalition reflecting the OPA rebrand.
- Expanded upon the station's standard features and advanced systems.
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