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| | ==Hell's Gate== | | ==Hell's Gate== |
| − | A seven kilometer long hybrid barbell station, The Sygia Mining Platform is home to two million souls on any given day.<br>
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| − | Directions are typically referred to fore and aft, in reference to the forward and rear docking bays and hab drums. The station was suppoed to be adjusted to face whatever it was mining, but nobody's sure if the station would survive a readjustment like that these days<br>
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| − | Mag-trains run the lenght of the station, allowing for quick transport from fore to aft. It takes about twenty minutes for a regular train to make the trip, but militia can override that in emergencies, being able to get from either side of the station to the other in under five minutes. Per Jerry's last memo, hunger for noodles does not constitute an emergency<br>
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| − | The hab drums are 1400 meters in diameter and rotate at 1.1 rotations per minute, providing almost a perfect 1G of artificial gravity. Direction in a drum are spin and antipsin; with down pointing outwards from and up pointing inwards to the axis of spin. The drums are divided into three tiers. The upper tier is the smallest, being dedicated mostly to housing, leisure and habitation. The middle tier is dedicated mostly to life support, maintenance and operations, as well as each drum’s internal mass transit network. The lower tier, the largest, is for agriculture<br>
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| − | ''Forward Docking Bay''<br>
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| − | Once meant to be facing whatever particular astral body the station was mining at the time, the days of Hell's Gate travelling to places to mine them has long since passed. Connected to the industrial sector, mining vessels arrive, drop off ore, refuel and then leave for another run while the ore is processed and refined.<br>
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| − | ''Forward Hab Ring''<br>
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| − | The least well maintained of the two hab rings, this area is where most of the miner's live, to the displeasure of the Miner's Union. There's a number of mateiral shortages and leaks that are hitting the sector. Jerry's not blind to the problems, though, he lives here too.<br>
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| − | ''Industrial Sector''<br>
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| − | A long tangle of refineries, smelters, foundries and chemical plants. In the glory days, they could process twnty thousand tons of hour every hour. Now, it's operating at eight percent of capacity, due to staff shortages and lack of maintenance. If Jerry hadn't given himself a stomach ulcer negotiating with IPS-N for replacement parts, it'd be four percent.<br>
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| − | ''Ops''<br>
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| − | The station's bridge, omninode, mainframes and priamry reactor control array are located here; in the aft midstation.<br>
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| − | ''Central Fabrication''<br>
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| − | Hell's gate's Schedule Two printer (last certified 126 years ago) is located here. There's a backlog of over a week on medium priority print requests, and a month for low priority ones. High priority requests (such as the SRT's mechs), get put to the top of the queue; generally irritating whoever gets bumped.<br>
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| − | Jerry's old Sherman Mk.1, the Severance Pay, is located in this area, with its coldcore being used as an auxiliary power source for the printer.<br>
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| − | ''Mech bay''<br>
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| − | Just off the aft docking bay, and directly connected to Central Fabrication, is a large hanger dedicated to the storage and maintenance of the militia's mechanized chassis, including the SRT's. Except in emergencies, combat rated mechs aren't permitted anywhere else on thes ation.
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| − | ''Aft Hab Ring''<br>
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| − | Nicer than the forward hab ring, the aft hab ring plays most to most of the station's operational staff and acts as the guest room when there's visitors and tourists. All militia pilots, including the SRT, live here (unless they desire otherwise). Janvier's clinic is located in the aft as well.<br>
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| − | ''Aft Docking Bay''<br>
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| − | The aft docking bay (there's a nickname for it, not said in polite company), handles the bulk of the traffic and was designed as such. But like everything else on the station, the current usage of the aft docking bay is a pale shadow of what was envisioned. The team's personal ship, the Dargon's Tooth, is stationed here; alongside an ancient interstellar vessel called the Voidrunner; which is owned by Zinfandel DeJean.
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| | =Jane's Guide, Calliope Edition= | | =Jane's Guide, Calliope Edition= |
