Cabot Station
Nearly eight hundred standard cycles ago the Welts dominated the nascent sector of space known as Eastspace. From a broken planet overridden with dark field energy that hampered their ability to reproduce pre-Dark Age tech the Welts never the less managed to outstrip the rest of Eastspace in the race to space.
Their powerful ships spread across the Quad via the Nine-Five warp passage and began setting up much of the infrastructure that lasts to this age. While the Welts were a preeminent power in the known they were never invaders or conquerors, so their time in power did not last long and they retreated back to their side of Eastspace a few generations before the Brythons emerged from the deep black.
Cabot station lay just outside a longstanding bend in the Nine-Five just inside the range of two Brython controlled sling gates. With it, the Brythons could send ships deep into Eastspace. If it were not for the unpredictability of the ever changing Nine-Five warp corridor the Brythons may never have been forced to abandon their occupation of the Quad.
Luckily, the Nine-Five was in a temperamental mood this quarter cycle and reports had it stable through to Junn space. Lucky for the crew of the York, who had business in the Quad. Vance was headed back to the Brython cluster.
The station itself was connected to an orbital ring locked to a small, rogue sub-world that was passing through the deep space between the Brython cluster. Its journey would take it beyond useful range in only a few hundred years but for now it served as an excellent location. Most of the ring was empty, the long band of metal circled the sub-world, disappearing into darkness well before the horizon. Cabot station, itself, consisted of interlocked facilities that took up a nearly a thousand kilometers of the circumference. The rotation about the world was fast enough to simulate gravity along the interior; a surprising design from the Welts who used Greifigen, more commonly known as Element G. It should have been easy for the Welts to build a “top-down” station using the powerful pseudo gravitational effect of the rare material. But the Welts built the station during a time where they were the only world who had discovered and mastered its uses and so where not willing to leave such a valuable secret in a vulnerable position.
So the station spun about the orbital ring and lined the interior with their facilities. At its widest, near the ports, the station measured over kilometer in diameter. Big for what was a minor station but not nearly wide enough to hide the upward sloping horizon of cityscape that came from living on the inside of an giant hoop.
See also Chances
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