Tycho Station
The Belt headquarters of Tycho Manufacturing and Engineering Concern (and the Outer Planets Alliance) is the largest mobile construction platform in the Sol System and one of the only structures in the Belt that’s completely artificial. Fifteen thousand workers and their families live within Tycho, building megastructures or massive ships far beyond the reach of a planet.
A ring station built around a sphere half a kilometer across with more than sixty-five million cubic meters of manufacturing and storage space inside, Tycho Station boasts two counter-rotating habitation rings circling the sphere that provide the same standard microgravity as the rest of the Belt. The top of the manufacturing sphere features massive construction waldos capable of grasping a heavy freighter or securing singularly large ships, such as the LDS generation ship Nauvoo. A capital-ship-class fusion reactor and drive system projecting out of an elongated nozzle make Tycho the largest mobile construction platform ever created, capable of relocating itself around the Belt for differing work needs and locales. Each compartment within the titanic rings was built on a swivel system that allows the chambers to reorient to thrust gravity, orienting around an internal modular construction.
Tycho makes regular campaign contributions to Earth and Mars politicians, ensuring protection by the Earth-Mars Coalition Navy—and even if they didn’t, Tycho is more than capable of fleeing at high speeds. With the loss of Nauvoo, Tycho is playing host to far more OPA sympathizers than ever before. Fred Johnson’s guilt-borne sympathies and the harsh nature of life aboard the station means that Beltnative fleet construction occurs out of Tycho.
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Orbital, Station
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15,000 workers plus their families
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