Stations

Introduction

Stations are the hubs of all activity in Tau Station.

Though it's clear that older space stations were often spinning toroidal tubes, the majority of inhabited stations settled on a more efficient design. Start with an asteroid several kilometers across and hollow out the interior (it's unknown whether this was done by construction crews or robots). Once hollowed, seal it, spin it, fill it. The resulting station is like a small planet turned inside out. Generally a fusion tube runs through the axis of the station, providing both power and light.

Station List

Station	TLA	SWB code1	System	Level	Affiliation	Emb	Uni	Ship	Sick Bay	Sewers2
Tau Station	TAU	TAST	Sol	1	Consortium	Gaule	Yes
København	KOB	KBHV	Sol	2	Consortium			Yes
Daedalus	DDL	DAED	Sol	3	Consortium			Yes
Taungoo Station	TNG	TAUN	Sol	4	Consortium
Nouveau Limoges	NVL	LIMO	Sol	5	Gaule	Consy	Yes
Sol Jump Gate	SJG	SOLJ	Sol	6	Consortium
Alpha Centauri Jump Gate	ACJ	ACJG	Alpha Centauri A	6	Consortium	Gaule
Moissan Station	MOI	MOIS	Alpha Centauri A	7	Gaule		Yes			Yes
Paris Spatiale	PRS	PARS	Alpha Centauri A	7	Gaule	Consy
The Ghost of Mali	GOM	MALI	Alpha Centauri A	8	Consortium
Cirque Centauri	CRQ	CIRQ	Alpha Centauri A	8	Gaule					Yes
Spirit of Botswana	SOB	BOTS	Alpha Centauri A	9	Consortium		Yes
Bordeaux Station	BDX	BORD	Alpha Centauri A	9	Gaule				No
Yards of Gadani	YOG	YARD	Alpha Centauri A	10	Consortium			Yes		Yes
Barnard's Star Jump Gate3	BSJ	BARN	Barnard’s Star	10	Consortium	Gaule
Caen Stronghold4	CSH	CAEN	Barnard’s Star	11	Freebooter				No
Hopkins' Legacy5	HKL	HOPK	Barnard’s Star	11	Independent
Estación de Amazon	EDA	AMAZ	Barnard’s Star	12	Gaule	Consy
The Maid of Orléans	MOO	MAID	Barnard’s Star	12	Gaule			Yes		Yes
Sirius Jump Gate	SRJ	SJGB	Sirius A	13	Freebooter	Gaule			No
Heinlein Stronghold	HSH	HSAA	Sirius A	13	Freebooter		Yes		No	Yes
The House of Congo	HOC	THOC	Sirius A	14	Freebooter			Yes	No
L 726-8 Jump Gate	L7J	LOJG	L 726-8 A	14	Consortium	Gaule
Orwell Stronghold	OSH	ORWL	L 726-8 A	15	Independent			Yes
Spirit of Tianjin	SOT	TIAN	L 726-8 A	15	Independent					Yes
Ross 154 Jump Gate			Ross 154	16	Consortium	Gaule				Yes
LeGuin Stronghold			Ross 154	16	Independent
Madame de Pompadour			Ross 154	17	Gaule	Consy
The House of Syria			Ross 154	17	Consortium		Yes
YZ Ceti Jump Gate	CJG	YCJG	YZ Ceti	25	Consortium	Gaule
Asimov Freehold	ASI	ASMV	YZ Ceti	26	Consortium
Cape Verde Stronghold	CVS	CVSA	YZ Ceti	26	Consortium		Yes
Spirit of New York City	NYC	SONY	YZ Ceti	27	Consortium					Yes
Ross 248 Jump Gate			Ross 2486		Consortium
Hemingway’s Megamporium			Ross 248		Gaule
Wolf 359 Jump Gate	W3J		Wolf 3597		Consortium
Dhaka Wolf 359	DW3		Wolf 359		Consortium		Yes
Nouveau Besançon	NVB		Wolf 359		Gaule		Yes

Stations with an Embassy, University, Shipyard, or Sewers in the Ruins are marked here as they are less common. A missing Sick Bay is even rarer and lethal.

Station/Area Matrix

Star	Sol						Alpha Centauri A								Barnard's Star					Sirius A			L 726-8			Ross 154				YZ Ceti
Orwellian	⇗	⇗	⇘	⇒	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇘	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇒	⇒	⇗	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇘	⇘	⇘	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗
Legal	⇗	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇘	⇒	⇗	⇘	⇗	⇘	⇗	⇘	⇘	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇘	⇗	⇗	⇗	⇗
Tier	1				2											3										4				5	6
Level	1	3	4	5	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	9	9	10	10	11	11	12	12	13	13	14	14	15	15	16	16	17	17	25	26	26	27
Station / Area	Tau Station	København	Daedalus	Taungoo	Limoges	Jump Gate	Jump Gate	Moissan	Paris	Mali	Cirque	Botswana	Bordeaux	Gadani	Jump Gate	Caen	Hopkins'	Amazon	Orléans	Jump Gate	Heinlein	Congo	Jump Gate	Orwell	Tianjin	Jump Gate	LeGuin	Pompadour	Syria	Jump Gate	Asimov	Cape Verde	New York
Bank	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	?	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Brig	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Clones	✓	✓		✓	✓		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
D-com Area	✓		✓		✓			✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓			✓						✓		✓	✓					✓	✓
Embassy	G				C		G		C						G			C		G			G			G		C		G
Employment	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	?	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Gov't Center	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Gym	30	30	30	30	33			33	36	36	36	36	39	39		42	42	45	45		?	?		48	51		?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Inn	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Market	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓			✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Port	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Residences	✓		✓	✓	✓			✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓		✓	✓	✓				✓		✓							✓
Ruins	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
↳ Sewers								✓			✓			✓					✓		✓				✓	✓							✓
Security	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Shipyard		✓	✓											✓					✓			✓		✓
Sick Bay	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓		✓	✓	✓				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
University	✓				✓			✓				✓									✓								✓			✓

Description

From the notes of Dr. Horatio Lazbender - Benevolent Dynamics.

Space Stations represent humanity’s last sanctuary after the Catastrophe. All of mankind now resides on stations orbiting various planets through a number of systems around the galaxy. Every station was affected to some extent by the galaxy-wide Catastrophe that occurred 62 cycles ago, some managed to maintain some semblance of order but most suffered catastrophic loss of life and infrastructure.

Today, each station that is operational bears some mark of their unique trials during the Catastrophe and most denizens honor the time proudly, like a cultural battle-scar. The cycles after the Catastrophe offered a period of cultural evolution that allowed each station to develop a very distinct and unique social ecology of sorts. Survival is both a traumatic and tempering situation for a species to go through, and it is fascinating to see the different paths inhabitants of different stations traveled through to get there.

From a technical point of view, the bulk of existing Space Stations are built into asteroids and similar existing celestial bodies while a smaller number consist of completely engineered structures built from the ground up. It is presumed that building most stations into asteroids provided the maximum amount of structural integrity and protection from the elements of space. Power is derived from immense reactors that run efficiently and, by and large, automatically. Water reclamation is also present in almost all stations but is, obviously, not an efficient manner of producing an adequate amount of drinking water. It sufficed, barely, for the emergency situations that we found ourselves in after the Catastrophe but, thankfully, now ice mining has begun to resurface as a viable method.

Footnotes

1. Station codes, used in the Space Waybill Number for each shipped item (e.g.: TAST-78324123-SOLJ); added in 2020-03-31 update.

2. After the 2022-03-03 game update the Sewers requires a station that has at least level 6. All stations where "Enter the Sewers" is not available, will have the "Look for Trouble” campaign.

3. Showed up with the 2018-08-29 update.

4. Was announced in a 2018-09-07 dev blog post.

5. Was accidentally and prematurely revealed as starting point of a mission with the 2018-07-11 update.

6. Was first mentioned in an 2020-07-10 Galactic Destinations and 2020-10-08 Kickstarter official blog posts.

7. Was first mentioned in a 2016-09-13 and 2020-07-10 Galactic Destinations blog posts.