An Antique design as stations go. When earth was just expanding it needed a way to establish spaceports around distant worlds. The Sargasso class vessel could engage its FTL drive rings (which foled away during Its operation cycle as a space station while the flight-deck/Ops would fold between Transit and Station mode) and travel to its destination.
On arrival its small crew could reconfigure the Sargasso class into a station and begin its expansion. Through control of drones, harvest asteroids, and build up the Space Station Toroidal. The Toroidal was then often detatched to serve as a construction sleeve for an even larger and more advanced Stanford colony.
They built ten Sargasso class ships before they were replaced by better technology. Sargass9 was salvaged by Chief Engineer Corlis Newton after completing the construction of the Union Shipyards (since destroyed in the conflict with Kaylon).
The Station central core has two medbays, and staging crew Barracks in its core section as well as Ops, Storage, and engineering. Five Airlocks are located at the toroidal docking points.
These Airlocks can serve as:
- Lifts to move cargo and crew to the toroidal.
- Construction spiders where operators can pilot them to assemble the toroidal.
- Escape pods if ship drive failure warrants evac.
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