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Argenus Station

The Argenus Station is a large trade, construction and communication hub. It offers several big hangars, docking areas, quarters for the crews of docked ships and huge storage capacity for cargo, hydrogen and fuel. It also serves as an orbital ore processing and construction hub, as it is equipped with refineries, assemblers and two construction bays.

In the center of the station the control room, a briefing room for the stations personal, the office of the station's commander and an infirmary are located. Above this there are quarters for up to 64 persons and a mess hall.
The upper section of the station holds the main reactor, the refinery and assembler installations and a hydrogen storage as well as 4 large solar panels, oxygen farms and several laser antennas for communication.
In the lower section there is the main cargo storage, a second hydrogen storage, oxygen generators and tanks, backup reactors and another laser antenna array.

The docking ring is made up of 8 hangars, 10 landing pads, 8 docks for large ships and two construction bays. Each hangar is seperately pressurizeable and can hold larger small ships. The docks offer various combinations of merge blocks and connectors to support different dock types of as many ships as possible. Their placement allows several large ships to dock simultaniously. There are also several connectors (partly on pistons) to refuel hydrogen based small ships quickly.
While the central section and the hangars are pressurized, the corridors on the docking ring and those connecting the docking ring with the rest of the station are not pressurizeable. This was not possible, as the docking ring consists of several segments, held together by rotors. 20 escape pods are docked, each can be launched by one button press. The pod will then automatically travel to the default location of the earth like planet and land on it.

As the Argenus Station is not primarily a military instalation, it is only light armoured. It is however capable of defending itself with 69 gatling and 8 missile turrets, most of them with repair systems.

All hangars and landing pads ar marked with LCD panels and all important blocks are named, so you should be able to find what you need.
All solar panels are rotatable, one of the flight seats in the control room is set up with the controls. Another flight seat is set up with the controls for weapons and power.

At the lower end of the station is a docking port for the cargo module of my Nolphoxx Exploration Cruiser, in case there is not enough cargo capacity for you:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=742365621


Notes:

This build uses several rotors. I've built and tested it in dev branch. So far I've not encountered any problems. If you find any, please let me know.
The only mod used is for the energy shield, and it is fully optional. The station will work fine without it:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=484504816
The shield is very usefull thou to prevent the station from damaging itself with its weapons. It also is quite usefull in case clang pays you a visit.

Full credit for the escape pods goes to Kiyashi
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=774644967

As this is a station, the performance impact is not as big as it would be with a ship of this size. I do not recommend turning the station into a ship to move it, as it will not only be very performance heavy, but might also mess with the rotors.

Two scrips are running, one for the doors and airlocks:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=416932930
and one for the LCD informations:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403921671
I'd like to use a diagnostic scrip as well, but the performance impact is to heavy. There are however free LCDs, timers and programmable blocks, in case you want to add anything.


Summary:

- Only one optional mod
- 8 pressurizeable hangars
- 10 landing pads
- 8 docks
- 80 large cargo containers
- 154 hydrogen tanks
- 1013 oxygen tanks
- 4 large reactors
- 60 small reactors
- 1005 batteries
- 69 gatling turrets
- 8 missile turrets
- 24 refineries
- 20 assemblers
- 32 oxygen generators


Ships shown in the last screenshots:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799841822
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=753750108
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=703679230
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=655062643


If you find any problems, please let me know.