User blog:SupcommMonroee/Suppy Super Post 5 - Space Stations Don't Rustle Me Anymore

Alright! Space stations. Self-contained orbital constructs with the infrastructure to support populations ranging from a handful to millions. Now, these things have always been the true cream of the sci-fi crop. After some deliberation with Kray, we've decided it'd be prudent to do a full conversion of the Galactic Senate from a planetary location and bland backstory to a cool orbital construct.

No this is not the Omniverse Citadel.

The new Galactic Senate wuld have a new backstory.

Oh cool, a conveniently labeled section which will let me cut off my rant and start descri-

Backstory
The first iteration of the Senate was a joint project between the KMF, Hunre, and Heglereans. At the edge of KMF space facing the galactic core, a space station was constructed in a planetless star system fit with all of the infrastructure to support a huge multinational population. Production facilities and farming modules feed a population of several million housed in perfectly planned residential blocks.

After the KMF went to war with the Hunre and Heglereans, a Senate was no longer useful. So the station was abandoned and stripped of important technology and left to the squatters, pirates, and general galactic ruffians to inhabit. Centuries later, the expansionist Eteno come across the station and desire it as a naval base, space colony, and 'thing that we own that you don't hahaah #35328'. Naturally, they assimilated or exterminated all of the inhabitants and moved in.

News reaches the KMF, and they scramble to meet these new aliens who just moved into their station. Paranoid about being out-powered, they establish a strong naval presence in the system. The EIT follows suit adding combat modules and a large fleet nearby, and begin constructing smaller naval stations in-system. Things cool down as the DFM joins the party, and soon, the Senate is revived aboard the station.

The station is inhabited by the three major races and their subject races, and whatever minors that are appreciated enough to be allowed representation. The station is split up like post-war Berlin, with each nation having a sector of control. So if you want to visit your Eteno friend, but are a Dhragolon, you must pass through a series of transit checkpoints manned by federal and military police, and on the way back, must deal with Dhragolon authorities.

There is also a no-man's land where anyone can meet freely, but political gridlock prevents any one nation from maintaining any real police presence, so it's a perfect place to get illegal stuff done.

A special senate zone policed by a multiracial senate police is where political and diplomatic stuff happens.

Design
We can elaborate on this with a bit more input. I'm thinking a bit like the Citadel, but without the wide-open spaces for shuttle traffic, and with heavy police presence at different transit zones.

Please comment.