Space Station

Line Combatants (Primary - Capital)				Escort Combatants (Secondary - Subcapital)				Military Auxiliary (Tertiary)
B- Battleship	C- Cruiser	O- Ortillery	V- Carrier	D- Destroyer	E- Escort	F- Fighter	H- Defense/Security	I- Combat Transport	Q- Combat Support	S- Scout	U- Utility	X- Commo	Z- Special

Mercantile Commercial Ships (Trade & Profit)				Non-Mercantile Commercial Ships (Industry & Profit)					Non-Commercial Ships (Nonprofit)			System Craft (Intrastellar)
A- Tramp	M- Freighter	R- Liner	T- Transport	G- Industrial	J- Prospector	K- Expedition	P- Corsair	U- Utility	L- Science	N- Medical	Y- Private	WB- Barge	WA- Satellite	WO- Space Station

A WO-class Space Station are large artificial satellites, capable of sustaining life.

• It is a technological sophont-made orbital device made to support life and the expansion of orbital existence from the near atmosphere or orbital pathway of a planet.
• They are known by a wide variety of names and terms and come in as wide a set of shapes, forms, and technological formats.
• The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
• It is a starship supraclass.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Starship User Types
  • Civilian Ship
  • Military Ship
  • Non-Commercial Vessel
  • Paramilitary Ship

• Advanced Ship Classifications
  • Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
  • Ship Type Code / Superclass
  • Ship Class Code / Class
  • Model (TL)
  • Bloc (Lot)

• Basic Ship Classifications
  • Adventure Class Ship (Auxiliary Class Ship)
  • Battle Class Ship (Bulk / Subcapital Class Ship)
  • Capital Ship (Capital Class Ship)
  • Fleet Class Ship (Capital Class Ship)
  • Size-Role Classification
  • Subcapital Ship (Small & Large Battle Class Ships)
  • QSP
  • USP
  • World Class Ship

• Ships by Function
  • Bigcraft
  • Boat
  • Capital Ship
  • Largecraft
  • Non-starship
  • Smallcraft
  • Spaceplane
  • Spaceship
  • Starship
  • Subcapital Ship
  • Subcraft
  • System Craft
  • Warship

Speed of Travel

• Light Speed (c)
• FTL
• NAFAL (STL)
• Astronomical Unit (AU)
• Light-second (ls)
• Light-minute (lm)
• Light-hour (lh)
• Light-day (ld)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• Parsec (pc)

Description (Specifications)

Orbital complexes range in size from single stations up to large, sprawling cities. Complexes can be joined in a daisy-chain arrangement, or simply a group of closely proximate individual complexes in the same orbit. Three general size categories exist: orbital stations, orbital settlements, and orbital cities.

Space stations go by an incredible variety of names and serve an equally diverse set of missions from highports to orbital factories to shipyards and more. When technology advances adequately, they can be a viable residential option especially around small worlds.

Image Repository

1. An Anchorage class Orbital Station with a Wulf class Free Trader (silhouetted) alongside.
   
2. A Gunsan class Orbital Dockyard with an Olympian class Cruise Liner (silhouetted) alongside.
   
3. A Harbor class Orbital Station with an Olympian class Cruise Liner (silhouetted) alongside.
   

Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

Space Stations are an important part of TL:10-15 technological life, linking to beanstalks, decreasing mass fuel needs of system craft, allowing better mainworld access to FTL merchant vessels, and, in general, making intra-planetary and inter-stellar life possible.

• While space stations can be weaponized as battle stations, most are cost-efficient civilian structures and are vulnerable to raider vessels unless protected by COACC forces or other defensive craft.

Supraclass Roles

System Craft typically serve the following roles:

Barge:

1. Barge (WB) (Namesake)
2. Battle Barge
3. Cargo Barge
4. Heavy Barge
5. Light Barge
6. Medium Barge
7. Passenger Barge

Satellite:

1. Artificial Satellite (WA) (Namesake)
2. Automated Interdiction Satellite (WAI)
3. Battle Satellite (WAD)
4. Beacon (WAB)
5. Defensive Satellite (WAD)
6. Missile Platform (WAM)
7. Sensor Buoy (WAS)

Space Station:

1. Battle Station
2. Bernal Sphere
3. Bubbleworld
4. Downport
5. Far System Fuel Refinery
6. Gas Giant Station
7. Highport
8. Hospital Station
9. Lowport
10. Mining Platform
11. Myriad Bola
12. O'Neill Cylinder
13. Orbital
14. Orbital Boatyard
15. Orbital City
16. Orbital Complex
17. Orbital Dockyard
18. Orbital Installation
19. Orbital Settlement
20. Orbital Spaceyard
21. Orbital Station
22. Orbital Trade Center
23. Orbital Trade Station
24. Prison Hulk
25. Residential Ship
26. Shipyard
27. Space Station (WO) (Namesake)
28. Stanford Torus
29. Trade Station
30. Upport
31. X-Boat Station

Civilian Subcraft

Civilian subcraft (...both smallcraft and bigcraft) are carried by some of these vessels:

1. Barge (WB)
2. Utility Craft (U)

Supraclass Archetypal Roles

These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:

W-class Space Station Supraclass Archetypes
Archetype	Type Code	Exemplar	Remarks
Space Station	WO (Namesake)	Eshpadir class Orbital Installation	None W = World Station O = Orbital
Orbital City	WOC	No exemplar yet available.	The largest of the orbital complexes, an Orbital City is a closed-cycle orbital station with a permanent population in the thousands. Possible at TL–9. O = Orbital C = City
Downport	WOD	Dee Six class Downport	Ground installation, sometimes jokingly referred to as "surface orbit" or "underground orbit". Used for planetary installations designed to interact with starships, spaceships, and/or smallcraft, such as a downport or a weapons installation, made in high enough quantities to count as a "class" of objects akin to a ship class. This last requirement usually means they are prefabricated, rather than constructed primarily on site. Technically possible at TL–0, unlikely before TL–8 unless there is significant regular traffic from offworld. O = Orbital D = Downport
Orbital Settlement	WOE	No exemplar yet available.	An Orbital Settlement is an open-cycle orbital station with a permanent population in the hundreds. Possible at TL–8. O = Orbital E = SEttlement
Prison Hulk	WOP	Gaesh class Prison Hulk	The only ways off a prison in orbit are to board a visiting ship, or to drift in orbit (usually involving a means of de-orbiting). The former can be easily secured in most cases and it is difficult to survive the latter, making this an attractive option for those seeking secure prison complexes. Possible at TL–9 given the uncooperative, or at least untrained, majority of the population (which requirement favors low-maintenance designs, thus the designation "Hulk"). O = Orbital P = Prison
Orbital Station	WOS	Eshpadir class Orbital Installation	An Orbital Station is a single large satellite used as an orbital installation, with a permanent population in the tens. Often built as a modular unit, able to be expanded upon as necessary. Some standard station types include refueling station, communications station, research station, fighter base, peace monitor, civilian transfer station (for personnel and/or cargo), or drydock control centre. Possible at TL–7. O = Orbital S = Station
NOTES: There is semantic overlap between many of the classes and codes. Some codes organize by mission or capability, others by size and tonnage, and yet others by other characteristics.

History & Background (Dossier)

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Selected Variant Types & Classes

Space Station:

1. Type WO class Space Station
   1. Anchorage class Orbital Station
   2. Bowman class Mining Platform
   3. Eshpadir class Orbital Installation
   4. Gaesh class Prison Hulk
   5. Gunsan class Orbital Dockyard
   6. Harbor class Orbital Station
   7. Pournelle Station 1 class Space Colony
   8. Socrates class Trade Station

Ship Summary List

Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role or these roles include:

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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