Tsehoynu Station
Tsehoynu Station is a deep space facility.
- It is located within Rosorky Subsector of Fulani Sector.
- It is a Calibration Point located within empty hex 0218.
- It is a Droyne facility that has been in place for centuries.
- Its location is widely known and access is freely granted.
Description / Specifications[edit]
The Tsehoynu Station is a large facility located within (empty) hex 0218 of Rosorky Subsector.
- It is operated and maintained by the government authorities on Naylyoeatru.
- It is a civilian facility intended to support relatively small-scale merchant and commercial operations.
- It is entirely operated by Droyne personnel.
Maneuver Drives[edit]
Reactionless M-Drives do not function without the massive gravity well created by a star or a planet - most ships that arrive within empty hex Rosorky 0218 cannot maneuver.
- Jumping to the station requires knowledge of its vector and velocity relative to the point of origin. Failure to compensate for this will result in the arriving vessel moving away from the station in a random direction at a very high rate.
- Precise Astrogation (which takes into account the relative vectors) and exact jump coordinates exponentially reduce the dangers.
The station operates a number of Tugs, small craft with extremely powerful R-Drives. These accelerate out to the newly arrived vessel and attach to it, acting as its drive system and delivering it to the station.
Jump-capable rescue vessels operate from the station. Like tugs, they use R-Drives in order to move.
- The target vessel is precisely located using sensors and communications.
- Depending on the distance to the target vessel, a rescue ship may elect to perform a micro-jump to its location.
Hydrogen tankers equipped with R-Drives are often used in this role
- A rescue consists of matching vectors with the target vessel, jumping to intercept it, and refuelling and resupplying it.
- The rescued vessel generally then continues on to its next destination system.
- Rescues cost a considerable amount to perform. The rescued party is liable for ALL costs.
The Station[edit]
The station facilitates Droyne interaction with the Haddox Association in Astron Sector and with sophont species within the region.
- The station is approximately 45,000 dTons.
- It is broadly equivalent to a Class B Starport.
- Detailed technical specifications can be found here.
Access to the station and its facilities is freely granted to travellers.
- Services are provided on a commercial basis.
A simple diagram showing the general internal layout.
Within Empty Hex Rosorky 0218[edit]
The station lies within the hex. It constantly transmits signals and has a relatively large EM signature.
- The station can "go dark", powering down and stopping transmissions to dramatically reduce its sensor signature.
Sensor Pickets[edit]
The station is surrounded by a sphere of sensor pickets, lying up to 10,000 AU distant. These transmit their location relative to the station.
- The pickets provide emergency assistance to vessels that have emerged from jump, perhaps as a result of a navigation error, at a great distance from the station.
- Each picket automatically broadcasts a signal if it detects a vessel within its sensor range or if it is physically accessed.
- The broadcast signal is received by the station, which reacts accordingly.
Service crews occasionally perform maintenance, resupply, refuelling, and repair missions to individual pickets.
- Note that sensor pickets were designed to operate within a star system, where their solar arrays could gather energy from the star.
- The array is retained on deep space pickets but produces no more than a few Watts of power when deployed.
History & Background / Dossier[edit]
Tsehoynu loosely translates as 'Gateway' or 'Portal'.
- The station's location is widely known and access is freely granted.
- Precise jump coordinates are available in all major regional starport facilities.
- Station security is efficient and extremely well equipped.
The Tsehoynu Station was one of a class designed as orbital facilities, able to hold position above a planetary body within a star system.
- The station is old and unique within the region: other examples of the design exist, particularly within Theta Borealis Sector.
- Despite its age it is solid and well maintained.
- It contains redundant features such as orbital positioning drives, included in the original design and more practical to leave in situ than remove.
The station relies on a variety of support craft:
- Large hydrogen tankers, typically operating from Naylyoeatru's inner gas giant, regularly refill the station's internal fuel tanks.
- Transport vessels bring supplies such as food and water.
- Couriers transport messages and communications.
The shipyards on Naylyoeatru can only manufacture up to Jump-2 range vessels, which meant that the coreward worlds of the subsector, lying beyond a Jump-3 gap, were unreachable for the majority of ships.
- The station enables conventional Jump-2 vessels to trade with the Muu of Jileso, the Huuran of Rosorky, and the worlds of the Haddox Association.
Astrography[edit]
The station is located in the following area:
Charted Space:
A basic map showing the location of the Droyne Tsehoynu Station Deep Space Facility.
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)
World Listing[edit]
Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds lying within within Jump-2 range of the station is available.
- The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
- Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
- Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.
AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:
Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.
- Verified updated data is constantly sought.
- Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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