Saratar Drydocks, Saratar Station, and Saratar Base are the three most common names for the large orbital shipyards located in orbit over the planet Saratar. Built in A.D. 3457, it is one of the oldest useable structures in the Milky Way galaxy, and was at one point the main shipyards for OUTO, having built somewhere around Half of the starships currently in use in the Milky Way.
Saratar station is so large that, upon construction, it actually changed the orbit of Saratar around its star, but, fortunately, in a beneficial way. It stabilised the rapidly decaying orbit of the planet, possibly allowing the planet to live longer than it would have naturally.
Saratar Station is 24 miles by 48 miles by ten miles, making it the size of a very large city. Saratar has a capacity of about 2 billion individuals, but is currently only staffed by around 750,000 Terrans, and is mainly kept up via androids and automated systems, which, while capable of keeping the station from falling apart, is not really enough to keep it up, and so the station's interior is in disrepair, but the hangars and ship bays have been upkept perfectly.
The station's Avatar, an ASIAN M2 named Sara, is a grumpy, modified unit, which has had parts of its code replaced with Drathonian code, as well as her android body modified to resemble a Drathonian. She is moody, disloyal, and very quirky for a computer, but no threat at all, as Terran engineers are working on fixing her, and have disabled any dangerous additions the lizards made to her during their 14 year controlling of the station.
The Base has 218 sectors, including the two enormous hub sectors, and the 216 modules branching off of this stucture. Of these modules, 144 have hangar/construction bays for building ships. Each of these has two bays, making for a total of 288 bays. Each bay is two miles wide, and three quarters of a mile high, going one mile deep.
Also included on the station are docking arms. There are a total of 264 arms, 288 smaller arms for ships up to Battlecruiser in size class, and 24 for Dreadnought and bulk-freighter type ships to dock. The 288 smaller docks are located between the Bays, and the 24 larger docks are located on the ends of the station's 'arms'.
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