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Stations

Stations are built in an orbit. You can build various modules on them to get benefits, and some modules have additional benefits if the station is in one of the Earth's interface orbits.

When the game starts there are two existing tier 1 stations, each with a unique orbit around Earth: The International Space Station (controlled by the Academy), with two Solar Collectors and one Space Science Lab, and Tiangong Station (controlled by Project Exodus), with no modules beyond the core. Those two factions start with innate boost income to support the upkeep of those staion.

A hostile fleet may board or destroy the station. But if the station has defense module(s), the hostile fleet should fight a battle first and destroy the defense module(s). When destroying undefended station, it takes 15 minutes per each tier of the module to destroy a module.

Stations use the following core modules. They require the council engineering project with the same name to be constructed.

Module	Tier	Build Cost	Monthly Upkeep^[1]
Platform Core	1	0.75 0.75 30 Days	2 2 3 Crew
Orbital Core	2	3.75 3.75 60 Days	3 10 15 Crew
Ring Core	3	30 30 90 Days	4 20 75 Crew
Automated Platform Core	1	0.8 1 0.2 30 Days	1

Particle Colliders

Particle Colliders are used to produce antimatter. They also produce Energy Research but once the bonus goes above 50% it suffers diminishing returns.

Colliders can only be built in orbit.

Module	Tier	Crew	Mass (tons)	Build Time (days)	Required Power	Monthly Income	Support Costs	Build Cost (from Earth)	Build Cost (from space)
Particle Collider	1	10	200	60	100	2 Research 0.001 Antimatter 1% Energy Research	6 Money 2 Water 2 Volatiles 1 Base Metals 1 Noble Metals 1 Fissiles	200 Money	1 Water 4 Volatiles 7 Base Metals 7 Noble Metals 1 Fissiles
Atomsmasher	2	20	1000	180	250	5 Research 0.009 Antimatter 2.5% Energy Research	20 Money 10 Water 10 Volatiles 5 Base Metals 5 Noble Metals 3 Fissiles	1K Money	5 Water 20 Volatiles 35 Base Metals 35 Noble Metals 5 Fissiles
Supercollider	3	100	8000	360	750	10 Research 0.1 Antimatter 5% Energy Research	120 Money 32 Water 32 Volatiles 20 Base Metals 20 Noble Metals 10 Fissiles	10K Money	40 Water 120 Volatiles 280 Base Metals 280 Noble Metals 80 Fissiles

Antimatter Capture

Antimatter capture modules can only be constructed in orbits that have antimatter. Only one antimatter capture module can operate in each antimatter orbit, regardless of faction.

The amount of natural antimatter production is so small that it is in practice useless. For example, medium earth orbit has 33a monthly output, which is 0.000000000000000033 units of antimatter per month with the 100% efficient Antimatter Farm doing the harvesting. The largest antimatter value in the solar system is medium Saturn orbit at 2p, which is 0.000000000002.

Module	Tier	Crew	Mass (tons)	Required Power	Monthly Output	Support Costs	Build Cost (from Earth)	Build Cost (from space)
Antimatter Trap	1	3	20	15	25% of antimatter in the orbit +5 Research +5% Energy Research	2 Money 0.3 Water 0.3 Volatiles	32 Money	0.1 Water 0.5 Volatiles 1 Base Metals 0.4 Noble Metals
Antimatter Harvester	2	15	100	60	50% of antimatter in the orbit +10 Research +20% Energy Research	5 Money 0.6 Water 0.6 Volatiles	160 Money	0.5 Water 2.5 Volatiles 5 Base Metals 2 Noble Metals
Antimatter Farm	3	75	800	240	100% of antimatter in the orbit +15 Research +50% Energy Research	10 Money 5 Water 5 Volatiles 5 Base Metals 2 Noble Metals 1 Fissibles	815 Money	4 Water 20 Volatiles 40 Base Metals 16 Noble Metals

Campaign Modules

Campaign Modules are tier 3 modules that can only be constructed by certain factions once certain campaign objectives have been completed. Constructing it will allow the faction to complete its final objective.

Module	Crew	Mass (tons)	Build Time (days)	Required Power	Support Costs	Build Cost (from Earth)	Build Cost (from space)	Faction	Notes
Sentinel Complex	200	10000	120	150	1 Mission Control 20 Money	200K Money	380 Volatiles 400 Base Metals 200 Noble Metals 20 Exotics	The Protectorate	Will defend the station May only be built in Low Earth Orbit
Interstellar Launch Facility	80	250000	720	5000	20 Mission Control 20 Money	25M Money	2350 Water 5000 Volatiles 11000 Base Metals 6250 Noble Metals 400 Exotics	Project Exodus