Jade City Aerospaceport

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> “Imagine an airport so big that, if you stood at its very center, you could not see it end beyond the horizon. Imagine looking to the sky and seeing countless thousands of stars flying down to the very earth below.
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> Now, ask me again why I, who made my living from flight, live out here.”
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> — *Archer Buchanan, ex-CAS pilot of the Interstellar Coalition Space Navy and current pilot for ATLAS Cargo, speaking to his goddaughter, Renée de Langemyr*
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## Jade City Aerospaceport

Jade City Aerospaceport, c. 2698

Two interatmospheric Kestrel KAT-19s waiting to taxi at JCA

IASTA:* HYPN-JCA (Public)
* HYPN-JCM (Military)
* HYPN-JCC (Corporate)

## Summary

### Operator

Jade City Aviation and Space Department (JCASD)

### Location

Jade City, Albion, Hyperion
Hathor, The Core
 Coalition of Congressional Republics

### Commander

Brigadier General Xianliang Duàn (for military district)

### Occupants

* Jade City Rapid Air Response Wing (Hyperian Guard)
* 15th Hyperian Rescue Group (Hyperian Guard)
* 114th Aerospace Wing (ICTA)
* Jade City Aerospaceport Authority Wing (JCAA)

### Hub for

**Intraplanetary airlines**
* Atlantis Gateway Charter
* Albion Airlines
* ATLAS Cargo
* Chinghai Heavy Deliveries
* Panhyperian Air
* Perihelion Air Charter
* and dozens of others

**Interplanetary spacelines**

* Hathor Spacelines
* Hyperian Stellar Cargo
* and others

**Interstellar spacelines**

* Galactic Courier Service
* Pancoalition Space
* and others

### Focus city for

**Intraplanetary airlines**
* Air Sacrosancto
* Destino Universal Airlines
* Fusōdō Express
* and dozens of others

**Interplanetary spacelines**

* Archangel SpaceExport
* and others

**Interstellar spacelines**

* Sol Spacelines
* Hermes
* and others

### Website

jca.gov.hyp

JCA, as seen from orbit

## Runways

70 total, rated for both intra-atmospheric and trans-atmospheric craft
* 10 military
* 10 private passenger
* 30 cargo
* 20 public passenger

## Helipads

1,500 total* 250 military
* 500 cargo
* 500 public passenger
* 250 private passenger

## Statistics

### Metric tonnes of cargo

1,300,000,000

The **Jade City Aerospaceport** is a massive unincorporated area that serves as the principal airport and spaceport of Jade City and the wider continent of Albion, particularly the Eastern Albion Megasprawl. It is owned and operated by the semi-state-owned corporation Jade City Aerospaceport Holdings, and one of the main planetside termini of the Hyperion International Spaceport. It is the largest aerospaceport on both the planet of Hyperion and the entire Hathor star system, measuring nearly six thousand square miles in area. Built from 2290 to 2300 on the grounds of what was the nuking of Jade City during the Corporate Wars and the Battle of Hyperion in 2244 by the Outer Colonial Combine, the aerospaceport initially opened in 2301 to civilian cargo traffic. Reclaiming nuked land, it would reach its massive modern size by 2370, becoming an essential Hyperian logistics and transportation node by 2400 for planetside air travel, interplanetary space travel between bodies of the Hathor system, and interstellar space travel along the Coalition Interstellar Starway System.

Much of the area of the aerospaceport is taken by massive, hundred-mile long runways that accommodate the landing of large transatmospheric vehicles; this is because of how the designers of the JCA anticipated the explosion of use for transatmospheric craft during its introduction in the Second Renaissance, and the space needed for such to fully transition from the atmosphere to space. This is alongside that of gigantic industrial storage compounds on the surface for the billions of cargo shipped in and out annually. It is considered a special, multi-type aerospaceport, due to the fact that it contains three separate sub-ports each with their own allocated runways and passenger-cargo infrastructure: that being military, public, and corporate sub-ports.

As of 2698, JCA is the busiest cargo and passenger aerospaceport on Hyperion and the largest of its gateways, with a previous yearly total of 1.3 billion metric tons of cargo shipped, 21 billion passengers accommodated for, and 215 million total aircraft operations. It has a daily operation rate of over 100,000 aircraft, and is the second busiest aerospaceport in the entirety of the Coalition of Congressional Republics (only being beaten by the Grand Atlanta Aerospaceport in the United States of America). This astronomical ascent of traffic operations was as a result of Hyperion becoming one of the largest manufacturing and service capitals of the CCR following the Corporate Wars, accommodating for its massive planetary population.

## Facilities

### Air and Space Traffic Control

Air and space traffic control for the JCA is done through two avenues: communication with orbiting sensors that relay projected flight paths and information of inbound spaceships, in addition to physical telemetry from the ground by the way of massive aerospace traffic control towers. These towers are often automated in nature, employing superturing-level artificial intelligences to automatically direct and redirect air and space traffic in addition to communication between each other. Humans still serve an auxiliary and emergency capacity in these control towers, either as security or as staff present in the event of a deliberate or unforseen AI shutdown.

### Terminals

#### Public passenger

For public passenger travel, one hundred terminals exist, usually averaging around two concourses each and about twenty gates per concourse. This means that approximately two hundred concourses and over four thousand gates exist for public passenger use at JCA. These terminals are spread across the southern perimeter of the JCA, and commonly use southern runways for aerospacecraft inbound and outbound travel.

#### Cargo

Approximately two hundred cargo terminals exist in the JCA, located on the northern perimeter of the JCA. They are all proximal to the expansive cargo yards present on aerospaceport grounds, and most commonly use northern runways for aerospacecraft inbound and outbound travel.

#### Corporate passenger

Ten terminals exist for corporate passenger intake, whether by direct corporate charter craft or by specialized airlines catering to corporate clientele. These are located on the eastern portion of the JCA, and utilize ten special designated runways.

### Helipads and hoverpads

Various helipads and hoverpads exist at the many different private and public terminals of JCA for both passenger and cargo usage. They are most often used for private corporate charter flights, however, especially for those located proximal to corporate passenger terminals.

### Cargo yards

JCA possesses some of the largest cargo fields on the surface of Hyperion, with their bulk being located on the northern side of the JCA near to cargo terminals. However, the cargo sprawl is so large that they even occupy empty fields in the middle of the aerospaceport and in some eastern and southern portions. Cargo yards interface with road, rail, air, and even some sea networks (from the Great Jade Canal) to maximize transportation efficacy.

### Military subport

The military sub-port lies on the western end of the JCA, in the direct of the city of Outland Gate. It reserves ten special runways on the western side specifically for military usage by the Hyperian Guard and by aerial elements of the Coalition Forces Authority. This is a restricted area, and the skies above it are specifically zoned for only military traffic. As a result, all flights to JCA that come from the direction of the Outland Gate must complete a redirection to special clear-zone avenues of aerial travel.

### Security

Officially, the Jade City Aerospaceport lies under the jurisdiction of the Jade City subdivision of the Hyperion Police Department, with exception to its military subport under the authority of the Hyperian Guard and Coalition Forces Authority. However, due to its immense size and importance, the Jade City government has contracted Idyllia Defense Solutions to provide advising, training, and direct support to security operations undertaken by the Jade City Aerospaceport Authority (JCAA).

The headquarters of the JCAA is located within the administrative district of JCA, some twenty five kilometers east of Terminal E. The HYPD maintains small police stations at all one hundred public terminals, whereas Idyllia Defense Solutions and the JCAA maintain stations at cargo and corporate passenger terminals. The Hyperian Guard maintains security of the military district of the JCA through their garrisons, and they cooperate with the JCAA, HYPD, and Idyllia to guard other infrastructure with nearby rapid deployment stations.

### Hotels

The JCA is home to thousands of upper-, middle-, and low-class hotels that cater to each and every arriving demographic possible...

### Housing

Certain areas of the JCA have its own residential districts, mainly as temporary or permanent homes for aerospaceport staff, contractors, and pilots of various corporations...

## Ground transportation

#### Shipping

Passenger and cargo ships can interface with the JCA through the Great Jade Canal, which exists as two portions that links the Gulf of Batou to Lake Jade, and from Lake Jade to the limits of the aerospaceport proper.

### Intercity rail

The JCA contains 16 intercity rail passenger stops, matching with half of the existent subway superstations that lie near to major passenger terminals. These intercity passenger lines converge on JCA from all across Hyperion, with many lines originating from convergences in the Atlantis Underwater Megasprawl or from Destino.

The JCA also has its own dedicated Albion Speedline station, independent from that of Jade City Station.

Intercity cargo rail does not converge at stations near passenger terminals; instead, they follow the expansive web of cargo rail networks within the JCA that allow for trains to stop and deposit or intake cargo from cargo terminals and yards. This allows the constant inflow and outflow of cargo trains without being impeded by intercity passenger or subway rail lines.

### Subway

The JCA contains connections to 32 subway superstations and a further 200 smaller nodal stations of the Jade City Subway, which provide travel to and from various aerospaceport terminals across the Jade City metropolitan area and the wider Eastern Albion Megasprawl. These stations are themselves a part of the JCAS Division of rapid transit lines that wrap the circumference of JCA, and the subway superstations also provide access to intercity rail services through mutual station stops.

### Highways

The JCA is mainly innervated by Route 5, which runs southward from the borough of Alabaster, and Route 20, which runs eastward from the borough of Nowak Heights. Route 5 and 20 merge into the Grand Kingston Superway that runs along the edges of the JCA, which further subdivides into various highways that link with the many terminals of the aerospaceport. Route 5 and Route 20 then re-appear in their respective directions after budding from the Grand Kingston Superway.

### Hotel access

On-site hotels often offer arrivals and departures their own special taxi services to recipient destinations near to the JCA, to the hotel itself, or to terminals. For corporate arrivals, they are offered aerial transport services by hotels for rapid travel to-and-from terminals and their hotels.

### Inter-terminal transport

Most inter-terminal transport is done by the way of connecting roads that spur off of the Grand Kingston Superway. However, inter-terminal transport is also available by the means of subway connections between various JCA-affiliated stations, by airlift between terminals, or by a special automated people mover system called JCA-Nav. JCA-Nav, free to the general public, allows reliable and fast transportation between terminals and concourses by means of pods that can hold up to thirty people, traveling in airtight transparent tubes and making systemic stops at each node station it encounters. JCA-Nav runs in both a leftward and rightward direction, allowing people to travel to terminals nearby without suffering the need to navigate around the entire JCA by means of the Nav.

### Vehicular traffic

#### Bus and coach

The JCA has its very own division of buses and coaches known as the **JCA Multitransport Division,** or simply **JCA Multitran**. The multitran fields hundreds of thousands of two-story and one-story buses that navigate along the various terminals of the JCA and the Grand Kingston Superway. Destinations on the Multitran not only include stops inside of the JCA itself, but vital outside links such as stops in the Grand Alabaster Station and Grand Coronado Station.

#### Cars

All inbound and outbound car traffic to the JCA enter its infrastructure by the means of the Grand Kingston Superway. From the Superway, thousands of auxiliary tunnels, roads, and highways spur off and link terminals between the Superway and to other proximal terminals. Queueing for arrivals is not allowed by civilians on terminal roads, but short-stay and long-stay parking are both offered via massive parking garages arranged next to each respective terminal entrance. Drop-offs are also possible in special civilian drop-off and pick-up zones away from the terminal roads; a less luxurious alternative to terminal road queuing.

#### Hovercraft

Hovercraft flying inbound or outbound of the JCA are to abide by extremely strict protocols of aerial traffic. All hover traffic must fly in delineated air corridors positioned above the Grand Kingston Superway and its offshoot roads; multiple hovercraft parking garages exist either next to or on top of various terminals and other aerospaceport infrastructure. Such stringent protocols and the nature of hovercraft often deprive lower-class visitors of this option during travel out and in of JCA, making land-based travel a much more reliable and safe option.

#### Taxis

Taxi services are encouraged to abide by standard traffic laws; however, special legislation is in place that allows taxi companies and/or persons licensed with the government of Jade City to queue for passenger reception in front of public passenger terminals. Licensed taxi corporations and individuals are encouraged to be used by tourists.

#### Bicycles

Cycling is possible between proximal terminals by the means of bike paths and along non-highway roads. Bikes are encouraged by the JCA Port Authority for navigation due to the sheer size of the aerospaceport itself, and even the large sizes of each terminal and concourse within.

## Airlines, spacelines, and destinations

Direct spacelines on interplanetary and interstellar flights only became possible with the proliferation of transatmospheric clean-engine craft that began in the 2400s.

Jade City Aerospaceport is the largest recipient of intraplanetary, interplanetary, and interstellar flights on Hyperion since the 2400s. However, direct flights between cities on different worlds are astronomically expensive (even within the same star system), and often always involve layovers on space stations unless corporate in nature and funding.

Corporate-oriented passenger and cargo lines are delineated with an asterik (\*).

### Passenger

#### Intraplanetary

**Intraplanetary Airlines**

**Interplanetary Spacelines**

**Interstellar Spacelines**

**SOL**
* EARTH: Atlanta, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Earth Grand International Spaceport
* GANYMEDE:
* LUNA: Port of Luna
* MARS: Olympus Mons, Mars International Spaceport, Phobos, Deimos
* TITAN: Titan International Spaceport

### Cargo

**Intraplanetary Airlines**

**Interplanetary/Intrasystem Spacelines**

**Interstellar Spacelines**