Barghest Station

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A decommissioned outpost once called Novgorod, it was renamed Barghest station by the community of outlaws that towed it into the orbit of a black widow pulsar of the same name, Barghest station serves much the same purpose as it did in its former life, however this time free of government and corporate interference. It has a fluctuating population of anywhere between 30 to 80 mercenaries, pirates, ex-pats, and staff.

The station is separated into ten decks (A to J) with a transit tube at the center of all decks, consisting of two elevators, an emergency stairwell and a restroom. The ten decks of the station are from bottom to top:

* **Deck A (Engineering Platform):**
	+ **Engineering Platform:** Give access to the reactor, its two reactor's fuel control stations, the station fuel tanks and coolant tanks.
	+ **Reactor:** The power source of the station is a 3.1 Gigawatt fusion power plant operating on a deuterium/tritium reaction.
	+ **Coolant Tanks:** Located at each side of the reactor, the coolant tanks contains liquid potassium are here to keep the reactor from overloading and going critical.
	+ **Fuel Tanks:** Those tanks stores the liquid nitrogen used by the station shuttle, powerloaders and forklifts.
* **Deck B (Cargo Deck):**
	+ **Airlock Access:** Consisting of an airlock to outside the station and a preparation chamber with EVA suits and lockers.
	+ **Cargo Bays:** At the number of three these bays served as supply storage for the station. The supplies arrived via two lifts coming from Deck C's Cargo handling Modules.
	+ **St. Luke Medical Center:** This a small clinic, with four beds, an operating room, store, pharmacy and consulting room.
	+ **Workshops:** This is the technical area containing lathes, testing benches, several racks of spares, various tools and equipment.
	+ **Offices:** Those are two open space admin offices located in the cargo bay and the workshop with a terminal to the APOLLO mainframe.
	+ **Colonial Marshal's Office:** The station Marshal and his deputy had their office here, with an interview/interrogation room and four holding cells.
* **Deck C (Main Concourse):**
	+ **Spaceport Transfer Gates:** This where everything comes in or out the station, it consists into two gates with lounges and an open-space office between the two.
	+ **Cargo Handling Modules:** There are cargo airlocks used to move freight to Deck B.
	+ **Spaceport Lobby:** The entrance of the concourse with check-in desks, seats and an information point.
	+ **Concourse:** The is the heart of Barghest, an open space plaza with sitting areas and video screen, surrounded by offices, stores, a gym, a restaurant, an inn and restrooms.
	+ **Security Station:** This where two security officers monitoring the spaceport.
	+ **Gym:** A small gym to keep the personnel in shape.
	+ **Galleria Nishi:** A galleria composed of a dozen or so essential or luxury stores for the personnel or transiting passengers.
	+ **Promenade:** Located behind the galleria, the promenade is a wide walkway with large windows looking into space.
	+ **Restaurant:** Located near the restrooms, the restaurant is called "Maxine's Diner".
	+ **Marianna's Inn:** This is a small inn, for visitors or transiting passengers, composed of twenty en-suite rooms, a laundry room, an office and a reception desk.
* **Deck D (Life Support Deck):**
	+ **Garden:** An hydroponic garden used as a supplementary oxygen and water treatment.
	+ **Water Tanks:** This where all the station drinking water is stored.
	+ **Life Support Bay:** This is where airscrubbers filter the carbon dioxide recycling the air making it breathable. This also where the sewage and used water are recycled into drinkable water.
* **Deck E (Habitation Block):** This deck is composed of two levels accessible from stairs.
	+ **Crew Cabin:** At the number of forty-three cabin on each levels (making it eighty-six), the cabin is standard issue with bed, toilets, shower, video-phone, desk, storage units, kitchenette and a an access to APOLLO network.
	+ **Restaurant and Café:** A bar and grill from the Drifter franchise only reserved to the station staff dispatched on the two levels. A café is also located between the Mini-market and the restrooms.
	+ **Mini-Market:** A little convenience store for the personnel staff to buy food to be cooked in their cabin.
	+ **Laundry:** This is where the personnel, clean their clothes or room linen.
* **Deck F (Lower Tower):**
	+ **Airlock Access:** Consisting of an airlock to outside the station and a preparation chamber with EVA suits and lockers.
	+ **Shuttle Hangar:** The hangar, that houses the station *Starcub*-class shuttle that can be used to transfer additional visitors, is wide enough for the shuttle maintenance and cargo waiting to be loaded.
	+ **Workshops:** This area contains a small workshop near the the shuttle hangar.
	+ **Administrative Center:** This from here that the station is managed, it is linked to the Operation Center on the upper deck via spiral stairs.
	+ **Fuel Processor:** The fuel probe on the outside pumps the liquid hydrogen fuel from supply tankers to the processor and refining it.
* **Deck G (Upper Tower):**
	+ **Operation Center:** Run by a shift of six personnel from day-to-day, this is the station nerve center set like the bridge of a starship with a stairwell to the administrative center and an access to the station's mainframe .
	+ **APOLLO Mainframe:** This the station's brain where APOLLO servers are located with a direct access and programming terminal.
	+ **Crew Cabins:** This is where the Operation and Administration Center personnel are lodged.
	+ **Restaurant:** Named Bistro Hibachi, this restaurant is reserved for Administrative and Operation Center personnel.
* **Deck H (Science Module):** Science Module formerly rented by Gustafsson Enterprise.
	+ **Offices:** Those are two open space offices located each side of the transit tunnel giving access to laboratories.
	+ **Laboratories:** Four fully-equipped multi-function laboratories located each sides of both offices.
	+ **Emergency Operation Center:** A back-up Operation Center just in case the main Operation Center would be compromised or unable to perform its tasks. It is usually locked and disused.
* **Deck I (Science Module):** Science Module formerly rented by Seegson.
	+ **Offices:** Same as Deck H but much smaller.
	+ **Laboratories:** Same as Deck H but much wider.
* **Deck J (Communications Platform):**
	+ **Airlock Access:** Consisting of an airlock to outside the station and a preparation chamber with EVA suits and lockers.
	+ **Probe Bay:** This from here that the station launched their science probes.
	+ **Avionics:** Located at each sides of the transit tunnel, this is where sensors equipment and communication electronics are located.