Pyrathas - Adamant Station: Pyrathas' primary orbital installation, Adamant Station looms over the moon like a vast, ironwork spiderweb. Adamant is an orbital warehouse, the void-dock for dozens of starships at any one time. Stretching many hundreds of kilometres across the sky, this mid-orbit installation is so large that it is easily visible from the surface.Scores of defence laser batteries comprise the outermost sections of Adamant Station, linked together with massive adamantium chains and straining grav-links. Together, these stations provide an interlinking field of lance fire covering many of the approaches to the station -- with free-orbiting batteries on the far side of the moon defending against the rest.Further inward, the station becomes a maze of docking bays, loading stations, and orbital cargo vaults. These facilities allow the flow of vital supplies between two crusade salients. Naval anchorages are segregated from the transport docks, though most of the Navy warships prefer independent orbital anchorages high above Adamant.The centre of the station hosts its command basilica, as well as vast gaping launch bays for flights of Furies, Starhawks, and other Attack Craft. In the centre is a massive orbital tower, capable of ferrying large quantities of troops and supplies to the surface installations.Since the crisis of the Orpheus Salient, Adamant's facilities have been working triple-shifts to accommodate the increased movement of supplies.In the perpetual darkness of Pyrathas Majorus' shadow, arc-welders, manoeuvring thrusters, and stab-lights illuminate the facility in an inconstant, actinic glare. In such conditions, accidents are quite common, and the rate of fatalities amongst the indentured workers and even able voidmen has steadily increased.To maintain the urgent work pace, the Navy has begun searching far afield for warm bodies to replace Adamant's losses. This is no easy task, however. In these desperate times, manpower has become a valuable commodity in the crusade.Many Imperial Navy voidships have suffered heavy losses in the battles against the Tyranids. Too many vessels struggled back to port as half-gutted hulks, their crews decimated by the horrific monsters used by the Tyranids as boarders.Not only does repairing these vessels require far too much time and effort from Adamant's facilities, the ships' captains demand facilities like Adamant give up their best trained crews to replace their losses.All this means that Adamant is severely understaffed. Captain Skor continues to place ever more tersely worded requests to Commodore Hemelschot about the manpower situation, however the commodore has his own concerns and may not be able to help.The situation is desperate enough that some senior bosuns have taken to ambushing isolated groups of Guardsmen passing through the station and press-ganging them into the Navy. In response, the Commissariat and senior sergeants of the Astra Militarum have taken to escorting their troops en masse from transports to the surface installations under their control, even releasing small arms to their troops to defend themselves.Needless to say, this has only increased tensions on the station, and already several reports of isolated skirmishes have arrived on Skor's desk.Some senior warrant officers whisper that the captain is considering another means of solving his problem. They say he has been in constant talks with Lieutenant Commander Alaxis McKale about leading an expedition off-station in order to find additional personnel somewhere else.