Starbases

Starbases are moon-sized spherical stations built and maintained by the Alliance Fleet as military bases, FTL relays/switching stations, Pad relay stations, and starship fuel and weapon-making facilities. Each sector has a starbase.

The military section of the starbase tends to be small and set apart from the rest of the station, which is inevitably colonized by major civilian populations and used as merchant trading hubs.

Fleet Activities

• Building
• Refit
• Repair
• Overhaul
• Refuel
• Demolition/Decommission

Layout

There's a great description of the spindle base in Heartskein, I should put that here. Also with talk about city-spheres. And the colliders.

There are enormous, pressurized bays lined by a corridor where small vessels (those capable of landing on planets) are repaired or resupplied; the largest of those vessels are typical Fleet Intelligence's, holding thirty crew. Anything over that size is relegated to the Spindle's microgravity, or the external slips.

Known Starbases

• Alpha
• Veta
• Ana
• Omicron