Commerce Space Station

DOC-06 · TECHNICAL READOUT

Mass: 100000 tons
Use: SpaceStation
Hull Type: None
Structural Integrity: 1
Grav Decks: 200m, 200m, 200m
Armor: Standard
Armament:
60 PPC
Manufacturer:
Primary Factory:
Communication System:
Targeting & Tracking System:
Introduction Year: 3002
Tech Rating/Availability: IS Level 3
Cost: 0 C-bills

Overview
The Commerce-class station is the fixed backbone of TriStar's shipping network — the reason the company can pipeline cargo across the Periphery March independent of any single ship's schedule. Anchored at a system's jump point, a Commerce station stages freight, berths DropShips, services JumpShips, and turns a lonely jump point into a working port.

Capabilities
Each station provides docking, refueling, KF-drive servicing, cargo staging, and DropShip pipelining, letting route shuttles run station-to-planet on their own cadence while JumpShips keep to theirs — the arrangement that lets the fleet run roughly 1.9 DropShips in circulation per docking collar across 322 collars network-wide.

Deployment
Commerce stations hold the major nodes of the TriStar network: the Cotton Exchange at Memphis, the Three Routes at Mararn, the New Gascony Gate on the Tortuga frontier. Each carries a resident TSG station-marine detachment, and the frontier stations mount defensive batteries — the Gate famously broke a corsair squadron with its own PPCs in 3066.

History
The Commerce station is unglamorous infrastructure of exactly the kind that wins a two-century commercial empire: not a weapon or a wonder, but a place to put things down, safely, at a jump point that used to be nowhere.

Type: Commerce
Technology Base: IS Level 3
Tonnage: 100,000

Space Station ↓ Commerce Space Station.blk

Cost: 0 C-bills
Heat Sinks: 600
Fuel: 50,150
Safe Thrust: 0
Maximum Thrust: 0
Structural Integrity: 1

Crew and Passengers

Type	Number
Officers	50
Crew	470
Gunners	20
Passengers	500
Marines	50

Transport Bays

Bay Type	Capacity	Doors
Docking Collars	2	-
Small Craft Bay	10	2
Small Craft Bay	10	1
Small Craft Bay	10	1
Small Craft Bay	10	1
Small Craft Bay	10	1
Cargo Bay	17,000 tons	1
Cargo Bay	17,000 tons	1
Cargo Bay	17,000 tons	1
Cargo Bay	17,000 tons	1

Quarters

Class	Capacity
First Class	560
Crew	560

Safety Equipment

Type	Number
Life Boats	100
Escape Pods	100

Armor Distribution

Location	Armor Value
Nose	69
Fore Left	57
Fore Right	57
Aft	31
Aft Left	50
Aft Right	50

Weapon Bays

Arc	Weapons
Nose	10 PPC
Left Front	10 PPC
Right Front	10 PPC
Aft Left	10 PPC
Aft Right	10 PPC
Aft	10 PPC

Warehouse ↓ Commerce Warehouse.blk

Cost: 0 C-bills
Heat Sinks: 450
Fuel: 40,000
Safe Thrust: 0
Maximum Thrust: 0
Structural Integrity: 1