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Constant Sun Orbital
| Owner: | Nipponese Imperial State |
| Date of Completion: | November 15, 2038 |
| Telecom Grid Access: | (ORB/SUN) System Rating: Red-14 / UltraViolet-7 |
| Population: | Crew: 19 Guests: up to 44 |
| Location: | geosynchronous orbit over Tokyo |
| Type: | Network |
| Access: | via NIS approved commercial shuttles |
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The Japanese national space station, Constant Sun Orbital provides a sense of national pride, giving the country a strong extraterrestrial presence with this combination military installation and orbital power generator. The bulk of Constant Sun Orbital's surface area is made up of solar panels, making habitat a glorified version of the fleet of collector satellites Japan uses to provide its Empire with solar power. Otherwise, the station is well-equipped for bombardment purposes, though it has surprisingly few "advanced" energy weapons. Also, Constant Sun Orbital is equipped to accommodate up to 44 guests at a time. |
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>>>>>[Astronut?
Where are you? Explain.]<<<<< >>>>>[This
one I do have answers on. The Nipponese have developed a method of harnessing
the solar energy and converting/diverting it into a sort of stream of
highly charged photons. This stream of photons acts as thrust to keep
the orbital from getting out of position. Surprisingly, this doesn't cut
too much into the amount of energy accumulated which is then "beamed"
down to Japan for consumption. (You know a good 70% of Japan's energy
resources are from these solar collection units in space. Aside from Constant
Sun, there are an additional 36 satellites which serve the same purpose.)]<<<<<
>>>>>[Calling
those 44 open slots "guest slots" is something of a stretch.
Twice a year, for 2 month stretches each time, those 44 slots are (mostly)
filled w/ crew-members-in-training (or up on refresher courses). The rest
of the year, they CAN be reserved by civilians. But only if they're extremely
rich. And only if they aren't bumped from their slots by members of the
Imperial royal family.]<<<<< >>>>>[And
only if there's no national emergency. You know that's where the highest
ranking members of the Imperial family go when there's a national crisis
of apocalyptic proportions, right?]<<<<< |