![]() ![]() ![]() Along with those thousands of rockhoppers, transports, haulers, and some private cruisers and escort ships make up what could be generously called the OPA fleet. A vast number of Belter ships are prospectors, searching for the mineral or gas vein that will finally make them rich. Most of the Belt-native fleet construction and maintenance-as much as it can be called that-happens at Tycho Station. A fusion reactor and drive system equal to that of a third-generation dreadnought essentially makes Tycho Station a massive ship and the largest mobile construction platform ever built, more than able to move at high speeds if necessary. The station’s engineering and auxiliary engineering decks are located in the manufacturing dome. The manufacturing dome’s massive construction waldoes can secure and move up to Titanic-sized ships (see Ship Sizes in Chapter 6: Spaceships of The Expanse RPG) and are capable of building structures larger than even the generation ship, the Nauvoo, or Tycho itself. Fifteen thousand workers and their families live on the station-a center of Belter culture run by the OPA’s Fred Johnson-with more OPA sympathizers arriving by the day. If anyone were to attack the station, half of the United Nations General Assembly and all the Martian Congress would be declaring the destruction of whoever attacked the station, easily making Tycho Station the safest place in the Belt.Īn artificial ring station 700(+) meters in diameter built around a micro-gravity sphere half a kilometer across with more than sixty-five million cubic meters of space inside, Tycho Station is the only shipyard in the Sol System that has the facilities and capacity to build larger vessels than the Bush Shipyards at Luna. Tycho makes regular campaign contributions to Earth and Mars politicians. The station then flew to its next work location. This allowed the chambers to reorient and to thrust gravity when the rings stopped spinning. Each compartment within the massive rings was built on a swivel system. The bottom of the sphere had a bulbous projection fifty meters across, which housed a capital-ship-class fusion reactor and drive system, making Tycho Station the largest mobile construction platform in the solar system. The top of the manufacturing sphere was festooned with half a dozen massive construction waldoes that looked like they could rip a heavy freighter in half. The two counter-rotating habitation rings that circled the sphere had enough space for fifteen thousand workers, and their families. Tycho Station, the Belt headquarters of the company, was a massive ring station built around a sphere half a kilometer across, with more than sixty-five million cubic meters of manufacturing and storage space inside. It is a home, and a work place to over 15,000 people. Tycho Station is the largest mobile construction platform in the Sol system, and the Belt headquarters of Tycho Manufacturing and Engineering Concern and, covertly, the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA). ![]()
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